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To: calgal who wrote (10331)	2/17/2005 11:16:38 PM
From: calgal	Respond to of 12762

Pressure Mounts for Dean Apology Over Race Joke Pressure continues to mount on Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean to apologize for racially tinged remarks he made last Friday while addressing the Congressional Black Caucus, where he joked that minorities tend to be employed as bellboys and hotel maids. In a joint statement issued late Tuesday, former Rep. J.C. Watts and Maryland Lt. Governor Michael Steele said: Story Continues Below "We are simply outraged over recent racially insensitive remarks made by Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean. In his comments to the Democratic Black Caucus, Dean equates African-Americans who support Republicans to hired help. "This kind of backward thinking reminds us of a horrible time in history when blacks were only seen as servants," Watts and Steele noted. The focus of the growing outrage was an awkward joke Dean told to the CBC: "You think the Republican National Committee could get this many people of color in a single room? Only if they had the hotel staff in here." On Monday, Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman told ABC Radio Network host Sean Hannity that Dean's remark was "pretty offensive. It's pretty racist, if you ask me." In an interview Tuesday with Baltimore's WBAL-TV, Steele called Dean's remarks "racially insensitive and intolerable." An online poll taken by the TV station showed that 72 percent of those responding thought Gov. Dean needed to apologize. newsmax.com