Here is a short interview clip from November 2 when he had just found out about the march. He said the Democrats would be supporting, and it looks like he is.
He mentioned the words he used at the convention in Miami when he said that "skin-color, age, and economics" were an issue after Katrina. He then said he got hate mail from all over the country. He said that anyone who thought racism was dead in this country is just not thinking at all.
http://www.odeo.com/audio/332322/viewHere is what got him the hate mail, words he said at a convention of African American
Baptists in Miami. They were carefully chosen words, well said. They were not worthy of hate mail. How sad.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9247380/MIAMI - Race was a factor in the death toll from Hurricane Katrina, Howard
Dean told members of the National Baptist Convention of America on Wednesday
at the group’s annual meeting.
Dean, chairman of the Democratic Party, made the comments to the Baptists’
Political and Social Justice Commission. The National Baptist Convention,
with an estimated 3.5 million members, is one of the largest black religious
groups in the country.
“We must ... come to terms with the ugly truth that skin color, age and
economics played a deadly role in who survived and who did not,” Dean said.
Dean said Americans have a moral responsibility to not ignore the
devastating damage caused by Hurricane Katrina when it struck the Gulf
Coast.
The former presidential candidate said the government will be judged by how
it treats the old, the young and the poor.
‘They are not refugees’
“People are poor in different parts of the country. They are not refugees.
They are Americans,” he said.
Dean said that instead of considering proposed estate tax breaks, the Senate
should channel the money into disaster relief.
“Shall we give that to the wealthiest people in the country, or should we
rebuild New Orleans?” Dean said.
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