It's incoherent because it's an organization that has outlived its usefulness. I never have been nor will I ever be a member of the NAACP. I need them like I need a bottle of tanning lotion.
Posted on 07/03/2005 2:34:32 PM PDT by NCjim
He sounds like to smart and business savvy for this group that just wants to gripe all of the time...
I know that the NAACP chapters here in Texas would probably pull out if he is elected and does reach out to the White House...too bad..
Mr. Gordon sounds like just the kind of leader that would help get some of the programs that President Bush talked about to the Urban League last year, going....
It's incoherent because it's an organization that has outlived its usefulness. I never have been nor will I ever be a member of the NAACP. I need them like I need a bottle of tanning lotion.
Bill Cosby is the one they need. He'd focus directly on black problems, and not on national left-wing political agendas.
Black America needs charter schools, vouchers, new economic zones, and help for the middle class. The Left isn't going to address any of those problems.
Flubbing idiots. Like it or not, this administration (GWB) has put more people of color in positions of REAL power than any Democrat ever did. These fools don't know their history, they don't know economics, and they damn sure don't know anything about Black people in 2005.
I'll believe the NAACP is serious about a new direction when they are actively working to do away with the organization altogether. It's past time. I really don't hold out much hope though, there are too many radical non-thinkers like Cornel West and most of the members of the Congressional Black Caucus - another organization that needs to do away with itself.
lol
I wonder what Bill Cosby's opinion is of Bruce Gordon? If Cosby approves of him, then he's just what the NAALCP needs. In that case, of course, the NAALCP will reject him. They don't realize how much credibility they've lost in the last 10 years.
"I don't think it's that necessary to have a dialogue with a president who comes from a state that has the highest number (of death row inmates)," said Phillips, who in 1956 was the first African-American and woman elected to the Milwaukee Common Council.
Sure. That makes sense. Stay irrelevant.
I don't know anything about Mr. Gordon, other that what was in this article...
I was just thinking that if he comes from a corporate background that he would probably agree with a lot of what Mr. Cosby says, re: using correct language, and dressing nicer, and planning for a future while in school which would require actually learning to read and such...
If you know more about Mr. Gordon, and that he is a lefty, then the members of the NAACP will really be in a bind, if they don't like his ideas but he is a lefty...
Also, I have gotten the impression that a lot of African-Americans aren't all that impressed with Bill Cosby's ideas.
note to new head of NAACP:
63 million voted for President Bush. He has brought in more high office, respectable 'people of color' in his 5 years than the Dims brought in in 25 years.
It is not to his advantage to criticize a President that truly seems color-blind, and shows by his example that any person who deserves respect, gains respect.
Any comment? The very act of reaching out to a sitting US president is controversial to some of these folks. That is incomprehensible to me.
Correct. No more than Elanor Smeal would ever mention the Clinton rapes.
I'll believe it when I see it. Julian Bond ran Kwiesi Mfume out of the organization for holding out an olive branch to the Administration.
Yeah, sure.....reach out to W and punch him in the gut. Same old, same old....that's what they'll do.
Either that, or keep supporting the other party (losers for the foreseable future) that has given them nothing but lip service.
If the NAACP had endorsed GWBush for president THEN they might have had credibility.
Well. The reporter is right in that there will be brawl within the NAACP and possibly over the reasons cited. But the bigger, more intimate details involve the Jesse Jackson "shakedown" style of quotas and threats as a means to "empowering black americans" versus those who see no other way but to take out and/or down all opposition to the NAACP "black first" agenda. Right now in many of the states, the economic brawl is between Black and Latino. And this is why Jackson is calling for a "meeting" of the minds between Black and Latino caucauses and orgs. Seen it already in CA. Black "power" lost to the Latino and Gay lobbies.
What, they gonna give up on racism as policy?
Hmmm. Maybe it's just me but I don't ordinarily honor the invitations of people who regularly tell me to f### off.
The first thing he could do is put a stop to using the Confederate battle flag as a whipping post.
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