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Julian Bond's speech (full text) to the NAACP convention(Gotta Read This!)
(excerpted, full text below) ...Governor Jeb Bush's notion of school reform is to send black children to reform schools. His exit tests threaten to bar third-graders from advancing to fourth grade and high school seniors from graduation. Florida loses nearly half of its Black and Hispanic students before they graduate. Which brings us to Jeb Bush's One Florida Initiative - the first time any state's governor abolished affirmative action in higher education, government employment, and state contracting. Maybe that's why he's not here - this time, the Supreme Court didn't bail him out. The Bush brothers are big on preemption....
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