Molotov, at Booker Rising, has a few choice words for organizers of the National Hip-Hop Political Convention.

...workshops include "Our Schools, Our Kids and the Money Issue: Revisiting Brown vs. The Board of Education," "Sexual Freedom, Sexual Health and Reproductive Rights," and "How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office."

When will black moderates and conservatives organize to put out diverse messages? We've got work to do, or we'll lose the battle. Some workshops we'd like to see: "Encouraging Black Youth to Turn Off the TV and Study More," "Promoting Responsible Sexuality," "Increasing Black-Owned Businesses," and "How to Get Stupid Liberals Out of Office."

Molotov also points the way to today's provocative - and I believe, insightful - Juan Williams NYT op-ed. Williams asserts Bush could clinch it by reaching out, and winning just a slice of the black vote.

With the presidential election only a few months away, it is time for President Bush to unleash his secret weapon — his relationship with black and Hispanic voters...he has the chance to make tremendous gains — if only because he now has practically no support among black voters. But the president has the opportunity to flip the script. With a direct appeal, President Bush could win at least 20 percent of the black vote — and the White House.

...it's increasingly clear that blacks are no longer willing to vote as a bloc, automatically lining up with the Democrats. ....Young black Americans seem ready for a forthright conversation about race and politics. While many older blacks responded with anger to Bill Cosby's recent call for poor black people to take more responsibility for their problems, the young people I encountered were uniformly supportive of Mr. Cosby's words.

It's worth noting that for this group, the president has an issue with considerable appeal: school vouchers. Despite strong opposition from civil rights leaders (and Democrats), 66 percent of blacks and 67 percent of Hispanics favor vouchers, according to a recent Newsweek poll. That is higher than the 54 percent of whites who say they want to see vouchers used to give students access to better schools.

Third, Mr. Bush has a network to make a pitch to black voters — the black church....If President Bush wants to return to the White House, he needs black Americans to vote for him; in swing states in the South and Midwest, they could make all the difference. To do that, though, the president needs to begin reaching out to black Americans. Fortunately, he has a lot to say.

Posted by Matt Rosenberg at June 16, 2004 05:31 AM

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