Supreme Court race decision tops Dems’ debate

[Kingstree]

WASHINGTON - A historically diverse field of Democratic presidential candidates — a woman, a black, a Hispanic and five whites — denounced an hours-old Supreme Court desegregation ruling Thursday night and said the nation’s slow march to racial unity is far from over.

“We have made enormous progress, but the progress we have made is not good enough,” said Sen. Barack Obama, the son of a man from Kenya and a woman from Kansas.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the first female candidate with a serious shot at the presidency, challenged those who would suggest otherwise. “There is so much left to be done and for anyone to assert that race is not a problem in America today is to deny the reality in front of our very eyes.”

In their third primary debate, the two leading candidates and their fellow Democrats played to the emotions of a predominantly black audience, fighting for a voting bloc that is crucial in the party's nomination process. They stood united against the Supreme Court and its historic ruling rolling back a half-century of school desegregation laws.

Clinton said the decision "turned the clock back" on history.




http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19487919/

[loyalkydem]

1. Good

I'm glad it is, this needs to be out in the open. Supreme Court just reversed 50 years of history yesterday.