Click Here - Advice for the President from CORE

"Mis-understanding of legitimate needs and goals, with the resultant frustration, is occurring especially among competing black sub-factions of different ideological persuasion, status, and aspiration. The lack of desire to understand the competing needs and goals among black Americans themselves is a critical factor that could add to deteriorating relations between blacks and whites. This is especially so when institutions, public and private, react to and respond disproportionately to one sub-faction, while ignoring others. The next President must resist those forces that would have him relate to the black community as if it were a monolith. He must be willing to reach around and beyond the usual media created and anointed leaders and demagogues in ethnic communities."