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Race issues focus of debate
By Sandra Sobieraj
The Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa — Bill
Bradley challenged Vice President
Al Gore Monday night to demand
the administration issue an imme
diate order banning racial profil
ing, but Gore shot back in cam
paign debate,. “I don’t think
President Bill Clinton needs a lec
ture from Sen. Bill Bradley” on
standing up for blacks and Hispan
ics.
In their sixth and final debate be
fore next Monday’s kickoff Iowa
caucuses, the two Democratic
presidential hopefuls agreed the
Confederate flag should come
down from atop the South Caroli
na statehouse.
Gore went one step further, say
ing “it’s only the Republican can
didates for president” who dis
agree because they are “so scared
of the extreme right wing.”
Both men said the father of Elian
Gonzalez, a 6-year-old Cuban boy
at the center of an international
dispute, should come to the Unit
ed States to press his claim for cus
tody.
A number of racially sensitive
issues came up in the hour-long
televised debate on the federal hol
iday honoring the late Martin
Luther King, Jr., a “Black-Brown
Forum” that both men hoped to
use to appeal to voters in other
states with a larger minority popu
lation than Iowa. MSNBC carried
the event live.
The issues ranged from racially
insensitive comments made by At
lanta Braves baseball player John
Rocker, to the controversial New
York minister, Al Sharpton.
Gore is the national front-runner
by far in the public opinion polls,
and also is hoping for a clear tri
umph over Bradley in Iowa next
week. BradleyJeads in most polls
in New Hampshire, which holds
the first primary eight days after
Iowa’s caucuses.
Perched on stools on a debate
stage in Iowa’s capital city, both
men said firmly they oppose racial
profiling, the practice by which
some police offers target racial mi
norities for traffic stops.
“We all know what driving
while black is,” said Bradley, who
has made race relations a corner
stone of his career in public life. “It
is breathing while black. ’ ’
When Gore said he would issue
an executive order banning the
practice, Bradley served him a
challenge.
“We have a president now,” he
said. “You serve with him. I want
you to walk into his office and say,
‘Sign this executive order today.”’
His remarks were greeted with
applause, but Gore had a ready re
ply.
“I don’t think President Bill
Clinton needs a lecture from Bill
Bradley about how to fight for
African Americans” and Latinos,
he said.
“It’s one thing to talk the talk. It’s
another thing to walk the walk,”
Gore said, to scattered boos from
the audience. Gore also added that
the mayor of Newark, Sharpe
James, “asked for help on the poli
cy of racial profiling when you
were in the Senate” representing
New Jersey.
“He’s here today, and he’s sup
porting me because President Clin
ton and I have helped him with
racial profiling,” Gore added.
Gore sidestepped a question of
whether he would appoint a His
panic to the Supreme Court, and to
list some possible contenders for
the seat. He jokingly asked his
questioner whether he possessed a
law degree, then said he would
make appointments that reflect
“the diversity of the country. ”
Bradley said, “I could never ap
point someone who would turn
the clock back on civil rights. ”
The proceedings were disrupt
ed briefly by a young woman who
stood at her seat in the audience
to pose a question about global
warming. As security guards
moved to silence her, the modera
tor, Tavis Smiley of Black Enter
tainment Television, quipped,
“I get my 15 minutes (of fame)
and this is what happens to me.”
The Confederate flag has sur
faced as an issue among Republi
can presidential contenders, who
are competing in a South Carolina
primary on Feb. 19. The leading
GOP hopefuls, Texas Gov. George
W. Bush and Arizona Sen. John
McCain, have refused to take a
stand on the issue, saying it is up
to the residents of South Carolina
to decide whether the flag should
fly atop their statehouse.
While both Gore and Bradley
said they believe the flag should
come down, the vice president
also noted that some people view
the flag favorably. “We have to try
to bring them into a shared under
standing of why, as a symbol, it is
so hurtful,” he said. Gore also told
his questioner he would not agree
to participate in an NAACP boy
cott of South Carolina, because “I
don’t think a president of the Unit
ed States should ever boycott an
individual state,”
Bradley said the flag “offends
our common humanity and it is
not the future of our country. ’ ’
“It’s only the Republican candi
dates for president who are so
scared of the extreme right wing,
that they will be tolerant of intol
erance, less they offend the offen
sive. It ought to come down,” Gore
added.
Blacks account for a small mi
nority of the vote in Iowa, but giv
en the date and fact that a black
state lawmaker organized the
event, a “Black-Brown” forum, the
two Democrats pledged support
for continued efforts to support
civil rights and combat racism.
Both men condemned the racist
remarks made recently by Atlanta
Braves pitcher John Rocker.
Bradley used a question on the
issue to recount that as a profes
sional basketball player three
decades ago, part of his job on the
New York Knicks was to take aside
any white player “who didn’t un
derstand” the need to treat blacks
respectfully.
President calls for a volunteer day
By Rebecca Sinderbrand
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President
Clinton marked the birthday ob
servance of slain civil rights
leader Martin Luther King Jr., to
day by helping volunteers refur
bish a computer lab at a local
Boys and Girls Club.
The president has encouraged
Americans to use the federal holi
day to help their neighbors who
need it most, rather than as just
another day of rest, saying it
should be “a day on, not a day
off.”
“Every time you give a little,
you always get more back,” Clin
ton said. “Let’s remember that as
Dr. King’s enduring legacy.”
Under the auspices of Greater
DC Cares, volunteers were pitch
ing in at 25 sites around the city
today. Clinton joined a half-dozen
students at the youth center who
were painting walls and staining
bookshelves to spruce up their
computer lab.
King, recipient of the 1964 No
bel Peace Prize for his work for
racial equality, was assassinated
in Memphis, Tenn., in 1968.
“We are in this together. We are
members of the community of
this city, the community of this
country and the community of
humanity,” Clinton said. “In the
30 odd years since Martin Luther
King left this earth, we have for
gotten that too much.”
In Atlanta today, Vice Presi
dent Al Gore announced that the
administration will seek $1.5 mil
lion in the fiscal 2001 budget to
help protect the place where King
was bom and buried.
“We must honor and uphold
the dreamer,” Gore said in a
speech at the Ebenezer Baptist
Church, where King preached.
“For we have come many miles
toward justice, but have not yet
fulfilled the dream.”
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