James Zogby
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rkeefe57
"One of the groups honored with the Gibran "Spirit of Humanity" award was the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a civil rights organization born in the Deep South during the struggle for African American rights."
Ironically, even though the SPLC opened its doors more than 40 years ago, NOT ONE of its top executives is a minority, and certainly not a Muslim.
Despite being located LITERALLY in the back yard of Dr. Martin Luther King's home church in Montgomery, Alabama, the birthplace of the American Civil Rights Movement, the SPLC has never hired a person of color to a highly paid position of authority.
The few black lawyers hired by the Center in the 1970s all quit, citing "a plantation mentality," and even the SPLC's "Teaching Tolerance" program, designed to teach diversity in the public schools has been led by "whites only" for 20 of its 21 year history.
While the Gibran committee's intentions were no doubt honorable, a modicum of background research was in order.
AD'Merican
Dr. Zogby,
In a stochastic moment at lunch I picked up the National to see what propaganda was being promoted in the Op/Ed section of the paper. I wasn't surprised to see an attack on Republicans or GOP politics, but I was surprised how an article that can take up half a page, says absolutely nothing insightful.
You cite "recent polls" - but give no citation.
You poke fun at the candidates for the substance of the debates, yet with all your sagacity, you miss the boat that the media (this includes you) shapes the debates, and chooses to focus on - "candidates' marriages, their money, their irresponsible hawkishness, their Islamophobia" - instead of focusing on truly important issues like the economy, social security, taxation reform, or passing a national budget.
The GOP candidates are currently going through the media biased/self-inflected vetting process; it is neither fun nor painless, but you do get to see where candidates stand on various issues.
Wouldn't it have been interesting if President Obama had gone through the same scrutiny - who knows, his "reputation could have been damaged"?
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