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Mfume Calls on Bush to Address Race
By DEBORAH KONG
.c The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The Bush administration should focus on racial profiling, election reform and racial disparities in the death penalty, NAACP president Kweisi Mfume said Saturday.
``We recognize that this administration will be with us for four years,'' Mfume said at a press conference kicking off the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People convention. ``We seek to work with it where we can, but we will vehemently fight for what we believe in even if it is against the beliefs of this administration.''
President Bush, though invited, will not speak at the convention due to a scheduling conflict, NAACP officials said. Instead, Bush sent a video greeting that will be played sometime this week.
By DEBORAH KONG
.c The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The Bush administration should focus on racial profiling, election reform and racial disparities in the death penalty, NAACP president Kweisi Mfume said Saturday.
``We recognize that this administration will be with us for four years,'' Mfume said at a press conference kicking off the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People convention. ``We seek to work with it where we can, but we will vehemently fight for what we believe in even if it is against the beliefs of this administration.''
President Bush, though invited, will not speak at the convention due to a scheduling conflict, NAACP officials said. Instead, Bush sent a video greeting that will be played sometime this week.
