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Posted on 10/19/2008 9:09:54 PM PDT by kellynla
I get that this is not setting to well in some circles!
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“So it is useful to read the Powell book alongside Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s interview with the author in the Sept. 25 issue of The New Yorker. In the book, [My American Journey] we learn of Mr. Powell's zeal for ‘entrepreneurial capitalism’ and his unfocused belief that the Democrats are hostile to it. But Mr. Gates adds the valuable information that Mr. Powell is ‘now a wealthy person’ whose holdings once included a share of a Buffalo television station. It was purchased in concert with a wealthy cousin, Bruce Llewellyn, under a tax-break program passed by a Democratic Administration and Congress to promote minority ownership of radio and television.
“Mr. Powell records his elation at making general at 42, but Mr. Gates and others provide the detail that Clifford Alexander, the Secretary of the Army under President Carter, forced the Pentagon to integrate the promotion lists that produced Mr. Powell's opportunity. Mr. Alexander told Mr. Gates that there were ‘a number of black generals’ of equal talent who never got General Powell's political breaks.”
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The link to the article is: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE5DF1630F937A1575AC0A963958260&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss.
I can't agree with that statement.
IMO, we will have a POTUS of color eventually.
It might not be for several decades to come if Obomba doesn't get it but it will come.
I do think that we will have a woman POTUS before we have a POTUS of color.
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Good post potlatch
Thank you.
Electrifying post, potlatch!
Powell blew a fuse yesterday. It’s not about race?
This happened to me, too. I think what happened is that the forum was slow to complete your post. If you're sure you hit the post button properly, just wait a little while longer and look at your tool bar at the bottom of the page to make sure the post has gone through. It took awhile for me today.
Well I hope you are right. We do need a POTUS of color. The days of two white men, running for the White House, are over!
[Electrifying post, potlatch!]
Cute nit, thanks!
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