Ever wonder about President Insane's feelings about African-Americans?

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From Froomkin: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/02/19/BL2008021901527_pf.html

Slavery Watch

Edward Ball, writing for theRoot.com, finds Bush's family history of slave-ownership particularly relevant as he travels through Africa: "The skeletal facts surfaced in April 2007, when an amateur historian named Robert Hughes published his research in the IllinoisTimes, a small paper out of Springfield. Hughes found census records showing that during the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, in Cecil County, Maryland, five households of the Walker family, the president's ancestors via his father's mother, Dorothy Walker Bush, had been slaveholding farmers. The evidence is simple but persuasive: genealogies of the Bush family match up with census data that counted farmers who used enslaved workers. . . .

"The Bush clan may not be capable of reckoning personally with the tragic inheritance of the slave days. But this week, on a state visit, the president sets foot in three countries that sent hundreds of thousands of captives to America. Today, some of the tens of millions of descendants of those captives want a White House that is accountable. In West Africa President Bush has a superb opportunity, like one presented to a physician attending a wound. A sound physician would chose instinctively to apply medicine, not simply turn away in denial and neglect."

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Puh-leeze. In what reality would prez shit-for-brains do the right thing???