Ronald Walters
Ronald Walters
Ronald W. "Ron" Walterswas an American author, speaker and scholar of African-American politics. He was director of the African American Leadership Institute and Scholar Practitioner Program, Distinguished Leadership Scholar at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, and respected professor in government and politics at the University of Maryland...
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These are tests. Situations like this give you a benchmark with how society is doing with respect to racial harmony. If society hasn't passed this test, then we have the right to say we still have a problem with racism.
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I don't know where the logic was that says she could overcome that. I don't understand why she got into it in the first place.
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In a way, I've called for a symbolic show on the mall to try to mobilize a lot of people at home to contribute more vigorously - money, resources, things like that - to their local communities.
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They (Republicans) have pretty much ignored them, and it's not Mel's fault.