Since our fearless leader has debarked for Brazil, I thought I’d rehash an old article from Der Spiegel.
It was Condoleezza Rice, national security advisor, who helped her boss out of the embarassing situation. During a conversation between the two presidents, George W. Bush, 55, (USA) and Fernando Henrique Cardoso, 71, (Brazil), Bush bewildered his colleague with the question “Do you have blacks, too?”
Rice, 47, noticing how astonished the Brazilian was, saved the day by telling Bush “Mr. President, Brazil probably has more blacks than the USA. Some say it’s the Country with the most blacks outside Africa.” Later, the Brazilian president Cardoso said: regarding Latin America, Bush was still in his “learning phase”.
According to the CIA Factbook, 38.5% of Brazilians are mulatto (mixed white and black) and another 6.2% are black. That comes close to half the population. According the Wikipedia, Brazil received 37% of the total slaves taken out of Africa (3,000,000). Of course, our President didn’t know any of that. That’s because he is an idiot.
Lets put it in numbers. Brazil has about 80 million mulatos and African decent.
About his trip to Latin America, I am want to see his reception in Uruguay.
Also, a Urugayan Minister called Bush an “execrable murderous war-monger”.
Let’s all hope, pray, wish for it! Maybe someone down there can take him out!
I think that all legimate Presidential candidates should have to participate in a Jeopardy Tournament. A real Jeopardy tournament, not the weak-ass celebrity tournament, but with questions focusing on things that might be important as president, such as US law and politics, science and technology, world geography and history. I’d love to see which people are well informed and which ones are brain-dead.
My guess is that George W. would perform about as well as Sean Connery on SNL’s Celebrity Jeopardy…
He is getting a fitting welcome
What a disgrace for our nation. I’m still bitter about 2004.
I’m still bitter over 2000. 2004 was downright depressing.
One thing that has not been mentioned about his trip to Brazil is that he went there to secure comercial rights to ethanol production which is stipulated to be sold here.
Anyone who has been to the north of Brazil would seriously question that only 6.2% of the nation is black. I think many people may be counted as ‘mullato’ for social stratification reasons. Also, I believe the Brazilian people of Japanese ancestry is seriously undercounted by the same source. I wouldn’t use the CIA Factbook as the authoritative source on this issue.
As someone said much better than I:
Part of the reason we elect people like this is because we do so because the other guy isnt much better or worse. In a few more years well be voting for chimps, simply because one didnt throw poo at us.
Pax
calvin and Ms. calvin have been discussing this post. Ms. calvin believes that besides the obvious ignorance demonstrated HRH, it also demonstrated an incredible level of racism. Parse this story. Swirl it around the glass. Let it breath. It begins to smell of something else, now, doesn’t it?