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cynatnite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 09:48 PM
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This AP headline should read: Bush doesn't meet with NAACP again
Instead it says:

Bush Aides Meet With Black Leaders

JACKSON, Miss. - President Bush's top advisers met Saturday with black leaders concerned about the administration's slow response to blacks suffering from Hurricane Katrina, while the head of the NAACP said it was not time for "finger-pointing."

NAACP President Bruce Gordon said that any recriminations over how the government treated Gulf Coast residents can wait until the mostly poor and black victims are given the care they desperately need.

"Right now, the NAACP is in what I call a life-saving mode. We are not in a finger-pointing mode and until every life has been stabilized and every life has been saved, we will devote all of our energies for that purpose," Gordon said.

Gordon and Mississippi NAACP officials spoke at a news conference in Jackson hours after Bush administration officials including Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff met with black leaders in Washington about allegations that indifference to black suffering slowed the response.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050904/ap_on_re_us/katrina_black_leaders
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