Va. senator calls for ending diversity programs (Jim Webb)

AP ^ | july 23, 2010 | BOB LEWIS

[WayneS]

Did Webb vote for the recent so-called 'financial reform' legislation

Yes.

The other day I sent him and Mark Warner e-mails asking if they had actually READ the Bill befrore voting in favor of it. I requested a simple yes or no answer. I am awaiting their responses.

When I did the exact same thing after they both voted for "Obamacare" I received no response from Webb. From Warner I received a long-winded, "canned" treatise explaining how all the revisions the democrats were preparing to pass would take care of any and all problems associated with the bill. He also told me what a fantastic piece of legislation it was to start with.

But he didn't ansewer my question...

[WayneS]

"The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period of slavery but also in the Jim Crow era that followed," he wrote.

Immigrants from Asia, Latin America and Africa in recent decades knew no such discrimination from the government, he wrote...

Such programs should end, Webb concluded, except for "our continuing obligation to assist those African-Americans still in need."

The fact is, an actual African-American (an American who emigrated here from Africa) also would NOT have known "such discrimination from the government".

This pronouncement is just another political smoke-screen thrown up by one of Virginia's pretentious, condescending, hypocritical U.S. senators.