The NAACP is an organization which exists to promote special rights and privileges for the people of one specific race.  If such an organization existed for the benefit of whites, it would be called a racist group, yet somehow the NAACP is applauded for its race-based discrimination.

Related topic:  The curious case of Rachel Dolezal

The Left Has Pushed the Envelope.  The NAACP just issued a "travel alert" advising Blacks not to visit Florida.  The announcement was timed to draw negative attention to conservative Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' announcement of a presidential bid.  Chicago, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, and Indianapolis — all outside Florida — have the highest Black murder rates in the nation.  Florida by contrast, with a Black population of 3.3 million, has the second largest number of Black businesses in the nation.  The chairman of the NAACP's board of directors is himself a Florida resident!

Yes, Democrats, Stay Out of Florida.  Democrats seem to labor under the delusion that the rest of us long to spend time with them, that we'd be lost without their nagging or just their smell.  When there are long stretches of time without some Karen screaming about how you should wear a mask at the park or use whatever pronouns they or their kid "decided" they felt like on that day, no one misses them.  Life is better without all of them. [...] That being said, when gay groups and the NAACP issued "travel warnings" about going to Florida, it made me want to go there.  The NAACP is 114 years old, and in that time did some amazing and important work.  But that time is long over.  They defeated the Democrat Party, then became the Democrat Party by embracing the concept of segregation as a bastardized form of tolerance.

NAACP Leader Tells Black Americans That Florida Isn't Safe For Them.  Guess Where He Lives.  The NAACP Board of Directors issued a statement on Saturday warning black Americans that the state of Florida was not a safe place for them and included an official "travel advisory" calling the state "openly hostile" — but the board's chairman, Leon Russell, apparently lives in Florida himself.  The statement, released on Saturday, accused Governor Ron DeSantis of making "aggressive attempts to erase black history and to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in Florida schools."  The travel advisory goes on to warn black Americans that "Florida is openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color, and LGBTQ+ individuals.  Before traveling to Florida, please understand that the state of Florida devalues and marginalizes the contributions of, and the challenges faced by African Americans and other communities of color."

NAACP issues travel advisory against visiting Florida.  The NAACP's national board of directors has issued a formal travel advisory for Florida, warning black and LGBTQ people against visiting the state due to Governor Ron DeSantis' policies.  'Florida is openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals,' states the advisory issued on Saturday night by the civil rights group.  'Before traveling to Florida, please understand that the state of Florida devalues and marginalizes the contributions of, and the challenges faced by African Americans and other communities of color,' it adds.

Recent Lowlights in Woke Capture of Our Once-Venerable Institutions.  [T]here have been a few recent, powerful examples, coming in quick succession, illustrating the extent to which leading liberal institutions of civil society have been captured by far-left activist wokesters who take opportunistic advantage of their groups' venerable reputations in an attempt to repurpose them for dubious ends.  Take, for example, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, once one of the nation's leading lights of the civil rights movement, which in recent decades has increasingly degenerated into a cesspool of grievance politics, intersectionality, race-tinged hucksterism, and crass Democratic Party politicking.  Last week, the Florida chapter of the NAACP asked its national board to issue a travel advisory against visiting the Sunshine State due to Gov. Ron DeSantis' recent moves to, among other things, extirpate "diversity, equity, and inclusion" racialist indoctrination from public universities and convince the College Board to drop asinine leftist indulgences such as "queer studies" from its model Advanced Placement curriculum in African American studies.

NAACP urging pro athletes in free agency not to sign with teams in Texas over voting, abortion laws.  The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) issued a letter Thursday [10/28/2021] to all major players' associations calling for athletes in free agency to avoid signing with teams that are in Texas in response to the state's recently enacted voting laws and new restrictions to women's reproductive freedoms.  "In response to the most recent attacks on voting rights and reproductive care, the Association sent an open letter to the National Players' Leagues, urging free agents to reconsider moving their families to a state that is not safe for anyone," said the NAACP in a press release.  The two-page letter was sent to the NFL, NBA, WNBA, MLB and NHL Players' Associations signed by NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson and NAACP Texas President Gary Bledsoe.

The Editor says...
The term "reproductive freedom" is a pernicious name for fetal homicide.

NAACP pledges to bail Texas Dems out of jail if they're arrested for fleeing the state to tank bill.  The NAACP on Tuesday [7/13/2021] vowed to bail out any Texas Democrat arrested by state authorities for running away from a special legislative session earlier in the week called by GOP Gov. Greg Abbott to consider, among other things, new voter integrity legislation.  "War has been declared on democracy, and we will support anyone who stands up to defend it.  We are fully invested in good trouble," NAACP President Derrick Johnson said in a statement.  The pledge comes after nearly 60 state Democrats boarded chartered busses and planes on Monday to intentionally deny a quorum to majority Republicans who are pushing to shore up voter integrity ahead of the 2022 elections following a chaotic and mistrusted 2020 election cycle.

BLM and NAACP are slammed for their silence over racist 'Uncle Tim' attacks on GOP Senator Scott.  Black Lives Matter and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People have been harshly criticized by Republicans for failing to condemn the viral 'Uncle Tim' reference to Senator Tim Scott on Wednesday [4/28/2021].  Scott was compared to the racist 'Uncle Tom' trope that depicts black people as subservient after delivering the GOP rebuttal to President Joe Biden's speech before Congress in which he defended the country as not racist.  Scott spoke extensively about race, and made the point that while he had personally experienced discrimination, he did not believe the United States was an inherently racist country.

