Sunday, March 6, 2005
Dean Should Resign
The brother of civil rights icon Medgar Evers is calling on Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean to resign for suggesting that minorities generally work in professions like maids and bellboys.
Speaking at Mississippi's Jackson State University College last week, Charles Evers said: "The Democratic Party [should] do the same thing to Dean that Republicans and other Democrats did to Senator Lott. Ask him to step down, because he's the wrong man for the position."
Evers was reacting to Dean's comments last month to the Congressional Black Caucus, where he joked: "You think the Republican National Committee could get this many people of color in a single room? Only if they had hotel staff in here."
Evers, a member of the Mississippi Republican Executive Committee, elaborated on his call for Dean's resignation on Thursday.
"As a black man, I resent anyone who says anything about us as a race," he told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes." "When are we going to learn to become Americans? When are we going to learn to respect Republicans and Democrats as human beings and not as black or white?"
Evers' brother Medgar became the civil rights movement's first martyr after he was assassinated in 1963 while working as the NAACP's first field coordinator in Mississippi.
The brother of civil rights icon Medgar Evers is calling on Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean to resign for suggesting that minorities generally work in professions like maids and bellboys.
Speaking at Mississippi's Jackson State University College last week, Charles Evers said: "The Democratic Party [should] do the same thing to Dean that Republicans and other Democrats did to Senator Lott. Ask him to step down, because he's the wrong man for the position."
Evers was reacting to Dean's comments last month to the Congressional Black Caucus, where he joked: "You think the Republican National Committee could get this many people of color in a single room? Only if they had hotel staff in here."
Evers, a member of the Mississippi Republican Executive Committee, elaborated on his call for Dean's resignation on Thursday.
"As a black man, I resent anyone who says anything about us as a race," he told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes." "When are we going to learn to become Americans? When are we going to learn to respect Republicans and Democrats as human beings and not as black or white?"
Evers' brother Medgar became the civil rights movement's first martyr after he was assassinated in 1963 while working as the NAACP's first field coordinator in Mississippi.
