The Southern Poverty Law Center is just a money machine for it’s founder Morris Dees and the top guys he has put in place. He uses allegations of racism & hate to solicit for donations, few of which end up to any good use outside of the organization.
Correctamundo.
The Southern Poverty Law Center isn't a "civil rights" group, it's a fund-raising operation -- dedicated to the welfare of Morris Dees and those people he's let in on the scam (like Mark Potok).
They prey upon well-heeled liberals, mostly liberal Jews. If their donors knew what the SPLC was really all about, they'd be embarrassed.
Dees, a second-rate Montgomery, AL attorney, saw the civil rights movement up close in the early sixties, and he recognized it as a ticket to ride.