acknowledge the term "cracker" is racial and derogatory and seek a public apology from Charlie Rangel for its use.

As a leader of the elected government, his, Charlie Rangel, first responsibility is to stop actions that erode the social structure of our country and to immediately confront those individuals and groups that fuel the racial division in this country. He must issue a public apology denouncing the use of cracker as a descriptor of people and that it's only purpose, when used to describe a person, is to foment hate and race bait in an attempt to prevent a color blind conversation. Furthermore, its use to describe people is to drive an even bigger wedge between the people of this country and that Democrats were the party that fought desegregation and launched the attacks against minorities during the civil rights movement.