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Posted on 01/19/2003 4:40:44 PM PST by TLBSHOW
Bush to Propose Funds for Black, Hispanic Education
Jan. 19 — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush will propose funding increases for Hispanic-serving institutions and historically black colleges and universities in his 2004 budget, the White House said in a statement on Sunday, on the eve of the Martin Luther King Day holiday.
Asked about the timing of the announcement and whether it was in response to criticism of the president's legal challenge to the University of Michigan's policy of using racial preferences in admissions, a White House spokesman declined direct comment.
"Tomorrow is the observance of Martin Luther King Junior's birthday and this is an opportunity for the president to talk about an item in his budget that he feels is very important to providing equal opportunity and access for all Americans," White House spokesman Scott Stanzel told reporters.
Stanzel pointed out that for the past two fiscal years, Bush had proposed funding increases for historically black schools and to a program that provides grants to Hispanic and low-income students.
The Bush administration's position on a Supreme Court challenge to the university sparked a storm of criticism from Democrats in Congress and civil rights leaders.
Earlier on Sunday, Secretary of State Colin Powell acknowledged differences with Bush over the University of Michigan's policy, but said he understood why the president opposed it.
Powell, the first black to serve as secretary of state and an advocate of affirmative action, said he had told Bush of his views, which were at odds with those of the president.
"Whereas I have expressed my support for the policies used by the University of Michigan, the president, in looking at it, came to the conclusion that it was constitutionally flawed based on the legal advice he received," Powell told CBS's "Face the Nation."
"He came down on that side of the issue and I understand why he did," Powell said.
"I think reasonable people can differ over that case," he added on CNN's "Late Edition."
POLITICALLY CHARGED CASE
The Bush administration last week filed a brief siding with three white students who have challenged the University of Michigan's policies for giving preferences to black and Hispanic applicants.
In announcing his decision to weigh in on the politically charged case, Bush labeled the university's program a "quota system" and charged it was unconstitutional.
The University disagrees its admissions programs involve any kind of quota.
In the landmark 1978 "Bakke v. Board of Regents" decision, the Supreme Court rejected the use of strict racial quotas in school admissions. But it said public universities could use race as a factor in the selection of students.
Bush also spoke to his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, about the Michigan case before making a decision.
Rice, the highest-ranking black in the White House, expressed support for Bush's decision to file the brief in opposition to the program but she made clear she believes it is appropriate for universities to take race into account as a factor in achieving student diversity.
Bush's legal brief is silent on that issue.
"I have said that I benefited at Stanford University from the fact they were trying to diversify their faculty," Rice, a former provost there, said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
I wish I could try to buy friends with other people's money.
Leni
Can't tell you how this disgusts me.
Please read carefully. Reuters likes to stir the pot.
1. This is funding that the President has proposed for the last two years, so it has nothing to do with the Michigan case nor Trent Lott.
2. Please note that in the statement above there is a separate notation for low-income. I assume this applies to ALL low income people, since black universities and Hispanics are noted separately.
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Thank God we didn't get that nut Owlgore for president.
I'll tell you what it will buy - about seven votes. Morality aside - it's a political and economical abomination.
I'm struggling to see the consistency in the Administration's positions...
reparations takes many forms.. all the socialist engineers have to do is figure out which "format" will be deemed the least distasteful to the folks who will "voluntarily" increase the level of their slavery to big government... while permanently ensconcing the new "compassionate elites" as the demi-god-friends of the USA's poor widdle "victims"...
Puke.
I would bet we could get a bigger, more effective protest than the antiwar crowd did, over this crapola... of every increasing federal largesse at our expense...
Of course, non-dope addict conservatives who are tired of paying for crap on a bucket social programs to placate the malcontents... would be a LOT more threatening to the governing elites with their "pipe dreams" of "thousands of points of light..." The tax their asses off, pay for new voter's votes... scheme, is NOT a "thousand points of light" in action... nope, it is more like "million points of blight". As ever dime they take away from us to run through the bureaucracy, is one less dollar we have to spend on our own families, hopes, dreams and aspirations.
There is a divine curse that comes on those who STEAL BY CHOICE, when they could come by gain honestly. We are on the fast track to that dark area... and the kneejerk bushbots, are sound asleep, high on the joy of winning at the cost of any principle they once held dear.
We are taking so many "issues" away... there will be NO platform left that belongs to the liberals that we don't already own, by the time "conservatives" (hack, spit with a little cursing) are finished.
strategery my a$$. Bush needs to revisit OUR roots... we don't believe in armed robbery whether the weapons are guns, wmd or THE WMD of choice for federal elistists... the taxes they "persuade" us to accept... OR ELSE.
It's wrong with a gun. It's wrong with the IRS... and it is wrong to take the power to destroy and use it in such manners to deprive us of our lives, liberty and pursuit of happiness. HOW can we do any of these, when our lives are spent paying our robbers, our liberty is taxed, regulated or marginalized by statist "legislators" who want a law for everything; and the pursuit of happiness is a JOKE, because we cannot buy anything we need or want, to make our lives better... as we are busy funding the education of illegals and malcontents on the social teat...
This is so wrong... it is beyond sickening.
When bush is right.. I got nothing but praise for him. But this is NOT right... it's texas steer manure... and it stinks.
I was the only one who paid for my mistake (my favorite "Hot Wheels" car and a Han Solo-in snow gear-action figure), but we are ALL paying for his.
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