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NAACP still trying to get meeting with Bush

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Since the days of Warren G. Harding, presidents have met at the White House with leaders of the NAACP. Not President Bush -- at least not yet.

More than halfway through his presidency, Bush has yet to receive the nation's oldest civil rights group or the Leadership Conference of Civil Rights, an umbrella organization.

The president met with the Congressional Black Caucus for just an hour or so during his first month in office, but has not responded to a half-dozen subsequent requests to meet again.
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"That may be the difference between Bush and his father," Mfume said. "While we certainly did not agree on many issues, you can never accuse George H.W. Bush of not taking time to reach out and to listen. He wasn't aloof like this president."
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/07/27/bush.black.community.ap/index.html

I don't like the NAACP's policies on many topics, but Bush could at least meet with the peeps. I found it funny in the article that it said that Bush went halfway across the world to Africa, but couldn't even talk to the people right here in the US.
 
I also don't get it... His rep and republicans reputation in general is already hurting with Lotts incident and no libera intervention..
 
Blacks won't vote for bush no matter what he does.. so I don't see why it should be a high priority for him.. I don't know the exact numbers, but my guess is 80-90% (If not higher) of blacks vote democratic in EVERY election..

He should still probably meet with them, but I doubt this will have any impact on his re-election at all..
 
Originally posted by: Crimson
Blacks won't vote for bush no matter what he does.. so I don't see why it should be a high priority for him.. I don't know the exact numbers, but my guess is 80-90% (If not higher) of blacks vote democratic in EVERY election..

He should still probably meet with them, but I doubt this will have any impact on his re-election at all..
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The article said 9% of blacks voted for him in 2000 and that 3 out of 10 blacks approve of his performance as president currently. Sure, not big numbers, but even if it's nothing more than a "photo op," you'd think that he'd at least sit down and see what the NAACP has to say.
 
If they ain't gonna vote for him, it's not worth his time. But to be fair, many Democratic candidates made the dumb mistake of missing a NAACP meeting as well, so it makes you wonder just how important either side consider the org to be.
 
The democrats that missed it showed up a few days later. Very big things were going on in the House that night, including a medicare bill.
 
lol! The scandal ridden, race hustling, leftwing NAACP finds that it is playing second-fiddle to the venerable Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Interesting CNN didn't mention the Bush Administration's good working relationship with CORE, as if the NAACP is the only group representing blacks in America.

Well, I guess the article does mention the National Urban League, but they're not explicitly a black civil rights organization.
 
Originally posted by: LilBlinbBlahIce
If they ain't gonna vote for him, it's not worth his time. But to be fair, many Democratic candidates made the dumb mistake of missing a NAACP meeting as well, so it makes you wonder just how important either side consider the org to be.
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I wouldn't call it dumb. The dems could recruit Robert Byrd or David Duke to run for president and they would likely carry the African-American vote. The democrats don't care about African-Americans because they are locks. How many men and women of color have the dems put into office. The Republicans appointed Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court and even tried to get in a Hispanic for the US Court of Appeals, but were averted by a demoRat filibuster. Powell and Rice are the highest appointed non-white officials ever.

Powell is not what I would classify as a Republican. He is definitely not a democrat either, but something in between. I would not classify him as other haters would of as a House slave either. He earned his post with a life long commitment to serving his country every since bootcamp. He served in the White House and as a political when demanded even if he would rather be commanding his troops. Yet, he is still trashed by some of the leading black voices and the liberals as being a token.

Rice was nearly derailed for confirmation because she had hired an illegal alien in a domestic capacity....like no one ever does that
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The Republican party does more for the black man/woman and minority than the Democrat party ever will. The Democratic party would rather keep minorities down and blame it on the Republicans to maintain their guaranteed votes come election time. They would rather employ Jim Crow tactics by giving people just enough to get by rather than help them elevate their sitation in life.

Think about it, if welfare, food stamps, WIC and free day care was wiped out and instead job training programs, educational grants, removing of liquor stores and Pawn Shops from inner city areas, establishing something like Ahnuld's programs for inner city kids. I'm in favor of starting handup programs rather than the handout program that FDR started.

Give a man a fish and he will do what you say provided you give him a fish every day Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime
 
Originally posted by: LilBlinbBlahIce
If they ain't gonna vote for him, it's not worth his time. But to be fair, many Democratic candidates made the dumb mistake of missing a NAACP meeting as well, so it makes you wonder just how important either side consider the org to be.
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That is sad that you people feel that way. The job of the president is not to win the next election, it is to maximize the benefit to the American people, ALL American people. Now obviously you are always going to step on someone's toes, but not even hearing them out? Way to play to your constituents
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Originally posted by: Nitemare
Originally posted by: LilBlinbBlahIce
If they ain't gonna vote for him, it's not worth his time. But to be fair, many Democratic candidates made the dumb mistake of missing a NAACP meeting as well, so it makes you wonder just how important either side consider the org to be.
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I wouldn't call it dumb. The dems could recruit Robert Byrd or David Duke to run for president and they would likely carry the African-American vote. The democrats don't care about African-Americans because they are locks. How many men and women of color have the dems put into office. The Republicans appointed Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court and even tried to get in a Hispanic for the US Court of Appeals, but were averted by a demoRat filibuster. Powell and Rice are the highest appointed non-white officials ever.

