Via AP, the White House makes nice with the grievance-mongers at the NAACP:

Bush Acknowledges Racism Still Exists

Full text of the speech is here.

What a squandered opportunity. Bush could have hit back hard at the race exploiters who shamelessly accused him of hating black people and suppressing black votes and causing Hurricane Katrina.

As for the lingering existence of racism, the President could have used his platform to excoriate NAACP leftists for doing and saying nothing while liberal bigots relentlessly attack minority members of his administration and the Republican Party.

Could have. But didn’t. You learn not to expect so much from a White House more concerned with La Raza, CAIR, and the NAACP than with its own base.

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Reader Daniel G. writes:

Give credit to the Associated Press for noting in the bottom of this story just WHY President Bush hasn’t addressed the NAACP for the past five years (ie, Julian Bond’s searing rhetoric and of course the noxious James Byrd ad) but notice today just how few other media outlets pick up on the reason? (ie,
leaving it out makes Bush look insensitive and racist, just the way the MSM want
him portrayed).

La Shawn Barber on the NAACP: “Dinosaurs galore!”