President Obama proposes an aggressive civil rights agenda on his Web site, whitehouse.gov.
Obama pledges to end sex- and race-based pay disparities, push through the fair pay and employment nondiscrimination acts, harshly penalize voter fraud, dump race-tinged drug-sentencing disparities, and outlaw racial profiling at the federal level while providing financial incentives to local and state police to ban the practice. The president also promises to markedly expand hate-crime prosecutions. President Obama is way ahead of the policy curve. He's already spelled out what needs to be done on civil rights and why it must be done.
While the President will be watched intently to see how he deals with crises from the Iraq war to the economy, racial disparities and poverty are no less compelling
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