oh please this guy probably just wants Bush to spend money on a lost cause
Read the details. He is right on the money. It would not be wasted money at all. There is no better time to reach out to church-going, conservative minded blacks and hispanics. We have the voucher issue, the gay marriage issue, the Bush-appointed-a-ton-of-blacks issue... These people are reachable. We just haven't tried, so the false info from the left has stood uncontested.
The disgusting part of this story is that as Williams points out, in 2000 blacks voted against Bush to a large degree, due to the racist demagoguery of the NAACP. IOW, according to Williams, their votes had nothing to do with anything Bush had done.
But I'm not so sure about that. If Bush came out and publicly embraced affirmative action, he would get up to 20% of the black vote (but lose so many more white votes, that Kerry would surely win). Bush's racial stupidity has been in supporting AA, but doing so in a sneaky way, that turns off whites and blacks alike. He supports stealth AA through numerical formulas (admitting the top 5% or 10% of each high school's graduating class, their objective abilities be damned), which guarantee admission to mediocrities from low-performing, predominantly minority high schools, and rejection to superior students from high-performing, predominantly white and/or Asian high schools. Meanwhile, he publicly lies, in claiming to oppose AA. (If his public statements were honest, it would mean that he had no idea what he was talking about re AA.)
Blacks want Bush to bear witness to racial preferences by making a public testimonial on behalf of AA and hate-crime legislation. It doesn't matter to them that such legislation could not have killed two of James Byrd's killers any more than the death penalty already did, or that a group that already claims to oppose the death penalty could not have punished the third killer any worse, without the death penalty. The point in publicly supporting AA and hate-crimes legislation, is to publicly testify to blacks' moral superiority over all other Americans. Until Bush does that, blacks will refuse to vote for him.
Before hatching schemes to get the black vote, keep in mind the sort of psychotic claims still popular in black communities about Bush: he stole the 2000 election; he used police and dogs to stop blacks from voting; he had thousands of blacks dropped from the voter rolls; he had voting machines magically programmed, to switch black Gore votes to Bush votes; he had the Supreme Court "select" him as president.