Portland NAACP president resigns following accusations of sexual abuse.  An NAACP president in Oregon has resigned after 11 people accused him of sexual and psychological abuse while attending his church decades ago, the civil rights group said.  Portland NAACP President E.D. Mondainé submitted his "immediate resignation" late Tuesday [10/20/2020], the organization said in a statement.  "The NAACP is firmly opposed to all forms of abuse, assault, harassment or discrimination," the statement said.  "Such behavior has no place in the Association, regardless of whether these instances occurred in previous or current administrations."  An investigation into the accusations is ongoing — and "additional and appropriate action" will be taken if necessary, NAACP officials said.

NAACP Chapter President:  Being A Police Officer 'Is A Choice,' 'No Such Thing As Blue Lives'.  According to NAACP chapter president Bishop Talbert Swan, there is "no such thing as Blue Lives" because police choose to do their jobs whereas black people do not choose the color of their skin.  In a Twitter post on Saturday [9/12/2020], the NAACP Greater Springfield president said that while the death or murder of a police officer is a terrible tragedy, it does not have the same implication as a black person being gunned down by police. [...] Talbert Swan is not the only activist to irreverently respond to the news about the shooting of two officers.  Following the incident, leftist think tank The Gravel Institute said that "blue lives" simply don't matter.

Let's Take Back Our Kids, Already!  Dad was a civil rights pioneer.  He pressured me and my four younger siblings to always vote and join the NAACP.  Upon attending my first NAACP meeting, I was stunned.  They actually joined in a circle; held hands; and sang, "We Shall Overcome".  Their rhetoric sounded as though I had stepped through a time warp back to 1950.  Leftist institutions of indoctrination are still selling students, black and white, the absurd lie that America has not progressed racially beyond the 1950s.

NAACP Responds to Joe Biden Comments:  We Never Endorsed Him, Or Anyone.  The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) responded Friday evening to comments earlier in the day by former Vice President Joe Biden, who claimed — falsely — that the NAACP had endorsed him.  In an interview [...], Biden said:  "If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black."  He went on to defend his record on issues relevant to the black community, claiming:  "The NAACP has endorsed me every time I've run."

NAACP's own poll reveals surge in black support for Trump - and they react badly.  Dependence on 90% voting support from African-Americans for electoral success is the jugular vein of the Democratic Party.  President Trump's rising support among black voters is correctly seen as an existential threat to the party's — and progressivism's — ability to win national elections.  That's why I thought it was big news last Saturday when Rasmussen proclaimed that black approval of Trump had hit 29%, even though most of the media ignored it for reasons AT readers well understand.

Why NAACP's Anti-Oil And Gas Report Is Hot Air.  The NAACP recently published a paper with a dramatic claim:  "African-Americans face a disproportionate risk of health problems from pollution caused by the oil and gas industry."  It generated many headlines.  But it's deeply misleading.  Instead of acknowledging the complex factors that cause health problems in minority communities, the paper's authors point a collective finger at energy firms.

Unabomber's Brother, NAACP Call for End to Death Penalty.  A representative from the NAACP joined other activists to advocate for the abolition of the death penalty, referring to capital punishment as "state-sponsored violence."  "This is a modern-day human rights issue that felt really solvable as a law student, like, we can just get rid of this, right?  We don't need this.  Let's move forward and get rid of this and move on to some other human rights issues — that's kind of how I found myself representing people who are on death row," Ngozi Ndulue, senior director of criminal justice programs at the NAACP, said during a vigil to abolish the death penalty recently organized by Death Penalty Action at the Supreme Court.

Bodycam footage documents NAACP state president lied about racial profiling.  Poor Rev. Moultrie was a victim of racial profiling, if you believe this account.  But I guess he didn't realize that the officer was wearing a body camera that recorded the entire incident.

NAACP president in SC says he was racially profiled; body cam video shows otherwise.  Timmonsville NAACP President the Rev. Jerrod Moultrie posted on Facebook on April 13 that he was racially profiled when a Timmonsville police officer pulled him over for a traffic violation near his home on Harkless Court in Timmonsville.

Candace Owens Tells the Truth about the NAACP.  The NAACP has long been a sacred cow.  It did some good long ago, but for decades it has been a useless, left-wing pressure group in thrall to the Democratic Party.  As such, it has generally opposed the interests of most African-Americans.

The California NAACP wants 'The Star-Spangled Banner' removed as the national anthem.  The California NAACP is seeking state lawmakers to support its campaign to remove "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the national anthem, according to The Sacramento Bee.  The Bee on Tuesday reported that the California NAACP passed a resolution at its state conference last month aimed at the song's removal.  The resolution urges Congress to rescind "one of the most racist, pro-slavery, anti-black songs in the American lexicon" in "The Star-Spangled Banner."

Get rid of 'The Star-Spangled Banner' as national anthem, state's NAACP urges.  When California lawmakers return to the Capitol in January, the state chapter of the NAACP will be seeking their support for a campaign to remove "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the national anthem.  The organization last week began circulating among legislative offices two resolutions that passed at its state conference in October:  one urging Congress to rescind "one of the most racist, pro-slavery, anti-black songs in the American lexicon" as the national anthem, and another in support of former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who launched a protest movement against police brutality among professional athletes by kneeling when "The Star-Spangled Banner" was played before games.  "We owe a lot of it to Kaepernick," California NAACP President Alice Huffman said.  "I think all this controversy about the knee will go away once the song is removed."

