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Sunday, January 09, 2005
Rethinking Armstrong Williams
K-Lo tries to distinguish the particular wrong of Armstrong Williams and the Bushies and wonders if it's money. Nope. Just the way the money was parceled out:
Wasn't Armstrong Williams just educating his community about how the importance of federal policies for the improvement of their options?
How's that different from Planned Parenthood, homeless activists and environmental groups taking federal dollars while "educating" the public about the importance of abortion rights, subsidies for the poor and the protection of Mother Earth?
The problem here is one of tact: Williams should have created a foundation (call it Operation BUSH - Black Urban School Hope) and let it take the subsidies and buy his house, car, suits and plane tickets. Then instead of being on the take, he would have been following in the footsteps of the most visible civil rights leader in America today.
posted by gbarto at 3:39 PM
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