HUD secretary Booed at Black Baptist convention

 The nation's largest black church group interrupted President Bush's housing secretary with sustained boos when he said Thursday that the Republican Party is committed to helping blacks. Alphonso Jackson, who is black, appeared at the annual meeting of the National Baptist Convention USA a few hours before Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry was scheduled. As such things go, the demonstration against him was restrained. Nobody yelled. There was certainly no obscenity from the 1,000 or so Baptists. The National Baptist Convention USA has 7.5 million members. About 30,000 were registered for the convention, but only about 1,000 were in the hall for the speech. [more ] Pictured above: Sooper Stupid with Alphonso  Jackson