Dem Rep 'Sees Nothing Wrong' With Changing The Anthem.  Illinois Democratic Rep. Danny Davis says he sees 'nothing wrong' with the California ACLU's effort to ban the Star Spangled Banner as the country's national anthem.  "Well, you know, one of the things about the Constitution that our forefathers wrote, and basically, there were none of our foremothers that were there.  There were none of our fore-sisters there.  There are changes that can take place and there is room to change," he told TheDC Thursday.  Alice Huffman, president of the California chapter of the NAACP, declared the anthem to be "racist" and that it "doesn't represent our community.  It's anti-black people," SFGate.com, reported Wednesday.  The NAACP is hoping for lawmakers to change it.

NAACP Leader Defends Confederate Monuments:  Statues Not A Problem.  One of the leaders in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) spoke out against the removal of Confederate statues, saying they are a part of history.  Speaking to reporters on Tuesday at City Hall in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, local NAACP chapter president Esther Lee expressed her frustration with the current state of affairs in the U.S., WFMZ reported.  "I think it's all senseless.  All senseless," Lee said.  "You know, we're 108 years in as NAACPers and we might think things would improve, but they do not.  You know we still have this factor about black and white."  Lee continued talking about Confederate statues, noting that it is pointless to take them down.

NAACP Leader Balks At Idea Of Congressional White Caucus.  Cornell William Brooks, President and CEO of the NAACP, was at loss for words Thursday night as former Reagan adviser Jeffrey Lord injected a hypothetical Congressional White Caucus into a debate on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360.  The racially charged exchange began during a discussion of President Trump having asked an African-American reporter from a black-focused new radio outlet if she knew the leadership of the Congressional Black Caucus.

NAACP Denies Giving Sessions Award.  The president of the NAACP's Alabama chapter said the award the group purportedly gave then-Sen. Jeff Sessions is "bogus."  The honor in question is the 2009 Governmental Award of Excellence, which surfaced while aides were cleaning out Sessions' Mobile, Ala., office in preparation for his move to the Department of Justice.  The plaque, which has Sessions' name on it, lists that the award was given during the NAACP's Civic and Human Rights Convention in Mobile April 23-26, 2009, "for the outstanding work you do."

AACP Head And Convicted Murderer Says He'll 'Fire Back' If We Report On Embezzlement.  A high-ranking official convicted of murder threatened to "fire back" if The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group (TheDCNF) reported that a new branch president for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) embezzled during his tenure at a previous nonprofit.  Gerald Hankerson, president of the Alaska, Oregon and Washington State regional NAACP, told TheDCNF he wasn't "authorizing" the disclosure because it "strikes a blow to the NAACP by indicating that we allow criminals at the leadership."

Black History (aka Demonize White America) Month.  Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' rise from nothing is an extraordinary American tale.  The NAACP and so-called civil rights community should hold Justice Thomas up high as a shining example to black youths of what can be achieved via education, hard work, right choices, and self-reliance.  Remarkably, Justice Thomas is despised by the NAACP and fellow Leftists for exposing the benefits of embracing Myers' tried and true virtues.  Renowned black retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson and black businessman extraordinaire Herman Cain are hated by the NAACP for the same reasons.  They do not view themselves as victims nor do they hate whites and America.  Both Carson and Cain love their country and tout the benefits of self-reliance, education, and hard work.

NAACP President Busted for Dealing Coke:  Media Ignores.  The President of the NAACP getting busted for coke to make his child support payments apparently isn't news.  You're not going to hear about this one from anywhere in the major media — maybe not even in Muncie.  Now if he was the pastor the large evangelical church, we suspect that would be different.

NAACP president arrested in Jeff Sessions' office.  The president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and other employees of the organization were arrested around 7 p.m.  CST Tuesday [1/3/2017] after they refused to leave Sen. Jeff Sessions' office in Mobile, Ala.  President Cornell Brooks and three other staffers were taken into police custody after spending the day sitting on the floor of the Republican senator's office.  Brooks said they would not leave until either Sessions declined his nomination as attorney general or they were arrested.

NAACP stages protest in Jeff Sessions' office.  The NAACP staged a sit-in on Tuesday [1/3/2017] to protest the nomination of conservative U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions as the nation's next Attorney General, vowing to occupy his Mobile, Alabama, office until he withdrew as a candidate or demonstrators were arrested.  Sessions, 70, has a record of controversial positions on race, immigration and criminal justice reform.  Along with the sit-in, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) organized demonstrations at his offices statewide to draw attention to their concerns about his track record.

The NAACP Promotes Grievance Industry.  As a proud grateful American who happens to be black, what I am about to say is sure to cause me to be called ugly names and the black community yelling, "Off with his head!"  Frankly, I do not care.  God calls Christians to be salt rather than surrendering to evil "groupthink".  I saw a TV commercial for the NAACP Image Awards in which a group of black youths on stage had clinched fists raised in the black power pose.  The camera cut to multimillionaire black celebs like Spike Lee in the audience smiling approvingly.  I thought, here we go again, another generation of black youths taught to view themselves as victims and hate their country.

