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Kweisi Mfume: “If the president's new mantle and measurement for dialogue is to only talk and to only meet with those individuals or…”

On the recordJuly 11, 2004
If the president's new mantle and measurement for dialogue is to only talk and to only meet with those individuals or organizations that agree with him, then we are getting closer to the previous regime in Baghdad than we are to a democracy here in America.
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Kweisi Mfume
Democratic · Maryland

Editor's note · Context

Mfume criticizes President Bush for not engaging with the NAACP, suggesting it undermines democratic dialogue.

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