I commend her actions and her reasoning. GWB’s actions and reasoning were antithetical for everything the civil rights movement was/is about. Every time someone like GWB gets pointed out in this fashion, it sends the signal to those who will follow in their footsteps that actions have consequences, and you cannot outlive your own history. GWB brought shame to this nation on so many levels and in so many ways. Selma is a pittance to what he deserves.
I have never held the view that George W. was, or is, a racist, and Diane Nash never hinted to that either, so in that regard I am glad that he showed up. I did, however, have a vague feeling that he should not be there… Diane sharpened those feelings for me and I agree with her view 100 percent.
I agree with you, Ron. Bush had several catalogs worth of faults as President, but I never felt he was a racist and I think his presence at Selma was sincere. I was curious why Clinton (and Hillary) and Carter weren’t there (I understand Bush Sr.'s health is not so good).
I wish this lady would have found it in her heart to still march. I respect her views on nonviolence
vis-à-vis Mr. Bush, or President Obama for that matter, but some events transcend the individuals in attendance.
She’s wrong and comes across as very small for her comments.
You never felt Bush was a racist? Really? You must not have been paying attention.
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Let’s look at the values of Pres. Bush compared to Pres. Obama. War? Violence? That is exactly what was going on in Iraq and Afghanistan prior to 2001 & 2003. The actions of Pres. Bush saved countless thousands of girls who were being slaughtered and kidnapped. They couldn’t even go to school. Sound familiar? They now can. Many are now in Armies fighting to keep that freedom from ISIS, al Queda and the Taliban who Pres. Obama told everyone was not a threat anymore. They now can vote, or have you not seen the purple fingers and the long lines. Sound familiar? Freedom, Rights, Democracy. That is what Selma was about. Pres. Bush provided the largest Aids assistance in history. What did Obama do for Ebola? He sent troops. He bombed Libya. He’s bombing Syria and Iraq. But this woman somehow left that out. Being one that lived and listened to Dr. Martin Luther King in his time, I can guarantee you if he was alive today he would be walking hand in hand with Pres. Bush.
I certainly WAS paying attention. If you want to claim Bush is racist, the burden is on you, not on me to prove he wasn’t. His policies on AIDS in Africa and his work on Haitian earthquake relief argue otherwise. Now what have you done to earn your badge? Can you prove you are not a racist?
I am NO fan of GWBush. I hold the man responsible for many deaths and many more maimed lived, both physically and mentally. He is responsible for ramping up the trashing of our clean, fresh water supplies, our oceans and speeding up the dumping of so many greenhouse gases that I believe his administration was the actual tipping point for our earth – speeding toward warmer, higher ocean, less hospitable habitat for us humans and much less for wildlife. GWBush and his family actually stole a presidential election; if you don’t have serious questions about how that Florida Secretary of State – GW’s state campaign manager!! – and his brother governor of the state conducted themselves during the campaign, voter roll cleansing and outright counting then you weren’t paying close enough attention. I also have very serious questions about this person views gay people – does he even see us as humans deserving of fairness and equality under the law, etc.? Not by his administration’s policies and campaigns they ran. Everything from defunding any and all health studies the CDC was conducting that included the terms “homosexual,” “homosexuality,” “gay,” “lesbian,” “queer,” etc. – you get the idea – to actively pushing for repeal of gay rights laws in the various states, anti-marriage equality laws, amendments, etc.
George W. Bush is a despicable human being who – if ones believes in the such – will be burning in Hell in a few years. He and most of the members of that Crime Family.
That said, I am sorry this lady felt the need to not march. If I had been her, I would have marched but kept a safe distance from the aforementioned human–never given him the chance to shine in my glory.
Did you really just call a public protest by a female hero of nonviolence a “bitch-slap”?
1st post and you used it to defend the indefensible. What a waste.