Kweisi Mfume, Julian Bond, and the rest of the NAACP leadership who engage in vile, hostile rhetoric — the kind of rhetoric that Pres. George W. Bush declined to bless with his presence — have taken the civil rights movement full circle by discriminating against their own. They exhibit the kind of intolerance that their predecessors railed against, and there is nothing, nothing, that they can do to escape the irony and hypocrisy that they exhibit.

Cal Thomas, writing in TownHall:

There was a time when racists believed all blacks looked alike. Now the NAACP wants people to believe that all blacks think alike. The leadership accuses Republicans of behaving like the Taliban in their public policy positions. But it is the NAACP that is more like the Taliban, demanding that all blacks conform to its world view and denouncing as “infidels”(or “Oreos”) any who stray from the intellectual plantation it has constructed.

Consider the comment by Julian Bond, the chairman of the NAACP, about independent-minded blacks who disagree with the Democratic politics of the organization. Bond characterizes such blacks as “ventriloquist’s dummies (who speak) in the puppet master’s voice, but we can see whose lips are moving and we can hear his money talk.”

— Cal Thomas: The NAACP needs a name change

Julian Bond is no different from those who have called me a coconut, and no different from anyone who formulates the following sentence, fill in the blank as you wish: A (insert group member here) who supports George Bush is like a Jew voting for Hitler.

John Cole has more to say. More from the Washington Times too.