Dinosaurs

John McWhorter And The NAACP

July 20, 2004

John McWhorter writes: The NAACP is stuck in a mindset that worked 30 years ago but makes little sense today. Mfume and NAACP Chairman Julian Bond boast that the organization is committed to “speaking truth to power,” continuing the tradition that the organization was founded upon in 1909. This was urgent in an America where [...]

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Rod Paige’s Message To Kweisi Mfume And Julian Bond

July 15, 2004

“You do not own, and you are not the arbiters of, African-American authenticity,” writes Education Secretary Rod Paige in response to the NAACP’s latest attacks on black conservatives. From the Associated Press: Paige took aim at two NAACP leaders, chairman Julian Bond and president Kweisi Mfume, for what he called “hateful and untruthful rhetoric about [...]

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Is He Talking About Me?

July 13, 2004

Kweisi is queasy over us black conservative folk. We’re a “collection of black hustlers” who’ve become conservatives for “a few bucks a head.” He thinks we’re being paid for our views. As my pal Michael King said, “P21 executive director David Almasi and I had a conversation Monday afternoon about that very issue, after a [...]

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Bush Refuses to Shuffle Along

July 12, 2004

Why is President Bush not speaking at the dinosaur’s national convention? Let Chairman Julian Bond tell you why: “They preach racial neutrality and practice racial division….They’ve tried to patch the leaky economy and every other domestic problem with duct tape and plastic sheets. They write a new constitution of Iraq and they ignore the Constitution [...]

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Julian Bond, The Great Recycler

June 4, 2004

Every year NAACP Chairman Julian Bond goes off the deep end with a recycled speech about evil white Republicans and their black counterparts. According to Bond, Republicans are the American Taliban, black conservatives are “ventriloquist dummies” and Ward Connerly, the California man who championed Proposition 209, the 1996 voter-approved measure that ended sex- and race-based [...]

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The Dinosaur Roams Again

May 18, 2004

I used to presume, a long, long time ago, that educated black folks ran the NAACP. That presumption was rebutted many years before they nominated an indicted child molester for an “image” award. This morning I read this intriguing headline, “NAACP sues schools in Anne Arundel”, and I wondered what the problem was this time. [...]

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The NAACP: A Dinosaur That Won’t Die

March 9, 2004

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a once-venerable organization that stood between blacks fighting for dignity and racists determined to maintain legalized discrimination, has sunk as low as it can go. Every year the NAACP (“the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the U.S.”) nominates a group of “entertainers” for [...]

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