Posted on 07/12/2004 6:38:16 PM PDT by NCjim
The leader of America's largest civil rights organization on Monday attacked African American groups that he said were helping white conservatives promote a right-wing agenda.
Kweisi Mfume, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, condemned the groups as a "collection of black hustlers" who have adopted a conservative agenda in return for "a few bucks a head."
"When the ultraconservative right-wing attacker has run out of attack strategy, he goes and gets someone that looks like you and me to continue the attack," Mfume said in his opening address to the NAACP's annual convention.
"They've financed a conservative coalition of make-believe black organizations, all of them hollow shells with more names on the letterhead than there are people in their membership," he said.
John White, a spokesman for the NAACP, said this was the first time Mfume has publicly attacked other black groups.
Mfume did not name his targets but they are believed to include Project 21, a Washington, D.C.-based organization whose Web site says it is dedicated to issues such as entrepreneurial spirit and the family that have "not traditionally been echoed by the nation's civil rights establishment."
David Almasi, director of Project 21, acknowledged there is "probably" an ideological divide between his group and the NAACP but said Project 21 is financially independent from political parties.
"We take no marching orders from anyone," he said.
Almasi said Mfume's comments may have been aimed at the African American Republican Leadership Council, whose mission is to "break the liberal Democrat stranglehold over black America," according to its Web site.
Although the NAACP is officially non-partisan, only about 9 percent of African American voters supported George W. Bush in the 2000 presidential election, the group said.
The NAACP, founded in 1909, says it has 500,000 adult and youth members.
Of course Black Freepers are just pimpin' for "a few bucks ahead" cause they're tools of the Vast Right Wing White Conspiracy. <sarcasm It escapes Kwaisi Mfume as to who is really turning tricks for the Democrats with nothing to show for it.
How stupid is this? Mfume might not have realize that he and others like Jesse Jackson support white liberals who continue to keep them on the plantation and segregated in the Black Caucus.
This brother needs to remove the plank from his own eyes.
Now there's a name you don't see very often among the Tan Klan... ;-)
Please! Pay me! Someone!
I hear you.
Heck, what's the point in having integrity if nobody ever asks you to sell out?
Sounds like he's describing himself and his 'Klan with a Tan' friends hustling for the Democrats!
free dixie,sw
This is breathtakingly arrogant.
They are having one collective snit fit, aren't they?
you are SOOOOOOO RIGHT!
imVho, when we get around to building the Hall of Dixie HERO-MARTYRS after southron LIBERTY comes, queasy, julian & company will be strangely absent!
MLK, Jr,otoh, will have a LIFE-SIZE statue there. NOW there was a MAN. pity there are NONE like him in the naaLcp!
free dixie,sw
imVho, they are no better than the damnyankees that we southrons fight against daily AND they are just as disgusting a bunch as the cretins in the robes & hoods.
like the unthinking prejudice of the damnyankees, the morons of the naaLcp should be ASHAMED!
NOTE to my northern readers: being northernborn no more condemns you to being a damnyankee than it forces you to be a PLUMBER!
"damnyankeeism" is a LEARNED prejudice, which is NO BETTER than racism.
again to you guys, BEST WISHES in your struggle!
free dixie,sw & duckie
Did you catch Mfume on O'Reilly's show this evening? He didn't make much of an effort to defend Bond and the other NAACP directors from O'Reilly's accusations that it would be just another series of attacks, another no-win situation for President Bush. I think Mfume is concerned the NAACP is losing credibility with it's base over the President's continued rejections. Maybe I'm reading into things . . .
Thanks for the heads up. bump !
Queasy's an ass. Saw him on O'Reilly saying President Bush should have spoken at the NAACP convention and that he wants to speak at the GOP convention.
Sorry pal...but you're so full of hate the GOP doesn't want you around.Yeah, I saw that last night, too. Some days I just don't get O'Reilly. He was trying to push this on the GOP too.
The NAACLP made their viewpoint VERY CLEAR in 2000 and I don't think they EVER DID apologize for this BS. I don't blame Bush for not going over to them:
October 31, 2000
Liberal Dirty Tricks Ignored
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is now airing an ad that seeks to exploit black fears of white crime. Actually, that’s too kind. Over black and white video of a pickup truck dragging a chain, the daughter of Texas dragging death victim James Byrd declares, "So when Gov. George W. Bush refused to sign hate crimes legislation, it was like my father was killed all over again."
Gov. Bush is being tied directly to a vicious racist lynching. And from Brokaw, Jennings, Rather, Shaw & Co. -- not a peep. Clearly this is the most unfair, divisive, and repugnant ad in many moons, and it’s met with silence? At the very least, if the media were truly disinterested observers of the campaign and truly interested in the appearance of balance, they could draw an easy parallel between the Horton and Byrd spots for their hallowed "Ad Watch" pieces. But that would be false parity. Nothing Gov. Bush did led to Byrd’s death, and under Gov. Bush, two of his assailants will be put to death, while the furlough program under Gov. Dukakis allowed the release of Horton to commit more violent crimes.
But the media did something worse than sheer silence. They are portraying Bush as the villain of last-minute negative advertising, bringing the public’s attention to a different ad, a strange reproduction of Lyndon Johnson’s outrageous 1964 "Daisy" ad that suggested Barry Goldwater would lead America into nuclear war. The copycats behind this silliness tried the two-wrongs-make-a-right strategy, suggesting Chinese espionage under Clinton-Gore could lead to nuclear war.
The ad buy was tiny – just $60,000 – but the media gave it millions of dollars worth of airplay. Why the rush to this mysterious ad? An Associated Press story on October 27 began: "The Gore campaign said a new Republican attack advertisement modeled after the infamous ‘Daisy’ commercial...is a ‘desperate tactic’ by conservatives to help George W. Bush." While the AP promoted the "Daisy" ad story today as "top news," they did not report on the NAACP ad. It didn’t matter that the NAACP boasted of spending $2 million, not $60,000, on their advertising attack.
Whoops ! I meant to include you in that post, too.
Wouldn't want any black groups to work with the 'Right Wing' with their notions of personal responsibility and upward mobility.
Sure you did. Your not inclusive. You are racist!
/sarcasm
They assume andDEMAND that black people "think" a certain way. What is the difference between their view and that of the KKK? That all blacks MUST be a certain way?
Mark
He actually said that he should be allowed to speak at the convention... I wonder how it would come across if David Duke said that he should be allowed to speak at the NAACP convention?
Hey, I've got a nifty idea! Let's get a petition going to get Aaron Zelman from the JPFO or Neal Knox to speak on gun control at the dim's convention at Boston!
Mark
This bunch sure does fit as leading contenders for "hate crimes".
They need their tax exempt status removed. They love high taxes the liberal way so make them pay.
And yet they complain about GWB not coming to their hate fest/convention. They clearly don't understand the association between hate speech and negative results!
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