Maybe, but factually speaking the organization is racist against everyone who isn't black.
The Bigoted NAACP
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Maybe, but factually speaking the organization is racist against everyone who isn't black.
The NAACP is an independent organization and as such, I figure that the only folks they need to answer to is their membership.
That said, my understanding of the mission is to "ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination"
In my opinion, in not addressing these squeaky-wheels, they are doing their membership a disservice and (in a way) not upholding their mandate in 'ensuring' the political representation they identify in the mission statement.
In that respect, I do see an issue, although I think it a stretch to employ the word discrimination.
True to political form, I think it's fair to say that the political brain-trust has tricked every demographic equally and without discrimination.
It does beg the question relative to "ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination"
Personally, I need more evidence than not renting booth space to one loudmouth to conclude that there's pervasive discrimination.
The amusing part is that the same people who consider this "NAACP bigotry" would leap to the defence of, say, a publishing house that declined to publish one of the author's books and was called racist by the author for so declining.
Like I suggested, the word discrimination, in this case, seems inappropriate, but that is the business of the membership to assess if it is accurate usage in terms of their goals/mandate.
Wrong. Mitt Romney was a keynote speaker at last year's convention. This tells me that conservatives are welcome but not if they are black.
Small L, and also a small c conservative.
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And I'll say it again Walter.
You are likely the most picked-on, third-party sniped, trolled, poked and almost-antagonized guy on this board. Nobody gets to you brother. Makes some them rather mad. They try and get under your skin or find your goat but man oh man...you are Master of your Domain.
Well-played Sir. Well-played.
I'm only responding to this because it was a response to me. However, your comment has nothing to do with what I said.
You thought wrong. Not unusual.
Exactly, so you can see why conservatism would have no place at the NAACP.
I'm starting to think that dragging those people over from Africa and making them slaves was a mistake.