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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (227067)	2/14/2002 10:14:07 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769670

She is a complete dolt. This was in the very article she linked: But his friends say they do not recognize Pickering in this portrait. Among the judge's backers are prominent African-Americans including James Charles Evers, brother of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers, and Henry Wingate, the first black federal judge in Mississippi. Pickering showed flashes of courage during the civil rights era, supporters say, and in his recent career he has shown sensitivity to minority concerns. Pickering sent his children to public schools when many whites were abandoning them for all-white private schools, these supporters say. In 1967, Pickering testified against Ku Klux Klan imperial wizard Samuel Bowers in a case involving the murder of civil rights worker Vernon Dahmer. The judge's backers cite other actions: He hired the first black staffer in the Mississippi Republican Party, for example, and he helped establish an Institute for Racial Reconciliation at the University of Mississippi. "He does happen to be white and he does happen to be a Baptist," said Dillard, his old friend. "But you couldn't find any person that I think is more morally conscientious about following the laws as set forth by the United States Supreme Court." If he is good enough for Medgar Evers brother, he is good enough for me......