[Mpls] Why I DO support RT's pick for civil rights

[Socialist2001 at cs.com]

In a message dated 5/1/2004 3:58:28 AM Central Daylight Time, 
Jhpalmerjp at aol.com writes:

<< As for your article (and the price tag you mentioned) I can find no 
reference 
 other than your writing, which I think you must agree, can't be considered 
 fact without some form of support, but we'll run with the supposition, 
mentions 
 the group being encouraged to join to support a candidate, which is not the 
 same thing as "joining forces", but you're hardly an unbias party with an 
 objective view. >>

The article in question cited a Links newsletter that was photocopied and 
widely distributed to local NAACP members and others. That is a form of support, 
n'est ce pas?

It is a fact that officers of the Links chapter worked in concert with DFL 
politicians to elect a slate of NAACP branch officers that would be 'more 
supportive' of Link Carol Johnson and the mayor, Sharon Sayles Belton. How is that 
not "joining forces?" That a gaggle of DFL politicians participated in that 
election of NAACP officers, including many white liberals who ordinarily wouldn't 
be caught dead at an NAACP branch meeting, is well documented in the City 
Pages article "Black like Us," by Beth Hawkins. 

And yes, I am a biased party. I openly supported the reelection of Leola 
Seals as Minneapolis NAACP branch president (who lost in a very close vote in 
1999). I also supported the candidacy of Ron Edwards for the same office in 2002.

-Doug Mann, King Field
Minneapolis School Board candidate