Reply #4: He doesn't care about any people. Snubbing the NAACP is ... [View All]

[txaslftist]

...deliberate. It is a continuation of the "southern strategy".

Bush wants to be seen as "subtly" snubbing blacks, just as his propaganda meisters (Hannity, Rush, FOX) subtly snub blacks.

This subtle racism is a very cynical ploy, along with the whole anti-affirmative action stance of the GOP. The idea is to give poor and blue-collar whites the idea that there is something "different" about them and poor and blue-collar blacks; and that the GOP is secretly on the side of poor and blue collar whites.

The fact is that poor and blue collar folks should all be in the same party, the party that represents their interests. The southern strategy is simply one of divide and conquer.

If you can get poor whites and rich whites to vote together, Republicans win, the rich win, and the poor (of both races) and the Democrats (of both races) lose.

Bush isn't a racist. He's a classist and a power-hungry Machiavellian (or at least his brain, Karl Rove is).