Reverse Racism Running Rampant in Bush Administration

Racism Running Rampant in Bush Administration

Exec Branch More Racist Than U. of M.

George Bush need not go to Michigan and middle America to find cases of racism that he finds un-American or downright un-Constitutional. It would be much easier for Mr. Bush to simply review his own speeches and proposals as well as the branch of government that he heads.

We will do both.

And, we will find blatant racism.

In President Bush's remarks January 15 on the Michigan affirmative action case, George Bush stated that the University of Michigan's policies "amount to a quota system that unfairly rewards or penalizes perspective students, based solely on their race." He also stated that "as we work to address the wrong of racial prejudice, we must not use means that create another wrong, and thus perpetuate our divisions."

If you really feel that way Mr. Bush, how about explaining the following facts within your own Executive Branch. The column labeled "FW" is the Federal Workforce employment % of blacks in these departments. These are just blacks, exclusive of Native Americans, Hispanics, and Asian/Pacific Islanders who have their own separate data elsewhere in the report.

In the Department of Education, blacks represent 45.1% of the Federal Workforce (FW) when a comparative in the Relevant Civilian Labor Force would only be 6.7%. You complain, Mr. Bush, about the 20 point advantage blacks get at the University of Michigan. What in the world do you do at the Department of Treasury to get a 22.2% "advantage" for blacks?

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS	FW	RCLF	Above RCLF
Education	45.1 %	6.7 %	38.4 %
HUD	41.8 %	7.0 %	34.8 %
VA	35.1 %	8.0 %	27.1 %
Labor	30.9 %	6.8 %	24.1 %
Treasury	30.2 %	8.0 %	22.2 %
Defense	30.2 %	8.0 %	20.2 %
State	27.0 %	7.4 %	19.6 %
HHS	26.7 %	7.9 %	18.8 %
Commerce	24.4 %	7.2 %	17.2 %
Justice	23.9 %	7.8 %	16.1 %
Transportation	22.7 %	7.4 %	15.3 %

http://www.opm.gov/feorp01/508/index.asp

Annual Report to Congress
Federal Equal Opportunity Recruitment Program
October 1, 2000 - September 30, 2001

Race based hiring preferences in your departments is racism just as raced based admissions preferences is at the U. of M.

No Eisenhower "Missile Gap"—How About "Homeownership Gap"?

"Two-thirds of all Americans own their homes, yet we have a problem here in America because few than half of the Hispanics and half the African Americans own the home. That's a homeownership gap. It's a -- it's a gap that we've got to work together to close for the good of our country . . ."—George Bush, October 15, 2002

For the good of the country, Eisenhower and Kennedy had to close the "missile gap". According to Bush, for the good of the country, we must close the "homeownership gap".

Now here is a striking difference between John F. Kennedy and George Bush. Kennedy said, "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth." George Bush answered the challenge on October 15 with, "It's a clear goal, that by the end of this decade we'll increase the number of minority homeowners by at least 5.5 million families."

Kennedy was in a race to the moon—Bush, it is just racism.

Bush said in his speech that "a lot of folks [minorities] can't make a down payment." Did you buy a home? Did you get free government money for a down payment? Now, some of your hard earned money taken from you in the form of taxes is going to be given to minorities so that they can have help in a down payment. Could you use that money in a home fix-up project? I am a minority as well as my wife. We did not get any free downpayment money. Mr. Bush, can my wife and I have some sort of rebate?

Here are some of Bush's racist numbers:

Skin color based preferential treatment is racism, whether it is 20 points at the U. of M. or $20,000 at the local realtor's office, Mr. Bush.

The Minority Business Development Agency is an agency within the Department of Commerce. They are not bashful. The sole goal stated in their mission statement is "empowering minority business enterprises for the purpose of wealth creation in minority communities."

Mr. Bush, if we had a White Business Development Agency whose mission statement was to "empower white owned business enterprises for the purpose of even greater wealth creation in white suburbs", would you file a brief with the Supreme Court? Then why not put a stop to this!

Ali Bahmanyar put a stop to this, Mr. Bush. You, with your power, could do much more. Mr Bahmanyar, a native from Iran and now living in Charlotte, sued the city after his lowest bid on a construction project was bypassed in favor of one of these "other" minority owned busineses. Ali got mad—very mad. He sued the city, and he won.

It is also racism when we continue to flood this country with foreigners from (mostly Asia) H-1B visas when American IT tech workers can't find employment. There is no longer an "IT gap", Mr. Bush, in America. To continue to issue these visas that deny Americans IT jobs is racist.

Executive Order 12232 that funds black colleges is racist. You may call it something different, but in the end it is a racist policy at the expense of taxpayers.

This University of Michigan case is a two-bit side show compared to the disgusting level of racism seen in Federal hiring practices and in the contracts given out based strictly on the color of one's skin, not from the "content of the character", as Martin Luther King would say. Not only have whites been the target of government sponsored racism while whites have been in the majority, but we could see the day soon where whites become the minority yet still suffer the same racism at the hands of government sponsored skin based preferences.

Bush did not originate the racist policies of America, but his token brief on the Michigan case will do nothing to stop the pervasive racism in our nation today. Much more needs to be done.

Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" of yesterday is America's "we have a nightmare" today as reverse racism runs rampant in the United States today.