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11/13/08

Could a Person of Color from an Immigrant Family Be Elected in Europe?

AlterNet: Could a Person of Color from an Immigrant Family Be Elected in Europe?:

"Could a Person of Color from an Immigrant Family Be Elected in Europe?
By Sanjay Suri, IPS News
Posted on November 13, 2008, Printed on November 13, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/106768/

Nobody quite remembers the first name of that relative of Colin Powell. Or his second, for that matter.

Their families had left Jamaica about the same time. Colin Powell's moved to the U.S., the other to Britain. Colin Powell retired as U.S. secretary of state, the other as a bus conductor."

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