July 12, 2004
Julian Bond strikes out at Bush yet again in partisan NAACP keynote
NAACP head Julian Bond, in the Sunday night keynote speech of the group's annual convention in Philadelphia, lashed out once again at Republicans in general, and President Bush in particular.
"They preach racial neutrality and practice racial division," Bond said Sunday night in the 95th annual convention's keynote address. "They've tried to patch the leaky economy and every other domestic problem with duct tape and plastic sheets. They write a new constitution of Iraq and they ignore the Constitution here at home."The organization is still smarting at the refusal by the White House to accept an invitation for President Bush to speak to the convention for the fourth year in a row. Bush, as presidential candidate in 2000, spoke to the NAACP's national convention, but has turned down invitations in subsequent years.
The organization has called Bush's refusal an insult to all black Americans (as if anyone stopped to ask me), and is at least partly responsible for the very public excoriation by liberal black elected and civil rights officials across the nation against the President.
Posted by mhking at July 12, 2004 12:28 AMOne has to wonder just what is causing these folks to go stark raving mad. Maybe Bond needs to be assigned to the same room as Chirac at the asylum for the mentally disturbed.
Posted by: Lola at July 12, 2004 09:09 AMLook who's calling the kettle black. Nobody asked me, but then again, my family bailed on the NAACP more than 20 years ago, so they prolly lost our contact info.
Julian and PeeWee Frizzell, AKA Mfume, have been divisive from day one. Never mind that Bush has more Blacks and Latinos IN the upper hierarchy of his administration than Kerry has in all of his campaign staff, or any other administration in history.
Posted by: Andy Foster at July 12, 2004 09:51 AMFirst, what is wrong with racial neutrality? Isn't the ideal we strive for a society in which people are not judged based on race?
By "racial division," I assume he means the Reps don't kiss the NAACP's ass.
If he believes the tax cuts to be "duct tape and plastic sheets," he truly has no clue how an economy works.
Posted by: S Michael Moore at July 12, 2004 10:49 AMIt appears Julian Bond's problem is that he's loosing grip on the plantation. The only way someone can "control a people" is by keeping them "clustered together". Just like on the plantation- you can make money off people. They make money & have control and influence over blacks. They want to keep control so others have to come through them to get their "PLANTATION VOTES". It's clear that these plantation overseers (Julian Bond, etc.)are loosing grip on they're plantation. Once our people (blacks) realize they're FREE to leave---"THEY WILL."
Just like I did and FREEDOM NEVER FELT SO GOOD. I'M FREE TO MAKE MY OWN DECISIONS AND VOTE THE WAY I FEEL LEAD. AMEN!