Volume 39, Number 1 & 2 · January 16, 1992
Bush and the Blacks: An Unknown Story
By Jefferson Morley
'So Mr. President, tell us how you have worked through the issue of race in your own life,' Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey rose to ask on the Senate floor last July. 'Tell us more about how you grappled with the moral imperatives embodied in race relations.' Bradley said he was disturbed by Bush's opposition to the Civil Rights Act in 1964, his use of the convicted rapist Willie Horton as a campaign symbol in 1988, his opposition, since dropped, to the 1990 and 1991 Civil Rights Restoration Acts, and his nomination of the modestly qualified Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court.
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