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U.S. President George W. Bush condemned as "deeply offensive" on Tuesday a spate of incidents involving the display of hangman's nooses, a potent symbol of racist lynchings and hatred of blacks in the United States.
Bush said there was still a long way to go for the country to unite on the issue of race.
"As a civil society, we must understand that noose displays and lynching jokes are deeply offensive," Bush said at a White House celebration of African-American history month. "They are wrong. And they have no place in America today."
Bush's remarks about race came as the U.S. capital and neighboring Virginia and Maryland held primary elections in which Democrats were deciding whether Sen. Barack Obama, who would be the first black U.S. president, or Sen. Hillary Clinton, who would be the first woman to hold the office, should be the party's nominee in the November election.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1227217020080212
Bush said there was still a long way to go for the country to unite on the issue of race.
"As a civil society, we must understand that noose displays and lynching jokes are deeply offensive," Bush said at a White House celebration of African-American history month. "They are wrong. And they have no place in America today."
Bush's remarks about race came as the U.S. capital and neighboring Virginia and Maryland held primary elections in which Democrats were deciding whether Sen. Barack Obama, who would be the first black U.S. president, or Sen. Hillary Clinton, who would be the first woman to hold the office, should be the party's nominee in the November election.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1227217020080212
