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The Democratic Party's race for President is blatant pandering. In this three-ring circus with two acts, blacks are clowns in this sideshow. Bedrock Democratic Party supporters, a debate in Iowa and Monday night in Harlem are blacks' only connection to the selection process.

Mimicking a daring young man on the flying trapeze, Bill Bradley proclaimed race his central theme. A high wire act with a series of cartwheels, while flipping pious platitudes and balancing fuzzy phases about inequality, Bradley is an unimpressive juggler.

A snake oil, carnival and revival man, Al Gore has sung, danced, preached and prayed his way from pulpit to union hall. Gore and George W. Bush, Jr. have bought religion in America. Watching from the wings, Al saw master of the big top, Bill Clinton, pray with hurricane Andrew victims in Homestead, FL. While Homestead's blacks remain devastated a decade later, Gore has become the master. In an Atlanta Journal Constitution front page, above the fold, photo-opt, Gore kneeled in prayer with a black Georgia tornado victim. Not to remind anyone, instead of wagging the dog with Homestead, Gore went to Deerfield Beach, FL with goodies for rich white retirees.

Exemplifying South Carolina, Georgia voters are yes men in the process. A complete retreat from John F. Kennedy's mantle, Al supports the 3/5ths Compromise. In this creep show, he and Bradley are the amazing "fat cat" with two heads and one brain. Waffling on issues such as South DeKalb rail service, Grady Hospital funding, the Confederate flag, Atlanta's police killing black citizens and racial profiling, they refuse to challenge Gov. Roy Barnes. Both avoid stating their opinions about massacres of blacks in Rosewood, FL and Greenwood, OK. Their plans to reduce the number of blacks in prison, increase training for poor children, and how they will assist young mothers are unstated. Plans to combat malnutrition in conjunction with the skyrocketing consumption of fast food and other processed commodities, as well as, the health consequences of institutionalized racism are important to blacks.

Both Bradley and Gore dismiss reparations as part of the overall solution to end the 3/5ths Compromise. Neither feel horrors endured during slavery and segregation warrant conversation or compensation. Slave master descendants, Gore and Bradley dismiss white privilege as relevant. After nearly four hundred years as their slaves, blacks have achieved only a clown's status in the Democratic Party's three-ring circus. Under America's 3/5ths Compromise system, blacks can never achieve equality without reparations. Reparations can address some aspects of this Democratic sideshow, by removing the onus blocking black economic inequality.

The March 7, 2000 Presidential Primary offers frustrated Democrats an opportunity to exhale and repudiate this Democratic Party side show. It represents hoped for change. Sen. John McCain's campaign against the iron triangle of big money, influence and legislation resonates among yellow-dog Democrats. Not to confuse him with what John F. Kennedy represented, McCain proposes to eliminate corporate welfare by reforming campaign financing as the key to returning control of government to the people. On Tuesday, March 7^th for the first time, my family will cast their votes for a Republican - John McCain. Come November, if enough citizens share our hope, we will vote for him again. Leading a crusade to make the vote count for something, McCain is the only candidate talking about putting democracy back into American politics.

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