President reinvited to NAACP
NAACP president Crazy N'Fuming has reinvited President Bush to speak at the NAACP convention in Baltimore.
The NAACP head also pointed out that Bush was warmly received at the 2000 convention.
I still think the President should boycott the proceedings. Why? because despite Kweisi Mfume's call to "get over" the strained relations with the group, it is hard to forget some minor details like
1) NAACP "voter education" ads featuring James Byrd's daughter which denigrated the candidate for refusing to sign a hate crimes bill -- while the sounds of a truck dragging shains was heard in the background. It left out the fact that two of Byrd's killers received the death penalty, while the third (who testified against the others) received a life sentence.
2) NAACP propagation of false accusations of disenfranchising blacks against the president and his brother following the 2000 election.
3) Regular outbursts by NAACP officials against the president, defaming him in the most scurrilous of terms, such as NAACP Chairman Julian Bond's statements that the president had "appeased the wretched appetites of the extreme right wing, and he picked Cabinet officials whose devotion to the Confederacy is nearly canine in its uncritical affection."
Besides, on what legitimate basis should he appear before an organization that claims to represent an ethnic group that gave him a mere 9% of the vote in the 2000 election? That ethnic group is "out of play", and will continue to be as long as leaders insist that a president who has placed more blacks in senior positions than any in history is unconcerned about including blacks in the political process.
UPDATE: Bond was at it again in his speech this year
And they wonder why Bush had no interest in speaking. Maybe it is time for the NAACP to put Julian Bond behind it.
"I'm hoping the president will change his mind," Mfume said. "We think democracy is enhanced by having both candidates here."
The NAACP head also pointed out that Bush was warmly received at the 2000 convention.
I still think the President should boycott the proceedings. Why? because despite Kweisi Mfume's call to "get over" the strained relations with the group, it is hard to forget some minor details like
1) NAACP "voter education" ads featuring James Byrd's daughter which denigrated the candidate for refusing to sign a hate crimes bill -- while the sounds of a truck dragging shains was heard in the background. It left out the fact that two of Byrd's killers received the death penalty, while the third (who testified against the others) received a life sentence.
2) NAACP propagation of false accusations of disenfranchising blacks against the president and his brother following the 2000 election.
3) Regular outbursts by NAACP officials against the president, defaming him in the most scurrilous of terms, such as NAACP Chairman Julian Bond's statements that the president had "appeased the wretched appetites of the extreme right wing, and he picked Cabinet officials whose devotion to the Confederacy is nearly canine in its uncritical affection."
Besides, on what legitimate basis should he appear before an organization that claims to represent an ethnic group that gave him a mere 9% of the vote in the 2000 election? That ethnic group is "out of play", and will continue to be as long as leaders insist that a president who has placed more blacks in senior positions than any in history is unconcerned about including blacks in the political process.
UPDATE: Bond was at it again in his speech this year
"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."
And they wonder why Bush had no interest in speaking. Maybe it is time for the NAACP to put Julian Bond behind it.
posted by Greg at
7/11/2004 02:19:00 PM
