PAUL KRUGMAN: Black and Blue
The New York Times


Krugman: Bush & Blacks African-Americans distrust President Bush’s party — with good reason. "Above all, there’s the continuing effort of the G.O.P. to suppress black voting."

OP-ED COLUMNIST
Black and Blue
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: July 24, 2006


According to the White House transcript, here’s how it went last week, when President Bush addressed the N.A.A.C.P. for the first time:

THE PRESIDENT: “I understand that many African-Americans distrust my political party.”

AUDIENCE: “Yes! (Applause.)”

But Mr. Bush didn’t talk about why African-Americans don’t trust his party, and black districts are always blue on election maps. So let me fill in the blanks.

First, G.O.P. policies consistently help those who are already doing extremely well, not those lagging behind ... [B]oth the relative and absolute economic status of blacks, after improving substantially during the Clinton years, have worsened since 2000.

The G.O.P. obsession with helping the haves and have-mores, and lack of concern for everyone else, was evident ... in Mr. Bush’s speech... Mr. Bush never mentioned wages, which have been falling behind inflation... Mr. Bush also never used the word “poverty,” a condition that afflicts almost one in four blacks.

But he found time to call for repeal of the estate tax, even though African-Americans are more than a thousand times as likely to live below the poverty line as they are to ... leave a taxable estate.

Economic issues alone, then, partially explain African-American disdain for the G.O.P. But even more important is the way Republicans win elections
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