Julian Bond's Hate Speech

August 8, 2003

Julian Bond, the Chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) said the following about the Republican party in his speech at the annual NAACP convention:

"One party repeatedly plays the race card, appealing to the dark underside of American culture, to that minority of Americans who reject democracy and equality. In coded racial appeals, they embrace Confederate leaders as patriots and wallow in a victim mentality. They preach racial neutrality and practice racial division. They celebrate Martin Luther King and misuse his message. Their idea of reparations is to give war criminal Jefferson Davis a pardon. Their idea of equal rights is the American flag and Confederate swastika flying side by side."

These statements are racially offensive and wrong. Even the President of the NAACP, Kweisi Mfume criticized Bond for making the statements and tried to distance himself from them.

However, Mr. Mfume did say in his address at the same convention: "We've got to, I think, on our end, have respect for the system of government in Cuba."

This certainly diminishes his credibility as a critical thinker, if he had any to start with.

Julian Bond has a decades long history of leftist leanings including associations with communists. This explains why he cannot see himself for what he is, a racist black man. His ideology is his religion and it blinds him to reality.

Bond believes his past reputation supporting black rights will shield him forever from the hateful and racist things he says in the present.

Wrong.

We don't need racist people like Julian Bond anymore than we need racist KKK members who he refers to in his speech as "stupid".  Being a black racist man certainly makes him just as stupid as any white KKK member.