Bush calls for end of racism

[emad]

CNN
Wednesday, February 9, 2005 Posted: 9:54 AM EST (1454 GMT)

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush, whose relationship with black lawmakers has been strained over the last four years, told black leaders Tuesday that the United States can not carry freedom abroad while holding "the baggage of bigotry" at home.

Bush welcomed black leaders to the East Room of the White House to celebrate black history month.

"Success of freedom on the home front is critical to its success in foreign lands," Bush said. "As I said in my inaugural address, we cannot carry the message of freedom and the baggage of bigotry at the same time."

Bush noted legislation he signed in 2003 to create the National Museum of African American History and Culture within the Smithsonian Institution. The president and his wife, Laura, made a contribution, for an undisclosed amount, to construction of the museum.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/02/09/bush.blackhistory.ap/

[skypilot]

1. Whatever.

*

[Momgonepostal]

2. Is this the same President Bush who campaigns at BJU?

Maybe he would be taken more seriously if he'd stop hanging out with racists.

[Mystified]

14. He he

You said BJU :)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

25. The one who told Coretta Scott King, "Can't wait to hang it"

when presented with MLK's pic :D

[demwing]

27. You know, I've heard that quote before

but never paid any attention to it, and just NOW got the significance.


DUURH!

[Momgonepostal]

33. I didn't think Bob Jones University would fit and...

... I also like the irony. :-)

[GOPBasher]

41. Good point. nt

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. er..Bush, tell that to the RNC. Remember the Southern Strategy? It lives

[RedSpartan]

4. Didn't this guy say

"You have blacks here, too?" when visiting Brazil?

Ever the compassionate convervative...

:eyes:

[deutsey]

5. Classism and elitism, however, is A-OK in his book.

[kysrsoze]

42. Precisely. Whether you're black, white whatever, if you're not rich...

you're nothing to these people. The only exception is all gays and people who live in other countries.

[tanyev]

6. "The president and his wife, Laura,

made a contribution, for an undisclosed amount"

$10? Maybe $20?

[Mizmoon]

7. Willie Horton and the Cadillac Driving Welfare Queens

agree with you.

And no, they're not a band.

[livinginphotographs]

21. They're not a band

But maybe they should be. :D That's a great name.

[Roland99]

8. Right inline with Rice telling Europe to get over it

Does their delusional behavior know no bound??

[stopbush]

9. But his solution is to end racism by killing off everyone in the

world who isn't like him or his cabal!

[meganmonkey]

10. Oh good! I guess racism is finally over!

Thank you, noble leader.

:puke:

[Pam-Moby]

11. B*sh against racial bigotry?

Is that so. Tell that to the thousands if not millions of minority black voters who were disenfranchised on Nov. 3 of last year. If he really means it, maybe he should authorize a full investigation of all of the suppression and fraudulent actions during this last election!!!
Or does this prejudice not count???

[thecai]

47. Good Point!

I have heard very little about investigations where blacks were kidnapped and held captive until the polls closed, yet news reporters interviewed several victims...

[rayofreason]

56. link?

Have you got a link to such reports?

[CottonBear]

12. Bob Jones U speech. EOM.

[StClone]

13. Racism is ignorance...war on ignorance first George.

[rocktivity]

15. Rocknation Calls For End of Bush Empire

:bounce:
rocknation

[emad]

16. Like, "Satan calls for end of Hell"..........

??

[bunkerbuster1]

17. Just as long as it's not a "War on Racism"

Else we'd have to invade another defenseless country and spend 300 billion to break it and put it back together.

[liberal N proud]

18. If bu$h is denouncing racism, look out for his next move

it will most likely prove to be just the opposite of what he said

[Deep13]

19. ...by executing all the Blacks.

Or at least the ones he missed while he was governor.

[callous taoboy]

20. The biggage of bagotry-

May as well have.:eyes:

[Orsino]

22. Look for his next courageous stance...

...firmly in favor of motherhood and apple pie. Look for it to be reported as "news" by compliant media.

[maxsolomon]

23. WAR ON RASCISM!

lets start killing immediately!

turns out muslims are the worst rascists. who'da thunk?

[underpants]

24. WOW! Good idea George I wish someone had mentioned it before now

Okay we'll get right on it thanks

[roseBudd]

26. When Bush was in Cincinnati he spent all of 20 minutes at the...

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. John Kerry spent 3 hours.

[bushisanidiot]

28. This is the same dumbass chimp who joked about "hanging" a portrait of MLK

in the white house. Then he pressured the SCOTUS
to declare afirmative action unconstitutional in
the Michigan university case.

who does that racist idiot think he's fooling??

[BrotherBuzz]

35. 59 million racists that voted for him?

Oh, wait, I think there was a little code speak in his statement. Wink, wink, nod, nod.

[Brooklyn Michael]

29. "And I mean that....Really I do"

"As I said in my inaugural address, we cannot carry the message of freedom and the baggage of bigotry at the same time."

....he said while his good friend Trent Lott sat in the front row.


:eyes:

[onehandle]

30. Resign. That would be a good start. nt

nt

[Sabriel]

31. Next up, he calls for an end to homophobia.

Uh huhhhh.....

[rodeodance]

32. wonder if he even knows what racism IS?

[Vidar]

34. The Saxon King Canute commanding the tide to cease.

[FlyByNight]

36. Could he sound any more disingenuous?

:puke:

[doubleplusgood]

37. "he (Kerry) looks French"

Forget who said it, Rove, Card, or someone in the Whitehouse but, isn't that racist ?