NAACP is supposed to be for blacks?  The NAACP wants to freeze expansion of charter schools until, according to the resolution, they meet the same "transparency and accountability standards as public schools," no longer compete for the same public funds as public schools, don't reject students public schools accept, and that evidence of segregation is no longer evident.  It is disappointing that the NAACP, which defines itself as a civil rights organization, wants to deny a right as fundamental as parents determining how and where to educate their children.  But although disappointing, it not surprising.  It is not just charter schools NAACP opposes, but all alternatives to public schools.

NAACP Leader on Keith Scott Shooting: 'It Really Doesn't Matter If He Had a Gun'.  A local NAACP leader told CNN's Carol Costello Thursday [9/22/2016] that it didn't actually matter whether or not black Charlotte man Keith Scott had a gun on him when he was shot and killed by police.  Scott's death led to protests and violence for the past two days, after his family reported that he was holding a book when he died.  Charlotte police have called that false, saying that police body camera footage shows he was brandishing a gun and that they recovered a weapon from the scene.  But the president of the Charlotte chapter of the NAACP Corine Mack said ultimately it didn't matter.

NAACP considers role alongside Black Lives Matter at annual convention.  After high-profile police killings of black men in Baton Rouge and Minneapolis and two targeted killings of police officers, the US is being forced to stare down its perennial struggles with race and justice.  So as 5,000 NAACP members, volunteers and leaders descend on Cincinnati, Ohio, one natural question that presents itself is:  where does the venerable association sit in relation to the relatively nascent Black Lives Matter movement that has captured the nation's attention with its loud, urgent protests against police violence?

NAACP members call for ban on privately managed charter schools.  The NAACP has long expressed concern about charter schools, but now its members are taking a tougher stance.  At their recent annual national convention late last month, members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People approved a resolution that included language calling for a moratorium on the expansion of privately managed charters.  For years, resolutions at annual national conventions of the historic organization have raised issues about charters, but the 2016 resolution uses stark language.  The new resolution (see text below) notes that "charter schools with privately appointed boards do not represent the public but make decisions about how public funds are spent," and it cites a number of problems with some charters, including punitive disciplinary policies, fiscal mismanagement and conflicts of interest.

NAACP chief: 'Ensure every demonstrator is a vote'.  Black Lives Matter activists need to "need to ensure that every demonstrator is a vote" in the fall elections in order to win policy changes pertaining to police misconduct and officer-involved shootings, according to the head of the NAACP.  "To bring about the kind of change that we need, we need to ensure that every demonstrator is a vote and that we to show up en masse and in the millions at the polls in November," NAACP president Cornell William Brooks said on CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday morning [7/10/2016].

Alabama NAACP president under fire for allegedly selling endorsements.  The president of the Birmingham, Ala. NAACP is under fire for allegedly trying to sell endorsements from an influential local PAC, after he told local candidates if they did not buy a table or ad at an event, they would not be considered for an endorsement.

Ousted Spokane NAACP head sued Howard U. for discrimination, claiming she was white.  Rachel Dolezal, the former head of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP, sued Howard University after she received her graduate degree there, claiming the historically black college had discriminated against her because she was white.  Dolezal resigned as president of the Spokane NAACP Monday [6/15/2015], just days after her parents told local media outlets that their daughter had misrepresented herself as fully or partially black.  In reality, they said, their daughter's ancestry is German, Swedish, and Czech, with some Native American background as well.  WTTG reported that Dolezal filed her lawsuit against Howard in 2002, asking for damages due to "medical and emotional distress."

Rachel Dolezal Steps Down as Head of Spokane NAACP.  Dolezal was supposed to address the media on Monday [6/15/2015] regarding her parents' claim that she was actually white and had been pretending to be black for years, but that didn't happen. [...] Instead of addressing the media, Dolezal addressed the NAACP executive committee and members in a Facebook post on the Spokane chapter's page, saying, "The dialogue has unexpectedly shifted internationally to my personal identity in the context of defining race and ethnicity."

Questions about Rachel Dolezal linger as NAACP members react.  Members of the Spokane NAACP chapter plan to demonstrate today over the controversy enveloping their president, Rachel Dolezal, who said Sunday [6/14/2015] she's not ready to face them and explain claims she has lied about her race.

More about Rachel Dolezal.

The NAACP's Fomenters of Fear.  [Scroll down]  A typical and familiar headline:  "Arson at Black Church Echoes Bigotry of the Past."  The NAACP jumped onboard and demanded that then-Attorney General Janet Reno investigate.  President Clinton fanned the flames; panels were formed; federal spending programs were passed.  But a year later, Fields' own paper was forced to admit that "analysis of the 64 fires since 1995 shows only four can be conclusively shown to be racially motivated."  Several of the crimes had been committed by black suspects; a significant number of the black churches were in fact white churches; and the Chicken Littles had obscured numerous complex motives including mental illness, vandalism and concealment of theft.

NAACP President Compares Ferguson Public Officials to 'Roaches'.  Shortly after Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson announced his resignation on Wednesday [3/11/2015], NAACP President Cornell William Brooks said he viewed it as "a validation, certainly not a victory."  "The fact is that the Department of Justice uncovered an unholy trinity between the Ferguson Police Department, the municipal court and city hall.  And the fact you have these resignations indicates that these public officials are reacting to the Department of Justice report the way roaches react to light.

