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The Rev. Curtis Gatewood, president of the Durham branch of the NAACP, is again telling blacks to stay out of U.S. military efforts to fight terrorists abroad, despite a reprimand from the national NAACP last year over similar comments by Gatewood four days after Sept. 11.
"The NAACP can no longer afford to be hypocritically silent as African-Americans are used/recruited to conspicuously perpetrate injustices abroad, as we cry for relief from similar injustices at home," Gatewood wrote in a letter Thursday to national NAACP president Kweisi Mfume.
Gatewood said he would rather step down from the organization than agree to silence on the potential for a war against Iraq. On Sept. 15, 2001, Gatewood issued a call to blacks to refuse to serve in the war in Afghanistan. That earned him a stern reprimand from Mfume and the threat of being stripped of his local post.
In a statement issued Sept. 18, 2001, Mfume distanced his organization from Gatewood. "This is a time for all Americans to stand united and defend the ideals of a free and open society where terrorism has no place."
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