[Eloriel]

38. I honestly don't think I can take much more

This world around me has reached such gargantuan proportions of surreality and downright unbelievability, that I sometimes think (more and more frequently) that I am reaching the limit of my ability to cope.

In addition to all the points already made, this is perhaps the height of what I've seen of his hubris. "I'll just declare that there should be an end to it. I am SO powerful, that that will make a difference." Either that or it's his most cynical hypocrisy yet. Or what the hell, perhaps both.

Stop the World, I Wanna Get Off!

[Rainscents]

39. I wonder if Bush really know the meaning of the racism...

If he did... He woould truly care about people.

[freestyle]

40. And expansion of heterosexism

This Black gay man calls bullshit. Should I be happy he only wants half of me to be a second class citizen? This is disgusting. Bush is a bigot, he advocates writing bigotry into the Constitution, and hollow blather about racism does not change that fact. This is just the same divide and conquer as always. I will not be divided or conquered, and most Black people will not be fooled. The problem is they don't need most, only enough to put them over the top.

[SiouxJ]

43. Oh well this explains it

in my local rightwing rag yesterday, the editorial was titled, "Democrats no longer champion racial equality" and went on to tout Republicans as the new champions of racial equality, based on their support of Rice and Gonzalez, and the Dems opposition to them. So, apparently like a good little Bush-bot, when Rove said, "jump," this editor said, "how high?" I wonder how many other editors ran the same sort of garbage yesterday, right on cue with Shrub's announcement today.

[underpants]

44. Yes this is a very coordinated effort to whoo the African Americans

NOT very subtle though.

[sarcasmo]

45. End to Racism, but Homophobia is mighty fine in Chimpies book.

[stepnw1f]

46. Jump Off A High Ledge

You can start there, you racist pig.

[WritersBlock]

48. He should know.

Twice in the past year, once in last spring's press conference, ** has made statements like this:

Some of the debate really center (sic) around the fact that people don't believe Iraq can be free; that if you're Muslim, or perhaps brown-skinned, you can't be self-governing and free. I strongly disagree with that. I reject that, because I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul, and, if given a chance, the Iraqi people will be not only self-governing, but a stable and free society.

Have you ever heard anyone else say that?

Just what "people" is he talking about?

Look at what the man is saying. For all intents and purposes, he's saying that he has personal knowledge that "people" hold the opinion that "if you're Muslim, or perhaps brown-skinned, you can't be self-governing and free."

I can't imagine even an admitted racist saying a thing like that, if only for the sake of political correctness.

Yet here we have the occupant of the White House saying this is how "people" feel, then oh-so-nobly distancing himself and disagreeing with it.

How, exactly, does he know that "people" feel this way?

I could be wrong, but it's my experience that when someone talks so broadly about what "people" believe, they're really talking about what they themselves believe.

(The link to the quote is here: whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/04/20040413-20.html

Cut & paste into the browser & type the TripleDubya in front of it. I'm not putting it in as a link, because I wouldn't put it past them to suddenly alter the transcript of the press conference if they started getting hits from DU. Do a CTRL-F on the word "brown.")

[applegrove]

49. I take it gates in Gated Communities will come down

I take it gates in Gated Communities will come down and gun laws will be tightened up. Oh and rural folk will happily pay their taxes!!

Yippee! This is great news. He waves his wand and everything is solved!!

What? What is that you say? Oh :cry: I thought he had fixed it all!

[applegrove]

50. Bush calls for end to disease. Then he graps the sash, holds his tiara

Bush calls for end to disease. Then he grabs the sash, holds his tiara, and saunters off-stage.

Tomorrow Bush calls for an end to poverty. Friday - and end to meanness. Saturday he will call for an end to crime. Sunday - War. Then Monday he calls for an end to selfishness. Tuesday, Day Seven, he calls for an end to exploitation.

... and he saw that this was good

[Generator]

51. You think he might start with the Blacks in Ohio

getting an equal access to voting? Or the Hispanics in New Mexico?

Hah hah hah

[AlinPA]

52. Bush**? The big Bob Jones U. guy? What a phony.

[oasis]

53. "Clean Air Initiative" and "No Child Left Behind" were just lip service

surely the Chimp's sincere on this one.:eyes:

[Rockerdem]

54. You know, I going to give Bush credit on this one

I bash him as good as anyone at DU. But, in the main, I think he has pulled his party in the right direction when it comes to racial progress. He hasn't hit a home run, but he's close to a sliding double. Maybe it's just playing an ethnic politics numbers game, but he has really neutralized the Mexican haters in the GOP. No mean feat, that.

[twenty2strings]

55. Good one!...Charlie Daniels voted for who?

I remember checking out that long haired country boys website right before the election warning about "lots of minorities" voting. Jes' keep 'er quiet boys...:eyes:

[donheld]

57. Yea right

[superconnected]

58. hypocrisy is alive and kicking in the GOP, as if we doubted.

[tom_paine]

59. Well, that's a bald-faced lie, although

perhaps he is referring to the "raceless racism" of the Soviet-style that the Busheviks are pushing in which we will ALL be th "Uppity negroes" to the Bushevik KKK.

Coming just as soon as the last generations who spent a significant protion of their (our) lives in Old Free America grow old and die, just as the First Phase of Totalitarianism came, not coincidentally, as the last people to fight and defeat Hitler grew old and died.

[renegade000]

60. oh well...that'll just about put a stop to it

move along...

[shadowknows69]

61. Bush's solution to racism....

kill everyone that isn't white thus eliminating racism forever. He'll keep a couple museum pieces in his cabinet just for historical reference.