Bill Bradley in The Boston Globe


On Civil Rights: Supports affirmative action

Bradley positions [include] support for affirmative action.
Source: Boston Globe, Sunday April 25, 1999, p. C4, by David Nyhan Apr 25, 1999

On War & Peace: Against intervention

Bradley is positioned as The Democrat Who’s Against the War in Kosovo.
Source: Boston Globe, Sunday April 25, 1999, p. C4, by David Nyhan Apr 25, 1999

On Civil Rights: Racial unity is a defining moral issue.

“If I’m president... one of the things you’d better show is how your department or agency has furthered tolerance and racial understanding... For me the quest for racial unity remains the defining moral issue of our time.” Race relations have been a life- long interest for Bradley, whose basketball career led him to the intersection of black and white America. He refused to do commercial endorsements as a New York Knick, inpart because of discomfort about being hailed as basketball’s “great white hope.”
Source: Boston Globe, 4/21/99, p. A12, col. 4-6 Apr 21, 1999

On Civil Rights: NY shooting as error; 1992 King verdict denounced.

Bradley did not join the criticism of [the 4 white NYC officers accused of fatally shooting an unarmed African immigrant]. He called the shooting “a grevious error by those charged with protecting the very person they shot.” But he added that the case shed light on “white indifference and black suspicion.” In 1992, when white LA officers were acquitted of beating Rodney King, Bradley denounced the verdict, and rapped a pencil on the Senate podium 56 times to dramatize how many times King had been hit.
Source: Boston Globe, 4/21/99, p. A12, col. 5-6 Apr 21, 1999

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