Reply #101: Who has the historical grounding on this?

[ryharrin]

Sharpton and Braun of course. Who else? What makes someone more of an authority on race than another? Is it not another form of discrimination to insist that someone must be from a certain background or else they can have no opinion on affirmative action? Also, what do you mean by saying that Dean is "middle-of-the-pack"? If you mean in the race in general, its hard to deny he's the leader. If you mean on the liberal-conservative scale, he's right next to Clark to the right of Kucinich and Sharpton, and to the right of Lieberman.