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Friday, January 25, 2008

CFAW President Faye Wattleton’s WOMEN blog, quoted in Dallas Morning News on black voters’ decisions

Urban centers across America, where millions of black voters will decide on a candidate when half the party’s delegates are chosen on Super Tuesday Feb. 5. With blacks’ voting strength in the Democratic Party, their choices could determine the eventual nominee. CFAW President Faye Wattleton is quoted from her blog in today’s article of The Dallas Morning News.

Wattleton’s excerpt is as follows:

Some analysts, like Faye Wattleton, head of the Center for the Advancement of Women, said the presidential race has caused voters to examine age-old issues such as race and gender.

“Given the cast of characters, as we move into the deeper political rhetoric of the elections, we will be repeatedly challenged to confront our biases ... little fuel is needed these days to ignite gender, race and class discords,” she wrote in her blog.

You can read the full article that appeared in The Dallas Morning News on January 25, 2007, here.