NAACP Criticizes Bush on Picks and Policies
NAACP board chairman Julian Bond assailed the civil rights records of Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton and Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft, and denounced President Bush’s faith-based initiative, at the group’s 92nd annual convention.
Bush has asserted that church-based groups receiving government funds should be able to refuse employment to people outside their religion. But critics, including Bond, contend that this could amount to government-funded discrimination.
Bush was invited to address the gathering, which runs through Thursday, but he was unable to attend because of a scheduling conflict, NAACP officials said.
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