NAACP Leader Slams Obama's Executive Amnesty: 'Our Kids Have Dreams Too'.  A local NAACP president spoke out against how illegal immigrants are using up public resources that would have otherwise gone to people of color in the country legally on "The Laura Ingraham Show" Monday [3/9/2015].  Bob Ross, president of the Maryland Prince George's County NAACP, was on the show to discuss his efforts to lobby against Prince George County's efforts to create two high schools specifically for recent immigrants and dedicated to teaching students English.  The local NAACP chapter is vocally against the proposal, with Ross calling it "separate but equal."

NAACP Battles Latino Group Over Special Schools For Immigrant Students.  A Maryland chapter of the NAACP and the Latino activist group Casa de Maryland are squaring off over a plan to open two new schools to help immigrant students learn English.  The Prince George's County chapter of the NAACP calls the facilities "separate but unequal," and its president, Bob Ross, fears that money for the schools will be diverted from black schoolchildren, WUSA 9 in Washington, D.C. reports.  But Casa de Maryland claims that the facilities will help immigrant students assimilate into society.

What Do The Politicians Who Claimed Bombing Targeted Colorado NAACP Branch Say Now?  None of the politicians who asserted that last month's bombing in Colorado Springs was targeted at the city's NAACP branch are now willing to admit that they were wrong.  The Daily Caller reached out to Maryland U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin, Georgia U.S. Rep. John Lewis, and Texas U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee upon Friday's [2/20/2015] news that the man who set off a small bomb at the building which housed Colorado Springs' NAACP branch on Jan. 6 — 44-year-old Thaddeus Murphy — actually targeted his former accountant, not the NAACP.

NAACP opposes naming Buffalo buildings after Millard Fillmore, who signed Fugitive Slave Act.  The NAACP is asking elected officials in western New York to reject any future requests to name anything after President Millard Fillmore, who lived in Buffalo and is buried there.

Racial Fairy Tales from the NAACP.  [Lei-Chala] Wilson was explaining to a reporter from the San Diego Union-Tribune why crime rates for black people are so astronomically out of proportion:  "The statistics have proven we don't commit more crimes than anyone else, but we're more likely to get stopped, detained and arrested," Wilson said. [...] If what Wilson says is true, in San Diego alone, tens of thousands of white criminals are getting away with murder, assault, burglary, theft, you name it.  All under the sleepy gaze of the local newspaper that might be expected to notice something like that.  A paper that apparently is too somnambulant to ask:  "Really?  What statistics are you talking about?"

Sacramento NAACP Leader Prepares Excuses for Ferguson Violence.  The President of Sacramento's NAACP branch has stated that he hopes there will not be violence once the decision in the case of Officer Darren Wilson is handed down, but also asserted that he understands that members of the NAACP community have animosity for police.

The Silence of the 'Colored People'.  Voters on Election Day chose Tim Scott as South Carolina's U.S. senator.  They also sent Utah's Mia Love and Texas's Will Hurd to the U.S. House of Representatives.  Thus, the 114th Congress will include three black Republicans.  This is a new high-water mark for black Americans.  Too bad the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People couldn't care less.  (America's oldest civil-rights organization still plasters that retrograde expression all over its logo and website.)

When Will the NAACP Truly Help Their People?  Folks, I am sorry, but the NAACP and others in their civil rights syndicate are a despicable bunch.  All they really care about is furthering liberalism and increasing their political power.  They are disgusting.

NAACP To Host "How To Stay Alive When Stopped By A Cop" Forum.  It was following the shooting of Brown that the metro chapters of the NAACP joined with the Georgia NAACP in announcing that they would be training young African American males about how to stay alive when they are stopped by a police officer.  They also called for sensitivity training of police officers in Georgia.  Atlanta NAACP President Dr. R.L. White says, "Most of the cops, are good cops but every once in a while one in a basket can spoil the whole thing."

Texas prosecutor fired for dismissing juror over NAACP activism.  A senior prosecutor in Travis Country (Austin) Texas has been fired for dismissing a juror in a trial and is likely to sue, which could lead to a fascinating court battle over the nature of the NAACP.

Liberals: Exempt from Scrutiny.  Does the NAACP stand as our watchdog over racism?  In theory, yes; in fact, not so much.  The L.A. branch was quite content to overlook Donald Sterling's sterling racialism, given his donations.  Sterling apparently thought that supporting the local NAACP either was not antithetical to his racist sloppy talk and rental practices, or was a wise investment in progressive insurance.  Al Sharpton receiving a "person of the year" award from the same branch of the NAACP is no less absurd than Donald Sterling's "lifetime-achievement award" — given that Sharpton is on record as an anti-Semite, homophobe, inciter of riot, former FBI informant, tax delinquent, and convicted defamer of a district attorney.  But the NAACP brand nowadays functions much like our green culture, as a sort of way to display correct coolness.

Fmr. NAACP President: Tea Party's Disrespect Toward Obama Drove Politics 'Into a Ditch'.  Benjamin Jealous, the former president of the NAACP, appeared on MSNBC on Thursday and praised Attorney General Eric Holder's remarks before the National Action Network, in which he implied that both he and President Barack Obama suffer race-based indignities from conservatives.  Jealous said the nation should count itself "blessed" to have such an honest attorney general and blamed the tea party for the racial antipathy directed at White House officials.

Former ACORN CEO at Sharpton Convention: Amnesty Opponents, Voter ID Supporters Want USA Apartheid.  Bertha Lewis, the former CEO of ACORN, claimed at Al Sharpton's National Action Network convention on Wednesday that opponents of amnesty and supporters of voter identification laws want to institute in America something similar to South Africa's apartheid.  President Barack Obama will address the convention on Friday and discuss voting rights issues and voter ID laws.  Speaking on a panel about immigration reform, Bertha Lewis, who is now the president and founder of The Black Institute, noted that America will soon "have a new majority, and that majority will be darker — black, and brown, and Asian."

