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The Slow, Painful Decline of the NAACP

BIGbelly Wrote: Jul 21, 2010 3:41 AM
Mr. Williams your column should've been titled the "Irrelevance of the NAACP". You could just hear the financial secretary yelling at Ben Jealous about new membership bringing in new monies, just then the marketing head sticks his/her head around the corner while drinking a cup of tea and says, "Hey guys, guys have we called anybody racist lately?" And that's when Brova Ben looks directly at the marketing head and says, "I got it, I got it, you're drinking tea and the racial devisiveness leveled at our brother congressman thru the cunning use of signs on their way to the health care vote was done by who? say it with me,say it with me, that's right The Tea Party folks, Boom". And the rest as they say is history. The NAACP knows that...

The NAACP approved a resolution recently condemning the Tea Party's fringe element of their movement for "explicitly racist behavior." It would require a flow chart the likes of which have not been seen since the days of health reform to explain all of the ways this is wrong.

For starters, the mere act of criticizing a black president is not racist. Nor is it racist to raise the public consciousness to the very important issues of spiraling debt, misguided bailouts, and a series of social policies that may bankrupt the country. Our nation benefits from uninhibited discussion about these serious...

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