Minority Presidential Candidates and the Media

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Minority Presidential Candidatesand the Media

• Alonzo Whyte

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1984

• Rev. Jesse Jackson was the first African American
  to make a serious campaign for president

For better or worse, Jackson brings race to the
forefront of the campaign Time 1984
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1984

• Geraldine Ferraro-1st woman to run as
  vice-president

said TIME, will affect not only the woman in
the voting boothit will be felt by the man
whotoday, next month, next yearstares across
his desk, dining-room table or bed sheets and
sees someone as if for the first time"
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1988
I understand. You see me on TV, but you don't
know the me that makes me, me.

• Rev. Jesse Jackson runs again

As Jesus said, "Not my will, but thine be done."
It was his way of saying there's a higher good
beyond personal comfort or position. The good of
our nation is at stake. Its commitment to working
men and women, to the poor and the vulnerable, to
the many in the world.
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1996 2000

• Alan Keys runs as a conservative

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2000

• Elizabeth Dole

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2004
"We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to
deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire."

• Al Bush basher Sharpton

Poor Al Sharpton, he only got 345 votes total in
the New Hampshire primary. Here's a tip Al, when
you're driving around the small white,
conservative states, turn down the bass." Bill
Maher
"George Bush giving tax cuts is like Jim Jones
giving Kool-Aid. It tastes good but it'll kill
you." 
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2004

• Carol Moseley Braun- 1st African American Female
  to run for president

If anything, I'm a living example of the
progress that we've made in this country, both
with regard to gender and to race. FORBES
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2008YouTube Debate
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