First he claimed that the Bush administration stopped 1,000,000 black voters from being heard in the 2000 election. Now he's making more inflammatory comments.
Here's a run-down from the Kerry Spot:
But I do want to say a few words about Kerry's scare tactics, which are unfortunately now routine for Democratic politicians, who insist on suggesting--when they do not declare--that Republicans are hostile to African Americans and favor racist policies, and that we are just one more stolen election away from the return of Jim Crow. Do I exaggerate? Consider these passages from the speech:
* "But that dream--our dream [that is, the Civil Rights Era's "dream of one America"]--is dim and denied in the Washington of today."
* Bush's policies "are taking us back to two Americas--separate and unequal. Our cities and our communities are being torn apart by forces just as divisive and destructive as Jim Crow--crumbling schools robbing our children of their potential ... rising poverty ... rising crime, drugs and violence." Bush is responsible for all that?
* "The promise of a better America is not being met, when, fifty years after Brown, in too many parts of our country we still have two school systems--separate and unequal."
* "Fifty years after the Brown decision, we are also reminded now, more than ever, we need a Supreme Court that will protect our hard won victories." Kerry cannot seriously suggest that any "hard one victories" from the Brown era are in jeopardy.
* "John Edwards and I know that the whole future of civil rights and affirmative action may hinge on a single Supreme Court vote." Well, affirmative action maybe--but civil rights? Come on.
* "[President Bush] scorns economic justice and affirmative action ... [and] traffics in the politics of division." Is Kerry suggesting that the failure to embrace racial preferences is divisive? Funny, I would have thought that the preferences themselves are what's divisive.
It is ironic that Kerry concludes by claiming, "I want to unite us as one America--red, white, and blue." By endorsing racial preferences and making racial appeals like this speech?