Brownie’s takin' care of things while Darkie's drownin’ Dubya!

I think Kanye West was right. I don’t think George W. Bush cares much about black people. And Dubya and “his base” Republican-types certainly care even less for poor people. Bush had no problem executing blacks during the period he was governor of Texas, when he presided over more executions than any governor in US history, of which 52 of the 156 executed were black men. One of which was Gary Graham, a juvenile at the time of his crime, who was convicted by the testimony of only one witness which his attorney didn’t even cross examine. Bush claimed that while governor he and his staff spent 15-30 minutes evaluating death penalty cases before deciding whether or not to intercede. The only pardon, or more accurately, commutation of the death sentence to life in prison by George bush was for serial killer Henry lee Lucas. Why? Of all people to pardon, why Henry? But I digress…
Bush also benefited tremendously from the racist felony list created under Catherine Harris and his brother Jeb before the 2000 election which barred many innocent people—non felons—from voting at all. Most of those listed were minorities, of which most vote democratic; who do you think benefited from that?
Katrina’s brutality exposed the ugly side of Barbara Bush too; when Dubya’s mom described the conditions of evacuees and thought they looked as if they were movin’ on up. The scary thing is that I think most rich white people think like the Bushes. They assume blacks are mostly lazy, have too many kids, are likely to be poor and prone to commit crimes and that it is only some of them that actually rise to the top of the mix.
You saw Do the Right Thing, right? I think it's a little like the character Vito's attitude about Prince and Michael Jordan in DTRT. I get the feeling that to Dubya, Condi Rice is kinda like Prince or Jordan--she's better than black, worth more than the rest of them. She's risen above.
Then there’s good ol’ Michael Brown, not as much a racist as he is a buffoon. He is oblivious, and when you watch him it seems he’s clearly lying and distorting reality. On Frontline he was asked if when local officials are overwhelmed, as they were in NOLA (his word overwhelmed) isn’t that exactly the condition for which FEMA exists? His answer: “Based upon the priorities of the state...we [Feds] don’t come in and take over. We don’t have the resources to take over.”
He’s amazing. He puts it on the state, sheds responsibility, even when the record clearly shows he didn’t fulfill what was requested. The supply lines had been cut. The whole thing had been restructured, privatized. When a city floods the city needs rescue by the Feds!! If not the Feds, then who? Halliburton? No, they’ll just get all the rebuilding contracts while reports suggest they’re mistreating workers.
Dubya doesn’t care about poor blacks, or poor whites for that matter. How many poor white kids did he alienate with his callous response to the national tragedy of Katrina? Kids that might grow up hating the federal government that let their friends and neighbors drown; and that might hate the blacks that looted their friends and neighbors houses—Bush, Brown and Chertoff’s disregard might end up spawning Timothy McVeigh style terrorists with a bayou flavor here in the U.S. just like our brutality spawns terrorists in Iraq.
Compassionate conservatism, brothah.