Bond Takes Bush To Task!

Julian Bond chairman of the NAACP has taken the
prez to task. In the article below Bond says Bush has
done very little for blacks since taking office. How do
you feel about the way blacks have been treated by
Bush?


The NAACP is needed now more than ever because the Bush administration has done little to support blacks, the civil rights organization's national chairman said Sunday as its 98th annual convention opened.

Speaking before an audience of 3,000, Julian Bond, the NAACP board chairman, cited a range of concerns including the administration's slow response to Hurricane Katrina, the war in Iraq and its handling of immigration issues.

The number of Americans living in poverty since President Bush took office has increased by more than 5 million, to 37 million, Bond said.
"And the gap has grown between the haves and the have-nots," he said. "Almost a quarter of black Americans nationwide live below the poverty line, as compared with only 8.6 percent of whites."

Bond called present-day inequality and racial disparities cumulative and the result of racial advantages compounded over time.
"Many Americans maintain . . . that racial discrimination has become an ancient artifact," he said. "At the NAACP, we know none of this is true, and that's why we are dedicated to an aggressive campaign of social justice, fighting racial discrimination."





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