Posted on 07/12/2004 10:03:37 AM PDT by no dems
NAACP berates GOP on race
By Steve Miller THE WASHINGTON TIMES
PHILADELPHIA — NAACP Chairman Julian Bond yesterday delivered a blistering speech against the Republican Party, accusing it of "playing the race card in election after election." "Apparently they think we really do all look alike," Mr. Bond said during an opening address at the 95th annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "To hear them, Martin Luther King and Clarence Thomas are the same man."
The address, which in the last several years has been scathingly anti-Republican, has also become widely anticipated and celebrated by the majority of association members since Mr. Bond became chairman in 1998. Mr. Bond's statements fuel criticism from conservatives that the NAACP, despite its proclamations of nonpartisanship, has become a surrogate for the Democratic Party. Yesterday, Mr. Bond, a former Democratic state legislator in Georgia, took jabs at radio host Rush Limbaugh and Vice President Dick Cheney, as well as at President Bush for the war in Iraq and the tax-cut plan he pushed through Congress. He also repeated his claim made at the outset of last year's convention that the Republican Party has "appealed to the dark underside of American culture, to that of minority Americans who reject democracy and equality." "If you're a drug addict on the street, they say it's a crime, but if you're a right-wing radio talk-show host, they say it's an illness," Mr. Bond said. "Overdosed on testosterone, they've descended into the very vulgarity they say they want to keep off the airwaves." The tax cuts, Mr. Bond said, were put in place "to further enrich the already wealthy and to starve the government, making it unable to meet human needs." The war in Iraq, "was not about weapons of destruction, but it was about the crass obstruction of the truth." He added, "If it was up to us, every man and woman stationed in Iraq would be safely at home right now." In the remarks, Mr. Bond urged people to vote in an election that "is a contest between two widely disparate views of who we are and what we believe." "One view wants to march us backward through history; wants to surrender control of government to special interests; wants to weaken democracy; wants to give religion veto power over science; wants to curtail civil liberties; and wants to destroy the environment," he said. "The other view promises expanded democracy and giving the people, not plutocrats, control over their government." When Mr. Bush spoke in Topeka, Kan., two months ago to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling that ended segregation of public schools, Mr. Bond said he was afraid to listen. "[I was] afraid that he was going to announce that he was going to repeal the 14th Amendment," which ensures U.S. citizens equal protection under the law. Yesterday, Mr. Bond continued to criticize the president for refusing to address the conference for the fourth year in a row. "No doubt he thinks he'll take care of colored people by speaking to our sister organization, the National Urban League," he said. Mr. Bush addressed the National Urban League's convention in 2001 and 2003. He is penciled in to appear at this year's Urban League conference in Detroit as well, but has not confirmed. The president said last week that he would not address the convention because his relationship with NAACP leaders is "basically nonexistent" and because he had been ridiculed by some of the group's members. NAACP President Kweisi Mfume on Saturday said he hoped the president would reconsider. Mr. Mfume said he still has time set aside Thursday, when Democratic presidential contender Sen. John Kerry is scheduled to appear. The last time Mr. Bush spoke to the group was in 2000, when he was the governor of Texas and a presidential hopeful. Sources have verified that Mr. Bush was "personally hurt" by an ad run by a group loosely connected to the NAACP during the 2000 presidential contest that portrayed him as unsympathetic to James Byrd, the Texas black man who was dragged to his death by three white men. Some Republicans had also hoped that the president would attend. "It is very important that the president be there," Rep. Christopher Shays said. "He needs to take the office to the event. Some think that the NAACP was unfair to him in 2000... but nonetheless, he needs to be there." The Connecticut Republican is scheduled today to take part in a panel at the conference on the NAACP's legislative agenda.
NAACP is falling into a void of obscurity.
Actually not Mr Bond, it is the antithesis of everything we believe in. It just happens that we think you and Mfume are lunatic leftists, bigots and Judas goats leading those who follow you to the altar of abortion, dependence and the dissolution of family.
The more irrelevant they become, the louder they bray.
The NAACP's descent into psychosis and irrelevance continues.
Julian Bond, it's all about you and people of your race,isn't it? If anyone is a racist, it is you. You are one of the most racist people I've come across. You are the Michael Moore of the black community, with no credibility and a shrinking following!
The NAAL(liberal)CP really is a joke.
The NAALCP is fading into obscurity.
My memory is that the ad was funded by the NAACP.
NAALCP = Race baiters
Mr. Bond all racists may act a like, but not look a like. However you fit the profile, and your organization. I was a member of the NAACP about thirtythree years ago, once I found out their agenda I terminated my membership. They seek special rights not equal rights.
Dubya was invited to speak at this convention and couldn't make it because of prior commitments.
Wonder why he couldn't rearrange his schedule?< /sarcasm >
**** YAWN ***** :}..
Jeez. I'm shocked... absolutely shocked that Julian Bond would say such things...
Who cares?
NAACP and the UN. Birds of a feather. All talk, no action except that which works contrary to the good of the human race.
My bet is that Bond has some markers due, maybe, tuition, a balloon mortgage payment or back child support to the mother of yet another illegimiate child. He was hoping of afriendly picture with W to use as collateral with some flaming liberal who want to take care of his share of the white man's burden. How will these guys run their scams if noone will take them seriously? Jesse has young illegitimate kids who will need beverage distributorships later in life. The dems certainly won't take care of them. How about Whoopi, she's got lots of cash!
"To hear them, Martin Luther King and Clarence Thomas are the same man."
Martin Luther King should have been so clean as to become a Supreme Court Justice.
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