Reply #85: Regardless of what his site says, these statements give me pause: [View All]

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- at Howard U., he said that carring about higher black incarceration rates is "liberal and weepy" and said that drug treatment programs is the way to deal with them (huh?)

- for a long time, he said that he was the only candidate to talk about race in front of white audiences. When proven a lie, he only changed to say that he and Clinton were the only politicians to talk bluntly about race.

- Dean's blunt talk about race in his conference call actually turns out to be not-so-blunt talk about gender discrimination

- Dean think class is an adequate proxy for race in AA programs

- Dean says that civil rights legislation has gone as far as it can and the solution to the problem of racism is to change subconscious feelings.

Basically, this is a list of EVERYTHING I've heard come out of Dean's mouth about racism. I have no doubt that the more he talks about it, the more things I'll be able to add to this list

Look, if you like Dean, that's great. But if you care about race, I don't know how you can say that he's the best candidate on these issues. I'd just focus on the stuff you think he's good on, and completely avoid discussions about race and taxes, which he's bad on.