Apologies from NAACP are long overdue

Baltimore Sun ^ | July 13, 2005 | Gregory Kane

[Cincinatus' Wife]

IT'S THE apology, stupid.

NAACP board Chairman Julian Bond took to the podium Sunday to address the organization's 96th convention in Milwaukee. Once again, Bond pretended to bemoan President George W. Bush's decision not to address the convention.

... Bond proceeded to bash Bush, saying "the president likes to talk the talk, but he doesn't walk the walk" on civil rights.

That's because Bond's definition of "civil rights" flies in the face of the very language of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The law calls for things to be done without regard to race, color or creed. So do the affirmative action executive orders issued by Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Bond believes in the affirmative action that's done with regard to race. That's not affirmative action. That's a racial preference. Bond should just admit it.

Here's something else Bond should admit: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People should apologize to Bush before offering him an invitation to speak at any future conventions.

...[Bond] should have no problem with his organization apologizing for that despicable "issue ad" the NAACP National Voter Fund ran during the 2000 presidential election.

...Bond surely remembers it: the one with a pickup truck dragging a chain. The voice of victim James Byrd's daughter lamenting Bush's opposition to hate crimes legislation when he was governor of Texas.....

...Only months before the National Voter Fund "issue ad" on hate crimes ran, an Asian-American immigrant from Thailand, Sammy Thamavong, was brutally beaten on the streets of East Baltimore. Two black youths who bragged about beating "the Asian man" were charged in the offense. But not with a hate crime. And you can bet no one at either NAACP national headquarters or the local branch pushed for a hate crime prosecution. ....

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Despite IRS audit, NAACP chairman criticizes Bush in speech opening the group's convention***MILWAUKEE - Appearing unfazed by a pending IRS audit spurred by his stinging criticism of the Bush administration, NAACP Chairman Julian Bond continued to assault the president's policies in a speech last night opening the civil rights organization's 96th annual convention.

Calling the Bush administration's approach to civil rights "deceptive," Bond suggested that the White House has "tried an aggressive campaign to seduce black clergy" to support the administration through its faith-based grant campaign.

"The president likes to talk the talk, but he doesn't walk the walk," Bond told a crowd of about 3,000 gathered at Milwaukee's Midwest Airlines Center to hear his introduction to the annual convention.

....Bond also criticized Democrats for not blocking Bush's judicial nominees. He called confirmed U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Janice Rogers Brown the "female Clarence Thomas."

Bond accused black conservatives and blamed foundations that finance conservative groups for rolling back gains for which civil rights leaders have fought.

"Having stolen our vocabulary, they also want to steal the just spoils of our righteous war," he said. "They've had a collection of black hustlers and hucksters on their payrolls for more than 20 years, promoting them as a new generation of black leaders."

Reiterating comments from his keynote convention address two years ago about Bush and his black supporters, Bond said, "Like ventriloquists' dummies, they speak in the puppet master's voice, but we can see his lips moving, and we can hear his money talk."

.........."Anyone who shares our mission and values is welcome," he said. "Our values are American values. We believe in tolerance, inclusion, equality, celebrating the worth of every human being." ...***

[Echo Talon]

" I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. "
Martin Luther King, Jr

I Guess they woke up?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

[Quote from LINK in Post #2] ...Bond also criticized Democrats for not blocking Bush's judicial nominees. He called confirmed U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Janice Rogers Brown the "female Clarence Thomas."

"A Whiter Shade of Pale": Sense and Nonsense — The Pursuit of Perfection in Law and Politics***This is a fascinating subject which we do not have time to explore more thoroughly. Suffice it to say that this phenomenon accounts for much of the near hysterical tone of current political discourse. Our problems, however, seem to go even deeper. It is not simply that the same words don't have the same meanings; in our lifetime, words are ceasing to have any meaning. The culture of the word is being extinguished by the culture of the camera. Politicians no longer have positions they have photo-ops. To be or not to be is no longer the question. The question is: how do you feel.

Writing 50 years ago, F.A. Hayek warned us that a centrally planned economy is "The Road to Serfdom."3 He was right, of course; but the intervening years have shown us that there are many other roads to serfdom. In fact, it now appears that human nature is so constituted that, as in the days of empire all roads led to Rome; in the heyday of liberal democracy, all roads lead to slavery. And we no longer find slavery abhorrent. We embrace it. We demand more. Big government is not just the opiate of the masses. It is the opiate. The drug of choice for multinational corporations and single moms; for regulated industries and rugged Midwestern farmers and militant senior citizens.

