Posted on 05/27/2005 3:05:36 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Look at what I found buried WAY down in the article. It's the TRUTH! If this BS article was written about a conservative organization, the cited sentence would lead the article and the title would be something dire about the organization's future.
Wonder if the first seminar will be about why private SS accounts are no good for these fine people...
I bet OJ is already on the golf course... Trying to find the "real " killers.
Is everyone invited or just coloured people?
The rub for the NAACLP is the very people they are targeting here, got to where they are without the NAACLP and they tend to actually resent the organization and race baiters in general.
Is the NAACP still boycotting South Carolina?
And guess what age group the bulk of the new black conservatives are coming from...[g]
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That's a good thing!
Reminds me of the "barrel of crabs" analogy...
Destin? Luxurious? Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!
.........."Tweeners" work so hard at their jobs, families, churches and other professional groups that the NAACP falls by the wayside, said Hillsborough County NAACP member Curtis Stokes. ............***
But they have time to belong to other organizations.
Lame excuse for lagging membership by Stokes IMO.
A motorcycle mecca stirs up questions of race***Twenty-five years ago, the Atlantic Beach Motorcycle Club sponsored its first "Black Bike Week" in Atlantic Beach, one of the country's few historically black beach towns. In the late 1990s - when black festivals were exploding, from Atlanta to Daytona Beach - it swiftly grew from its four-mile stretch of Atlantic Beach southward into Myrtle Beach proper. In 1999, police made Ocean Boulevard a one-way street for the event and beefed up their presence on the roads.
The NAACP filed its suit against the city in 2003, on the heels of a successful campaign to have the statehouse lower its Confederate flag. Traffic restrictions, the lawsuit alleged, were discriminatory, as were aggressive police tactics that bullied black tourists. The NAACP has also filed lawsuits against several restaurants and a hotel that close down during the weekend.
Black bikers won their first victory when a 4th Circuit judge granted an injunction, barring the city from making Ocean Boulevard a one-way street - unless it did the same for the Harley riders. Last week, however, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., overturned that injunction, allowing the city to set up its barricades. (The trial is set for 2006.)
.....For Anthony Anderson, a leather-clad black biker here from Chicago, it's not that simple. The lawsuit is less about race and more about economics and social perceptions, he says: Discrimination is based on post-9/11 attitudes and what kind of bike - American vs. foreign - a given biker rides.
"When I rode a [Japanese Kawasaki], I used to get hassled a lot more by police," he says. These days, when truckers see his bike is a Harley, "they give me the road."***
So, in other words, the NAACP still doesn't get it. I guess they figure that these affluent and successful people can't possibly disagree with the NAACP's politics, so all they have to do to win them over is to throug a fancy party and -presto!- they'll join.
In it's own way this is one of the most condescending things I have seen in a long time.
They're working their way into middle and upper classes ("benefiting" as the article describes), so the NAACP wants to put them on a guilt trip to open their wallets.
The first thing I thought on reading this was they were targeting lower Middle class black people for this rally, because we all know once a black man becomes successful the NAACP refers to them as Uncle Toms.
How true.
But only if he takes on conservative airs.
I guess fund raisers in the projects didnt go so well?
Yes.
Maybe, if the NAACP had encouraged prosperity instead of applauding dependency,....but then, where would that have left those who profit from generational misery?
Guess that's the fatal flaw in their plan of creating a underclass dependant on them, they have no money to give back. But I guess that's what the goverment is for.
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