Julian Bond, civil rights leader and former NAACP chairman, dies at 75

USA Today ^ | Faith Karimi, CNN

[Greg123456]

ulian Bond, a civil rights leader and former board chairman of the NAACP, has died. He was 75.

Bond died Saturday night after a brief illness in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which he served as founding president in the 1970s.

[Greg123456]

I've been told not to criticize the recently deceased, but after he called the Tea Party "The Taliban"...

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Just another dead commie.

[gattaca]

No comment.

[Joe Boucher]

just one of several race hustlers I will not miss.
Hear me Jesse? Louis? obammy?

[Company Man]

There was a time, several decades ago, when I had a modicum of respect for this man. Lately, not so much.

[Cowboy Bob]

One of the original race pimps.

[Greg123456]

Puff pieces on cnn and usa yesterday. Read the article on that famous encyclopedia website that begins with wiki to see a sample of the poison he spewed.

[Rome2000]

Married a white woman

[Reno89519]

RIP

[ScottinVA]

Dead?

Oh.

[Joe Brower]

I’ll say aloud what many are thinking but are too well-mannered to say: Good riddance to bad rubbish.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Funniest thing Bond ever did:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8QEIaATPis

Way long ago when self-anointed Civil Rights Leaders could still poke fun at themselves.

RIP.

[muir_redwoods]

the best I can do is, No Comment.

[Does so]

Your link works when cut and pasted.

[fatnotlazy]

Bond had a cameo in the movie Ray, one of the few contemporary movies I like.

Rest in peace, Mr. Bond. I didn’t like your politics and race BS, but that doesn’t matter now.

[ETL]

Yet the Tea Party would support in a heartbeat one of several blacks should they decide to run for president (Colonel Allen West, Herman Cain, Dr. Ben Carson...)

Julian Bond backs IRS tea party targeting

By KEVIN ROBILLARD | 5/14/13

Civil rights icon Julian Bond defended the IRS for targeting tea party groups, on Tuesday, labeling them “the Taliban wing of American politics.”

“I think it’s entirely legitimate to look at the tea party,”

Bond said on MSNBC. “Here are a group of people who are admittedly racist, who are overtly political, who’ve tried as best they can to harm President Obama in every way they can.”

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/julian-bond-backs-irs-tea-party-targeting-91337.html#ixzz3iyJQrzw5

[Salvey]

I would love to read the obituary of another guy in public life that slightly resembles a younger Bond.

[Zippo44]

meh.

This evokes all the sympathy that news of a stepped on cockroach would. Now he is accounting for his hateful actions to the Lord.

[Humal]

My first thought was will the WH and federal agencies lower the flag to half-staff?

[ETL]

2004...

"Presidential candidate John Kerry clenched his fist and thrust it into the air at yesterday’s NAACP convention in Philadelphia—in what appeared to be a “Black Power” salute reminiscent of some of the race-based separatist movements of the 1960s.

The Kerry campaign refused to confirm that their candidate “intended” to offer the controversial gesture, the New York Post said.

But photographs of the moment left little room for any other interpretation. Kerry’s “Black Power” salute was delivered from the podium while standing side-by-side with NAACP president Kweisi Mfume."

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/176040-kerry-gives-black-power-salute-naacp.html