There’s a lot of people in the world who don’t believe that people whose skin color may not be the same as ours can be free and self-govern. I reject that. I reject that strongly. I believe that people who practice the Muslim faith can self-govern. I believe that people whose skins aren’t necessarily — are a different color than white can self-govern.
George W. Bush, April 30, 2004 (from White House Press Release)
Link via Josh Marshall
As usual, I can’t decipher the mangled syntax well enough to figure out what the heck he’s saying. (“There’s a lot”?) But who is this “ours” to whose skin he refers? Does he think all Americans have white skin?
Islam is a religion, not a skin color.