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Monday, February 21, 2011
News NAACP prez vows to keep fighting in the Q.C.
Posted By Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman on Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 3:40 PM
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Just days after he released a letter critical of African Americans who oppose his tactics, local NAACP President the Rev. Kojo Nantambu on Monday released a second letter, this one directed to elected officials.In it, Nantambu laid out a series of issues he said are indicative of racial disparity in the Charlotte community, and he vowed to keep pushing.
“Racial hatred are the fundamental causes for which all NAACP battles have been fought for over 102 years,” the letter concluded. “And we won’t stop now, ‘Forward Ever, Backward Never, On ward [sic] Forever.’ ”
Read Nantambu's letter and the rest of this post at Qcitymetro.com.
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