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Edited on Sun Jul-23-06 03:09 PM by newyawker99
THEY DON'T CALL IT THE "WHITE" HOUSE FOR NOTHING
Bush at the NAACP Convention by Greg Palast
God lost this time. I counted: Bush mentioned God only six times in his speech to the NAACP yesterday. The winner was 'faith' - which got seven mentions, though if you count "The Creator" as God, well, then the Lord tied it.
Coming in right behind God and Faith, other big mentions in the First Home Boy's rap included: The Voting Rights Act, his family's "commitment to civil rights," the "death tax," rebuilding New Orleans, "public school choice" and "soft bigotry."
As the philosopher Aretha Franklin once said, "Who's zoomin' who?"
Let's take it one point at a time.
Death and Taxes - Inheritance taxes apply only to those who leave assets exceeding $2 million. Mr. Bush realized how crucial this issue was to the NAACP. He said, "The 'death tax' will prevent future African American entrepreneurs from being able to pass their assets from one generation to the next." His heart went out to the families of Gulf Coast flood victims who discovered that they could collect only the first two million bucks of their inheritance tax-free. Apparently, Mr. Bush heard that, among the 2,000 folk drowned in New Orleans, there were several millionaires. Luckily, the rumor proved false.
School Choice - Our Voucher Salesman-in-Chief offered the Black folk a truly exciting deal:
"When we find schools that are not teaching and will not change, our parents should have a different option. charter schools and public school choice and opportunity scholarships to be able to enable parents to move their child out of a school that's not teaching."
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