Posted on 06/04/2004 5:32:38 PM PDT by John Lenin
(CNSNews.com) - In remarks to hundreds of cheering liberal activists Wednesday, NAACP Chairman Julian Bond singled out Republicans as enemies of black Americans and compared conservatives to the terrorist Taliban who once ruled Afghanistan.
"Their idea of equal rights is the American flag and the Confederate swastika flying side by side," Bond told a cheering audience. "They've written a new constitution for Iraq and ignore the Constitution here at home. They draw their most rabid supporters from the Taliban wing of American politics. Now they want to write bigotry back into the Constitution."
Bond's remarks came at an opening of the liberal Take Back America conference, a three-day event that has drawn more than 2,000 liberals from across the country to the nation's capital. Bond spoke moments after MoveOn.org founders Joan Blades and Wes Boyd received a rousing ovation from the partisan crowd.
Bond called the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 two of America's greatest achievement. He then went on to attack Republicans.
"The passage of these two laws in 1964 and 1965 marked the beginning of the dependence of the Republican Party on the politics of racial division to win elections and gain power," Bond said. "By playing the race card in election after election, they've appealed to that dark underside of American culture, to that minority of Americans who reject democracy and equality. They preach racial neutrality and they practice racial division."
Even though Bond said the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People remains a non-partisan organization, he reserved some of his harshest criticism for President Bush. Bond, who has been chairman of the NAACP since 1998, accused Bush of trying to starve the government of money through tax cuts. He said social programs aimed at minorities have suffered as a result.
"We have a president who talks like a populist and governs for the privileged," Bond said. "We were promised compassionate conservatism; instead, we got crummy capitalism."
Blades and Boyd delivered tempered speeches compared to Bond's blistering address. Both of the MoveOn founders used a computer slide show to accompany their speeches. Blades declared "right-wing extremism" a dead end for America, while Boyd told the audience that he believes MoveOn members speak for a majority of Americans.
At an awards gala Wednesday evening, the 15-member staff of MoveOn and its political action committee accepted an award for leadership. MoveOn claims to have more than 2 million members, many who have helped raise money for television and print ads attacking Bush.
One of MoveOn's biggest supporters, philanthropist and financier George Soros, is scheduled to speak at the conference on Thursday. A last-minute announcement Wednesday revealed that Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) will introduce Soros.
The liberal billionaire has given $2.5 million to MoveOn, a fraction of the nearly $15 million he's contributed to defeat Bush.
Always suspected Julian Bond was a member of the AlQaida Ground Support Team, but now we have him admitting it.
like anyone gives a rats' behind what a bunch of losers say...
"If you can haul the freight don't send me a bill"...
I can't wait until the morning of 3 November.
I wonder how many of these leftist a$$holes are going to take their own lives when they realize that their old, worn-out sh!t doesn't work any longer.
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It was searched ??
He proves that many slaves have never left the plantation, they stand with the Hollings and Byrd's of the world.
People like Bond better thank their lucky stars that we are NOT the evil monsters they portray us as being. They better also realize that you can only kick even the best natured dog so many times before he turns on you.
As much as I detest the Left in general and groups like the NAACP in particular, I still must ask you what your "turning" entails. Care to elaborate?
THREE the hard way.
God, thanks for telling me you were 1st Cav. My Dad (rest his soul) was 1st Cav signal Corps in the South Pacific. They were among the first to hit the beaches on the invasions. I still have the pictures he brought back back from the Philipines campaign. Many, many dead burnt Japs-religious freaks. You should be very proud to have served in that fine and famous outfit, and don't forget it was 1st Cav that led McArthur into Tokyo. If the likes of Julian Bond keep running their communist mouths they will be out of power for a long, long time. Americans don't want to hear their crap.
If I wasn't racist, I'd have a racist crack over what NAACP really stands for.
The Republican Party
The NRA
The NEA
Yet some folks still believe the "anti-terror" edicts and police state infrastructure will only be used against guys named Abdul.
I understand. However, this is not the subject of this thread.
THREE the hard way.
Gee, imagine that. The party of the KKK calling the Republicans terrorists. What will they think of next?
This means that I'll have to revise my opinion of the man. Oh, well.
I wonder how people can hear the same crap, year after year, and not get frickin' bored by it.
I believe when Bond refers to the Taliban, he is talking about Christians in general. I wonder how black ministers take this statement ?
Did they have a warrant?? ;-)
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