I can’t believe I read this. The more I hear/read about people from the NAACP talk, the less I want to hear/read about them.
My dad worked with, and was good friends with the Head of the NAACP in a US State, and I was with his son, who followed in his footsteps. They worked together to purchase sports equipment for sports, mainly football gear, and shoes for track and BB. This was in the 1960’s, when this organizational Head worried over real problems with the costs of physicals for players, and the inability to play because of lower income. We lived near the poor neighborhoods, where people rented. We lived on the hill nearby, where familys had purchased these same rental houses, and renovated them into homes instead of duplexes.
I don’t know what is true of the Head Honcho of the NAACP in 2023 is, but he was unpaid, collecting funds for travel expenses only. He also was an employee of the “Yards” working on military ships. Essentially, one of the thousands, working for a living.
I remember in particular that my little brother had some “real porn” he was sharing with the son of this NAACP head. He and my Father traced the source, delivered a lesson, and kept kids from this porn of the type the internet age would find common. No news reports, no glowing stories. They did what FATHERS have done for millenia.
These two men would NEVER have stood silent in the face of obvious bias and segregation that the group stands for now. They were sincerely working to improve the lot of their membership. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharptongue, Revs all, along with the black weasel of the day Benjamin Crump raking in millions of fees stirring up hate.
Not only are REAL Fathers of blacks completely absent, but of both skin colors. This type of grassroot activism is rare.
Imagine the stories, a WHITE racisst, accuses NAACP hero of spreading porn to the innocent white kids. Today, that would be the story. Instead, it was a Father and a Father, doing what was best quietly.
How about we get back to that world. You know? That racist world of 1969?
I forgot to add, we only had 2 black kids on the sports teams, and ALL the Fathers white or black joined into the organization to fully equip ALL who wished to play. All this without the support of the school district.
I added that paragraph to dispel it was about improving the sports teams. It was not, it was about people taking responsibility for an extracurricular sport.