Reply #105: Kicked and recommended because it *ISN'T* about race.

[The Green Manalishi]

I honestly don't think George W Bush disliked African Americans. I think like a lot of people I know he considers and considered himself 'post racial'; we just don't give a shit as to what color someone is, it doesn't matter, a non issue. (not that there isn't racial injustice and discrimination, but it played little role in the motivations of our recently deposed right wing coup, IMO)
What he did hate, what that whole coterie hated and hates is POOR people, is 'justice' because they confuse it with socialism, is an enlightenment rationality because it conflicts with their theocratic viewpoint. What they hate is that which is not their world view, their 'rapture me home Jesus' paradigm. The early Christian church wasn't racist, there were 'believers' and 'unbelievers'.
So many on DU are so sensitive about race and racialism that this went over their heads and under their radar.
Bush, Cheney, Rice, et al didn't give a shit about the color of the people they had to bribe, blow up or send to die in a war for oil and corporate hegemony. Even Palin and a majority of her minions would have warmer feelings for an Hispanic or African American who shares her views than a 'elitist' white man who see them for what they are.