TEXAS EXECUTES FIRST MAN CONVICTED IN 1998 JAMES BYRD JR. DRAGGING DEATH.

Flashback to 2000: “[T]he media silence so far is deafening over the new ad campaign by the NAACP (see box). Over black and white video of a truck dragging a chain, James Byrd’s daughter suggests George W. Bush killed her father all over again. Floyd Brown’s media-pulverized 1988 ad never found the family of Horton’s murder victim and said when Dukakis released him for the weekend, it was like Dukakis was stabbing him all over again… The NAACP’s candidate, Al Gore, tells black audiences about Republicans: ‘They use colorblind the way duck hunters use their duck blind. They hide behind it and hope the ducks won’t figure out what they’re up to.’ (On today’s Good Morning America, ABC’s Charles Gibson didn’t ask Gore about the NAACP.)”