Your View: Letters to The Editor

Rice will not save GOP

Feb. 22, 2008, 1:30 a.m. - I have to disagree with you regarding the "Condi Factor" being the cure for the Republican ticket. First of all, Mr. John McCain will not be foolish enough to pick the worst secretary of state in history. That is strong cannon fodder for Demorepubs. The comparison with Robert Ehrlich and Michael Steele is valid, but remember, 1) Black folks didn’t vote in masses in that particular race and 2) Kathleen Kennedy Townsend ran the worst campaign in modern political history.

Reggie
Washington, D.C.

Blacks support McKinney's run  

I'd like to correct a misconception regarding the proportion of African Americans who vote for Green Party candidates. While Green Party candidates, and activists, are disproportionately Caucasian, African Americans vote for Green candidates in the same numbers as the general voting public. For example, in Ralph Nader's last campaign as the Green Party nominee (which was in 2000 - he was not the Green nominee in 2004), he received 1.7 percent of the vote nationally. However, Mr. Nader received 1.9 percent of the African American vote in 2000.

I attended a Green Party forum featuring Cynthia McKinney in Oakland, California in October. Half of the audience was African American.  

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The Democratic Party takes African American voters for granted and only gives lip-service to ending the war, providing universal health care, improving public education, creating affordable housing, ending poverty, and combating all forms of racism and discrimination. More and more African Americans are giving the Green Party consideration - a party which takes strong unambiguous stands on all of these issues. This year, three African Americans, out of seven candidates, entered the Green Party primary for president.

Jonathan Nack
Oakland, CA 

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