WHY is Bush talking about Colin and Alma Powell on MLK day??!!!!!!

[DARE to HOPE]

He is lifting up a WAR MONGER instead of a PEACE MAKER, that's why!

Yeah, great American role models "like the Powell's!!" (Producing the little brat that has given us such an honest FCC.)

What a nasty snub to Coretta Scott King, this whole speech!!

Oh yes, Martin COULD have gone on to have a big parish and a cushy life, says Bush! That sure is what clergy live like, all right (NOT!) being married to one as I am.

Had he not been so all concerned about JUSTICE and LOVE and PEACE like the Lord Jesus, whose Name Bush almost spat out in the middle of CNN's satellite problems.

Villain!!

I do look for lightening on Thursday.

[rodeodance]

1. Colin and his wife got some great award today in which Bush spoke at

the ceremony.

[Whoa_Nelly]

2. This isn't LBN

Better posted in GD
:hi: Welcome to DU, DARE to HOPE!

[wndycty]

3. Because he has no concept or appreciation for MLK or what he stood for

:kick:

[FrenchieCat]

4. Because they are Black.....

and in Bush small and uneventful mind, Black folks are interchangeable. It's not about what MLK stood for, it's that MLK was black and so is Colin Powell. Period.

He doesn't get it, doesn't want to get it....and never will.

[Tomee450]

9. Agree

"Black folks are interchangeable" The same thought crossed my mind. Unfortunately, a lot of conservatives share this view, IMO.

[Tinoire]

5. Probably because other than Condi, they're the only Blacks he knows

:shrug:

[kskiska]

6. Well, you know…

"Some of my best friends…"

and there are Colin and Condi sitting right across the table.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

7. Because he is obviously judging them by the content of their skin

rather than the color of their character.

[H2O Man]

10. Good line!

Oh, I like that!


I think Brother George is just showing that he's comfortable in the hood.

[Tomee450]

8. I was very surprised.

I just finished speaking to another African American who was quite shocked and thought this was such an insult.

[leesa]

11. MLK would be ashamed of them.

I'll never forget the angst attributed to King about winning civil rights in America because he was worried about what kind of 'civilization' blacks were wanting to sign up for...meaning the depravity of white paternalistic society. Powell is a good example of what he was afraid of.