It is my thesis today that the sheer tenacity of the collectivist impulse — whether you call it socialism or communism or altruism — has changed not only the meaning of our words, but the meaning of the Constitution, and the character of our people.

Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase. Aaron Wildavsky gives a credible account of this dynamic. Wildavsky notes that the Madisonian world has gone "topsy turvy" as factions, defined as groups "activated by some common interest adverse to the rights of other citizens or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community,"4 have been transformed into sectors of public policy. "Indeed," says Wildavsky, "government now pays citizens to organize, lawyers to sue, and politicians to run for office. Soon enough, if current trends continue, government will become self-contained, generating (apparently spontaneously) the forces to which it responds."5 That explains how, but not why. And certainly not why we are so comfortable with that result.......................***

[Echo Talon]

Why doesn't the NAACP lose their tax exempt status?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

That's being looked into right now.

[injin]

NAACP calling for reparations from companies which back in the
1800's used slaves? Now what companies would those be?
Reparations....how sweet they are ! Ever since the Nisei
landed some back in the 90's the gold rush is on. Get a life.Makes about as much sense as we of Scots ancestry trying to sue the British for reparations because of the Highland
Clearances.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

July 6, 2005 - Reparations suit dismissed again

[injin]

Thank yee

[libertylover]

Why doesn't the NAACP lose their tax exempt status?

Like defunding PBS, it would be politically incorrect to the point of being un-doable. Roosevelt said that politics is the art of doing what is doable. If the Republicans were to muster the guts to do it the hate from the press would be incredible and some Republicans who won close races in the past might then lose. Enough might lose that even the majority is lost and so it's not worth the risk.

[trebb]

NAACP calling for reparations from companies which back in the 1800's used slaves?

Perhaps they should ask Africa for reparations for making money off the slave trade - no slave trade, no slaves...

[Alia]

Asidem, but related:

Blackvoternetwork: Keep Voting Rights Act

--snips:

April, 2005

Petition Drive Launched to Keep Voting Rights Act 4/4/2005 NNPA: "Representatives from several national organizations announced the goal of collecting 1 million signatures in a petition drive to encourage Congressional reauthorization of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. At a press conference convened in the nation's capital, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, president of the Rainbow Push Coalition, discussed the petition as one of several strategies to ensure the reauthorization of the Act. 'There will be three critical parts of the Voting Rights Act to expire in 2007 unless reauthorized by Congress,' said Jackson. 'We must be ever vigilant to protect our right to vote and not be swayed by media campaigns highlighting events that divert our attention [from] our mission.' Jackson was joined by, among others: Major L. Jemison, president, Progressive National Baptist Convention Inc.; Barbara R. Arnwine, executive director, Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; Laura W. Murphy, legislative director, American Civil Liberties Union; Stephanie Jones of the National Urban League; Richard Womack, AFL-CIO; T.J. Michaels, Service Employees International Union; Brenda Girton-Mitchell, National Council of Churches; Julie Fernandes, senior policy analyst, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights; Olga Vivies, vice president, National Organization for Women; Merwyn Scott, government relations, National Education Association; and Tanya M. Clay, deputy director, People For the American Way."

March, 2005

Baptist seeks to rock the UK Black vote 3/14/2005 Eklesia: "American civil rights activist and Baptist pastor Jesse Jackson’s visit to Britain is being described as “a major boost” by Operation Black Vote (OBV), a non-party political campaign supported by a broad coalition of mainly Black organisations."

--end snips

[TheForceOfOne]

I don't back the KKK so why would I back the opposite. This organization is blatantly racially biased and instead of violence used by the KKK they use racial extortion to terrorize businesses into handing over cold cash to prevent picketing by NAACP members. Blackmailing businesses with the thread of racial smears. They NAACP should be ashamed of its leaders because it cannot possibly represent the entire opinion of its members yet the broad brush will be painted because that is what happens when leaders like Bond are elected.

[AnAmericanMother]

Or Culloden . . . or the Massacre of Glencoe . . . or transport as slaves to Bermuda (the ancestors of the Redlegs) . . .

Where do I sign up? < /exasperated sarcasm >

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Good stuff!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bump!

[SpinyNorman]

NAACP board Chairman Julian Bond: the archetypal race baiting poverty pimp.

[injin]

take heart madame , proud Scots do not grovel for reparations