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Kindly direct me to your outrage when GWB spoke before the same group. Twice. Ignoring your silly conclusions about the NAACP, this is what the real world calls, "what presidents do."
Is it appropriate for Obama to speak at the NAACP?
Perhaps you should address the question to every U.S. President since Warren Harding, since every one has addressed the NAACP at their national convention at some point during their the course of their administration's.
As for the NAACP being a racist organization... the comment isn't worthy of further response.
"A few isolated groups in the backwater of American life still hold perverted notions of what America is all about. Recently in some places in the nation there's been a disturbing reoccurrence of bigotry and violence. If I may, from the platform of this organization, known for its tolerance, I would like to address a few remarks to those groups who still adhere to senseless racism and religious prejudice, to those individuals who persist in such hateful behavior." President Reagan, June 29 1981 at the NAACP convention. (you can read the rest from the link above)
Even if you disagreed with some (or all) of his political views, the one thing Reagan was, was very honest in his expressing views and opinions. What you saw and heard was what you got.
Kindly direct me to your outrage when GWB spoke before the same group. Twice. Ignoring your silly conclusions about the NAACP, this is what the real world calls, "what presidents do."
Completely and....
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Originally Posted by ovcatto
Is it appropriate for Obama to speak at the NAACP?
Perhaps you should address the question to every U.S. President since Warren Harding, since every one has addressed the NAACP at their national convention at some point during their the course of their administration's.
As for the NAACP being a racist organization... the comment isn't worthy of further response.
............................. utterly OWNED!
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