Depends on how many local chapters there are. The NAACP is a voluntary organization, I believe. Each chapter may be chartered under the national chapter, but may be staffed by local folks and local volunteers.
It's not easy for the National folks to know everything the local folks are doing. It's like holding the National CPAs accountable if someone at the local level remarked at an annual dinner about how they "worked the system, wink, nudge" to help a client.
Would that be fair? No, it would not.
That being said, the NAACP should have been more careful not to throw stones at the TEA Party. Americans are no longer beholden to the MSM for their news, and people with cell phone cameras/recorders are everywhere.
Something unpleasant was bound to turn up eventually.
Thank you for the reply. The only part I don’t really agree with is your example:
“....if someone at the local level remarked at an annual dinner about how they “worked the system, wink, nudge” to help a client.”
This was a gov. official receiving an award; not just a generic ‘someone’. Speaking at the award dinner, she made racist remarks that were well received during and after the event by attendees. This is bigger than a ‘remark’ about working the system. This is ‘I decided whether or not to help him based on his race’ coming from a government official in charge of tax revenues and the financial survival of tax payers. I am really shocked that the NAACP audience did not render an objection that could have any effect; tax payers sitting there approving of the government official employing racial discrimination to determine who gets help. The NAACP is supposed to have formed to fight that very kind of abuse. Then to have the NAACP lecture the Tea Party on addressing the racist signs that may or may not have been carried by Tea Partiers to begin with - it all seems more objectionable than your example.