Frizzell Gray can stick it where the sun don't shine.
Posted on 06/05/2004 5:25:33 PM PDT by jern
By CANDACE SMITH, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - The president of the NAACP is criticizing a decision by Catholic University of America not to recognize a chapter of the civil rights group on campus. "It is outright discrimination and intolerance all rolled into one," NAACP President Kweisi Mfume said Friday, just outside the campus and surrounded by about 20 activists and student chapter leaders from other universities.
AP Photo
He said it was the first time in decades that a university had not allowed a student chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (news - web sites). He threatened to sue if the group was unable to come to an agreement with the Roman Catholic university.
The university rejected a student's attempt to start a chapter in April on the ground that the campus already had two groups that represent black students: the Black Organization of Students at Catholic University of America and Minority Voices, an umbrella group for minority organizations.
"He did not demonstrate in the view of university officials ... that this chapter of the NAACP would fill a need that isn't already being met by organizations in existence," said Victor Nakas, university spokesman.
William Jawando, 21, who tried to start the chapter, dismissed the school's reasoning, saying there are no civil rights groups on campus.
"I think they're scared of the NAACP name and protests," said Jawando, a recent undergraduate, who will attend the university's law school in the fall.
School administrators also raised concern about the group's support of the April 25 "March for Women's Lives," an abortion rights rally. Nakas said student groups are not allowed to advocate positions that are contrary to the teachings of the church, which opposes abortion. But he said that was not the main reason for rejecting the NAACP chapter.
Official NAACP policy does not take a side in the abortion debate, Mfume said.
Nakas said the university's president, the Rev. David M. O'Connell, hopes to meet with Mfume next week. University officials plan to meet with students interested in the issue this fall. Jawando said about 30 students were committed to joining the campus group.
The NAACP has chapters at 150 colleges, including Georgetown, Fordham and St. John's universities and Trinity College — all Catholic schools.
Keep yer neo-socialism out of my religion.
May the NAACP continue to lose market share.
Frizzell Gray can stick it where the sun don't shine.
NAACP used to be a respectable organization, but like almost everything else touched by liberals it has been hijacked by nut cases.
Now it stands for many things that are not really in the best interest of blacks.
The Catholics should throw this evil off its soil at all their universities.
AMEN!
About twenty?? This, of course, is media-speak for "a handful".
Give them an inch and they will take a mile.
Three cheers for my Alma Mater!
Oh that's real slick, queazy! Maybe not in your by-laws, but in truth, it does, as witnessed by the NAACP's support and participation in pro-abortion rallies!
Wow -- a Catholic university acting like a Catholic university! Will wonders never cease?
I don't blame them.. I try to ignore them as much as possible.
The AP story is not clear, other than to say that the issue is university "recognition." The question is, what is involved in that? Typically in these cases the complaining group is seeking funding and/or office space that is afforded to "official" campus groups. The university is perfectly within its rights to exercise judgment on such matters. No university in America would give official imprimatur and financial support to a student organization dedicated to denying the Holocaust. By the same token, why should universities be expected to support pro-abortion groups?
Ping.
First of all: this one's gotta overcome his mushmindedness and learn that those with the loudest mouths and the most apparent "me first" attitude will be the ones first put in their place by the American public-at-large (i.e. noisy idiots get legally hated).
BUT, at least HE has a for-real first name; unlike the noisy goon in front of the cameras (ref: http://www.famousfolk.com/real/names-me.shtml at the back of the bus bottom of the list).
 NAACP President Kweisi Mfume, right, gestures during a news conference at Catholic University on Friday, June 4, 2004 in Washington. Mfume is criticizing a decision by Catholic University of America not to recognize a chapter of the civil rights group on campus. At left is campus organizer William Jawando. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) |
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February 24, 2004
NAACP Board Takes Historical Pro-Choice Position
Board unanimously supports woman's right to equal access to family planning materials
For the first time in its 95-year history, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Board of Directors has endorsed the principle that women have the right to equal access to family planning materials, information and choice when it comes to birth control.
Board Chair Julian Bond said, "This is an issue of equal rights, and we are pleased to join those insisting on a woman's right to control her own body."
The Board, during its quarterly meeting February 21 in New York, unanimously approved a resolution that also urges "all who believe in equal rights" to attend the "March for Women's Lives" pro-choice rally in Washington, D.C. on April 25, 2004.
The resolution, introduced by Board member Rupert Richardson, noted that 80 years ago, Dr. W.E.B. DuBois, one of the association's founders, said every woman must have the right of procreation "at her own discretion."
Moreover, the resolution said: "A woman denied the right to control her own body is denied equal protection of the law, a right the NAACP has fought for and defended for nearly 100 years."
Public opinion surveys indicate that women of color seek abortions at rates higher than their percentage in the population and overwhelmingly describe themselves as pro-choice.
Founded in 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) The NAACP is the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization. Its half-million adult and youth members throughout the United States and the world are the premier advocates for civil rights in their communities and monitor equal opportunity in the public and private sectors.
http://www.naacp.org/news/releases/BoardProChoice022404.shtml
LOL!
Guess Tovarisch Quesy didn't get the memo.
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