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Civil rights Leaders Criticized for Ignoring Attacks on Conservative Minorities President Bush's nomination of Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state has resulted in harsh liberal criticism that members of the black leadership network Project 21 consider racist. Along with their condemnations of offensive commentators and cartoonists, Project 21 members also are critical of self-professed civil rights leaders who are remaining silent on current and previous racial attacks on black Bush Administration officials. Over the past few months, and peaking this week with her appointment, cartoonists have been using Dr. Rice's race as a point of ridicule. Demeaning political cartoons by...

In a rally at Harlem’s large and influential Abyssinian Baptist Church (once under the pastoral care of the late Cong. Adam Clayton Powell), “community leaders” agitated against the new liberal radio network Air America, as a victimizer of the black community. None of the American newspapers which have lavished loving coverage on the tiny four station operation — the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle, among them — bothered to cover the rally against it. Toronto’s Globe and Mail which did have the integrity to cover an event which went against the left wing press's obvious agenda commented: Something...