The only Democrat running who has come out in support of Affirmative Action is Mark Dayton. Without the strict enforcement of Affirmative Action racist poverty the result of racist unemployment will continue unabated. The Republicans are opposed to enforcing Affirmative Action (Executive Order # 11246) and the Democrats in Minnesota have refused to insist on the enforcement of Affirmative Action.
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Neither Margaret Anderson-Kelliher or Matt Entenza have had the moral or political courage to come out as Mark Dayton has done and condemned the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MNDOT) and the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) for their refusal to implement and enforce Affirmative Action.
The next governor of Minnesota will have to push to enforce Affirmative Action if we are going to break the back-bone of the pernicious institutionalized racism which is destroying so many families in our communities across this state.
My suggestion is that if anyone intends to support Margaret Anderson-Kelliher or Matt Entenza for governor of Minnesota they had better take up the issue of Affirmative Action with them because to date, Mark Dayton is the only one of the candidates who has forthrightly taken a position in defense of Affirmative Action after a group of us let him--- and Kelliher and Entenza--- know how important this issue is.
Raise the issue of Affirmative Action with Margaret Anderson-Kelliher and Matt Entenza and you are likely in for a rude awakening when you press them to go public in condemning MNDOT and DEED and to say what they will do once elected.
I don't bother mentioning the Republican or any other candidates from other political parties because, by their stated opposition in the case of Emmer, and silence by others, we know them... in the same way anyone for an end to racism and for civil and human rights should either pressure Entenza and Kelliher to vigorously defend Affirmative action or reject their candidacies just like we reject the Republicans and others who fail this very basic political litmus test.
I also think Donald Allen has a responsibility to speak very clearly his position on Affirmative Action; come on Donald--- for or against Executive Order #11246 being vigorously enforced in Minnesota on all these huge public works projects using all of our tax-dollars to fund but people of color being systematically denied employment?
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