Eliminate the Gaps in Social and Racial Equality

Whereas,  Hurricane Katrina and the Flood of New Orleans laid bare the unjust struggles that the poorest and weakest among us endure daily, and have endured and are enduring following the Hurricane and the Flood in measures that are abhorrent to a just and compassionate society, and,

Whereas, the enormity of this human suffering is caused to a significant extent by class and race inequality of opportunity, which we, in the proud and long Democratic tradition, have vowed to eradicate, and,

Whereas, the Republican President and the Republican Congress have shown themselves to be unwilling and incapable of resolving these issues of every widening inequality, and even when promising to deal with such concerns in his address to the nation following Hurricane Katrina, the Republican President referred to these issues as “regional” and provided solutions that were highly inadequate, now therefore, be it

Resolved that, we will strongly encourage and support our representatives at all levels of government to take bold and forceful action to eliminate the gaps in social and racial inequality, and be it further

Resolved that, we will redouble our efforts as a Party to sound the clarion call to make our society one of true equal opportunity and of compassion to those least powerful among us.

Approved by SCCDCC Executive Board, September 15, 2005