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Urban League Chooses Jobs Card Over Race Card at Annual Conference
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Don't expect to hear the words "tea party" at the National Urban League's annual conference in Washington this week, the Washington Post reports.
The Urban League, which is turning 100 this year, isn't spoiling for the fight that the NAACP attracted after passing a resolution calling out "racist elements" within the conservative grass-roots movement at its own convention this month. That move brought NAACP a heavy backlash from tea party supporters.
The League has always been the more business-minded of the old civil rights groups, and has continued that more conservative tone. Its president, Marc Morial, the former mayor of New Orleans, said, "In a very formal place like our national conference, we like to focus our conference on us. Our conference is not about the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, the tea party or the coffee party."
The League's approach to issues of race has similarly been a head-down focus on its local programs and services. The organization is not as well known as NAACP, which was at the heart of the legal struggle for racial integration, but it has become a fixture in big cities by providing job training programs. It also has a lobbying shop in Washington.
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