NAACP opposes California initiative to bar racial classifying

Associated Press ^ | 7-9-02 | DEBORAH KONG, AP Minority Issues Writer

[Oldeconomybuyer]

HOUSTON (AP) --

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Notice how the delegates "votes" have to be ratified by the NAACP's board of directors - could the NAACP be disenfranchising its own delegates votes?

[WyldKard]

Funny thing...a vote to create a more truly colorblind society where merit is what counts most...and THESE are the guys to oppose it. Of course....

[mgc1122]

Let's not get in their way of the NAALCP making themselves totally irrelevant ...

[Doctor Stochastic]

Perhaps one should ask the NAACP to design a racial description that would suit their ideas. (The old Southern Slave Owner Classification seems to be what the Democrats usually advocate.)

[Dakmar]

I've yet to meet a liberal who doesn't calssify everyone by race and fault others for doing likewise.

[KC_Conspirator]

"As long as race counts, we have to count race," Bond said. "What Ward Connerly will do -- unless the voters of California stop him -- is to institute the denial of different outcomes dictated by race. We have to work to defeat this.

This is reminiscent of 1930's Germany. Seriously. When else in history was there a group so riled up about race? Thats not hyperbole. The first time racial questions appeared for job applications, census figures, loans, etc., were in 1930's Germany.

[buffyt]

I think that back in the 1960s Civil Rights movements were on the right track. They were helping minorities then. Now they are dividing them from the mainstream of society, or at least trying to. But if there were no more racial strife, Jackson and his ilk would be out of a job! He wouldn't be needed. That is why Jackson, Sharpton, and NAACP keeps dividing and destroying, instead of helping the cause.

[toddst]

I've yet to meet a liberal who doesn't classify everyone by race and fault others for doing likewise.

Yep. The pot call the kettle . . . . well, you know. Amazing.

[mvpel]

It's quite predictable that those who profit from race-mongering would be opposed to this measure. An article in the Chronicle a month ago quoted a "diversity consultant" as opposing it - it would mean she'd have to go get honest work for a change.

[John Jorsett]

Ping

[mvpel]

"The initiative failed to qualify for this November's ballot but could go to voters in spring 2004. State officials will know by week's end whether Connerly's American Civil Rights Coalition collected the necessary 671,000 signatures to qualify for 2004."

It didn't "fail to qualify" - (SACRAMENTO) – Sponsors of the Racial Privacy Initiative campaign today turned in a total of 980,283 signatures – well in excess of the 670,816 signatures that are required for constitutional amendments – at county elections offices all across the state in their bid for placement on California’s November 2002 or March 2004 ballot, depending on how quickly elections officials verify the signatures and certify the measure.

[goldstategop]

The NAACLP is opposed to ending racism now, tomorrow, and forever. Film at 11.

[surely_you_jest]

The NAACP as currently operated reminds me of certain charities of old who won their struggle but refused to declare victory and go home, gracefully, to enjoy the results of their efforts.

Once upon a time, for example, the March of Dimes was a loud noise with regard to childhood polio. Easter Seals’ reason for existence was tuberculosis. I believe both are still in business rattling their proverbial tin cups, for no apparent reason other than to provide their bloated staff with an overly generous salary.

These charities, and the NAACP, are poster children for the concept of imposing sunset provisions on the tax-free status awarded to these organizations under current law.

[SpinyNorman]

Hmmmm. NAACP opposes CA initiative to bar racial classifying.........

Okay class, now who can tell us who said the following:

"I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." Anyone? Anyone? Mr. Mfume in the back corner of the room. Do you know?

Maybe it is a scene froma comic book: "In the Bizarro world, Superman noticed that the Bizarro NAACP was the institution fighting for segregation and racial classification!"

Or a fictional television show: (insert Rod Serling voice here) "Submitted for your approval. A suppossedly black institution fighting for racial segregation. You have entered the Twilight Zone!"

When will the cows stop being led to the slaughter by other cows?

[Avoiding_Sulla]

"NAACP opposes California initiative to bar racial classifying"

This is news?

A true newsorgan would treat this as the news equivalent of "the sun rose in the east today."

Just add this gem to the mountain of evidence already proving the AP to be just another Leftist morale boosting organ. The Left is beyond help. The Left is so far off the reservation that the Right has been infiltrated by desperate leftists seeking power. There they are known as RINOs.

[mhking]

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[goldstategop]

Without the race card, the NAACLP would be hard pressed to justify its continued existence. That's why its fighting Ward Connerly's initiative to take the government once and for all out of the racial bean counting business and not because it wants the public to know racism still exists in America. One would think the best way to make racism a non-issue would be to stop having Americans look at who they are and have them relate to each other for what they are. The truth is the NAACLP does not today believe in the color-blind philosophy Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his life for; it has become in fact everything it once opposed.

[mhking]

"Ward Connerly, affirmative action's poster child, is at it again," Bond said. "You remember he was the fraud behind California's anti-affirmative action initiative, Proposition 209," Bond said. "Now con-man Connerly is behind the deceptively titled 'racial privacy initiative'," which would "eviscerate civil rights enforcement.

Connerly is spoken of by the left with the same venom that is generally reserved for Clarence Thomas. Notice that the ad hominums from the NAACP and it's leadership continue. Yet they demand that we on the right sit with them.

Please spare me...

[goldstategop]

[Bond sprache]:"Now con-man Connerly is behind the deceptively titled 'racial privacy initiative'," which would "eviscerate civil rights enforcement."

Julian Bond thinks the Racial Privacy Initiative is deceptive. He apparently hasn't read it to draw the correct conclusion. Except for certain common sense matters such as law enforcement, medical data, and the enforcement for a limited period of time, fair housing laws, the initiative bars the government from asking people what race they belong to. It means that like with one's religion or politics, who you are is none of the government's business and shouldn't be in a free society. What is ironic is Bond and the NAACLP think America should maintain a racial classification protocol that has has been abandoned in South Africa. Its apparent the NAACLP cares about skin color which is vital to maintaining its clout in a racial spoils system in which it has a role in doling out goods and benefits to the victim class. Fortunately America has long moved beyond the racial tunnel vision of Bond and company, first on racial preferences and now hopefully on the repugnant practice of keeping Americans divided on how they look, which is the entire rationale behind racial classification in this country. Its a practice whose time is long gone and which deserves a long overdue burial.

[FreeTally]

These hustlers calling Connerly a "con-man" is quite funny, if not ironic.