Anyone else get the idea that Bush wants us to focus on racism right now?

In post-Katrina America I believe that the revelation on national TV of the gap between the haves and the have-nots is the most dangerous thing to conservative ideology ever. This was a danger to the rich in pre-revolutionary America as well but the wealthiest interests managed to divide the poor into two or more categories by stoking racial fires.

Recently, Bush told Brian Williams that people shouldn't call him a racist. I'm no Kreskin but it seems to me like this is an intentional mis-representation of statements by people such as Kanye West. Nobody ever called Bush racist. Everyone simply asked why he did nothing while thousands of poor Americans died. The fact that the majority of the dead and affected poor were black provided the only out for Rove and Co.

It is easy enough for Bush to knock down the straw man of racism. I don't think he is a racist. I just believe he will abuse all Americans of little or no means regardless of skin color and it just so happens that, due to decades of oppression, black Americans and other minority segments tend to end up on the bottom of that pile.

I just think it mighty convenient that a high-profile execution laced with racial overtones happens to occur just after our fearless leader makes comments based around race. I believe he hopes every progressive focuses on explaining just why they believe Bush is a racist instead of focusing on myriad other issues that plague his gutless, inept administration.

When it really comes down to it most here at DU are focused on some real problems such as Iraq and our BS war on Terra.

Mind you, we do need to watch the MSM and what they want to advertise as news.

I saw that happening right away. The talking points and polls were instantaneous "do you think (Convention Ctr) victims were discriminated against because of race?" They fairly knocked themselves out trying to refocus away from poverty and class. God forbid the consequences, should white America think "their" govt wouldn't be there for "them."

It was sickening.