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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DavesM who wrote (500692)	11/29/2003 8:21:16 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 769667

Remember the GOP convention? Every black in the party was paraded onstage. Meanwhile the crowd was 95% white and 80% male. The GOP image-makers made sure the camera didn't show the crowd, only the stage, then the RNC made a big deal about being a "big tent". Meanwhile, no blacks allowed at their country clubs. Now Bush policies scorch the middleclass, sock it to the poor, gouge average consumers, hit the union workers hard and cut every program there is which might benefit the vast majority of blacks, even the best cost-efficient programs which were really working well. Bush even spoke at Bob Jones University which might as well be called Jim Crow Segregation U. That's like putting on a confederate cap. Under Clinton, blacks made the best progress ever. Very low unemployment, but now it's way up again. In general, blacks have begun to overcome thanks to leaders like Clinton and Carter while Bushies have sent them a step backwards. But in some places, typically way down south, not much has changed at all. My girlfriend was recently in rural Alabama on business and described it to me. Yes, those places used to be democratic in the old Dixiecrat days, but now they're solidly white Bushie strongholds with a black underclass. Under Bush if a black person wants a career, join the Army. Not much else available as tuition costs go up and corporations have laid off three million workers.