Posted on 04/30/2014 6:10:36 AM PDT by shortstop
We know what Donald Sterling is.
But what about the NAACP?
How is it that the NAACP has repeatedly honored a guy who turns out to be the biggest bigot in America, and was about to give him his second lifetime achievement award?
What’s that all about?
As America learns what Los Angeles already knew, that the owner of the Clippers has a long history of screwing black and Latino people as their landlord and employer, how is it that the most storied organization in the black civil rights movement has repeatedly honored this man?
Sadly, it’s for exactly the reason you suspect.
“He paid the most,” the leader of the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP said at a recent press conference.
This year’s NAACP Lifetime Achievement Award. His previous NAACP Lifetime Achievement Award. The 2008 NAACP Humanitarian Award. The 2009 NAACP President’s Award.Those were all about the checks.
He donated the most, he got the most.
Put more cynically, NAACP honors are meaningless trinkets for sale to the highest bidder.
Which reinforces the quiet perception that some civil rights organizations operate on a principle of friendly extortion and payoff. You give us money and we don’t cause any trouble. Any number of boycotts and protests have been averted by generous corporate or personal contributions to activist groups and “education” funds.
In the case of Donald Sterling – the only Los Angeles team owner to regularly set aside blocks of free seats for disadvantaged minority kids – it’s easy to presume that his generosity might have been a smokescreen. The year he wrote a big enough check to get the NAACP President’s Award is also the year he paid the Justice Department $2.9 million to get out of a discrimination suit, for example.
But if he’s a hypocrite for buying racial cover, what’s the NAACP for selling it?
And what are the real motives of civil rights organizations which regularly pocket big bucks from big donors looking to buy peace? Is the legitimacy of an organization or leader called into question by the dollars they collect?
Is the transfer of money always a pure transaction involving only the generosity of the donor and the selflessness of the activists?
Or have some people figured out a scam in the name of civil rights?
Inasmuch as we can’t know what’s in a person’s heart, we’ll never know. But instances like this do make us wonder.
In the worst light, it’s a further exploitation of minorities by other minorities. In the best light, it’s an inadvertent shadow cast over civil rights organizations.
Either way, it’s something the activist and civil rights community needs to come to grips with. Because the NAACP is certainly not alone in conduct like this, and neither is the civil rights movement. Any number of cause and non-profit communities have their own pay-to-play cultures in which honors are bestowed and protests are averted if contributions are big enough.
And that’s not right.
Because at their base, many of these organizations could actually accomplish worthwhile things. The people and issues which could be truly served by these activists and organizations end up neglected when the game becomes about money. When we’re negotiating pictures in the annual report, we’ve strayed from the basic mission. We’ve stopped being the solution and started being the problem.
The Los Angeles NAACP has said it will return Donald Sterling’s donations of the last year. Of course, the NBA’s actions against him include a $2.5 million fine. That money is to be – jointly by the league and the players’ union – donated to civil rights organizations.
How much do you want to bet enough of it goes to the Los Angeles NAACP to make it whole for the money it is returning on “principle?”
We all need money, and we all struggle with making sure it is our servant and not our master.
Yes, it’s hard to fund non-profits.
Yes, it’s hard to resist the human tendency to greed.
Yes, it’s hard to maintain ethical integrity.
But all those things are essential. If you are doing a good work, you must have clean hands.In recent days, America has learned that Donald Sterling apparently paid for love.
From his girlfriends.
And from the NAACP.
No........you return ALL the money he has ever given you.
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Celebrating 100 years!
“There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. ~ Booker T. Washington (1856-1915.) ~ Educator, Author, Civil Rights Leader
Everyone involved has been slammed by their own greed.
Now these greedy racist bastards are going after the NBA because they knew Sterling has been a racist for years and they looked the other way too.
Are we talking NBBA, or NAACP?
Earlier this morning I think I saw Shakedown artist - Jessie Jackson in a video clip of the game. I wonder how much money he is expecting to shake out of this tree?
Discredited billionaire Clippers owner, Donald Sterling---outed as a KKK-type racist---apparently was known for his history of screwing Blacks both as their landlord and as an employer.....areas rigidly controlled by Civil Rights laws.
So how is it that the NAACP---the most storied organization in the black civil rights movement----has repeatedly honored Sterling?
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It was all about the checks. He got the most b/c: “He paid the most,” the leader of the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP said at a recent press conference.
wasn’t that quote from that nevada rancherist?
Negros are too stoopid and don't even know how to get a photo ID. How can you expect them know anything? /s
This really proves the race card is used to raise money.
Black organizations in the past existed to right wrongs... Today they exist to shake down guilty white rich people. I suspect the NAACP will ‘forgive’ when enough money is on the table.
A protected collective of the national socialists of the U.S.A. (United Socialists of America)
Where’s the National Association of the Advancement of Cracker People (NAACP)?
The current NAACP carries the name of a legendary and honorable organization... that's a shame. It should be renamed : National Association of Shakedown Artist... NASA... Which - considering what NASA has become - might be closer than we'd like to think...
What about that group. It is the largest racist group in America.
There were some comments from readers of news reports that included the quote and there was mention of Booker in some articles but I did not find any direct connections to anything Bundy said. Of course I have not read every article.
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