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To: tejek who wrote (256922)	10/25/2005 4:09:05 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 1571737

Re: Apples and oranges. I am talking about internal racial relations and you are talking about the colonization of the world. Indeed, I contend that Europe and the US have switched places both in terms of "internal racial relations" and "colonization abroad"... Europe has yet to carry out her Civil Rights aggiornamento and enfranchise her non-white minorities whereas the US must keep its drive to colonize the world in check. Of course, US spinmeisters don't talk about "colonizing the world", they boast of "democratizing it".... Most observers, however, argue that America's civil rights era peaked in the late 1970s and that, ever since the Reagan years, it's been rolled back. For instance, you've hinted at black intellectuals and artists leaving the US for Europe in the 1940s and 1950s. Writer Richard Wright was one of them(). But the reverse is not happening today: you won't find Arab and/or Muslim intellectuals living in Europe who feel so persecuted that they "yearn to breathe free" in America --just ask Tariq Ramadan(). Now, everything is not gloom and doom in US race relations as the article below shows. Two Mexican-American candidates for the Texas governorship debating in Spanish is like two French politicians of Algerian extraction debating in Arabic!!?! Unthinkable. That's extreme cultural tolerance from a European viewpoint but then, as I pointed out earlier, Minuteman patrollers criss-crossing along the US-Mexican border is also extreme vigilantism, not to say fascism, from Europe's perspective.... Dems Square Off in Historic Debate By KELLEY SHANNON Associated Press Writer March 2, 2002, 12:22 AM EST DALLAS -- In a history-making debate in Spanish Friday, the two leading Democratic contenders for governor of Texas sparred over affirmative action, their Latino heritage and their records in business and government. The debate was the first time candidates for governor of any state have debated in Spanish, according to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials. Hispanic leaders see the event as evidence of their growing political clout. One of the biggest disagreements between former state Attorney General Dan Morales and Tony Sanchez, a millionaire businessman from Laredo, concerned Morales' decision as attorney general to expand a federal court ruling to ban race-based admissions standards at state universities. Morales accused Sanchez of favoring racial quotas and preferences. Sanchez, who has said he supports using race as one of many factors in admissions decisions, said Morales' ruling may have prevented many minorities from even applying to higher education institutions. Sanchez accused Morales of benefiting from affirmative action in attending Harvard Law School, but not wanting such a program for others. "I think that he's embarrassed and ashamed to be Hispanic," Sanchez said. "He has never shown the pride that we have to be Hispanic." Morales told reporters after the debate: "I am proud that I'm Hispanic. I'm proud of my heritage. But I'm prouder that I am a Texan and I'm an American." The debate followed a similar televised question-and-answer session in English. During the Spanish-language debate, Morales -- as he had promised -- answered in Spanish then in English. He said he wanted as many viewers as possible to understand him. Morales had wanted several debates in English, but got Sanchez to agree only to one in English and one in Spanish. Bill Miller, an Austin political consultant who watched the English debate on television, said Morales appeared to win, but not so decisively that it will drastically sway voters. Education, which both candidates say is the cornerstone of their campaigns, occupied a far smaller portion of the hour-long English debate than did their attacks on one another. In the Spanish debate, both said they are committed to bilingual education, but Morales said he believes children in Texas should learn English as quickly as possible. [...] naleo.org () home.gwu.edu (**) Message 20446346

To: tejek who wrote (256922)	10/25/2005 4:23:20 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 1571737

Re: You believe that Bush's actions examplify American foreign policy; I contend his foreign policy is an aberration. The US's unwavering, if unavowed, support to Israel is no aberration --it's a dogma.

To: tejek who wrote (256922)	10/26/2005 6:03:09 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571737

Re: You believe that Bush's actions examplify American foreign policy; I contend his foreign policy is an aberration. Bacevich, in other words, is sceptical of the naive belief that replacing the present administration with a Democrat one would lead to serious changes in the US approach to the world. Formal party allegiances are becoming increasingly irrelevant as far as thinking about foreign and security policy is concerned. Excerpted from: Message 21826383 So much for Bush's aberrant policy.... You want to replace Tweedledee Bush with Tweedledum _________?