MORE EMILE IN THE NEWS. I NEVER REALIZED YOU WERE SO INFAMOUS. IS THIS YOU? YOUR FOLLOWERS AND JESUS WANT TO KNOW. DO YOU HAVE THE COURAGE TO ANSWER???
Message 16531007
To:Emile Vidrine who wrote (7959)
From: Tastes Like Chicken
Friday, Oct 19, 2001 4:32 PM
View Replies (4) | Respond to of 24726
Emile, this is not you, is it??
The Advocate (Baton Rouge, La.)
September 26, 1995 Tuesday METRO EDITION
NAACP officials accuse candidate of race-baiting
BYLINE: ANGELA SIMONEAUX, ACADIANA BUREAU
LAFAYETTE - A candidate for Lafayette city-parish president is engaging in race-baiting, and his opponents should call him on it, representatives of the local NAACP said Monday.
At a Friday forum, Republican candidate Emile Vidrine told a civic group that there are too many African-American people working at City Hall. He said the percentage of black city workers is higher than the percentage of black city residents, and that is "unchristian. " On Monday, several officers of the local chapter of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People accused Vidrine of playing "the race card. "
"It is not typical for the NAACP to get involved in an election campaign, but when a candidate engages in racist conduct we must address this divisive tactic," said President Aaron Walker.
Vidrine said he worked for rights for black people during the 1960s, and believes in Christian justice for everyone.
Walker said he thinks Vidrine is trying to "solidify his base of closet racists and right-wing moralists," but the NAACP doesn't want him using African-American city employees as his scapegoats.
"The NAACP is calling on each mayor-president candidate to rebuke Mr. Vidrine's attack on the African-Americans who are employed by the city and parish of Lafayette," Walker said.
"The failure of other candidates to rebuke Mr. Vidrine's racist ideology will show the African-American community that they embrace those views also. "
Walker said Vidrine's information is wrong anyway. |
