What do you expect from a bunch of wealthy, country club elitist, white people with as many racist ties as those in this White House? To be fair, Bush's handlers know he could never manage to sit down with articulate power brokers "of color" and hold his own. They would carve him up like white meat on a Thanksgiving turkey because, well, he is a turkey. So while Bush can meet with racist members of his own party like Lott and Thurmond and have Cheney hold "secret" meetings with his corporate energy financial supporters, it's impossible for him to make time for the leaders of a top political organization that represents people of color in America.

This is not only disgusting it also shows how just how small a person Bush is in regards to his lack of humanity.



NAACP Still Seeking Meeting With Bush

By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Since the days of Warren G. Harding, presidents have met at the White House with leaders of the NAACP. Not President Bush — at least not yet.

More than halfway through his presidency, Bush has yet to receive the nation's oldest civil rights group or the Leadership Conference of Civil Rights, an umbrella organization.

The president met with the Congressional Black Caucus (news - web sites) for just an hour or so during his first month in office, but has not responded to a half-dozen subsequent requests to meet again.

While Bush, who got only 9 percent of the black vote in 2000, has shunned sit-downs with established black groups, he has reached out to carefully chosen minority audiences and to civil rights advocates less critical of his policies. One example is the National Urban League, whose annual conference in Pittsburgh Bush is addressing on Monday.

NAACP president Kweisi Mfume said he requested meetings with Bush in 2001 and 2002, and "was told politely, in writing, that he'd love to meet, but his schedule just didn't allow it."

"That may be the difference between Bush and his father," Mfume said. "While we certainly did not agree on many issues, you can never accuse George H.W. Bush of not taking time to reach out and to listen. He wasn't aloof like this president."...






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