They felt compassion but there were no deeds. It is clear: for four years George W. Bush may have talked about compassion but he’s walked right by. He’s seen people in need but he’s crossed over to the other side of the street…. In the hardest passages of the long march…amid lynchings and unyielding discrimination, the stalwart foot soldiers of justice did not look around and say, as we have heard so often from Washington these days, that we’ve ‘turned the corner’ or the job was ‘getting done’ or that this was the best we could do….As scripture reminds us, beware of wolves in sheep’s clothing. The president who scorns economic justice and affirmative action, who traffics in the politics of division and then claims he is a friend of black America cannot conceal his identity no matter what clothes he wears.
September 10, 2004 6:00 AM
