The Democrats' New Slavery to the NAACP
http://frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArtic...cle.asp?ID=9001The Democrats' New Slavery to the NAACP
By Tammy Bruce
FrontPageMagazine.com | July 21, 2003
With all the transitions I?ve made in my life, all the political epiphanies I?ve
experienced, there is still one thing I have been unable to do: reject the Democratic
Party. I am, to this day, a registered Democrat. And every day I become more appalled and
embarrassed by what I see, this time courtesy of the buffoons at the NAACP and the
increasingly spineless, pandering Democratic leadership.
At first, when I heard that three Democratic White House hopefuls had not appeared at the
NAACP convention last week, I was heartened. The NAACP, like all leftist special interest
groups, has twisted their initially noble agenda into one which condemns their supposed
constituency into victimhood and despair. They act like common street gangs, purporting to
be benefactors of a neighborhood, as the few at the top pillage and molest noble ideas for
power and enrichment.
Kweisi Mfume was shocked, just shocked when the three candidates in question (Dennis
Kucinich, Dick Gephardt and Joe Lieberman) didn?t show at his party. In his usual vile and
divisive way, Mfume declared the three ?persona non grata? in the black community (as
though he speaks for every black person in this nation). His castigation continued, as he
told the three, ?Your political capital is the equivalent of Confederate dollars.?
I wouldn?t expect anything less from a man like Mfume, because you must remember: the
power of an organization or idea exists only when we allow it to exist. Power doesn?t
happen in a vacuum--it becomes when people recognize it and respond. The fact that three
candidates for president didn?t find it necessary to attend the NAACP convention
threatened the entire façade of Mfume?s world of power and importance.
My joy at the belief that some ....................