First, he notes, a black president wouldn’t be able to get away with the stuff Bush (or white presidents in general) did without getting barraged with thousands of questions. Second, a time ...

"As I was telling President Bush." In terms of White House symbolism the president has made efforts to reach out to black voters. He has traveled to Africa and he has had one of the few state ...

In Florida, where record black turnout in Democratic precincts nearly put Gore in the White House in 2000, Bush’s support among African Americans in November rose 6 percentage points to 13% ...

which is 71 percent white, with a mayor ... broke out over the federal government’s callousness did Bush open his eyes to black suffering. The kind of constituency politics that results in ...

President Bush is opening the White House this week to black leaders including pastors and legislators, a second-term overture to a community that overwhelmingly opposed his re-election.