Black Politics in the Bush Era: Fallout From 2000 Will Continue -- MANY AFRICAN-AMERICANS SEE WHAT HAPPENED IN FLORIDA AS A CONTINUATION OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE. THEY MAY RETALIATE BY TURNING OUT IN LARGE NUMBERS IN 2002.(legislation to end discrimination discussed)

Nation, The, April, 2001 by WALTERS, RON

The politics of the black community, so critical to Democratic Party fortunes in the 2000 elections, will also be important if Democrats are to have any chance of taking back the House or Senate in 2002. However, given what happened in November and afterward, black enthusiasm will depend on such factors as the strength of election reform, black receptivity to President George W. Bush's "outreach" strategy and the level of power blacks feel within the Democratic Party.

Thus far, the resolution of what can only be considered a massive violation of the civil rights of blacks and others has begun by addressing electoral reform legislative proposals. Nearly two dozen such bills have been introduced in Congress and an estimated 800 in state legislatures. At the same...

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