t r u t h o u t – Marjorie Cohn | Bush Gets ‘F’ in Civil Rights
The draft report finds: “President Bush does not speak about civil rights initiatives often, but when he does he promotes the faith-based program more than any other. He has presented the initiative as an end to discrimination against religious organizations, using terms such as ‘remove barriers,’ ‘equal access,’ and ‘equal treatment,’ which convey that such programs have civil rights relevance. In reality, the program does not remove barriers to discrimination. On the contrary, it allows religious organizations that receive public funds to discriminate against individuals based on religion in employment.”
Whereas the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s, and C�sar Ch�vez with the United Farmworkers Union, used faith to sustain them, Bush uses it as a bludgeon. Bush’s faith actually undermines the protection of civil rights. This agenda comes through loud and clear in the draft report: “The faith-based initiative, a so-called civil rights action, actually constitutes a retreat, not an advancement from employment discrimination,” especially against gays and lesbians.
This is an excellent article that wraps up the report by the Commission on Civil rights: U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Redefining Rights in America – The Civil Rights Record of the George W. Bush Administration, 2001-2004. When you look at all of these things, how Bush caters to rich white, upper-class men, it totally seem implausible that Bush will win. Doesn’t it? If the groups that Bush marginalizes get out there and vote we will defeat Bush! So vote!
You can read the report here. They have balls to publish this…Here read this snippet:
This report finds that President Bush has neither exhibited leadership on pressing civil rights issues, nor taken actions that matched his words. The report reaches this conclusion after analyzing and summarizing numerous documents, including historical literature, reports, scholarly articles, presidential and administration statements, executive orders, policy briefs, documents of Cabinetlevel agencies, federal budgets and other data.
Wow….you have got to read it I mean, the committe takes the time to get this out to the people, and they have the balls to say what they are saying. AND the Bush admin tried to wait until after the election for it’s release….Take the time to read some of it. Amazing.
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