Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich also made a pledge to put affirmative action into federal law as president.
"If this president doesn't want to let us be one nation, then it's time to elect a president who will let us be one nation," Kucinich said.
So, federalize diversity, AND also use the federal gov't to enforce a 'one nation' policy?
Al Sharpton said Democrats shouldn't be talking about getting more blacks in high places, but getting the right blacks.
Nuff said
Any effort to deny our nation's compelling interest in ensuring diversity divisiveness is short-sighted and wrong," Gephardt said in a statement.
"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to runin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation of all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities."
Teddy Roosevelt in a speech before the Knights of Columbus.