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Coalition for Peace with Justice
Letter to Atlanta Journal
Constitution
[to CPWJ Letters page]
[ to CPWJ home page]
August 10, 2002
4th Congressional District: More than Arabs love lawmaker
Bill Torpy missed an important point in his report on the government's harassment
of out-of-state supporters of U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney ("Some McKinney
donors probed for terror ties," News, Aug. 3).
The out-of-state support has been sparked by widespread concern over the
defeat of McKinney's congressional colleague, Earl Hilliard, in Alabama's
primary in June. Like McKinney, Hilliard is an outspoken African-American
critic of Washington's policies of supporting Israel at the expense of Arab
lives and human rights. The same outsiders who flooded Hilliard's district
with money and propaganda are now working to replace McKinney with Denise
Majette.
McKinney's outside support is not coming solely from Arabs and Muslims, as
Torpy's story implied. She represents her constituents politically, but to
people of all races and creeds, working for more justice in U.S. foreign
policy, she also represents hope for a better world.
CLAIBORNE M. CLARK, Durham, N.C.
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