NAACP exhorts voters to oust Bush
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| Mon, 07-12-2004 - 4:06pm |
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/12/naacp.convention.ap/index.html
NAACP chairman Julian Bond urged members of the nation's oldest civil rights organization to increase voter turnout to oust President Bush, and condemned the administration's policies on education, the economy and the war in Iraq.
"They preach racial neutrality and practice racial division," Bond said Sunday night in the 95th annual convention's keynote address. "They've tried to patch the leaky economy and every other domestic problem with duct tape and plastic sheets. They write a new constitution of Iraq and they ignore the Constitution here at home."
Volunteers with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People have been working on voter drives in black communities across the country, registering more than 100,000 so far in 11 key states, including Georgia, Florida, Tennessee and New Mexico, Bond said.
Bond, a leader in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the 1960s civil rights movement and a Georgia legislator for 20 years, became chairman of the NAACP in 1998.
Leaders of the Baltimore-based group are upset that President Bush has no plans to attend the convention. Bush spoke at the 2000 NAACP convention when he was a candidate but has declined invitations to speak in each year of his presidency, making him the first president since the 1930s to skip it, officials said.
Democratic challenger John Kerry has accepted an invitation to speak Thursday on the final day of the convention, the group said.
Bond said that 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision on school desegregation, and 40 years after the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, schools remain segregated based on income, and racism still exists in many forms.
Minority children still face inequality in school spending and are being disproportionately hurt by the accountability aims of Bush's No Child Left Behind Act, he said.
"On our present course, we are formalizing two school systems: one filled with middle-class children, most of them white, and the other filled with low-income minorities," Bond said.


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AA should be considered as a previlage to some people because of their race. Just the way kids of rich father has some previlages. No one is opposing to that, so why should anyone be against the previlage of African American. Why the previlage? Well, the society has to pay the price of slavery. Now, I don't know what previlage an AAmerican gets but as far as school and job is concerned, I am sure when someone gets in to school becasue of AA he does becasue he wanted to go to school in first place. And if he gets job it is becasue he wants to work and will after getting the job. Just the way a rich kid will eventually work even after getting a job due to his father's recommendation. Both are previlaged. But no one is discussing the previlages of the rich.
Also one should demand good education and jobs for all instead of removal of previlages of few.
Wasn't slavery a privilege of the white plantation owners because of their race? My argument with affirmative action is that we are creating inequality in the name of equality for all. It's just a fancy way to get revenge for past wrongs that the vast majority of white people in our country had absolutley nothing to do with.
< Now, I don't know what previlage an AAmerican gets but as far as school and job is concerned, I am sure when someone gets in to school becasue of AA he does becasue he wanted to go to school in first place. >
Again, I have absolutely no problem with ALL people of all races and genders getting into school because they wanted to go in the first place, so why not help to make that possible rather than favoring one group over another for whatever reason.
The argument of rich over poor is a natural problem and not a created one. In a society where the mightly dollar rules, those who are hard working enough to earn it or those who families were fortunate to become rich have the most power. Maybe we should create some sort of wealthy affirmative action where after someone works hard enough to earn a million dollars that they are required by law to give half to poor people. Doesn't make sense does it? There is no way to make sure that every single person in the country has the exact same amount of money in his pocket as the next guy, so the guy with the most money will always have privileges that those with less just don't have. And as stated earlier, those with enough money to get all these special privileges only make up around 1% of the population, so the problem is relatively minor all things considered.
to both you and Minnie
I think even I agree to minnies posts for the first time since my coming to these debate boards.
So now we have to work on you, for that one issue of national security....;)
Edited 7/20/2004 10:42 am ET ET by iminnie833
This is so ridiculous. How can you compare slavery with AA. AA is just a help to those who cannot come up in life. Just because one black person gets a job or admission in school doesnot mean the life of one white person is doomed for failure. Life is such that you win some, you lose some. One should stop grudging the people who gets something a bit easily.
As I have said over and over, I do am not against giving people a helping hand. My point is that we should give all people to same helping hand and not let race or gender be a determining factor in who gets that help. I am for equality for ALL and not some.
>"I would not trust our national security to wishy-washy, elitist,........."<
You prefer to trust it to corporate pandering Bush?
(I'll not make a reference to Bush's lack of communication skills.) ;)
U.S. Plants: Open To Terrorists.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/13/60minutes/main583528.shtml
Taxpayers Footing Oil Safety Bill.
"Major oil companies have received $65 million to buy cameras, fencing, and communications equipment."
"Millar asks why these profitable private companies are receiving scarce taxpayer dollars while publicly funded entities like the transit system, with Americans riding 32 million times a day, left under-funded and under-protected."
Quotes from........
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/25/eveningnews/main619558.shtml
From my post on this thread........
http://messageboards.ivillage.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=iv-elinthenews&msg=6895.2&ctx=0
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