Posted on 03/14/2019 7:54:26 PM PDT by NRx
The Southern Poverty Law Center said Thursday that it had fired its co-founder and chief trial lawyer, Morris Dees, after nearly a half-century, during which he helped build the organization into a fearsome powerhouse that focused on hate crimes and with an endowment that approached half a billion dollars.
The group’s president, Richard Cohen, did not give a specific reason for the dismissal of Mr. Dees, 82, on Wednesday. But Mr. Cohen said in a statement that as a civil-rights group, the S.P.L.C. was “committed to ensuring that the conduct of our staff reflects the mission of the organization and the values we hope to instill in the world.”
“When one of our own fails to meet those standards, no matter his or her role in the organization, we take it seriously and must take appropriate action,” Mr. Cohen said.
Mr. Cohen’s statement suggested that Mr. Dees’s firing was linked to workplace conduct. He said the center, which is based in Montgomery, Ala., had requested “a comprehensive assessment of our internal climate and workplace practices” in a bid to ensure that the organization was a place where “all voices are heard and all staff members are respected.”
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SPLC should be firing all its top leaders right now for “failing to meet their standards”, whatever they are.
What was once a fairly good organization became a left-wing smear machine and con-artist operation.
The more who get canned, the better for American honest reporting.
Did it finally occur to black shakedown artists that the guy making the most money off of hate crime publicity- and thus taking food from their organizational babies’ mouths- was an old white guy from Alabama?
Leninists vs. Trotskyites. Always fun to watch a leftist purge.
The Stalinists or Maoists will clean them all out.
What was once a fairly good organization
They never were the good guys.
Excellent! The monster turned against its inventor.
No, Dick Cohen of SPLC is a different Dick than Dick Cohen of the Washington-Amazon Post.
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