Turning point for the NAACP?

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[thebiggestdog]

If you believe like I do that the NAACP has lost touch with the 'black community' listen to this sad story. "During his speeches to Philadelphia children, J. Whyatt Mondesire, the head of that city's NAACP branch, likes to offer $20 to the student who can decode his group's acronym. Many think he is on a recruiting junket for the NCAA. "I've only had to give away my money twice in seven years," Mondesire says. "That's my challenge."

That is sad. I was in Baltimore a few years ago, and what I saw made me sick. I was there promoting a new product that my company had launched, They put me up in a very nice hotel down by the waterfront, but every day I had to drive through 'the bad' part of Baltimore to get to my destination. I drove through block after block of public housing. I couldn't believe my eyes. I have seen better tenements in Mexico. Piles of trash and kids toys were strewn everywhere. I liken it to living in a garbage dump. What was even more disturbing was the drive home in the evening. I drove back through the area after nine in the evening and it looked like a riot was about ready to happen. People were huddling over 55 gallon drums that had been turned into firepits, open containers were everywhere, and most disturbing was that for four nights in a row, there was a major fire at one of the houses in the project. I am from the west coast, and I have never seen anything like that. It made me sick that these people lived like that, and sadly, were raising their children in this environment.

[thebiggestdog]

With Kweisi Mfume stepping down as the head of the NAACP, who should replace him? Here is my suggestion.

[EagleUSA]

They should definitely pick someone who is interested building up the Black community, and not using them a "victims of the status quo" to perpetuate a twisted, self-serving agenda that controls the NAACP as has for some time.

They should also pick someone who will not tolerate the racist, victim-mentality crap of the Black Caucus in the Congress. They could become a respectable group with real purpose, but they need to get the LIBERAL-DEMOCRAT thinking out of their lifestyle, otherwise they are doomed to political insignificance and will continue to be seen as dysfunctional.

[Free and Armed]

Bill Cosbey. He's rational and unpopular with the NAACP types because of his insistance that they quit playing victim and actually contribute something useful to society.