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John Kerry gave great speech at the NAACP that revealed some of his genuine progressive passion. Unfortunately, the CNN coverage continues to raise questions about the Kerry campaign’s sensitivity to minority communities.
As someone who has been an active supporter of the Senator throughout the primaries, I have seen the campaign organization evolve and mature, but sadly still remain dominated by mainstream, white, establishment-politics personnel.
Why, has this happened? In part, I believe, it was because many grass-roots activists gravitated to the Dean and Kucinich campaigns during the primaries.
But, what happened after Kerry went from underdog to front-runner? It seems to me that more of the same type of folk continued to fill key slots and dominated the ethos of the campaign.
Kerry, himself, has made executive decisions in the direction of diversity – some of choices of close advisers and his singling out of Barack Obama for a key speaking role at the Convention. But, if things continue as they are, Kerry’s White House will continue the ethos of the campaign.
What can be done to change this? Can it be changed? Or is this the requirements of a winning campaign?
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