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And so I was distressed to read that the President of the United States had chosen his commencement address at predominantly black Hampton University to accuse the labor movement ofand I quote "resorting to slurs against our Mexican neighbors." When reporters asked for proof. none was offered. This is not the first time George Bush has used the politics of racial resentment. Who can forget some of the tactics of the 1988 campaign? Or the veto of the 1990 Civil Rights Act? Or the Jesse Helms smear campaign that libeled the Civil Rights Act with the label of "quota bill"? Or. most recently. when the Bush administration scuttled attempts by business and civil rights leaders to reach a compromise on a new civil rights law. Clearly.