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Regrets Only . . . or, Why Bush should turn down the NAACP-flat.(suggestion that President George W. Bush should refuse to speak at NAACP meetings)

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| August 06, 2001 | McWhorter, John | COPYRIGHT 2001 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

In his address to the recent meeting of the NAACP, Julian Bond crowed that the group was the "biggest, baddest civil-rights organization in the country." President Bush's natural assumption has been that repairing the breach between himself and black Americans would require reaching out to this big bad group.

But the NAACP's behavior in recent times has disqualified it from any claim to represent progressive black thought in this country. This year, chary of appearing before the organization responsible for an attack ad that linked him to a lynching death, Bush resorted to the fig leaf of a "scheduling conflict." He need not be so indirect next year. If Bush is ...

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