Dean on racial profiling...

for those of you who were wondering about his stance about policies that affect minorities...

from his web site: http://www.deanforamerica.com/site/PageServer

Dean Would Label Racial Profiling as ‘Discrimination’

Governor Howard Dean said today that he would take federal action, including withholding federal funding, against state and local law enforcement agencies that engage in racial profiling. As president, Dean would use the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to label racial profiling by law enforcement as a form of discrimination. “Let’s start calling racial profiling what it is—discrimination based upon race,” Dean said.

In comments today to the annual meetings of the National Council of La Raza here and the NAACP in Miami, Dean took issue with the recent memorandum circulated by Attorney General John Ashcroft on the subject of profiling and with the Bush administration’s position that this is a state and local issue over which the federal government has little control. “This is a civil rights issue, and that makes it a federal issue,” Dean said. “Racial discrimination is illegal in hiring, housing, and voting. It should be illegal as a law enforcement technique too.”

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For those of us interested in bringing the Dean campaign to minorities, this is just the kind of "hard" position we need to talk about.

for making "racial profiling" a national issue.