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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I don't think the outreach was working all that well, but this destroys it. The perception is that he didn't move quickly enough because a lot of the people involved were black. Whether that's true or not, that is the perception in our community.
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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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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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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.
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Most of these people who stand a good chance have been around a while.
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This is a wise move on her part. This race was framed from the beginning.
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The challenge to the president is therefore important because if he does not want to give some acknowledgment to the protest, if he does not want to accord respect to the congressional Black Caucus, the civil rights leadership, the fraternal leadership, and those mainline leaders, then he's still faced with this group, which is posing him the same challenge in terms of public policy.
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Men had been made to be the cause of much of the ills of society by the emergence of the conservative movement in the 1980s, ... black males were not responsible.
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I have to conclude that what Steele is doing is developing a line of attack that is designed to gain him a sympathy vote.