NAACP Chairman: "Republicans = The Taliban for Black Folks"
By molotov - Booker Rising blog
Article (CNSNews.com)
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Thanks to Ramblings' Journal for spotlighting this info! In remarks to hundreds of cheering liberal activists at the Take Back America conference, NAACP Chairman Julian Bond singled out Republicans as enemies of black Americans and compared conservatives to the terrorist Taliban regime that once ruled Afghanistan. His words? <font size=3><font color=blue>
"Their idea of equal rights is the American flag and the Confederate swastika flying side by side. They've written a new constitution for Iraq and ignore the Constitution here at home. They draw their most rabid supporters from the Taliban wing of American politics. Now they want to write bigotry back into the Constitution...The passage of these two laws in 1964 and 1965 [Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act] marked the beginning of the dependence of the Republican Party on the politics of racial division to win elections and gain power. By playing the race card in election after election, they've appealed to that dark underside of American culture, to that minority of Americans who reject democracy and equality. They preach racial neutrality and they practice racial division....We have a president who talks like a populist and governs for the privileged. We were promised compassionate conservatism; instead, we got crummy capitalism."<font size=4><font color=black>
This isn't Mr. Bond's first time making a moral equivalence here, as Larry Elder's book Showdown describes similar comments shortly after 9/11. Lawd knows we ain't down with the Confederate flag, as it promotes a racist past. Un-American, as it's no different than waving Saddam Hussein's flag to us: a vanquished entity. Bond is even correct about the shady "Southern Strategy" pursued by the GOP in the 1960s, and many segregationists switched parties. However, all Republicans ain't alike -- or should we hold up former KKK leader-turned-U.S.-Senator (and Democrat) Robert Byrd up as an example? The two Acts wouldn't have been passed in the first place but for Republican support. It was Democrats (Dixiecrats) who blocked the legislation for decades. A Republican president instituted affirmative action, which Mr. Bond dearly loves. Don't get us started on how even to this day, Democrats play the race card to scare black folks into thinking that we'll descend back into Jim Crow. Ahem, NAACP's ad in 2000? Not to mention Dems' insulting belief that black folks can't do anything for ourselves without government holding our hand. In this regard, we'd say that neither party can claim high moral ground so cut the crap.
President George W. Bush's compassionate conservatism has: (1) put the black homeownership rate at an all-time high, by making home loans more available; (2) despite an economy battered by 9/11 and Wall Street shenanigans done under President Bill Clinton, the black poverty rate remains near an all-time low; (3) appointed more blacks to Cabinet positions than any president in history; (4) got rid of the "marriage penalty" tax rate, which disproportionately hurt black couples because we're much likelier to have couples who earn about the same salary; (5) increased funds for diabetes research, which disproportionately benefits blacks; (6) increased funds for historically black colleges; (7) far more funds to assist AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean than the U.S. has ever given; (8) increased foreign aid to Liberia, an African country partly founded by freed U.S. slaves; and (9) been up Sudan's Arab Muslim government's ass about its genocide and slavery of black folks. Doesn't sound like the Taliban to us. <font size=3>
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