The NAACP Realizes the IRS Limiting Free Speech is a Bad Thing.  In response to its own inappropriate targeting of conservative, patriot and tea party groups, the IRS has proposed a new set of rules limiting the free speech of tax exempt groups. [...] But now, liberal groups like the NAACP are discovering new rules apply to them too and they're not happy about it.

NAACP requires marchers protesting North Carolina voter ID law To Show Photo ID.  North Carolinians marching to protest voter-ID laws must present a valid photo ID to participate in an NAACP-hosted protest against voter-ID laws in Raleigh on Saturday [2/8/2014].  The central claim among the protesters is that the voter-ID laws disenfranchise certain segments of the voting population, particularly minority voters and poor voters.  According to official NAACP flyers passed out at the rally, protesters must carry the precise kind of ID that they would be expected to present at the voting booth.

ID's required to attend NAACP rally to protest voter ID requirements.  The North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP is holding a rally to protest that state's new voter identification law, but participants are being advised to bring photo identification.

Stop Giving Obama Radicals the Benefit of the Doubt.  Right now the nomination of Debo Adegbile to run the Justice Department Civil Rights Division is before the Senate Judiciary Committee.  Adegbile was the former NAACP Legal Defense Fund head.  In that role, he oversaw the defense of the cop-killing Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal.  The Fraternal Order of Police has demanded that President Obama withdraw the nomination.  Adegbile has pushed every other crackpot racial theory popular among the civil rights industry.  His career has been characterized by attacking school discipline policies and employer background checks as racially motivated.  He fought to keep Abigail Fisher out of the University of Texas Law School merely because she was white.  Just a decade ago, this radical racialist background would have been a disqualifier for any nominee to the Justice Department.  But today, radicalism is a prerequisite for the job.

NAACP accused of selling-out to same-sex movement.  The civil rights movement has been hijacked at the expense of black Americans.  One black leader says the NAACP literally has sold out to check-writing gay rights leaders.  The legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,now is used to promote a new agenda.  Expect to hear it expressed in today's Lincoln Memorial speeches by Presidents Carter, Clinton and Obama.  Sexual rights, which protect behavior, often are emphasized more than racial equality, even though race is something that nobody can change about themselves.

The NAACP has stopped advancing colored people and started advancing colored progressives.
Why I left the NAACP.  After a Florida jury acquitted George Zimmerman in the killing of Trayvon Martin, the NAACP pledged that it "will not rest until racial profiling in all its forms is outlawed."  The reaction is characteristic of today's NAACP, a group that deals more in political demagoguery than in advancing the causes relevant to African Americans.  The group is a shadow of what it once was.  There was a time when the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was at the forefront of the fight for equal rights and black empowerment.

NAACP president Ben Jealous: These are 'times of great peril'.  Today's opening speeches of the NAACP's national convention in Orlando have become a rallying cry for action in Trayvon Martin's name.  NAACP president and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous told hundreds of attendees that although these are times of great possibility, they are also "times of great peril."  "We feel it every time we see one of our young sons... walk out the door and pull his hoodie up," said Jealous.

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The rebuttal to Mr. Jealous has already been written by Jack Coleman:  "Then again, your teenage son, regardless of skin hue, is likely to live a longer, healthier life if he manages to avoid suspensions from school, dabbling in drugs, getting caught with jewelry and a burglary tool hidden in his backpack, and aspiring to gangstahood."

Justice Department faces evidence hurdles in proving Zimmerman bias after verdict.  The NAACP started the drive to pressure the DOJ to continue its probe by posting a petition Sunday morning on the website MoveOn.org.  "The most fundamental of civil rights — the right to life — was violated the night George Zimmerman stalked and then took the life of Trayvon Martin," the group wrote.

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The NAACP's great concern over the "right to life" would be a lot easier to take seriously if they said something about the black babies being killed every day in abortion clinics.  Every day, approximately 1,876 black children are aborted.  Yet the NAACP is completely silent about abortion, because to oppose abortion is to oppose the Democratic Party, which is the abortion party and is also the source of the NAACP's political clout.

NAACP Blackballs Borelli and Bryant.  The NAACP is blackballing black conservatives.  Specifically, two black conservatives:  Deneen Borelli and the Reverend C. L. Bryant.  You missed this?  Considering the state of the liberal media these days, one shouldn't be surprised.

NAACP holds town hall meeting at church.  Members say it's important to gather at church and have civilized meetings and rallies -- and stay away from the courthouse.  "The so-called "demonstration area" that has been designated you will not see us protesting in that particular area cause no one tells us where to go, how long to stay, what to do, and what to say," said Seminole County NAACP President Turner Clayton Jr.

150 People Arrested In NAACP Protest Against NC Republicans.  Upwards of 150 people were arrested outside the doors to the [North Carolina] state Senate chambers, where demonstrators chanted, sang and delivered speeches decrying what they called a regressive agenda that neglects the poor.

The NAACP and company thrives on black Americans believing themselves victimized.  The NAACP leadership has abandoned it's commitment to traditional marriage, family, education, self-reliance and hard work.  The once great well-intentioned organization has morphed into a far-left radial liberal racist hate group which exploits race, using it as a bludgeon to silence any and all opposition to Obama and the Democrats' government overreaching, ever expending entitlement programs and Obama's vowed redistribution of wealth. MLK would not approve.

