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 Exactly what is a "colored people"? I am light brown. Some of my friends are 
 rosy pink. Not sure what color they are talking about. If you are half white 
 and half black are you "colored" ? 
  
 The whole thing is total BULLSHIT. If I call a Black? person "colored" they 
 get offended but they suck tax dollars from a "colored" organization. 
 Hypocrisy at it's finest. Just another way to extort money from working 
 people. 
  
  
 "Black Bart"  wrote in message 
 news:cbeaf563.0308102006.1a2a10cc@posting.google.com... 
 > Dem Candidates Crawl Back to NAACP 
 > 
 > Each was blasted by NAACP President Kweisi (Frizzle Gray) Mfume for 
 skipping 
 > his organization's Presidential Forum. 
 > 
 > Now, Joe Lieberman, Dick Gephardt and Dennis Kucinich have come crawling 
 on 
 > their hands and knees to Miami to beg forgiveness. 
 > 
 > OK, so they actually flew, but it amounts to the same thing. 
 > 
 > Mfume had fumed, "If you expect us to believe that you could not find 90 
 > minutes to come by and address the issues affecting our nation, then you 
 > have no legitimacy over the next nine months in our community ... in 
 > essence, you now have become persona non grata." 
 > 
 > He added, "Your political capital is the equivalent of Confederate 
 dollars." 
 > Well, we already knew that. Seriously, does Kucinich now have a chance of 
 > winning because he makes an appearance at NAACP's convention? We think 
 not. 
 > 
 > Another "candidate" who did not make the trip was President Bush, who had 
 an 
 > empty chair with his name affixed to it on stage with the six Democrats 
 who 
 > did make it to the forum. The missing Democrats got the same treatment. 
 > 
 > We doubt, though, that if Bush wanted to be there, he would be have been 
 > welcomed. After all, Julian Bond, chairman of the Democrat group that 
 calls 
 > itself NAACP, thinks Republicans are like Nazis, in typical leftist 
 fashion. 
 > And before the 2000 election, tax-exempt NAACP had funded the insane 
 attack 
 > ad trying to blame Bush for the murder of James Byrd Jr. in Jasper, Texas. 
 > 
 > Kucinich, who claimed he couldn't make it Monday because of "votes in the 
 > House," said he felt an "an obligation to be there to protect the 
 interests 
 > of the American people to try to keep Medicare from being privatized. Now 
 > I'm here to let you know that while I have a 100 percent voting record, 
 I'm 
 > also 100 percent for the NAACP." 
 > 
 > Uh-huh. 
 > 
 > He also pandered, "Amazing grace, how sweet it is, once was lost, now I'm 
 > found." 
 > 
 > And Gephardt? "I'm sorry I was not here when you had the joint appearance 
 > the other night. ... I had a long-standing conflict that I could not get 
 out 
 > of, and I apologize to all of you for not being here, and I thank you for 
 > letting me be here." 
 > 
 > How fascinating that King Dick says he's sorry to NAACP but has failed to 
 > apologize for his bizarre and ignorant attack on the U.S. Constitution and 
 > the Supreme Court. 
 > 
 > "Anyone aspiring to leadership, particularly the president of the United 
 > States, must believe that the causes that he or she fights for, the stands 
 > he or she takes, the decision he or she makes are right," Lieberman later 
 > groveled. "That's leadership. But leadership also means being able to 
 admit 
 > when you are wrong. And by not coming Monday, I was wrong. I regret it and 
 I 
 > apologize." 
 > 
 > 
 > Earlier this week, Mfume issued a warning to Democrats that they should no 
 > longer expect lock-step support from black voters. He implied that 
 Democrats 
 > "who assume, 'Well, they'll always be there and ... vote for us, so we 
 don't 
 > have to appeal to them,'" might be in for a surprise in upcoming 
 elections. 
  
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