Who’s the Bigot?
That’s what I’m asking after reading this article on NAACP Chairman Julian Bond’s speech in North Carolina. Here’s the opening paragraph:
NAACP Chairman Julian Bond delivered a blistering partisan speech at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina last night, equating the Republican Party with the Nazi Party and characterizing Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her predecessor, Colin Powell, as “tokens.” “The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side,” he charged.
Calling Dr. Rice and Gen. Powell tokens is the equivalent of calling MLK just another preacher. Give me a break. And equating Republicans with genocidal Nazis isn’t just illogical; it’s hateful. Mr. Bond’s incendiary words are disgusting and should be cause for his firing by the NAACP. He’s done nothing to improve race relations. In fact, if he were the benchmark, he would’ve set race relations back half a century. Fortunately, he isn’t the benchmark and race relations are improving.
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 re-fighting 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. The talk so infuriated at least one black family in attendance among the 900 in the auditorium that they got up in walked out in protest. “He went on and on name calling,” said Lee Wilson. “I walked out in the middle of his speech with my wife and three kids.”
It’s obvious that Mr. Bond is a hate-filled old man. The truth is that Ken Mehlman, RNC Chairman, is making serious headway with African Americans because he’s showing his audiences that the GOP cares about all people, regardless of race. Bond’s just proving that he sees things through hateful, jaded eyes.
Isn’t it time that we shouted down Bond’s type of bigotry and demand better?
Cross-post at LetFreedomRing
February 3rd, 2006 at 9:47 am
One more time:
Nazi = National Socialist
Bond = socialist
Bush = anti-socialist
So who’s the nazi here?
February 3rd, 2006 at 10:55 am
Julian Bond joins Ted Kennedy in nuthouse
There was a time, long, long ago, when I had a lot of respect for Julian Bond. He was a hard working soldier in the army of black liberation. He was held up as a moderate alternative to Stokely Carmichael, the SNCC, the Black Panthers and other extre…
February 3rd, 2006 at 3:38 pm
I did also respect Bond but seriously how does the african american community take this BS and so heavily approve of it?