NAACP Chair Emeritus: 'Legitimate' For IRS To Target 'Admittedly Racist' Tea Party.  Julian Bond, chairman emeritus of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, joined anchor Thomas Roberts on MSNBC on Tuesday [5/14/2013] where he said that he did not believe the federal government was complicit in any wrongdoing given the news that the Internal Revenue Service singled out conservative groups for added scrutiny.  He said that it is right of the government to look into the Tea Party, which he called "overtly racist" and the "Taliban wing of American politics."  Bond made these comments after noting that his group was illegitimately targeted by the IRS in 2004.

Pro-Obama election flyer marked with NAACP seal featured Klan, lynching imagery.  A presidential election flier disseminated in North Carolina and marked with a seal for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) featured Ku Klux Klan and lynching imagery as part of its presentation urging voters to head to the polls.  Another pro-Obama flier in North Carolina informed African-American voters that Mitt Romney would relegate them to "picking cotton" if elected president.

Four Seasons sues NAACP for alleged unpaid bill.  Houston's Four Seasons Hotel is suing the NAACP, claiming the association owes the hotel almost $100,000, apparently for a summer banquet.  The lawsuit claims that the NAACP owes the Four Seasons $99,597 for various unpaid charges from July to November for an event held at the downtown hotel, according to a petition filed in Harris County District Court on Jan. 16.

Four Seasons Houston sues NAACP after annual convention.  A lawsuit filed last week in Harris County claims the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People did not pay its bill at the downtown Houston Four Seasons Hotel for its 103rd Annual Convention in July.  Court documents examined by Houston Business Journal show that the hotel alleges it is owed $99,500 for room, banquet and finance charges.

Gun Control Frenzy — Proof Democrats Are The Real Racists.  The NAACP condemned 'Birth of a Nation' for its racist and "vicious" portrayal of blacks, its proclamation of miscegenation, its pro-Klan stance, and its endorsement of slavery.  The film is used to recruit new members of the Ku Klux Klan which was founded by the Democrats during the Reconstruction period after the Civil War.  Today's NAACP apparently ignores American History and has forgotten who really arrested Martin Luther King.

NAACP Shamefully Plays Race Card With Tim Scott.  The once-proud NAACP has dissed a new African-American Republican senator as a token who knows nothing about civil rights because, well, he's a Republican — unlike, say, Democrats who opposed the Civil Rights Act.

NAACP leader blasts parents who oppose critical race theory in fiery speech outside Virginia middle school board meeting.  An NAACP leader has been caught on camera blasting parents who oppose Critical Race Theory and shouting 'let them die' in a fiery speech outside a Virginia middle school board meeting.  NAACP Vice President Michelle Leete — who is also a member of Virginia state PTA — made the inflammatory comments to a crowd at Luther Jackson Middle School in Falls Church, Fairfax County, Thursday.  The crowd, who cheered in response to Leete's speech, had gathered to counter-protest a group of parents who were holding a 'Stop CRT rally' at the school.  Leete is Vice President of her local NAACP chapter, Vice President of Training at the Virginia state PTA and Vice President of Communications for the Fairfax County PTA.  The PTA said Friday night that Leete's words 'do not reflect the values' of the group and that she will be sent on 'sensitivity training' to learn about the 'impact of the words we use'.

NAACP Monster Openly, In Public, Wishes Death Upon All Parents Who Oppose Critical Race Theory.  A leader of the NAACP was seen outside a middle school in Fairfax County, Virginia on Thursday denouncing individuals she said were "anti-equity" and even stating, "Let them die."  While speaking outside of a middle school where anti-critical race theory demonstrators were, NAACP Vice President Michelle Leete said:  "Let's deny this off-key band of people that are anti-education, anti-teacher, anti-equity, anti-history, anti-racial ... anti-opportunities, anti-help people, anti-diversity, [inaudible], anti-science, anti-change agent, anti-social justice, anti-healthcare, anti-worker, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-children, anti-healthcare, anti-worker, anti-environment, anti-admissions policy change, anti-inclusion, anti-live and let live — let them die!"  [Video clip]

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The NAACP Leader Who Declared 'Let Them Die' About Opponents of CRT Has Resigned.  The other day I highlighted the disturbing remarks of a local NAACP leader in Fairfax County, Virginia.  On Thursday night, Michelle Leete stood outside the Jackson Middle School and rallied protesters in favor of Critical Race Theory (CRT) into a round of applause as she declared "Let them die" about her opponents.  On Saturday morning, the Virginia PTA announced over Twitter that she's since resigned from her position with them.  Leete resigned from her position of Vice President of Training at the Virginia PTA.  She's also the Vice President of the Fairfax NAACP and the Vice President of Communications for the Fairfax County PTA.

"Underlying this insurrection were the actions of folks who were challenging the voices of people of color.".  "If you look at whose votes were being challenged, these came from largely urban areas.  The votes of people of color were being challenged."  Said said Janette McCarthy Louard, deputy general counsel of the N.A.A.C.P., quoted in "N.A.A.C.P. Sues Trump and Giuliani Over Election Fight and Jan. 6 Riot/The civil rights group brought the suit on behalf of Representative Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, with other Democrats in Congress expected to join as plaintiffs"  (NYT).

