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.1586482985-Jordan:Layout 1 8/25/08 10:09 AM Page 102102VERNON E.JORDAN, JR.Will it tell us what we are to say to our poor black constituentswhen we go home to our cities where misery lies thick on theground and the weeds of despair flourish?The black community today feels itself under siege.We arevictimized by the budget cuts.We are harassed by attacks on af-firmative action.We are alarmed that state legislatures will redis-trict our representatives out of the Congress and out of localoffices.We are outraged by the administration’s tilt toward racistSouth Africa.We are threatened by block grants.And we are burdened by events beyond the political arena: bygrowing racial insensitivity and rising antiblack attitudes; by themurders of black children in Atlanta and violence against blackselsewhere; by the continued deterioration of black neighbor-hoods; by the flow of drugs and the increase of crime; and by therise of the fanatics of the far right like the Klan and the Nazis.High on our long list of concerns is the future of the VotingRights Act.It expires next year.Voting is, in President Reagan’swords, “the most sacred right of free men and women.” That sa-cred right will be lost to millions of black and Hispanic peopleunless the president comes out forcefully in favor of extendingthe Voting Rights Act.And we urge him in this conference to doso and to do it now.The fight for voting rights symbolizes the erosion of blackgains.We are now fighting the fight we fought sixteen years ago.And in some ways, we are dealing with basic issues like betterrace relations that were issues of the s.We moved far beyondthat stage, and now we are thrust back to square one [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.1586482985-Jordan:Layout 1 8/25/08 10:09 AM Page 102102VERNON E.JORDAN, JR.Will it tell us what we are to say to our poor black constituentswhen we go home to our cities where misery lies thick on theground and the weeds of despair flourish?The black community today feels itself under siege.We arevictimized by the budget cuts.We are harassed by attacks on af-firmative action.We are alarmed that state legislatures will redis-trict our representatives out of the Congress and out of localoffices.We are outraged by the administration’s tilt toward racistSouth Africa.We are threatened by block grants.And we are burdened by events beyond the political arena: bygrowing racial insensitivity and rising antiblack attitudes; by themurders of black children in Atlanta and violence against blackselsewhere; by the continued deterioration of black neighbor-hoods; by the flow of drugs and the increase of crime; and by therise of the fanatics of the far right like the Klan and the Nazis.High on our long list of concerns is the future of the VotingRights Act.It expires next year.Voting is, in President Reagan’swords, “the most sacred right of free men and women.” That sa-cred right will be lost to millions of black and Hispanic peopleunless the president comes out forcefully in favor of extendingthe Voting Rights Act.And we urge him in this conference to doso and to do it now.The fight for voting rights symbolizes the erosion of blackgains.We are now fighting the fight we fought sixteen years ago.And in some ways, we are dealing with basic issues like betterrace relations that were issues of the s.We moved far beyondthat stage, and now we are thrust back to square one [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]