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Thread #31169   Message #405720
Posted By: GUEST,MAV
24-Feb-01 - 11:35 PM
Thread Name: BS: Bushwacked - Seven
Subject: RE: BS: Bushwacked - Seven
Well, well, well,

BLEEP! Jackson, take a look at this;

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Kweisi Mfume, President & CEO, NAACP, said today that he looks forward to meeting with Rep. Dick Armey and other leading Republican Congressional leaders to turn down racial rhetoric and to lay "the groundwork for a different type of coexistence and cooperation between the NAACP and the Republican Party."

Mfume, in a letter to Armey, a former colleague in the House of Representatives, said: "On the issue of race the American people have every right to expect that we will work together to achieve real and lasting progress. Under that rubric our mantra must read, "race baiters of either ilk need not apply."

On February 17, 2001, Mfume called for meetings between himself and President Bush and leaders of Congress. He said that despite some differences on key issues such as public education, affordable health care, hate crimes, and economic development, "there is no reason for us to have permanent disengagement.

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Armey had agreed to meet with Infume if he would repudiate the "dragging ad" and other attacks accusing the GOP of racism.

Maybe the NAACP sees the dems as fading and want to get while the gettin's good.

IT'S ABOUT TIME!!!

mav out