RNC week rally set in Harlem

[Rose Siding]

Fed up with Republicans and Democrats, community activists plan to hold a march and rally in Harlem on the last day of the Republican National Convention.
Planners of the Sept. 2 protest said yesterday problems "plaguing communities of color all over the country" are being ignored by both parties.

"We will not allow these issues to be drowned out among the polemics of the Republican National Convention, any more than we would allow these issues to be drowned out at the Democratic National Convention," said one of the organizers, Nelly Hester Bailey of the Harlem Tenants Council.

She and other march organizers cited issues such as high incarceration and unemployment rates among black males, attacks on affirmative action, racial profiling, impediments to becoming citizens and inadequate funding of housing, health care and education programs.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/story/223348p-191630c.html

[THUNDER HANDS]

1. i'm not exactly sure what the Democrats have to do with that

those all seem to be problems caused by Republicans.

[mom cat]

2. None of these problems started four years ago. I for one think that

The organizers are making a good point. We all are going to have to keep up the pressure on our new president and congress to move ahead with reversing minority imprisonment, etc. The minority communities know that democrats love them the most just before election time.