Article: "Arrogant’ White Liberals Seek to Manage Black Voter Turnout"

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Arrogant’ White Liberals Seek to Manage Black Voter Turnout
Posted on Oct 02, 2004 - 12:20 PM by blackvoice


Washington

By Hazel Trice Edney
NNPA Washington Correspondent


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Money that normally goes to African-American grass-roots groups with a proven track record of successfully turning out the Black vote is being diverted this year to White-managed 527 groups that feel they have a better knowledge of how to turn out the African-American vote than experienced Blacks, a miscalculation that some experts feel could cause Democratic nominee John Kerry a victory on Nov. 2.

“The thing that is criminal about it is that we could lose the election because we’re not putting the resources into the hands of those who can mobilize the Black vote,” says University of Maryland political scientist Ronald Walters. “They’re making some serious errors with these resources by not connecting up to the people who can move this full apparatus. This is another form of colonialism – colonialism is about control.”