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That's rich: Bush blames the NAACP for standing up against his policies and attitudes
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By Mike Cuenca | July 16, 2004
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Last week, President Bush declined to attend and address the upcoming
national convention of the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People. According to news reports, he'll be the first president
in 70 years not to address the group.
He's dissing this important organization because he said his
relationship with their leadership "is basically non-existent because
of their rhetoric." But this is the man who took over the presidency by
disenfranchising black voters in Florida, who has significantly
weakened the enforcement of civil rights law by appointing anti-civil
rights judges to the federal bench and whose administration argued
against affirmative action all the way to the Supreme Court. His
actions are the reason for their rhetoric.
Turning the
complaints of his victims and their protests of his policies against
them to blame them for his attitudes is typical of the "blame the
victim" rhetoric spouted by racist reactionaries and other bigots in
the modern white-men-as-victims campaign against civil rights. It's
like an accused murderer defending himself by saying a killing was
justified because after he shot his victim, the victim cursed at him
before dying.
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Originally published by the Topeka Capital-Journal.
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