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To: jlallen who wrote (271292)	7/8/2002 11:46:23 AM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

THE RIGHT WING WAR AGAINST AFFIRMATIVE ACTION Oh my! Julian Bond is in rare form as the NAACP convention opens in Houston, Texas. Bush this … right wingers that … racism this that and the other thing. The same tired old “we’re so picked on” story, Chapter 342. Bond says that that there is a “right wing conspiracy” against affirmative action. Nooooooo. It’s a “right wing conspiracy” FOR equal treatment under the law and against discrimination based on race. The real laughers in Bond’s speech come with his continued whining about the so-called disenfranchisement of voters in Florida during the last Presidential election. Bond said in his speech yesterday that there were “thousands of black Floridians who were denied the right to vote.” Thousands, folks. That’s three zeros. Now let’s go back a year or so to the hearings that the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights held in Florida. The commission was down there to hear the complaints of these “thousands” of black voters who were denied their right to cast a vote. Do you want to guess how many black Florida voters showed up to tell their story? Would you guess less than or more than 100? Well, the number was actually LESS than 100. In fact … the number of black Florida who showed up to testify before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights about how they were denied their right to cast a legal vote was ZERO. Zip. Nada. Nunca. None. Not one. In spite of the best efforts of the Democratic Party, labor unions, the NAACP and the Gore Campaign, they couldn’t come up with one single black Florida voter who was denied the opportunity to cast a legal vote in the 2000 Presidential Election in Florida. Yet Julian Bond says there were “thousands of black Floridians who were denied the right to vote.” OK, Julian. Bring just ONE to the convention! boortz.com