This piece in Salon by Sidney Blumenthal (registration possibly required) needs no comment:
Oct. 20, 2004 | Passing almost without notice earlier this month, the public release of the official staff report prepared by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission on “The Civil Rights Record of the George W. Bush Administration,” whose submission is required by federal law, was blocked by the Republican commissioners. Nonetheless, it was posted on the commission’s Web site. “This report,” the site states, “finds that President Bush has neither exhibited leadership on pressing civil rights issues, nor taken actions that matched his words.”
[more, particularly on the implications for minority voting]