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Why is NAACP promoting vouchers in FL ? We say NO – Separate is STILL not Equal. -Response to Rev Manuel Sykes, NAACP letter in Tampa Bay Times 6/14/12 « Continuing Change

Why is NAACP promoting vouchers in FL ? We say NO – Separate is STILL not Equal. -Response to Rev Manuel Sykes, NAACP letter in Tampa Bay Times 6/14/12 « Continuing Change:


Why is NAACP promoting vouchers in FL ? We say NO – Separate is STILL not Equal. -Response to Rev Manuel Sykes, NAACP letter in Tampa Bay Times 6/14/12


It is difficult to counter an article written by a Reverand and the NAACP. For a moment, I was speechless.
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I found my voice.
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Here is my response / comment to the writer of the 6/14/12 article in the Tampa Bay Times entitled, Florida program gives disadvantaged a chance to succeed in school by The Rev. Manuel Sykes, special to the Times, Pastor of Bethel Community Baptist Church in St. Petersburg and President of the St. Petersburg chapter of the NAACP.
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Rev Sykes, with respect, I am confused? 
I understand this document: “The NAACP resolution on charter schools – In a process established by the NAACP Constitution, this resolution was adopted by the delegates to the 101st Annual Convention in Kansas City, Missouri, during the legislative session