Dan Froomkin asks the following question: and Steve Gillard answers

[MSgt213]

But was it appropriate to take advantage of Bush's attempt to reach out to the African-American community to publicly berate him? Bush, after all, changed his schedule to attend and deliver his own gracious, if bland, tribute .

"I've come today to offer the sympathy of our entire nation at the passing of a woman who worked to make our nation whole," Bush said, before sitting down and getting his ears boxed.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100879.html



Oh lord, yes. George Bush is not a king. He is not owed our deference.

Reaching out?

FEMA is about to kick thousands of people in the street with no place to go after surviving Katrina

Our diffrrences with George Bush are not trivial or based on policy. They are real and substantial. People's children are dying in Iraq, New Orleans is a wasteland, and we're supposed to be upset that he got his feelings hurt at a funeral.

Look, 90 percent of the audience thought he was there for show anyway. He didn't much care about the King family when she was alive, and his lame speech is now supposed to impress people now that she's dead?

If white commentators expect black people to react to their pained words of criticism, they are going to be sadly suprised at the indifference their complaints will meet. Black people bury their leaders how we choose fit. If Jeff Greenfield doesn't like it, well, no one asked his opinion.

Was he ripping into the online racists as they mocked the dead of Katrina?

Of course not.

When you have vermin like Michael Savage and Don Imus complaining, it isn't exactly going to impress most black people with their outrage.

You can't ignore the slights and insults to black people in their greatest crisis since the Civil War, while the right attacked black people without pause, and then act as if you have a claim to regulate their behavior at other times.

George Bush betrayed America, especially black America with his failed response to Katrina, why should he be allowed to sit before black America and go unscolded for his failure?

This is not the Minnesota Dems, we don't care about your Jedi Mind Tricks. Your opinion means less than nothing.

http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/2006_02_01_stevegilliard_archive.html

[glitch]

1. Quite a beautiful smackdown.

No wonder I love our side.

[LynnTheDem]

2. And on top of that, isn't it up to what Ms. KING and HER FAMILY wanted???

Who the fuck said it was up to the rightwingnuts, or ANYONE ELSE, to decide for Ms. King and her family what and how and when and where and et bloody al Ms. King's funeral was???!!

Mind your own bloody funerals, MFers!

And let everyone else mind theirs.

Good fucking grief!

[chaumont58]

3. Bush didn't have the guts NOT to go

Bush was about as welcomed as the proverbial fart in church. And he knew it. He was almost daring people to tell the truth. He got at least two that answered his dare.