Bingo bump.
Also, Kweisi Mfume used the issue like a towtruck, to pull the NAACP out of the ditch 10 years ago after they went through all their woes and scandals. He rallied the faithful and went out and "repped" to the black community, especially during election years, using the Confederate flag as a hate-puppet.
Mfume was very successful in turning out the vote, spiking black turnout by (according to some numbers I saw four or five years ago) as much as 60% in some elections -- one of the important ones being the Congressional elections of 1998, when Mfume tried to get Clinton off the impeachment hook by turning control of the House of Representatives back to the Democrats before an impeachment trial could begin. He came very close to doing it, and he did succeed in driving Newt Gingrich into retirement, which was an important victory in itself.
and he did succeed in driving Newt Gingrich into retirement, which was an important victory in itself.
Unless, of course, Newt runs for and wins the Presidency in 2008. Then they will not consider it a victory any longer. GO NEWT!