‘The GOP’s Civil-Rights Problem’
14th December 2009
A good example of why the dinosaur media in general, and Newsweek in particular, suck.
A new GAO report shows how George W. Bush’s Justice Department abandoned advocacy for minority groups.
As if ‘advocacy for minority groups’ were the definition of ‘civil rights’.
Ellis Cose obviously considers himself a black columnist (rather than a columnist who happens to be black), and it shows.
George W. Bush was never particularly taken with the civil-rights crowd. Not that he was exactly hostile to the notion of protecting society’s most vulnerable groups. But he and his minions assumed that the time for coddling minorities had passed. So after sizing up the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice—the most powerful advocate for civil rights within the federal government—Bush’s operatives endeavored “to rip the heart out of [it],” in the words of Ben Jealous, president of the NAACP.
Never was a President of the NAALCP so appropriately named. God forbid that anyone should ‘assume that the time for coddling minorities had passed’.