President Addresses NAACP Thursday
Tony Snow announced that President Bush will address the NAACP Convention Thursday. Darryl Fears’ Washington Post article softpedaled Julian Bond’s radical racial rhetoric but I won’t let him get away with that. Here’s what I’m refering to:
NAACP Chairman Julian Bond referred to far-right members of the Republican Party as “the Taliban wing.”
That isn’t factually accurate. Here’s proof:
Calling President Bush a liar, Bond told the audience at the historically black institution that this White House’s lies are more serious than the lies of his predecessor’s because Clinton’s lies didn’t kill people. “We now find ourselves refighting old battles we thought we had already won,” he said. “We have to fight discrimination whenever it raises its ugly head.” He referred to former Attorney General John Ashcroft as J. Edgar Ashcroft. He compared Bush’s judicial nominees to the Taliban.
Here’s what we know that:
- Darryl Fears said that Bond referred to far-right members of the Republican Party as “the Taliban wing” and;
- Julian Bond has compared President Bush’s “judicial nominees to the Taliban.”
Based on that information, it’s safe to conclude that Julian Bond thinks that John Roberts, Samuel Alito, William Pryor, David McKeague, Priscilla Owen and Janice Rogers-Brown (the daughter of sharecroppers) are the American version of the Taliban.
Based on that information, there’s no way that reasonable people can conclude that Julian Bond is a fair-minded person. It’s easier to conclude that he’s a bigot.
It’s pretty obvious that Darryl Fears tried softening Julian Bond’s image. The only question remaining is why he tried that.
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July 19th, 2006 at 1:32 pm
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July 19th, 2006 at 2:31 pm
A conservative complaining about “racial rhetoric” of the NAACP, if you’ll excuse the cliche, is like the pot calling the kettle black. The political right has ALWAYS, ALWAYS used not just racial but also class and religious rhetoric in opposing social justice for the marginalized.
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If they subscribe to an extreme right-wing agenda, which they apparently do, it’s probably not far from the truth.
July 19th, 2006 at 3:20 pm
Always good to hear from the crowd that thinks black conservatives like me, Condi Rice, Powell, Elder, etc. are just self-hating kiss-ups to whitey.
July 19th, 2006 at 4:19 pm
Every time I hear the phrase “social justice” I want to reach for a gun.
It means you want to take my money that I worked for and give it to someone who did nothing for it.
There is no “justice” involved at all.
July 19th, 2006 at 4:21 pm
By the way, just what do you mean by “marginalized”?
Do you mean “unemployed” or “unemployable” due to dropping out of school? Having a felony record? A drug conviction?
People who want to work will work. People who work hard are not “marginalized” for long.
People who whine about “social justice” usually ARE marginalized. As in “ignored”.
July 19th, 2006 at 8:01 pm
First, I wonder what Mr. Bond would do if his reality was slapped upside the head with a real Taliban? As slipshod as his thinking is, my guess is the Talibanner would have him in prison or a “re-education” camp pronto, ’cause they don’t like nobody thinkin’ outside the Taliban lines.
Second, thank you Dairenn. Good comment.
Last, “marginalized” is another word for too lazy, too slick or too dumb to figure out how to make an honest buck, as in, “Illegals are marginalized and taken advantage of.”
Wouldn’t happen if they were here legally. And everyone else’s wages would go up, too.
July 20th, 2006 at 7:43 am
All o’ y’all just proved my point. The right is interested only in power for itself at the expense of everyone else, and you best believe the NAACP knows that (no, I am not a member). We wouldn’t even be talking about “equality” if it weren’t for the NAACP — which, by the way, the right has wanted to put out of business since the 1960s.
July 20th, 2006 at 12:26 pm
Fortunate One
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July 20th, 2006 at 7:21 pm
Let’s see. “Bull” Conner. Donkey. George Wallace. Donkey. “The Conscience of the Senate”. Donkey and KKK. I could go on for a long, long time, but even BlueDeacon should be able to figure out where I’m going with this one.
The NAACP is getting real uptight because capitalism has created a “people of color” middle class, and those willing to grab that brass ring are leaving the guvmint plantation in droves, which of course threatens the victimhood of that once great organization.
And where on earth did BlueDeacon get that the right is only interested in power, from any of the comments here? I mean, what cartoon bubble did you mix up with this blog? There’s not even anything about that in any of the comments, including his first comment. Guess he must be “projecting”. That’s a favorite tactic of people with no cogent arguement.