Bush Pursuing 'White Supremacist' Policies, Congresswoman Says

CNSNews.com ^ | 6/24/03 | Marc Morano

[kattracks]

Chicago (CNSNews.com) - California Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) accuses the Bush administration of pursuing "white supremacist" policies in America.

"This administration and allies in Congress are rolling back advances in racial equality, economic opportunity and gender equity," Lee said in a speech at the Rainbow/PUSH organization's 32nd annual convention on Monday.

In her keynote address to a women's luncheon, Lee noted that even though the Bush administration distanced itself from Trent Lott's controversial remarks last year (Lott lamented Sen. Strom Thurmond's failed 1948 presidential campaign), the administration has essentially adopted the same racially segregationist platform that Thurmond advanced in 1948.

"Believe me, its policies are taking us back to those days nonetheless," Lee said.

Lee praised the Supreme Court's split ruling on affirmative action, which was handed down on Monday. The Supreme Court said that colleges and universities may consider an applicant's race, but the justices also restricted the extent to which race-based factors can influence the selection of students.

Lee said she attended oral arguments at the Supreme Court when the University of Michigan's attorneys argued their case. She said she was particularly offended by the comments of the Bush administration's Solicitor General Ted Olson and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

"Sitting there, I thought, 'How sad,' and I felt how horrible it is to witness our own government arguing against the interests of so many of its people," Lee said.

Lee called Justice Scalia "sinister" for his comments during the court case.

"[Scalia] said that [the University of Michigan] could either be an elite, first-rate school or it could lower its standards and pursue racial diversity -- that is what he said," Lee noted.

"How sinister. How wrong can he get - Justice Scalia?" she asked.

"Justice Scalia was in fact offering a false dichotomy. In realty, you cannot be a top-flight university without diversity," she added.

When Lee referred to "a black man - Ward Connerly" (a California anti-affirmative action activist), the room filled with boos.

California voters supported the anti-affirmative action Proposition 209 in 1996, only because "misinformation and prejudice helped carry the day at the polls," according to Lee.

"Shame on California, that is all I can say, shame on California," she added.

But the crowd erupted in cheers when Lee said the Supreme Court "rejected the Bush administration's efforts to reject affirmative action as we know it. It rejected it!"

'Enormous climate of fear'

Actor/activist Danny Glover also appeared at the luncheon, and he gave the Supreme Court's affirmative action decision his qualified support.

"It's a very temporary victory. There is still a lot of work to do. If we are ever going to create the kind of world, the kind of America that [the Founders] envisioned, then we are going to have to have affirmative action in the full sense of the word," Glover told reporters. Glover is best known for his starring role in the "Lethal Weapon" series of films with Mel Gibson.

Asked by CNSNews.com how the GOP became so dominant at the national political level, Glover responded that "less than 50 percent of the people vote, that is one reason that you got that."

Glover also said the progressive movement has been crippled by its fear of the GOP.

"We have all lived in this enormous climate of fear over the last three-and-a-half years, in which it has certainly left us all kind of stagnant and very uncreative in what we can do," Glover explained.

"We have to be imaginative in our leadership, we have to be imaginative in bringing young people to the polls, imaginative in bringing people who have fallen away," he added.

Jesse Jackson echoed Glover's description of the GOP as a frightening force in politics, telling CNSNews.com that "people are driven by fear."

According to Jackson, the Bush administration does not deserve to be in power.

"They lost election in 2000, and in a combination of maneuvers, they were given the White House even though they had the fewest number of votes, which is undemocratic by definition," he said.

Bush's governing philosophy is "cut taxes, cut jobs, cut public education, cut social services, cut environmental protection, cut teacher pay and leave no rich person behind," Jackson said.

Jackson called the Supreme Court's affirmative action decision a "clear victory, and he criticized the Bush administration for opposing affirmative action.

"It is unconscionable that the Bush administration would have moved to re-segregate the nation against its will," Jackson stated.

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[theDentist]

I'm shocked, SHOCKED, that a Democrat would insinuate that a Republican was a racist.

[schaketo]

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[yarddog]

You talking to me?

Your response was to someone else I think.

[GoatWorship]

"It is unconscionable that the Bush administration would have moved to re-segregate the nation against its will," Jackson stated.

This whole re-segregation claim is pissing me off. They make it sound like he's proposed reintroducing white and colored water fountains.

Disapproving of racially-biased-affirmative-action-hiring-policies, is in no way supporting racially-biased-segregationist-hiring-policies.

Who's doing you the better favor, people? The person that says: "You're so unskilled and useless that you cant compete fairly in the workplace and thus need special help getting a job." Or the person that says: "You are just as intelligent and competant as the next person, and I believe in your ability to get a job all by yourself."

It's not like affirmative action is a valid means to eliminate racial discrimination: Once they've met their quota of minorities, a racist employer will then be able to turn down qualified minority applicants without worry.

[GoatWorship]

You talking to me?

Sorry, yarddog, I forgot to remove your name from the "To:" field. It was intended to be a general statement.

[Hinoki Cypress]

Coming from a racist and bigoted b!tch of the lowest order, it means nothing.

[B Knotts]

Barbara Lee should be deported to her home planet.

[StriperSniper]

In realty, you cannot be a top-flight university without diversity," she added.

The Color of Success:African-American College Student Outcomes at Predominantly White and Historically Black Public Colleges and Universities,62 Harv.Educ.Rev.26, 35 (1992)(finding that black students attending HBCs report higher academic achievement than those attending predominantly white colleges). At oral argument in Gratz v.Bollinger ,ante,p.___, counsel for respondents stated that “most every single one of [the HBCs ]do have diverse student bodies.”Tr.of Oral Arg.in No.02 –516,p.52.What precisely counsel meant by “diverse ”is indeterminate,but it is reported that in 2000 at Morehouse College,one of the most distinguished HBC ’s in the Nation,only 0.1%of the student body was white,and only 0.2%was Hispanic. College Admissions Data Handbook 2002 –2003,p.613 (43d ed.2002)(herein- after College Admissions Data Handbook).And at Missis- sippi Valley State University,a public HBC,only 1.1%of the freshman class in 2001 was white.Id.,at 603.If there is a “critical mass ” of whites at these institutions,,then “critical mass ” is indeed a very small proportion..
(From: Opinion of THOMAS,J. pg62)

Really?

[sheik yerbouty]

She should take a high colonic. She might then think more clearly.

[BenLurkin]

Drains their blood to make pastry also, IIRC.

[Lazamataz]

She should take a high colonic.

Hells bells, that's how she rinses her contact lenses!

[LavaDog]

Will the IRS PLEASE strip Raninbow/PUSH of their tax exempt status!! If this isn't political I don't know what is.

[sheik yerbouty]

ROFLMAO!

[Xenalyte]

Xenalyte accuses California Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) of being a mental midget.

[thoughtomator]

I'm shocked, SHOCKED, that a Democrat would insinuate that a Republican was a racist.

The only thing that would surprise me more is if North Korea threatened to go to war ;)

[tracer]

But ya gotta admit, she sure did out Rice and Powell, to name two GW appointees?? </sarcasm

[A.J.Armitage]

Whites do not need to apologize for being civilized and educated.

You obviously haven't met some of the white people I have.

[Marysecretary]

Why, that's like the pot calling the kettle black, isn't it?

[Marysecretary]

I can only imagine seeing Big Al's face on FOX News every night. I will then turn the TV off and go back to reading. Oh, help!

[jimt]

It's interesting that there's not a single citation of those "white supremacist" policies in the article. Yet Lee is not only allowed to spew her garbage without challenge, further lying leftist spew is injected as well. Is this article supposed to be a "know your enemy" type thing?