NAACP Poll Comments Results
Is Bush disrespecting the black community by continually refusing to speak at the NAACP convention?
Total Comments: 53
http://www.naacp.org/polls/comment_results.php?action=results&poll_id=109LaKeesha S.:
The question is NOT whether President Busg is disrespecting the Black community. The real question is, did the NAACP FIRST disrespect and attack President Bush? Clearly, they did, multiple times. This poll question is a sad attempt by the NAACP to try to get Blacks to see the NAACP as representing them. Sorry - no way. President Bush reached out to the NAACP at first - and the NAACP showed that it is now just an extremist, racist bunch of whiners. The NAACP does NOT represent me!
A slightly different viewpoint:
Nat_Turner:
Yes. And thank you for not saying "President Bush" in the poll question. This man did not get elected, so he does not deserve the title. The NAACP has taken the high road by continually inviting the man who refused to sign hate-crime legislation to our convention. With this latest refusal, and all of the disrespect this shows to all of us in the black community, the NAACP should be the first black organization to pass a resolution for a life-time ban of Bush from all of its meetings. Ban Bush!
And another:
Maurice B Thomas:
How could we possibly answer this question any other way but "Yes?" Bush is the first sitting president since Herbert Hoover to decline the invittation from the NAACP and since he DID appear in 2000 while campaigning and only received 2% of the African-American vote, his absolute disregard of the NAACP is predictable and understandable and vain while his non -participation is welcome. We have shown the grace of continual invitations to a total washout. Now, let us join together and turn our back on this heathen.
And another:
John:
Why should President Bush speak to an organization who has no respect for him and who has been hijacked by the radical left in this country. The leadership of the NAACP is shameful and should apologize to President Bush (for example, the hateful add sponsered by the NAACP during the 2000 election) before he would be expected to speak at a NAACP convention. There are far more admirable African American organizations where President Bush should and is spending his time with.