Author Archives: Harry C. Alford

Last week, I wrote about why we have Black business programs. Their evolution of from the Civil Rights Movement and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is the cause for their existence. Title VI of the act, along with the U.S. Supreme Court decisions justifies their existence. The most frustrating thing about it is the fact that most of them don’t work too well. Our collective gains in the public and corporate marketplace have been little and slow in coming. If we had genuine efforts and very positive results after 49 years of law there would be no need for affirmative action and participation programs.

We have these programs from the blood, sweat and tears of Dr. Martin Luther King and the other giants of the Civil Rights Movement. They saw the vision of having a new and improved Civil Rights Act.

These are very wild times here in Washington, D.C. We have four big scandals going on that could threaten the entire Obama Administration. The biggest appears to be the IRS scandal. Next, is the Benghazi cover-up. The spying on the Associated Press and Fox News by the Department of Justice is a direct attack on the 1st Amendment.