Mr. President,

I woke up this morning with fear in my mind. I had a nightmare. I was attending an execution in… Texas — Texas at the time you were governor, the governor who beat all execution records. Especially of Blacks. Mr. President, sometimes I wonder whether you are really as racist as your detractors often say. Sometimes I believe them; sometimes I do not believe them. That is because your actions are so contradictory. On the one hand, you executed of a lot of Blacks in Texas prisons. On the other hand, as President of the United States, you are the person who appointed the most Blacks to high positions in your administration. Even President Bill Clinton, who Blacks consider a president who understood them best and was highly appreciated in the African-American community of the United States, did not promote Blacks to this point. I wonder in my heart whether your racism has two faces. Perhaps you tolerate more the Blacks who “act like Whites” and detest the “authentic” Blacks.

While reading the biography of your father “Papa Bush,” I was shaken by the news that in his youth he was a very active member of the anti civil rights movement lobby. Note, Mr. President, as the Kikuyu, people of Kenya, say, “The panther does not give birth to a lion cub.”