The quote from Kweise Mfume is so typical of NAACP hypocrisy. They have great respect for the separate identity of Latinos but not for their Anglo and Creole counterparts.
Unspoken conflicts: America’s blacks and Latinos are struggling with a new racial paradigm for the new century
The Houson Chronicle
by Clarence Page
Since former U.S. Rep. Kweise Mfume (D-Md.) became NAACP president in 1996, he has made a priority of outreach to Latinos and other non-whites, noting in speeches that “colored people come in all colors.”
“One of the hardest things for us to get over is the assumption that this is an all-black organization concerned only with all-black issues,” he told me. “We’re changing because we see America is changing. Increasingly this is a nation of color, facing many of the same problems and challenges that we are as an organization.”
If there is a gathering dialogue around black-Latino relations, as Mfume hopes, it is an extension of age-old encounters between new ethnic groups and old ones in a country of immigrants. But it also reflects a new racial paradigm for the new century.