Jeb Bush believes Black voters are stupid, shiftless and corrupt

(George Curry Media)—Remember when the conventional wisdom was that Jeb Bush was “the smart one” of the Bush brothers and would effortlessly steamroller his competitors on the way to 2016? Well, the political outsiders Donald Trump, Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina have all crashed the GOP establishment’s big dance, turning those predictions into fodder for jokesters and pushing Bush down to the single digits in the polls.
That astonishing collapse no doubt partly explains Bush’s desperate attempts of recent weeks to improve his hard-right credentials —for example, his callous “stuff happens” response to the nation’s latest mass killing, the slaughter at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College as a signal of his opposition to any meaningful gun-control legislation.
And then, there are his two comments that revealed his—and his party’s—decades-long callousness toward Black Americans. At an Oct. 8 Republican forum in Iowa, Bush declared he was against re-instituting the key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act struck down two years ago by the Supreme Court’s Republican bloc because there’s no need for imposing “regulations on top of states as though we’re living in 1960.”