Bush: I've Made Opportunities for Blacks

[maddezmom]

By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer
4 minutes ago



INDIANAPOLIS - President Bush argued Thursday that he has built a government that expands opportunities for black Americans as he tried to win more Republican votes from one of the most reliably Democratic groups.

Bush told the Indiana Black Expo that he believes in an America where all people, including blacks, have the chance to own homes and businesses and share in the country's prosperity. He also took credit for narrowing the gap in test scores between black and white elementary school students, according to test results released Thursday by his Education Department.

"I see an America where every citizen owns a stake in the future of our country and where a growing economy creates jobs and opportunity for everyone," the president said, his voice echoing in the cavernous RCA Dome, where more than 3,000 people packed luncheon tables on the floor below empty stands.

Bush appeared in Indianapolis instead of attending the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's national convention, which he has avoided since taking office. The White House said again that he couldn't attend because of a scheduling conflict.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050714/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_3

[BR_Parkway]

1. Army, Navy, Air Force & Marines - they're all hiring now!

That's some kinda progress there Shrubbie - lets kill off more people and really lower those unemployment numbers. </sarcasm>

[Eloriel]

16. BINGO!!!

Well said.

[saigon68]

30. Lots of TOILETS at WALMART and NECKCAR RACES for blacks to clean

I hear the only "MINORITIES" at neckcar tracks are the "WASH ROOM ATTENDANTS"

[physioex]

40. Now just a minute.....

There are also McDonalds workers, Grass Cutters, Grocery Baggers, and Pizza Delivery Drivers. Ohhh and don't forget all those RW Socials, who else is going to clean the tables, serve the food, and vaccum the carpets...

[saigon68]

61. You are right

However could I forget those, fully employed, thankful, productive members of society living in tar paper shacks. I'm really sure they love all of their fine cafeteria benefits plans, retirement plans, 401Ks and Golden Parachutes.

LOL

[walkon]

2. Bush looks back

"I see an America where every citizen owns a stake in the future of our country and where a growing economy creates jobs and opportunity for everyone," the president said. This was the state of America prior to his appointment by the SCOTUS in 2000.

[Demeter]

32. The Only Stake I Want Is One Through The Vampire's Heart!

[ignatius 2]

57. Exactly! In our local rag, the Indianapolis star,alongside his picture in

the paper was a photo of a nice looking black man and a story about how in the Marion County(Indianapolis) area, affluence in the black community had soared. I thought what the hell? That was the meat of the headline but if you actually read the article, it seems they were talking about the time frame from 1990-2000. That damn liberal media!

[fob]

3. The NAACP should send out a press release saying they will schedule

next years conference on WHATEVER DAY(S) bush* can put aside to meet with them. Of course there will be an "incident" just before that date anyway with that prick*.

[sweetheart]

4. He's talking about his black dogs

He thinks everyone should own a black.

[RethugAssKicker]

6. lol.... That was a reaaaallll good one!

[Terran]

5. I literally LOL'd at that heading

Well, ya know, black is white, er, no. Up is down? Yeah, that's it.

[schrodingers_cat]

7. cough! gag!

just how stupid do they think people are? I guess one doesn't get much exposure out there in Crawford......or the elegantly appointed barracks of the White House....let's all remember who *'s true constituency is - replay F9/11!

[Zorra]

8. True. Every black now has the opportunity to get killed in Iraq....

or choose between working at some McBurger or Colonel Chicken that is 29 miles from their home for minimum wage and benefits after the first year.

So many options, so little time.

And let's face it, Bu*h did not go to the NAACP event because everyone knows he is a fascist and a racist.

[AwakeAtLast]

9. Who is he trying to convince? n/t

[sniffa]

10. he's so fucking shameLess

was he taLking about prison?

remember right before the eLection, and he had that photo-op with don king and other bLack repubLicans? what a fucking joke.

[qanda]

11. Bush is an idiot

My family reunion is being held in Indianapolis this weekend to coincide with the Black Expo. I'm so glad I'm not there. I would have to :puke:

[lumpy]

12. Bush shouldn't have opened his mouth

on this subject. He "believes in an America where all people,including blacks, have a chance....." Good of him to include blacks. (sarcasm)

[Megahurtz]

64. Heh Heh.....

He did stick his foot in his mouth, didn't he? :dunce:

[Gregorian]

13. Republicans need lies. They justify their acts. Keep a "clean" conscience.

To convince themselves. I have noticed this lately.
I use my forest metaphor again. Here's how they convince themselves that it's ok to do what they do-
It's not a forest. It's a tree farm.
The trees are "mature".
They grow back.
Now these things are true, but...
This gives them liberty to execute large tracts of trees. And make money doing it.

