Reply #24: Read the article properly AP [View All]

[RogueTrooper]

And stop being such a lawyer in how you frame your arguments. ;-)

"Dean told the crowd, as he has often said, that minorities do not need white politicians lecturing them on race -- and for much of his speech, he did not. Instead, Dean spoke mostly on issues affecting a large swath of the population: the soft economy, the loss of jobs, the situation in Iraq and the Middle East, the need for more and better health care.

Only near the end of his talk did Dean focus on minority issues. He reminded the students, many of whom participated in a vigil earlier this year in support of affirmative action -- when the Supreme Court was considering the University of Michigan cases -- that President Bush has repeatedly used the word "quota" to describe such programs."

It would seem that Dean said "lecturing", not talk. As you will no doubt agree, talking to somebody and lecturing them are two different things.

He spoke about race without being prompted by the audience. I Have heard the current version of his stump speech a fair few times, in the last couple of weeks, and I should point out the the "divided by race" part usually comes towards the end. It would seem that the students got the same speech as everybody else. Which may cast some illumination on the meaning of the snippet's first paragraph.