Bush Rightly Shuns NAACP.  NAACP Chairman Julian Bond opened the organization's 95th annual convention with harsh words for the Republicans and the President.  The Republican Party appeals to "the dark underside of American culture, to that minority of Americans who reject democracy and equality," snarled Bond, who later said he feared President Bush was "going to repeal the 14th amendment" guaranteeing equal protection under the law.

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That is a vicious canard.  Does anyone really believe that President Bush — or any other President — could single-handedly repeal a Constitutional amendment, or that he would if he could?  How poorly educated and how gullible would you have to be to believe a statement like that?

NAACP Chairman Compares Republicans to Terrorists.  In remarks to hundreds of cheering liberal activists Wednesday [6/2/2004], NAACP Chairman Julian Bond singled out Republicans as enemies of black Americans and compared conservatives to the terrorist Taliban who once ruled Afghanistan.

Judicial scandal:  Documentary evidence is overwhelming.  The NAACP Legal Defense Fund secretly requested that confirmation of a federal appeals judge nominated by President Bush be delayed until the court ruled in favor of affirmative action.  The Senate, then under Democratic control, granted the delay.

NAACP Legal Group's Integrity Called Into Question.  Fifty years after the Supreme Court's landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling, the integrity of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund is being challenged because of an alleged plot by its president to delay the confirmation of one of President Bush's judicial nominees.

Alleged child rapist nominated for Image Award:  So, how does the NAACP choose to celebrate Black History Month?  Among other things, they've nominated alleged rapist, child pornographer and drug addict R. Kelly for their annual image award.

"Mammy Condoleezza" Parody Prompts Apology; NAACP Mum:  A Florida radio station has apologized for letting one of its hosts air a racist song parody about National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice.  But the apology comes no thanks to the local chapter of NAACP, which was contacted about the racial outrage but decided not to complain on behalf of the top black Bush official.

NAACP to open Cuban office:  "Cuba likes the idea of an NAACP chapter established there, and we are very open to it," said Hilary Shelton, director of the NAACP's Washington office.

How the Left Trashes Black Conservatives:  Two days ago a nationally prominent speaker referred to Ward Connerly, a politically active African American in California, as both a "fraud" and a "con man."  Connerly is the Board of Regents member who led the 1996 fight to pass Proposition 209, which ended affirmative action in California's public sector.  Who was the speaker who so disparaged Mr. Connerly?  None other than NAACP chairman Julian Bond, who made his remarks during an address to those attending the NAACP's national convention in Houston.

NAACP Called "Out of Touch" with Blacks:  The NAACP is wasting too much time and energy on its boycott of South Carolina, according to a group that insists the NAACP is "out of touch" with blacks.

NAACP Intimidation Tactics in South Carolina Criticized:  The NAACP has maintained a tourism boycott of South Carolina since 1999 to pressure the state of South Carolina to remove the Confederate Battle Flag from the State House grounds.  The flag was removed from atop the State House dome in 2000, and the flag currently flies from a pole on the building's grounds.  Intimidation is intimidation," said Council Nedd, a member of Project 21's National Advisory Council.  "It doesn't matter if you are trying to keep black people from the polls on election day or if you're trying to stop families from visiting relatives who happen to live in South Carolina."

African-American Group Boycotts NAACP:  Over the years, the NAACP has engineered boycotts against everything from segregation to the state of South Carolina's use of the Confederate flag in the name of civil rights.  Now the NAACP itself is the target of a boycott — and by one of its own.  The African-American group Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND) has asked blacks nationwide to protest the NAACP's left-leaning politics, which have thrust the group into the "socialist wing of the Democratic Party," says Rev. Jesse Peterson, BOND's founder and president.  "Pay the NAACP no money.  Pay it no mind," Peterson wrote in announcing the boycott.

NAACP vs. Racist Hollywood:  According to the Screen Actors Guild, blacks, who comprise 12 percent of the population, are cast in 14.8 percent of all roles on television and in movies.  Besides, don't the "good guys" — mostly Leftist Democrats — run Hollywood?

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In the article immediately above, Larry Elder makes another interesting point:  black households watch more TV than do white households.  Compared to some other groups, black children under-perform on standardized tests.  Studies also show black children do less homework than their white counterparts.  Meanwhile, the president of the NAACP seeks ways to make television more appealing to blacks.

Bush Rightfully "Disses" the Collectivist NAACP:  "I was surprised, President Clinton came every year but one, and then he sent Al Gore in his place," says an official with the NAACP upon learning that President George W. Bush declined to speak at the organization's annual meeting.  Hold the phone.  How dare he?  Just because the NAACP spent nearly nine million dollars to "get out the black vote," an effort designed to defeat Bush?

Black conservatives say Mfume is gaining from boycott and TV deal:  A black conservative group isn't buying NAACP President Kweisi Mfume's claim that his organization's looming boycott of NBC and other major networks and his possible talk show deal are not a conflict of interest.

At the NAACP, Obama Removes His Mask of the Great Unifier.  It is truly a sad day in America when the president of the United States fans the flames of racial hatred.  The man elected to be president of all the people, in his speech at the NAACP basically said, though America is racist, sexist and homophobic, you can make it in spite of those white [people]'s attempts to stop you.  Wonderful.  How inspiring.  The NAACP audience erupted in applause.  Obama's condemnation was "red meat" to the liberal, protective of their victim status, organization.