Webb working for diversity in America

By: presidentialman
Published On: 9/6/2006 1:30:55 PM

FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE - There are many monuments on the national mall, but only one statue of a black man.  That statue is there because Jim Webb led the fight, to include an African American soldier in the Vietnam War Memorial on the National Mall.  Also, during his first year of law school, Jim Webb began representing, pro bono, an African American who had been wrongly convicted of war crimes in Vietnam.  Jim fought for six years to clear Sam Green's name, finally winning in 1978, three years after Green's suicide.

As a disabled person, I'm angry when I find that George Allen opposes the Civil Rights Act of 1991, which allows for employees like me to be able to sue employers for discrimination, and which reaffirms the Civil Rights Act of 1990 AKA the Americans with Disabilities Act, as well as the originally historic Civil Rights Act of 1964. This is why I find comfort in things like Jim Webb applauding the recent extention of the Voting Rights act; and how he cleared the name of a black person; and how he is against a permenant underclass of working poor.
Economic and Social Fairness
This country is splitting into three pieces. As a result of the internationalization of the economy, the people at the top have never had it so good. The middle class is continuing to get squeezed by stagnant wages and rising cost of living. And we are in danger of creating a permanent underclass. We must reexamine our tax and trade policies and reinstitute notions of fairness, and also enforce our existing trade laws so that free trade becomes fair trade.

both the example and the "economic" are from the Webb campaign

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