Bush: Don't say 'lynching' in jest

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Bush: Don't say 'lynching' in jest

February 12, 2008
FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON--— President Bush said Tuesday that recent displays of nooses are disturbing and indicate that some Americans may be losing sight of the suffering that blacks have endured across the nation.

‘‘The era of rampant lynching is a shameful chapter in American history,’’ Bush said in an event marking African-American history month at the White house.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/789485,noose021208.article

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. "I can't wait to hang it"

- G.W. Bush Jr., while recieving a portrait of MLK Jr.

[Whisp]

5. yep, remember that one clearly.

I wish someone at CNN (or any of the big ones) had the GUTS to replay that little snippet.

[tularetom]

2. I guess it was OK when Clarence "Uncle" Thomas

referred to his senate confirmation hearing as a "high tech lynching".

[ananda]

3. Well,

just because Bush says it's a
shameful chapter doesn't take him off
the hook for his horribly shameful
behavior regarding a long list of
unfair and racist practices such as
the treatment of Katrina survivors;
racial profiling; the way houses and
mortgages are priced and sold so that
minorities are either excluded from a
community or exploited; the disproportionate
number of minorities in prison and the
way they are treated by the criminal justice
system; purging of voter rolls; setting up
of voting practices that make it hard for
minorities to vote, including upcoming ID
cards; and just making the poor and minorities
think they're not OK and that it's not OK to
speak out and protest.

And I know there's more....

[Olney Blue]

4. I'm sure he had a nice banner hanging behind him to mark the occasion.

It's all window dressing with the chimp.