Ya know as much as I hate them, the Bushes

[BootinUp]

Didn’t provoke bad feelings between different races. Or am I mistaken?

[BlueTsunami2018]

1. No, their policies did.

But they weren’t openly, outspokenly racist like this.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. George H.W. Bush and the Willie Horton ad

[BootinUp]

3. I remember it, I think the question is

Whether Bush was instrumental in making it happen.

[RockRaven]

5. You want to parse being instrumental vs being responsible?

b/c he was responsible, wasn't he?

[BootinUp]

6. Of course.

[Elwood P Dowd]

7. Lee Atwater.

I thought he was the one that cooked up that one. He would be right at home with Spanky's gang.

[no_hypocrisy]

21. Hard to say.

Lee Atwater was instrumental in making it happen. Not too sure how much input GHWB had in the process.

[Snackshack]

4. Not overly...

But policy’s wise. The response to Katrina was horrible absolutely horrible...which lead to Kanye’s comment during a Katrina aid event.

[hurple]

10. I think Kanye was mistaken...

I never thought Bush's response was based on the color of the victims, but on their status.

I don't believe the Bushes "hate black people" I think they hate poor people. It just so happens most in that situation were black.

That's just always been my thoughts on the situation.

I could be wrong about that, though.

[JI7]

19. no, it was just pure incompetence and ignorance of how things work

he had no idea what to do .

[hurple]

24. That is

also a distinct possibility.

[UTUSN]

8. Well, as poster #1 said, their policies. But there are enough glaring/blatant examples:

1) When JEB Crow Shrub was campaigning for governor, an African American woman asked him what he had to offer to (fill in the blank/ minorities, women, other marginalized groups) and he replied: "Nothing."

2) Poppy referred to his half-Mexican grandchildren as, "Those little Brown ones...(are my grandchildren)"

3) A previous incarnation of Kanye said, after Katrina, " (Shrub) doesn't care about Black people."

The BUSHes are a tough act because their commonplace Repuke policies are insidiously bad for economically and socially marginalized groups, yet, with their relocation to the Southwest, they have gained exposure to Mexican-Americans and Hispanics, such that they can relate on the basic level of the Big Smiles and some 'Spanish lingo" (LIMBOsevic's phrase) - except that JEB Crow Shrub speaks A LOT of Spanish - with just the good approximation of "sincerity" that covers the deep down horrible Repuke-ism.

[Stallion]

9. George W. Bush Really was a Wild-Eye Librul on Immigration Policy from ReTrumplican Perspective

I think George Bush the Smarter could have been a good President (for a Republican) if he was strong enough to follow his own convictions with regard to Supply Side Economics but he failed by caving to the Moral Majority and Supply Siders in his party even though he knew it was Voo-doo economics and wasn't a deeply prejudiced man

[BootinUp]

11. I like the way u put that, lol.

[LSFL]

12. W also engineered a shit ton of aid to Africa

Helping to greatly slow the spread of aids and improving the lives of those who had it. The bushes are a mixed bag.

[Yupster]

13. I remember a radio ad in 2004

talking about an African-American James Byrd ? who was dragged to death behind a pickup and Bush wouldn't support hate crimes charges against him. That ad played about every ten minutes for weeks.

[Solly Mack]

14. Hurricane Katrina

[MaryMagdaline]

15. W did not hate blacks and he liked Hispanics

That said, he viciously punished his political enemies. My first real inkling if his cruelty was denying CHIPS to children in Texas. Next when he was president, he let California suffer blackouts and he and rove laughed about it. They deliberately waged war on California to cripple the economy and cause California to go republican. With Katrina, he deliberately punished Louisiana for having a democratic governor. The plan was to destroy the democratic governor; his own reputation was destroyed

I hate trump with everything I've got but nothing he has done so far equals the butchering of innocent people in Iraq. He and tony Blair got off on that war and will share a room in hell

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

16. They seemed to have no problem surrounding themselves with bigots or putting

them in important positions. Just because syphilis is so much worse. Doesn't make gonorrhea good. And yes I am calling the republic party a,walking talking STD infecting the nation.

[jalan48]

17. Are the hundreds of thousands of people killed in Bush's ME Wars considered white?

[NCTraveler]

20. They are supporters of institutional racism.

Their forays into overt racism are far and few between.

[malaise]

22. They were slightly more subtle

Examine their policies

[Hortensis]

23. The Bushes are conservatives promoting old conservative

ways. So what do you think, BootinUp?

That many of those who always oppose moves to secure true equality behave in better style than others, especially or at least in public, and lack actual malice toward minorities, does not make them liberal on this issue. Even the best of them have a lot to answer for.

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America. ~ Molly Ivins

Those liberties were originally established only for all white men -- and even that was not only against the passionate resistance and disapproval of many conservatives of that day but continues to this one. Before we even get to the "extension" to everyone else.

Btw, whitewashing and false equalizations of Republicans aren't good form on this forum. Right now they're busily working to take children away from their parents at the border. Why? To terrorize the parents. Of course, this atrocity will traumatize and terrify the children far more.