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Steve Gilliard picks up reports that a Bush visit to Howard University resulted in a total security lockdown, with the dining hall closed and students made to fetch their meals from the kitchen door. Protesting students were told that snipers were aiming at them.
Howard University
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Howard University is a historically black university in Washington, D.C. It was established by a congressional charter in 1867, and much of its early funding came from the Freedmen’s Bureau.
Howard University has played an important role in civil rights history on a number of occasions. After being refused admission to the then-segregated University of Maryland School of Law, a young Thurgood Marshall enrolled at Howard University School of Law instead. There he studied under Charles Hamilton Houston, a Harvard Law School graduate and leading civil rights lawyer who at the time was the dean of Howard’s law school. Houston took Marshall under his wing, and the two forged a friendship that would last for the remainder of Houston’s life and forever change America.
How much more insulting could Bush and his entourage have been? His support amongst African-American voters is only 2% – what amazes me is that there is any , given the blatant contempt he so obviously shows.
This happened within days of Bush using the corpse of Rosa Parks for a partisan photo-op with his newest nominated rightwing incompetent. This is pure contempt. Every day, in every way, Bush proves he is the worst President ever.