Powell is not what I would classify as a Republican. He is definitely not a democrat either, but something in between. I would not classify him as other haters would of as a House slave either. He earned his post with a life long commitment to serving his country every since bootcamp. He served in the White House and as a political when demanded even if he would rather be commanding his troops. Yet, he is still trashed by some of the leading black voices and the liberals as being a token.

Rice was nearly derailed for confirmation because she had hired an illegal alien in a domestic capacity....like no one ever does that
rolleye.gif


The Republican party does more for the black man/woman and minority than the Democrat party ever will. The Democratic party would rather keep minorities down and blame it on the Republicans to maintain their guaranteed votes come election time. They would rather employ Jim Crow tactics by giving people just enough to get by rather than help them elevate their sitation in life.

Think about it, if welfare, food stamps, WIC and free day care was wiped out and instead job training programs, educational grants, removing of liquor stores and Pawn Shops from inner city areas, establishing something like Ahnuld's programs for inner city kids. I'm in favor of starting handup programs rather than the handout program that FDR started.

Give a man a fish and he will do what you say provided you give him a fish every day Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime
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this is where i see the subtle difference between republicans and democrats. republicans can only see the race of a person and nothing much past that, they are just happy to anounce to everyone, 'lookee here, we got ourselves a black person working with us'.

while i agree that democrats are not much better at diversifying and have a lot of hot air, their biggest contribution to aiding black/hispanic/women has been through the support of affirmative action. i personally know of two people that barely broke 1000 on their SATs and had slightly above average gpa's but were able to get to Stanford and MIT, and are doing very well for themselves and their families now. without affirmative action, they would have been lucky to get into a state college. and talking about a handup program, they didn't just walk their way through college, they made the most of it, which i think most beneficiaries of affirmative action programs for colleges do (im not talking about workplace affirmative action, which to me is unfair). there isn't any better handup program right now than affirmative action.
 
Yeah but according to Harry Belafonte...Thomas, Rice and Powell are just token slaves at the mastas' house.

The republicans will never win with blacks although there have been signs that a lot of blacks would just like Jesse Jackson to shut up.
 
Originally posted by: gsaldivar
Originally posted by: LilBlinbBlahIce
If they ain't gonna vote for him, it's not worth his time.
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I disagree. His role as president is not primarily to get re-elected, his role is to serve the American people and the NAACP represents many such Americans. Therefore, it should be time critical that he meet with them and other major groups.
 
Why would he want to meet with this group?

Veteran civil rights leader Julian Bond opened the 93rd annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People on Sunday night with an uncompromising attack on the Bush administration, Attorney General John Ashcroft and what Bond called "a right-wing conspiracy."


Julian Bond, NAACP National Board of Directors' chairman, speaks during the opening session of the 93rd annual NAACP convention at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Sunday, July 7, 2002. (AP Photo/Richard Carson)

"We have a president who owes his election more to a dynasty than to democracy," said Bond, chairman of the NAACP board, in an ardent opening address at the George R. Brown Convention Center.

"When he spoke to our convention in Baltimore in 2000, he promised to enforce the civil rights laws," Bond said. "We know he was in the oil business. We just didn't know it was snake oil.
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Originally posted by: BlinderBomber
Originally posted by: gsaldivar
Originally posted by: LilBlinbBlahIce
If they ain't gonna vote for him, it's not worth his time.
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I disagree. His role as president is not primarily to get re-elected, his role is to serve the American people and the NAACP represents many such Americans. Therefore, it should be time critical that he meet with them and other major groups.
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Fvck em and the Rainbow coallition. They are both racist organizations masquerading as non-profit organizations so a few fat cats can get even fatter. He has met with CORE and the Urban League and will probably meet with others on a case by case basis.
 
What I do not understand is why the NAACP wants to meet with someone who they despise, and who knows does not share their view of the world at all, and is beyond reasoning or compromising with?

Photo-op for them?

Bush does not like them, and they do not like Bush.

It's like trying to get a cat and a dog who hate each other to play nice. Completely illogical.
 
NAACP still trying to get meeting with Bush

so what happens, Bush pulls up, a rep comes out to meet him, bush hands him the keys and says go easy on her.....?
 
Originally posted by: heartsurgeon
NAACP?

national association of colored people?

its about the most politically incorrect name you could come up with.
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National African American Corrupted Politics?

Sorry, but the NAACP, lost my respect when they dropped all the colors from "colored" except one. Now they are no more than racists trying to improve one race at the expense of all the other races
 
Why don't 'cha just come on out of the closet and wave the rebel flag like the biggot you have proved you are, y'hear.
Like some sweet tea to cool you off from carrying that there cross and gasoline ?
Now you want ta squeal like a piggy ?
 
wave the rebel flag like the biggot you have proved you are
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first of all, -10pts for spelling,
second, i'm a bigot for suggesting the appelation "colored people" is a tad offensive.
you mean it's good to refer to some folks as "colored people"?

i'm all confused now.......
 
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