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.
Doesn't everyone know that all blacks must think alike? :)
Not only that but Mfume is a "black leader" and everybody knows that what the "black leaders" say is what the entire race, in this country, will do.
Or...
The NAACP is a a "collection of black hustlers" who have adopted a conservative liberal agenda in return for a few bucks a head. new entitlement from the Democrats that will ensure the continued economic and social oppression of urban black communities.
'Bout right?
Yeah Mike, I just went out and chacked my mailbox, still no check from Project21 yet. Please someone pay me please!!!
Question: Is Kweisi Mfume this man's given name? If not, we can CONCLUDE that his cultural allegiance is not with the U.S. as it exists, but with a fictional, African-race-centric nation-within-a-nation.
I that's true, should he really call himself an American? I don't think so.
Looked it up on google:
Mfume was born Frizzell Gray in Baltimore. He later adopted his present name, an African name meaning Conquering Son of Kings
Hence forth he shall be known as Frizzell in all posts about him.
This kind of rhetoric would fit perfectly in Zimbabwe or Gaza; NAACP showing its true colors!
Unless, of course, you advance toward conservatism!
If the guy repeats that in a publication, you probably have grounds for a libel suit.
False claims made with malice aforethought. If that isn't libel, I don't know what is...
hehe! :^)
"The simple fact is that the NAALCP IS a racist group, simply by its actions"
It's known as reverse racism/bigotry
Mfume is so yesterday him and jessie Jackson are history.
"Mfume is an idiot. He is like a cult leader. If you do not agree with him, then you are a [trader]. "
..or a traitor to "his" cause. Does anyone know if Mfume "trades"(swaps) his women with the other male zombies within his cult?
>>>John White, a spokesman for the NAACP, said this was the first time Mfume has publicly attacked other black groups.<<<
No doubt he's been attacking them privately for decades. Any blacks I knew who even hinted at disillusionment with the 'RATs or had even a drop of conservatism in their thinking was immediately labeled an Uncle Tom (or worse). These people are sickening! I can only hope they are becoming desperate.
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