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Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
No-shows condemned at NAACP
"We are interested in people who are interested in us," Mfume said from Miami. He said the four candidates' failure to attend was an affront to African-American voters and to the 94-year-old National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
"This organization has dignity," he said. "We are not going to allow anybody, Democrat or Republican, to take it for granted."
When Mfume named each of the no-shows in a morning speech, an organist played a dramatic death-knell chord. "You have now become persona non grata," he admonished the four in absentia. "Your political capital is the equivalent of Confederate dollars."
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But Mfume made clear that would not be the case this time. He said candidates, including Bush, were invited four months ago and had plenty of time to schedule an appearance. He also said the NAACP moved the event from Wednesday to Monday and changed it from a debate to a panel to accommodate the candidates.
"We don't mean to be arrogant, and we certainly are not trying to be mean-spirited," Mfume said. But he said candidates who can't find time to share their thoughts on leadership at the annual NAACP convention "really have no legitimacy going into our communities later and then asking for and expecting our votes. Those days are long since gone."
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First, the NAACP does not represent my beliefs..and I resent them asserting that they represent the "African American community"
Second, why would any Republican waste time going to an organization where the people vote 90% Republican and according to the Polls hate them and their party??
Third, how dare Mfume suggest that because they don't attend, they obviously don't care about "our" community???
WHEN and ONLY WHEN African Americans stop voting as if we're a monolithic group of people...will Republicans take us seriously.. We have seriously bought into the rhetoric that Repubs are a group of homophobic and racist folks....and that the Dems actually do "care" about this community
Hell if I was Bush..I wouldn't have gone either.