Bond, Julian Bond

The NAACP has, naturally, announced that it's all for the ousting of President Bush in the upcoming election. Here's a bit from Chairman Bond's speech:

Bond said that 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision on school desegregation, and 40 years after the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, schools remain segregated based on income, and racism still exists in many forms.

Minority children still face inequality in school spending and are being disproportionately hurt by the accountability aims of Bush's No Child Left Behind Act, he said.

"On our present course, we are formalizing two school systems: one filled with middle-class children, most of them white, and the other filled with low-income minorities," Bond said.

It's a shame he hasn't listened to Bill Cosby's recent criticism of black culture. Stop blaming whitey for everything and realize that black urban culture is seriously screwed up. I don't care how nice black schools are. If there are no fathers at home, and if black kids don't have basic language skills, and if you're a loser if you want an education, then the inner city is going to remain a crap-hole.

Sorry, that's just the way it is. Bill Cosby had the courage to say so. Of course, the degeneration of black culture is how Julian Bond and other black "leaders" make their money, so they won't do anything to actually fix the problem.

(Of course, all ethnicities and races have their share of crooks. Cypriot-Americans, for instance, have been plagued for a quarter of a century by "leaders" who, while claiming to act for the good of Cyprus, have been exploiting the occupation and filling their pockets in the process.)