Most people don't live in metro areas. Most live in Green Acres land. Most believe what their leader tells them. Therefore, most are happy with things. These rednecks believe that blacks are doing better, and will spout this as their new truth. And since they are too lazy to do their own research, and since the media is too greedy to be honest, this false claim will serve as the truth.

Getting back to the trees- It's not really a tree farm, it's our planet, and means of survival. And they don't grow back. Not like they should. And while they're gone, we are losing valuable biological actions. And they are not "mature". Mature is not something loggers are financially willing to wait for. They call 12 inch diameter trees "mature". Mature is four feet. Old growth is 8 feet. But who's going to wait 200 years, when they can lie to themselves and justify making money now?

[TahitiNut]

18. Rationalization is not the same as justification.

Specious 'justification' on the basis if lies and deceit is FRAUD, not justification.

[Gregorian]

24. Yes. But to them, it's justification.

I always wonder if these boneheads never feel the slightest twinge of "something" when they turn around and walk out of a forest they just cut down, and all they can see is disaster around them. No. They've used their little lies to "justify" it, for lack of having a better vocabulary.
The war is the same way. A man who just built cabinets for me (yes, I know, I used wood, god forbid), said this- "Bush has to keep those unruly Arabs under control." Sigh. Nothing can ever change their mindset, except to have the bombs dropping on our own soil, until they are destroyed, and humilated. Then, and only then, will America come to it's senses. Arrogance really sucks.

Ok, I'll just go do what I do best. And it isn't this kind of stuff. You guys are brilliant. And I can't stay away. I love being around people who have brains. Thanks!

[xxqqqzme]

14. wonder if he has had time

2 review that voting rights act thing. I know presidentin's hard work 'n all but I 'member him sayin' he was a student of history so I was just following up.

[pookieblue]

44. I was wondering the same thing... nt

[jobycom]

15. Well, that's mighty white of him.

Wonder if he patted a couple of black people on the head as he said it. He could have added that some of his friends are black, and that he even dated a black woman, except everyone would know who he meant, and then he'd have other questions to answer.

Condescending prick. Maybe forty years ago that was the speech that needed to be made. The problems are far more complicated now.

[jaysunb]

17. The prisons are just bursting w/ "opportunities"

I can hear the laughs coming from the hood now, when this is heard....
:rofl:

[maddezmom]

19. full transcript here:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/07/20050714-4.html

[AlCzervik]

20. i would like to know how black people feel about this

it's pretty brazen statement to make.

[Zodiak]

21. What, he gave them the opportunity to NOT VOTE?

After all, he probably thinks that blacks are lazy people so he was doing them a favor by making them not vote.

Really, why do newspapers print this unadulterated crap? The wheels came off of this administration months ago and they are still trying to put the lipstick on the pig.

[formercia]

36. The voter supression in OHIO was targeted against blacks

could it be they might vote Democrat?

[raccoon]

59. Same with Florida in 2000. nt

[Spider Jerusalem]

22. Guess that explains...

why Bush's approval rating among African-Americans is in the teens, eh? They're obviously grateful for all the "opportunities"...

[AlinPA]

23. Bush** and the filthy republicans are goddam bigots. What bullshit! n/t

[Rex]

25. Then why won't he attend a NAACP meeting?

Bush is a racist!

[goclark]

26. I'm African American and I'm Thrilled I WAS NOT There

I am sure that I would have stood up and called him a racist and a fool!

Every statement that he made was a "talk down to you and make you understand what the great White father decides is best for you."

That crap about NCLB was horrible. How can he stand there and say that he has made progress in our schools! Has he been to a Urban school lately?

His daughter was suppose to teach in one and she must not have qualified. Maybe she needs to take the NCLB tests.

I know that I wrote a long letter to the Principal of the Charter school that they were claiming Jenna would be working in starting this year.

I even called the school and reminded them that "our African American children(or any children for that matter) did not deserve to have a TRAMP and BAR TRASH for a teacher." That was right after Jenna stuck her tongue out at the Reporters.

He was speaking to a carefully chosen group, he would not dare give that speech in front of the NAACP!

These were business "wantabees" that the Rethugs probably gave $1000 a piece to in order to start their own businesses.

I am steaming, just steaming!

[wellst0nev0ter]

63. I Suffered Through A Little Bit Of That Speech On C-SPAN

Unfortunately, I had to encounter this from prez:

And there's more we can do. We're going to provide down payment assistance for families; counseling for new home buyers. I don't know if you've ever seen one of those contracts, but the print is really small. We need to help people. Perhaps a good project for Black Expo is to join with Alphonso Jackson and the Housing of Urban Development to help people understand what's in the print so it doesn't -- that small print doesn't frighten them off from becoming a first-time home buyer.

Oh, you know us mah-nor-uh-tees it's not for lack of capital or access to homes that's keeping us from owning homes, we'se skeered of them small prints. That's when I decided I saw enough.

[goclark]

68. He is a racist and a fool with NO Brain nt

[KamaAina]

27. Sure he has. Too bad they're all in Brazil.

The opportunities, that is, not the blacks. :-)

[Disturbed]

29. What exactly has the Bush Regime done ?

The hired C. Powell, Condi Rice and head of Dept. of Education that called the Teacher's Union terrorists. Anything else?

[formercia]

28. All you gotta be is an Uncle Tom

and they will be happy to take your application....

[chelsea0011]

31. His trip to Bob Jones U. got them to stop the no dating mixed races

policy. His trip exposed the wacky fundie crowd for what they are. Now that was Bush's civil rights trip.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

34. It only stopped because it was a complete embarrassment

If he cared for civil rights at all, he wouldn't have gone there in the first place.

[sakabatou]

33. Test scores mean jack shit...

[Demobrat]

35. C'mon you guys. W's not a racist.

He's got a black mistress fer cryin' out loud.

[Karenina]

39. Them's the WORST.

:evilgrin:

[angee_is_mad]

51. lol, Strom did too

and we know he wasn't a racist!!!

[FredScuttle]

37. He sure did

Here's a complete list of blacks for whom Bush made opportunities, covering the years 1989-1994:

Julio Franco
Ruben Sierra
Harold Baines
Gary Pettis
Gary Redus

*I should include Sammy Sosa since Dumbya gave him the opportunity to get the hell out of Texas and hit a gazillion home runs at Wrigley.

[sidwood]

38. At least they apologized for the Southern Strategy

Although that doesn't really help much, seeing as how decades of opposition to civil rights has created a strong Southern wing steeped in racism and religious fundamentalism. It's too late to change that.

[KeepItReal]

55. Apology not accepted. Let's check these fools in '06 and '08

Words mean nothing.

And if anything words mean the OPPOSITE with Bush & Co.: "Do what I say, not as I do."

They have (if at all) only shelved the Southern Stategy until '08...No national races to use it on right now, anyhow.

Also: WELCOME TO DU!!

[VegasWolf]

41. Yeah! Both of them! Two opportunities! nt

[Janice325]

42. Oh, brother...

Give me a f**king break.
What a moran.

[Solly Mack]

43. "I see an America where every citizen owns a stake in the future of our

country"

Gee, and here I thought that by being born American, a person already had a stake in the future of OUR country.

What could Mr Ownership Society possibly mean then?

So it's really not "our country" until when exactly, Mr Ownership Society?

[LibDemAlways]

45. C-span the other night showed George Allen

addressing a meeting of the South Carolina Republican Party. The only - and I mean only - blacks in the room were waiting and bussing tables.

The moron in the WH has one hell of a nerve touting the "opportunities" he's creating for black people when they continue to be the "help" at party functions.

And amazing how "scheduling conflicts" continue to get in the way of his attendance at an NAACP convention. The truth, of course, is that his ass would be booed so loud and long he'd flee in tears.

[Hotler]

46. GOP = giant box of crackers. The more I look at that group...

the more ashamed I am to be a white man.

[Moosepoop]

47. Was he on speed, or what?

He was yelling, flailing his arms, and all but jumped over the podium several times. Not to mention the "crank grimace" -- he couldn't NOT grin, even when making very somber statements.
It was different than his perma-smirk, there was something more to it.

