<p>George Bush, who uses race-baiting tactics, like quotas to turn public opinion against affirmative action, clearly doesnt realize or doesnt care that now is not the time to remove affirmative action. Does that make him a racist? Not necessarily, but he is certainly biased against the black community in that regard.</p>
<p>Look more closely. George Bush refused to meet with the NAACP, the most important and oldest civil rights organization in America --the first President not to do so in a generation. The poor masses have grown larger under his watch, while the rich got richer, even though it was obvious by the makeup of his tax cut that this would happen. The largely white, wealthy parents of schoolchildren used Bush's voucher-program to get away from African-American dominated schools, while blacks were left to rot in inadequate schools in the ghetto, (with no escape), just like in Katrina.</p>
<p>Bush has decided it is a priority to cut Social Security benefits while maintaining the exploding cost of the war in Iraq. This will only harm the poor, while exploiting a disproportionate number of blacks fighting and dying in a war in a foreign land. The the reckless spending of George Bush and the Republican-led Congress (and the associated balooning budget deficit) will result in wholesale inflation in the future. Clearly a larger burden will be placed on the poor in this environment --where food, clothing, and shelter make up a much bigger proportion of their total available cash. Bush has decided that re-importation of drugs from Canada is just too dangerous to the profits of Merck and Pfizer, than allowing the program and getting cheaper medicines to the poor.</p>
<p>Look even closer still. Bush and the Republican party have decided that even though they have renounced the Southern Strategy of race baiting to get white, prejudiced Southerners to vote Republican, those same white, prejudiced Southerners are the base of the Republican party that are constantly pandered to. Instead of poll taxes and intimidation, Republicans now use a subtle Southern strategy --by making difficult requirements for voting, like special IDs that will disproportionately disqualify blacks and other minorities. Furthermore, they refuse to allow reformed felons to vote, knowing many are black. They even purge black names off voter rolls like the Presidents brother did in Florida in 2000 and tried to do in 2004 before he was caught. Furthermore, they give inadequate resources to heavily black voting districts, like what happened in Ohio, so mostly black voters will have 8-10 hour lines and will hopefully go home without voting.</p>
<p>Some will argue Bush appointed Colin Powell and Condi Rice to high positions and that proves hes not a racist. Not really. It just proves he will use his own internal quota. If a black American is willing to help him implement his anti-black agenda, they will be the first on the list of people he will appoint. This is a PR tactic, and nothing else (in Republican terms, this is how they reach out to the black community). Does this make George Bush a racist? It is hard to say but I think Kanye West is on to something. It is no wonder 90% of blacks vote Democrat.</p>