NAACP exhorts voters to oust Bush

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NAACP exhorts voters to oust Bush
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Mon, 07-12-2004 - 4:06pm
Group condemns education, economic policies.

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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Sun, 07-18-2004 - 11:41pm
It is a first, but probably won't be a last. You and I probably agree on more issues than President Bush and I agree on, actually.

That won't matter on election day, though, because I will definitely be voting for President Bush. He and I don't see eye to eye, but when it comes to national security I'm with him and that is the most important issue to me, along with the tax cuts.




Edited 7/19/2004 12:09 am ET ET by iminnie833

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Mon, 07-19-2004 - 10:03am

I have no problem offering someone an opportunity that they may not have been afforded when they have the desire to succeed, but why not offer it to someone because of their hard work and success without regard to skin color or gender.


How do you, or anyone else, know that they have not worked hard?

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Mon, 07-19-2004 - 10:17am

These examples you provide only help to illustrate my point.

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Mon, 07-19-2004 - 10:42am

Every day I deal with people who just don't give a cr#p about the poor job they do because they know they can't get fired.


This speaks to the character of the person who displays this trait.

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Mon, 07-19-2004 - 10:51am

A. Would you really want to work for Joe just because he is forced to hire you?


Since when are people informed that they were hired because of affirmative action?

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Mon, 07-19-2004 - 11:28am

Just wanted to step in and point out that this is totally dependent on geography. AA is for the MAJORITY here in Atlanta and in much of the South.


Again, how do you know how many people in Atlanta have benefited from AA?

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Mon, 07-19-2004 - 12:14pm
< White people have to compete with others for grades, successes, etc. to get ahead. Black people have to do the same, but must also have to compete with what may be or may not be in the decision maker's brain. >

So let me get this right, affirmative action exists because of what might or might not exist in the minds of a potential employer. So because some MIGHT be discriminated against simply because of their skin color, we should create a system that ASBOLUTELY DOES discriminate against others because of their skin color or gender just to make it all even.

< The decision maker may have two comparable candidates, one white, one black, but has heard that black people are all lazy, or that black people are all stupid. This person may never say to anyone that he has these prejudices, and may not feel that he has a racist bone in his body, but the black person who is repeatedly subjected to being denied opportunities due to unspoken prejudices is the person who suffers under this scenario. >

Well if he didn't already think that somehow the black candidate was the lesser of the two candidates simply because of his skin color, the racial and gender bias of affirmative action goes ahead and puts that idea in his head and once again create a racial barrier that we are supposed to be trying to overcome.

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Mon, 07-19-2004 - 1:25pm
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I agree with you and I think that AA is an easy target in an election year, which wouldn't make the president so naive about this issue.

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Mon, 07-19-2004 - 1:30pm
ITA!

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Mon, 07-19-2004 - 1:36pm
Good points!

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