Posted on 11/30/2004 10:46:39 PM PST by kattracks
BALTIMORE — Kweisi Mfume, the man who took the NAACP from rags to riches during his nine-year tenure as its president, stepped down yesterday, citing a commitment to family and a need for a "new challenge."[snip]
Mr. Mfume, 56, said his immediate plans were to take a vacation and to spend more time with the youngest of his six children, a 14-year-old boy.
"I don't want to miss another basketball game or another PTA meeting," Mr. Mfume said. "I need a vacation. I haven't had one in a couple of years."
He dismissed as inaccurate speculation that he was leaving because of ailing health, a desire to again become a politician or because of a rift with the organization's chairman, Julian Bond.[snip]
Just as he stepped in amid scandal, Mr. Mfume leaves as the Internal Revenue Service investigates the organization for exhibiting partisanship and perhaps violating the NAACP's tax-exempt status.
The investigation was triggered by Mr. Bond's nakedly partisan assault on Republicans during his keynote speech last summer at the NAACP's annual convention in Philadelphia. Mr. Bond basically endorsed Democratic candidate Sen. John Kerry after blasting as backward the Bush administration's policies on the Iraq war, education and the economy. Mr. Bush already had declined to address the group.
During the convention, Mr. Mfume defended Mr. Bond's anti-conservative rhetoric on the NAACP's platform.
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No more Kwazy?!
Sssssssssseeeee ya!
You know this is just a Democrat Party Wing where the leadership has failed and they are firing them.
Good riddance. No if Julian Bond would just go away.
The "new challenge," Mr. Mfume, would be to start THINKING instead of spewing hatred and whining like a two-year-old.
You might also want to listen to Bill Cosby, if not to the black conservatives.
You might also want to show some gratitude to your country instead of dumping on it all the time.
I suspect that all of these "challenges" are well beyond your mental and moral capacity, as they are beyond the mental and moral capacities of most of the "civil rights" leadership.
Bye Queasy... don't let the door hit you in the a$$ on the way out. Now if we could just get the Rev. Jackson to go away....
He'll be running for the Senate should 73-year-old Paul Sarbanes retire in 2006. God help us.
I wonder if his commitment to family will include the 6 offsprings he fathered by various women, before he became "Mfume"
Bill Cosby as a replacement?
Not A Chance!
Bill Cosby's IQ is too high to be considered as leadership material for that organization.
Isn't it "kweezy"?
Couldn't have anything to do with the fact that the govt (IRS?) is looking into the NAACP, could it?
Family Reason = Time to spend and enjoy the shakedown money
Don't worry, Mr. Steele will teach aM-Foomie a lesson.
If they can afford him, Ron Artest would make an articulate and believeable leader for the organization.
How about the first black President for a replacement. Bill (put some ice on it) Klinton. He would surely be able to keep the flock on the plantation, and keep him the heck away from the U.N.
I call him "Kwazy" ("crazy," but you already knew that)
Maybe that's exactly what the NAACP needs. After all, isn't this organization about "Advancement?"
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