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| Duham NAACP sez for blacks not to support their country |
| 2001-09-24 |
In North Carolina, Curtis Gatewood, chairman of the Durham chapter of the NAACP, urged blacks to sit out the war on terrorism. Many of the companies in the World Trade Center discriminated against blacks, he said, and "our brothers" should not help fight a war on terrorism because America "has not protected our rights." Kweisi Mfume, national chairman of the NAACP, distanced himself and his organization from Mr. Gatewood. "Mr. Gatewood surely has a right to his beliefs, but they are not the beliefs of the NAACP," he said. Mr. Mfume issued a strong statement of support for President Bush last week in the wake of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. "This is not a time to sit back and pontificate with pointed fingers about the fact that there are imperfections in our society," he said. "This is a time to find a way as Americans — without the hyphen — to work together to protect our way of life and the lives of innocent people." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |