Posted on 06/26/2005 5:36:52 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
The new president and chief executive of the NAACP said he will spend the next five months getting the organization's fiscal house in order.
"This organization needs to achieve a viable, sustainable financial security, and I will work over the remainder of 2005 towards building an endowment for the NAACP," said President-elect Bruce S. Gordon, a former retail-marketing executive for Verizon Corp.
"I am an operations person who believes in tight fiscal management, and over the next five months I will work to fix the fiscal situation," Mr. Gordon told the 64 board members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People yesterday after they elected him president.
Gordon said he plans to look forward, not backward, and will continue protecting and improving civil rights, voting rights and equal justice, but with a new focus. "The new news is that economic equality will be as important, if not more important, than the others," he said.
Board Chairman Julian Bond said the members are very pleased with the selection. "We went through an extensive search process with a large number of very outstanding candidates, both men and women, and when it came down to the end, standing head and shoulders above all the others was this man," hr said.
He wanted to quickly dispel any notion that the new president was outside the organization's norm for its 96-year history.
"We have had 15 CEOs and among them have been a librarian, a diplomat, three settlement-house workers, one politician, a scholar, civil rights workers and most don't know that our first four CEOs were white women," Mr. Bond said.
Mr. Gordon, 59, was born in Camden, N.J., to Walter and Violet Gordon. The elder Gordon was a founding member of the NAACP's Camden......
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Gee, does that mean an OUTSIDE AUDIT?
They've done well in keeping this quiet. Not many news releases on this event out there.
Shoot, couldn't the organization be saved just ALL of Kwasi's progeny tithing? I'm given to understand he has many...some not even bearing his name?
FYI
This guy won't last.<P Julian Bond and his cronies are not going to let an outsider break their rice bowl.
Hey: Watch that badmouthing Kweasy Mfunny he is liable to be my next state Senator-------God forbid.
I certainly hope this guy turns out to be an honest executive but given what I have seen at Verizon I would bet that as someone noted earlier he is the son of an NAACP old-boy and this will most likely turn out to be a Verizon affirmative-action promotee with all the attendant skills. If Julian B. endorses him this strongly - it ain't a good sign.
How about an ideological overhaul? How about a tactical and strategic makeover? The organization is as relevant as your granny's buttonhook, and for the same reason: the cause for which it was created no longer exists.
The organization should be disbanded.
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