On March 13th, Kweisi Mfume, President & CEO, the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), said that
a letter distributed by white supremacists as an official
NAACP statement is "an absolute fraud and reveals how far
they are willing to go in distorting the truth on the issue of
the Confederate flag."
Mfume said the NAACP has never been concerned with
private Confederate observances or trying to close museums
and battlefields. "Our only issue is the flying of the
Confederate flag on public property," said Mfume. The NAACP
approved a resolution in 1999 that called for "the removal
and relocation of the Confederate battle flag to a place of
historical rather than sovereign context." It has no policy
regarding the private use of the flag.
"I have never written a letter to the Southern Heritage
Association on this issue," said Mfume. "Not only is that not
my signature on the phony letter they distributed, but it is
not the address of the national NAACP office."
The NAACP is exploring legal options regarding the distribution
of the fraudulent letter by the David Duke group,
European-American Unity and Rights Organization.
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