I'm tellin' ya, that boy was hopped up on something.

[iconoclastic cat]

48. Bush has done as much for African Americans as any tobacco company.

Sheesh. What a slimeball.

[Barkley]

49. Is the "Party of Lincoln" going to endorse extending the voting rights act

of 1965?

"I don't know anything about the 1965 Voting Rights Act... when the legislation comes before me, I'll take a look at it, but I don't know about it to comment any more than that, but we will look at it when it comes to us."

- George Bush
http://www.chicagodefender.com/page/local.cfm?ArticleID=381


"I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is a physical difference between the two, which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality; and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I ... am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position."

---Abraham Lincoln.
http://www.mdcbowen.org/p2/sf/faq013.htm

[DaDeacon]

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[Dan]

52. Full Employment for African Americans

If Bush is allowed to pick two or more Supreme Court Justices, continue to retain a GOP majority in Congress in 2006, then he will be able to provide full employment for African Americans.

* He will have Delay introduce a bill dictating that Slavery is a full employment benefit; that address working condition, health care, and pension issues for African Americans. By default taking care of the Social Security concerns of African-Ameican men - as indicated by the Administration, Blacks men are punished because they tend to die before on average before their 62 years of age.

* If challenged, he will then have the Supreme Court determine that State Rights are more important than the preservation of the nation; ergo, the Civil War was an illegal war where an oppressive majority imposed their will on an oppressed minority. Followed of course by civil penalties against the Blue States.

* Clarence Thomas will write the opinion for the majority prior to rendering himself fit as a slave to Scalia.

* Mixed race Americans will be subjected to the rule of 1/16.

* Happy days are here again.

[Lilith Velkor]

53. This is a half truth.

The full one in this case is: "I've Made Opportunities for Blacks to Die in Iraq"

[Lilith Velkor]

54. Bloody fucking hell...LOOK AT THIS PIC

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050714/480/insa10107141716&g=events/pl/081201presidentbush;_ylt=Aui8QG0cv0ZAchQ_YEzR4Q8Gw_IE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3bGk2OHYzBHNlYwN0bXA-

[Judi Lynn]

56. Here's one guy who lowered himself enough to attend the NAACP meeting

The excellent Julian Bond. I also located a photo of him from 1966, just to refresh my own memory of his earlier image:

Click: http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/ts/071305naacpconven/im:/050711/480/widh10207110112

AP - Sun Jul 10, 9:11 PM ET Julian Bond, chairman of the board of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People speaks at the Opening of the NAACP 96th annual convention at the Midwest Airlines Center, Sunday, July 10, 2005, Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Darren Hauck)



Wide World Photos | Associated Press
Bond and other SNCC members meet with Martin Luther King, Jr. (top). Bond poses in front of a New York City peace demonstration, 1966 (bottom).

[truthisfreedom]

58. Bush: "I've Made Opportunities for Blacks" to move back to the Democratic

Party!

[Orion The Hunter]

60. Bush and Blacks

Yeah...reading his remarks reminds me of the scene from Airplane two where you had the scene with President Reagan have some photographers taking his picture shaking two black hands...and the hands are just fake dummy arms.

If Bush and the Republicans want to have any credibility with black people, they had better start implementing some policies that actually help blacks (and not just by donating money to churches or promising to inject resources into schools and then not following through). While blacks may not be super happy with everything the Democrats do, at least they get a seat at the table, which is certainly not the case with the Republican party.

[NawlinsNed]

62. Blacks earn their own opportunities

The best Bush could do is to ease the path, and that's hard to believe considering how few jobs there are out there.

[Megahurtz]

65. "Growing Economy"???

Does he think we're stupid?
Uh huh, just like he's "creating jobs and opportunity" for the poor and disadvantaged too.:grr:

I'm so sick of the lies!:puke:
He just lies like a rug!:argh:

[ProudLiberal313]

67. Re: 'Booming Economy'

Notice how Dubya never mentions the fact that the only part of the US economy that's booming is that of the private sector. He never talks about public economic growth. Why? Because there is none!

[Thor_MN]

66. Opportunities also for Venusians, Androids and Sentient Coumputers

That make more than $200K in annual compensation. They are paying less in Taxes....