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Email newsmime@yahoo.com The Shinnecock Indian tribe is seeking billions of dollars for 150 years of back rent on land it inhabited for 12,000 years in New York state in one of the largest suits of its kind. The area in question is part of the Hamptons, which is a summer playground for the rich and famous.

Email www.texasobserver.org Pimping of the President...For months after he took the oath of office in 2001, George W. Bush was the attraction, and the White House the venue, for a fundraiser organized by the alleged perpetrator of the largest billing fraud in the history of corporate lobbying. Abramoff's White House guests were the chiefs of two of the six casino-rich Indian tribes he and his partner Mike Scanlon ultimately billed $82 million for services tribal leaders now claim were never performed or were improperly performed.

Email www.salon.com Broken Hammer? Recent revelations of huge sums paid to family members have stung the GOP majority leader...By Lou DuBose... Delay laid the groundwork for the K Street Project by calling corporate lobbyists into his office after he was elected whip in 1995. He sat them down and pointed to their names in a ledger that included contributions they had made to Democrats and Republicans. Then he reminded them that Republicans were in charge and their political giving had better reflect that - or else. The "or else" was a threat to cut of access to the Republican leadership.

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Email patsyann@cityalert.com Bush cited a national emergency or serious economic conditions in cutting pay raises for federal workers. At the same time, he signed off on bonuses for political appointees. Now, Bush has proposed an economic package worth billions for the wealthiest Americans. As a GS-7 federal employee, Bush's actions epitome class warfare!

Email hotstuff101@aol.com A group of black conservatives led by Armstrong Williams met on Capitol Hill to discuss ways Republicans can get black votes. Conservative means to maintain the status quo. Blacks are second class citizens. Conserving inferiority is not in the black man's self-interest? Calling themselves conservatives, these ebony skinheads are idiots.

Email wadsworth@netscape.net Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday will be celebrated January 20. Southern Democrats that opposed him are conservative Republicans. Advocating a "color blind" society, they oppose affirmative action. These hypocrites ignore the fact that when King was murdered in 1968 the country was so color conscious that equal opportunity was non-existent. The real economic welfare of black and white Americans has changed little since King's assassination. But, the Bush administration will oppose affirmative action in the Michigan University admission cases before the Supreme Court. Its opposition will kill affirmative action. Long live the white advantages inherent in legacy, Southern heritage, political patronage and nepotism; they trump affirmative action daily.

Email copwatchers@hotmail.com John Walker-Lindh was captured fighting in Afghanistan with the Taliban. White, he was treated like an American with all the civil rights of that designation. Non-white Americans caught doing the same thing or suspected of Al Qaeda connections have no rights. US courts have reinforced the government's right to declare non-white Americans enemy combatants and deny them the most basic of human rights guaranteed by international law.

Email alarkam@webtv.net: In an open letter, Hugh Price, head of the Urban League, implores Bush to use his influence over the Supreme Court to uphold affirmative action in education. With all due respect to Price, appealing to Bush to help us is similar to a hemophiliac asking Count Dracula to show mercy. This is the same Supreme Court that endorsed Bush's theft of the presidency by approving the cancellation of numerous Black voters' ballots in the state of Florida. Shortly before his death, late Justice Thurgood Marshall acknowledged that decades of civil rights marches, demonstrations and legislation had not liberated us. He stated: "We are still not free as a people." It is my hope that Price will join others in demanding, not requesting, reparations and restoration. More from the Issue

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