That Mr. Bush thumbed his nose at N.A.A.C.P. officials is not the
significant part of this story. The Julian Bonds and Kweisi Mfumes of
the world can take care of themselves at least as well as Mr. Bush in
the legalized gang fight called politics. What is troubling is Mr.
Bush's relationship with black Americans in general. He's very good at
using blacks as political props. And the props are too often part of an
exceedingly cynical production. Four years ago, on the first night of
the Republican convention, a parade of blacks was hauled before the
television cameras (and the nearly all-white audience in the convention
hall) to sing, to dance, to preach and to praise a party that has been
relentlessly hostile to the interests of blacks for half a century. [more]
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