Neither major party does black America much good

VIRGINIA COMMENTARY: BLACKS NEED AN INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE

Bud Jones
Fredicksburg Free Lance Star
April 22, 2006
.......We're supposed to feel good about 10 blacks in this administration, while there are tens of thousands of unemployed African-Americans.
If you continue along those lines, ask yourself, "How many African-Americans are employed by these same black Republicans?"
I am waiting for the day to hear white Republicans denounce the failure of whites in society as loudly as our black Republican brothers and sisters.
Some among us are reluctant Democrats who chose the lesser of two evils.
Until an independent candidate surfaces with real concerns for all the people--not as a Democrat taking our votes for granted, or as a Republican treating our votes as an inconvenience--I'll pass on the Kool-Aid....