Black Political Zone

The LA Times is reporting on the growing disaffection among black and Latino religious leaders who were initially wooed by President Bush particularly regarding his Faith Based Initiative program. It seems that white evangelicals are also a bit dismayed as well (See the video above). The LA Times reports:

The Rev. Eugene Rivers, a Boston Pentecostal minister and one of about two dozen black clergy invited to a series of White House meetings with Bush, said Friday that black leaders had been wooed with assurances that their social service groups would receive money from the president's faith-based initiative. But, Rivers said, the bulk of the money had gone to white organizations, leaving black churches on the sidelines.

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