Posted on 07/16/2004 12:28:53 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
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The current leaders of the NAACP wouldn't even be able to read back issues of the flagship journal (Crisis) that supposedly is emblematic of their mission, let alone write anything that was in the same realm in terms of prose.
W.E.B. DuBois would be ashamed (especially considering his traditional, some would say, even classical, opinions on the matter of pedagogy) to witness the intellectual and moral rot that has devoured the organization that he founded-in part-to advance the educational opportunities afforded to "colored" Americans.
As for Julian Bond, I can't even begin to describe the bitterness and resentment that must eat at him every day of his life.
The man is a festering scab of hatred, who's never quite achieved his dreams, despite his incessant caterwauling and accusations, and therefore, feels obliged to make the rest of us feel as miserable and despondent as he is.
Any possible encomium that he might theoretically confer on President Bush-should he have chosen to attend this sideshow-could only have been taken as an insult.
Conversely, any libelous assault on the president's character, or the character of his eminently capable black Cabinet officers, should only be interpreted as a validation of their policies.
is there a website where I can punch in a date and get the headlines from that day?
hmmmm, can't think of one off-hand...
The History Channel gives that kind of thing, but I wanted actual newspaper front pages. Nuseum website didn't seem to be it.
I think the library's your best bet.
With all the cra* news flying in the media regarding Bush's no-show at the NAALCP this week, I've been reminding people of THIS from 4 years ago:Did the NAACP EVER apologize for this BS smear ad against Bush !?!?!:
October 31, 2000
Liberal Dirty Tricks Ignored
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is now airing an ad that seeks to exploit black fears of white crime. Actually, that’s too kind. Over black and white video of a pickup truck dragging a chain, the daughter of Texas dragging death victim James Byrd declares, "So when Gov. George W. Bush refused to sign hate crimes legislation, it was like my father was killed all over again."
Gov. Bush is being tied directly to a vicious racist lynching. And from Brokaw, Jennings, Rather, Shaw & Co. -- not a peep. Clearly this is the most unfair, divisive, and repugnant ad in many moons, and it’s met with silence? At the very least, if the media were truly disinterested observers of the campaign and truly interested in the appearance of balance, they could draw an easy parallel between the Horton and Byrd spots for their hallowed "Ad Watch" pieces. But that would be false parity. Nothing Gov. Bush did led to Byrd’s death, and under Gov. Bush, two of his assailants will be put to death, while the furlough program under Gov. Dukakis allowed the release of Horton to commit more violent crimes.
But the media did something worse than sheer silence. They are portraying Bush as the villain of last-minute negative advertising, bringing the public’s attention to a different ad, a strange reproduction of Lyndon Johnson’s outrageous 1964 "Daisy" ad that suggested Barry Goldwater would lead America into nuclear war. The copycats behind this silliness tried the two-wrongs-make-a-right strategy, suggesting Chinese espionage under Clinton-Gore could lead to nuclear war.
The ad buy was tiny – just $60,000 – but the media gave it millions of dollars worth of airplay. Why the rush to this mysterious ad? An Associated Press story on October 27 began: "The Gore campaign said a new Republican attack advertisement modeled after the infamous ‘Daisy’ commercial...is a ‘desperate tactic’ by conservatives to help George W. Bush." While the AP promoted the "Daisy" ad story today as "top news," they did not report on the NAACP ad. It didn’t matter that the NAACP boasted of spending $2 million, not $60,000, on their advertising attack.
The sickest part of that entire despicable episode was the complicity of James Byrd's family in the defamation of then candidate Bush's character.
I would have expected as much from the dregs that run the NAACP, but the fact that his family allowed their tragedy and plight to be exploited by poverty pimps like Mfume and Bond...well, it's just sickening.
Yep. Two of the three involved got the death penalty. The third perp got life in prison. How could labeling it a 'hate crime' make the punishment worse? Justice was served. They got the penalties they deserved via Texas justice. Those facts didn't enter into their spew. It just boggles the mind how people can do something like they did to Bush. I'm glad he turned the NAALCP down this week.
It seems as if the liberal leviathan-of which the NAACP is just one branch-will never allow people to think for themselves and come to a decision based on sound reasoning and deductive thinking.
The James Byrd case is just one example of how these hucksters operate.
Mfume is just another pimp.
The only distinction between him and your archetypal pimp is that he probably has more illegitimate children than your average john.
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