President Bush at the NAACP Convention:
“I understand that racism still lingers in America … It’s a lot easier to change a law than to change a human heart. And I understand that many African-Americans distrust my political party.”
“I consider it a tragedy that the party of Abraham Lincoln let go of its historical ties with the African-American community … For too long, my party wrote off the African-American vote, and many African-Americans wrote off the Republican Party.”
“President Johnson called the right to vote the lifeblood of our democracy. That was true then and it remains true today.”
“I come from a family committed to civil rights … My faith tells me that we are all children of God — equally loved, equally cherished, equally entitled to the rights He grants us all.”
“For nearly 200 years, our nation failed the test of extending the blessings of liberty to African-Americans. Slavery was legal for nearly 100 years, and discrimination legal in many places for nearly 100 years more.”
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I'm was gonna blog about this, but only eventually, because Bush finally showing up at the NAACP is like my lying theivin' nephew who still owes me $800 from '99 finally paying me back:
I don't trust him; it's too late and despite us bein' family, i know he's only doing it because somebody put him up to it and because he wants something else.
So i'mo wait for the other shoe to drop before speakin' on this speech, stuff...
Meanwhile, did this child say, "almost 200 years"? Somebody tell me he didn't say almost 200 years.
It's not like we teach much of this in school or anything, but still anybody with a passing knowledge of american history (or who's watched Roots) would know that he's lowballin' the thing by "almost" 100 years on this continent alone.
As a bonus, somebody needs to to remind him this his office building wasn't exactly built by union workers, either.
And then there's that little matter of reconstruction, another 100 years of Jim Crow... North and South.
Anyhow...
Then you gotta love a man who's idea of academic success is getting a C- in college. all throughout college. And brags about it. Still.
Now, nobody gets to the oval office being as dumb as we'd like to think Dubya is... Oblivious to certain issues possibly, But dumb? No.
So this tells me that he quite possibly doesn't care what he says or who hears it, hasn't hired fact checkers, and that our public schools are so bad that not one person in that NAACP audience knew enough to say, "hey, you missed some digits, buddy!"
I'm not saying, i'm just sayin'.
amen hajpaj. i tried to stay on the edge of it all but...
did you notice even the NAACP didn't have him on the agenda on their website? Could this be like your lyin', thievin' nephew inviting himself to the cookout without bringing anything, including the money he owes?
At least my nephew knows to keep his mouth shut around me.
this one belives his one hype.
then again, doesn'tevery politician?
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