NAACP Chair Julian Bond Addresses Portland, OR Audience

From Wikipedia: "Horace Julian Bond (born January 14, 1940 in Nashville, Tennessee) is an American leader of the American Civil Rights Movement. While a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia during the early 1960s, he helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He has been Chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People since 1998. He served in the Georgia legislature as both a Representative and as a Senator. He has been a lecturer at the University of Virginia since 1990, and a professor there since 1998. In addition, he has been a professor at American University near his Washington, DC home since 1991. Bond has been known to criticize conservative African-Americans like former U.S. Ambassador to the UN Alan Keyes and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas."

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[kocolatex]

Outstanding! We need to see this gneration of young Black men pick up the mantle!! Where are they????