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July 13, 2004
President Bush and the NAACP
President Bush will not be speaking at this year's NAACP convention and this is a good thing.
If there was a chance that we conservatives could work with this organization in solving our nations problems then Bush should go. But the NAACP has become so extreme in it's views and rhetoric that one can no longer reason with it. There here is simply no point in pandering to an organization that hates you and will not listen to what you have to say.
When NAACP President Kweisi Mfume addressed their national convention yesterday he had this to say about black conservatives:
"When the ultraconservative right-wing attacker has run out of attack strategy," Mr. Mfume said, "he goes and gets someone that looks like you and me to continue the attacks." "And like the ventriloquist dummies, they sit there in the puppet master's voice, but we can see whose lips are moving, and we can hear his money talk." "They can't deal with the leaders we choose for ourselves, so they manufacture, promote and hire new ones."
How nice.
Of course this kind of talk is nothing new. In fact it's rather bland compared to some of his earlier vitriol. NAACP Chairman Julian Bond has compared Republicans to the Taliban. He has agreed with cartoonist Aaron McGruder that National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice is "a murderer." Armstrong Williams describes more NAACP scare tactics.
Meanwhile, an organization that used to mean something continues it's slide into irrelevance.
The sad fact is that the NAACP is no longer relevant towards furthering the social and econcomic advancement of black Americans and has not been so for a long time. It is forever 1963 for them, and nothing has changed since then. Jim Crow is not only still alive and well, but emblematic of the situation today in our country. As such, the problems of black America are caused exclusively by racial discrimination. No other cause is to be considered.
And, as the above quote illustrates, no black is allowed to dissent from the official orthodoxy. No new ideas are to be considered or even discussed.
Their increasingly strident rhetoric is perhaps reflective of a desperation to keep members in line. They know that many Americans, white or black, simply do not pay attention to them anymore.
To be sure, conservatives and conservative groups can go overboard at times too. As a member of the NRA I can testify that they use fear to solicit funds as well. In the July issue of America's First Freedom, Wayne LaPierre says that "...far too many in the American media, masked in the protection of the flag with voyeuristic camera eyes, contributing to the destruction of American freedoms as pervasively as foreign terrorism." Yes the major media is hostile to our individual right to keep and bear arms, but no it's not the same as terrorism.
The difference, of course, is that the mainsteam media usually beats us to the punch. When a leftist or liberal goes extreme it is usually ignored until a conservative group calls them on it.
Posted by Tom at July 13, 2004 9:01 AM
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