Equality under the law. Is this simply an American myth? Or is it an American promise — a work in progress, which the Bush administration has done very little to fund and fulfill? The answer to this question can be found in the everyday life experiences of the many exposed to discrimination in our workplaces, police profiling on our city streets, biased environmental contamination of minority neighborhoods, and disproportional unequal funding in education that does nothing to close the achievement gap between minority and white students.
Based on a concern to address these and other civil rights deficiencies, which were also recently documented in a U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Report on George Bush's civil rights record, the community-based not-for-profit organization Concerned Americans for Racial Equality, Inc (CARE) was established in New York City in the summer of 2005.
This new organization, spearheaded by concerned community activists Brian Figeroux, Esq., Colin Moore, J.D., Gerry Hopkins J.D., and Morine Day J.D., will organize workshops on how to identify and address civil rights violations, as well as facilitate the monitoring of police misconduct. Generally, CARE will serve as a helpful resource for educating and empowering our community, in conjunction with other local and national civil rights organizations and leaders.
