From: HF.GTD@forsythe.stanford.edu (Gabrielle Daniels)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
Subject: Re: Clinton's In, Bushie's OUT!
Date: 8 Nov 1992 16:19:54 -0800
Organization: Stanford University
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In article <1992Nov8.200751.22154@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu>,
johnson@whitewater.chem.wisc.edu (Art Johnson) writes:
>     No question that Clinton is preferable to Bush. However, I think in
>the end he will turn out to be a mixed bag wrt issues of importance to
>black Americans. The race-baiting by government officials will end, or at
>least be greatly toned down, thankfully. Several of the senior members of
>the civil rights leadership will probably get appointed to influential
>government positions, either in the judiciary, the bureaucracy, or in the
>Clinton Cabinet. Gen. Powell, being basically a liberal Republican, will
>probably get bounced from his post as head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
>though.
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No race-baiting, thank you.  The black bourgeoisie strikes
again, yes.  Colin Powell, too bad.  Because he wasn't a total
warmonger.  At least he was thinking of lives, especially black
ones, being lost.

>     Clinton ran as the champion of the middle and the upper middle class;
>consequently, it is middle and upper middle class blacks who stand to
>benefit from his Administration. On education, his National Trust Fund
>will bring financial peace of mind to black parents with kids who are
>going to college. But Clinton has no plans to do anything about the severe
>funding disparity (due to public schools being funded by property taxes)
>between wealthy and poor school districts, which is a _significant_ part
>of the reason that the education of poor black children is so substandard.
>Clinton's belief that this problem can be solved simply by "fully funding
>Head Start" is naive. One or two years of pre-school Head Start will end
>up being swamped by twelve years of "education" in schools that are
>physically falling apart, severely overcrowded, have damaged, outdated, or
>non-existent textbooks, and contain inadequate, inappropriate, or
>non-existent supplies and equipment for the study of physics, chemistry,
>biology, industrial arts, home economics, art and music.
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Where are these facts (including those on health care and family
leave) located?  Just want to expand my library... I don't dispute,
but some of these things may not be carved in stone.


Few physicians want to spend their lives practicing medicine
>that far from the "cutting edge".
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You're not telling me anything new.  I work for Stanford
cardiologists at the VA.  Sometimes I wonder what happened to the
old idea, Catholic or otherwise, of vocation.  These guys are way
into making buckos.  Sometimes I hear of contempt for working
people, older women, gays...you wonder whether they are really
wanting to kill you under their care.  One less useless, disliked
person in the universe.

>
>> BTW, Arthur, I thought you wore Birkies...8).
>
>      Birkies and tuxedos? Who me? What would I do with them? I don't
>hobnob with the jet set, Gabrielle. :-)
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That wasn't the point, dude.  Do you dress up as well as dress down?
Nothing like the well-dressed man...either from House of Target or
House of Hart, Schaffner...8).
From: patm@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Pat Murphy)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:12:56 GMT
Subject: Re: nbcsl
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA