At some point, black voters are going to rebel against racist ploys to keep them in their place–safe in the clutches of the Democratic Party. But Al Gore and Joe Lieberman are hoping that it won’t be this year–which is why they aren’t saying much about the despicable NAACP ads running against George W. Bush.
The ads, in grainy black and white, show a pickup truck with a chain dragging across a dirt road. The voice-over is by Renee Mullins, the daughter of James Byrd, a black man dragged to his death two years ago chained to a pickup in Jasper, Tex.
Mullins accuses Gov. Bush of refusing to support a new hate-crimes bill, saying, "It was like my father was killed all over again." The unmistakable message: Bush condones lynching.
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