NAACP chairman Julian Bond condemned Bush administration policies on education, the economy and the war in Iraq on Sunday, imploring hundreds of members of the nation's oldest civil rights organization to increase voter turnout to oust the president from office. "They preach racial neutrality and practice racial division," Bond told hundreds gathered for 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." [more]
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