Derrick Z. Jackson (Boston Globe): Division of Uncivil Rights

[Dudley_DUright]

President Bush bragged last week to the NAACP, "I come from a family committed to civil rights." He said Thurgood Marshall and Martin Luther King Jr. were part of America's "second founding, the civil rights movement." He talked about his recent tour of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis with the prime minister of Japan. "If you haven't been there, you ought to go," he said.

Three days later, the Globe's Charlie Savage reported that Bush is gutting the civil rights division of the Justice Department. Savage obtained documents under the Freedom of Information act and found that just 19 of 45 lawyers hired for the division's voting rights, employment litigation and appellate sections since 2003 have civil rights backgrounds and of the 19, Savage wrote that ``nine gained their experience either by defending employers against discrimination lawsuits or by fighting against race-conscious policies."

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The same Bush who chatted up the NAACP about Thurgood Marshall and Martin Luther King is the same Bush who, according to the ABA report, used signing statements 15 times to reject affirmative action and diversity requirements in federal hiring. One area of presidential rejection is in the recruitment and training of people of color and women in intelligence agencies. The Justice Department censored much of a 2003 report on diversity in the attorney ranks.

Bush tells the NAACP to go to the museum. His administration is a civil rights mausoleum.

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[Demeter]

1. Bush Family SHOULD Be Committed

for malgenics and war crimes and crimes against humanity.