The GOP's great black hope.(Congressman Julius Caeser Watts Jr.)(Cover Story)

From: The Washington Monthly | Date: October 1, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

J.C. Watts is a black Republican congressman whose views sometimes seem conflicting. He is against moves to do away with affirmative action, yet does not really support it. He supports enterprise zones in poor cities, but voted for most of Newt Gingrich's anti-government Contract With America.

BY THE TIME Julius Caesar Watts Jr. enrolled at the University of Oklahoma in 1976, the ghost of Ada Lois Sipuel had long since disappeared. Where Sipuel needed a young Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court to force her admission to the university's law school in 1948, Watts was recruited to ...

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