Mfume Calls Black Conservatives Puppets ; Rails Against Gop Right in Speech to Naacp
The Washington Times › July 13, 2004
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Conservative black organizations are formed and funded by white Republicans, NAACP President Kweisi Mfume said yesterday in an address to a packed ballroom at the group's annual convention here.
"When the ultraconservative right-wing attacker has run out of attack strategy," Mr. Mfume said, "he goes and gets someone that looks like you and me to continue the attacks."See the full content of this document
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Mfume Calls Black Conservatives Puppets ; Rails Against Gop Right in Speech to Naacp
Paraphrasing a line from a 2002 speech by NAACP Chairman Julian Bond, he said, "And like the ventriloquist's dummies, they sit there in the puppet master's voice, but we c...
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