Bill Bradley can count the past and present NBA, the movie director Spike Lee, and the actor Lawrence Fishbourne in his court but still he trails the Vice President among black voters. Al Gore has Bill Clinton on his team and that may be the ball game.
African Americans stayed loyal to Bill Clinton and they don’t see any reason to change teams now. The administration was responsive about appointing black officials, about supporting cities and about affirmative action.
Monday night’s democratic debate in Iowa Race has been an issue in this campaign mostly by way of TV images like the confederate flag and Al Sharpton.
A year after Bill Clinton’s race conversation, is there anything left to talk about and can George W. Bush, the Spanish speaking compassionate conservative and John McCain, the military veteran add anything to it?
Race Issues in Campaign 2000 – in the first hour of the Connection with Professor Orlando Patterson at Harvard University, Professor Roger Wilkins, George Mason University, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, Washington, DC, and Professor Michael Eric Dyson, DePaul University and MLK biographer.
(Hosted by Bob Oakes)
Guests:
Professor Orlando Patterson at Harvard University, Professor Roger Wilkins, George Mason University, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, Washington, DC, and Professor Michael Eric Dyson, DePaul University and MLK biographer.