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black woman vouches for an unjust war, a black man defends it, a
Hispanic supervises the slaughter of civilians while another justifies
the use of torture, and a Vietnamese refugee writes the law to maim
civil liberties in America.
The Bush administration is making history in hiring minorities to
perform high-profile jobs. Colin Powell is the first black man to head
the State Department, Condoleezza Rice the first black woman to be the
National Security Advisor. Alberto Gonzales, if confirmed by the
Senate, would be the first Hispanic to be crowned as the United States
Attorney General. The induction of these and other minorities into what
has been a game of white monopoly is bewitching in that it tells the
world that President Bush values both equality and diversity and that
racial prejudices, actively wired in American power grids, are falling
apart. No longer are Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians confined to dirty
jobs, such as cleaning private quarters of the white establishment.
See, says theAdministration, how sons and daughters of the people of
color are being actively recruited for leading the world. Cynicism
aside, however, the Thanksgiving dinner for this great achievement is
infested with flies. The willing coalition of black, brown, and other
faces of color appears to have been summoned to whitewash foreign
invasions, occupations, deportations, detentions, disappearances, and
even commission of war crimes such as torture and extra-judicial
executions. Minorities are cast as big-headed puppets to speak daggers
on behalf of a producer/director who, we are told, believes in God,
democracy, and liberation.[more]
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