http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=519&e=3&u=/ap/20040712/ap_on_re_us/naacp_conventionNAACP chairman Julian Bond urged members of the nation's oldest civil rights organization to increase voter turnout to oust President Bush (news - web sites), and condemned the administration's policies on education, the economy and the war in Iraq (news - web sites).
"They preach racial neutrality and practice racial division," Bond said Sunday night in the 95th annual convention's keynote address. "They've tried to patch the leaky economy and every other domestic problem with duct tape and plastic sheets. They write a new constitution of Iraq and they ignore the Constitution here at home."
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