The NAACP: A Little Hypocritical Over Slavery?

League Of The South ^ | Unknown | Duane D. Browning

[pupdog]

I understand the League's problems with the NAACP, due to the opposition by the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) of the public display of the Confederate flags. Of course, like many anti-Southern groups, they view the Confederate flag as "a symbol of slavery".

They hold this view, despite the fact that leading Confederate Generals voiced their own condemnation of slavery. General Robert E Lee considered slavery to be "evil" and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson educated his own slaves, despite laws in Virginia which prohibited such activity. Also, there were anti-slavery societies in the South, including the Manumission Society of North Carolina.

What, then, does the NAACP do to fight the existence of slavery in the Modern World? It seems that, beyond condemning the Confederate flag and memorials to the Confederate military and political leadership, that they do very little and even benefit from the profits of slavery themselves!

Ever heard of gum arabic? Its a product made from the sap of the Acacia senegal and Acacia seyal (Leguminosae) trees. Most of the gum arabic used in the United States comes from Sudan, a nation widely known for the enslavement of human beings. Gum arabic is used in soft drinks, including Coca-Cola.

Strangely, Coca-Cola is one of the leading corporate sponsors of the NAACP. This is in spite of the 1995 condemnation of slavery in the Sudan and Mauritania issued by the NAACP http://www.anti-slavery.org/pages/reports/naacp.html

Funny, how the NAACP accepted money from people who profited from a product made from ingrdiants produced by a slave-holding nation. Sure, they'll boycott South Carolina for displaying a Confederate flag on State property, but they wont turn-down money from a company like Coca-Cola.

Recently, Coca-Cola agreed to sell-off their 2002 and 2003 stocks of gum arabic, apparently in favour of a gum arabic company in another African nation. That nation is Nigeria.

According to numerous sources, Nigeria is plagued with incidents of slavery, most especially the enslavement of children. The children are used to work as agricultural laborers, street hawkers and prostitutes.

So, it seems that Coca-Cola is still using products from a slave-holding country, different country, but they have slavery too. Not only that, but Coca-Cola is still as sponsor of the NAACP.

It leads me to wonder: for an organisation like the NAACP, which will threaten and carry-out boycotts of States for displaying Confederate flags or having Confederate Memorial Days, why they continue to accept money from corporations which use products produced in slave-holding countries?

When will the NAACP put Morality over Money?

[pupdog]

I'd love to see this one broadcast far and wide and watch the NAACP spinmeisters start breaking RPM records.

[sauropod]

Interesting...

[Sonny M]

If you think this is interesting, try this. Osama Bin Laden, after being booted out of his family, took some of his money, invested it, into a company that controls some of the key ingrediants needed to make Coke and Pepsi before selling it for a higher price later on. (This was all long before he went on his anti-american jihad).

[sauropod]

Its the real thing! (Coke or Jihad?)

[IRBlondie]

I'm sure this isn't the only example of hypocrisy.

Just like some of the unions(started for the right reasons).

NAACP ain't the "REAL THING" for Black Americans anymore.

[billbears]

May 10th NC Confederate Memorial Day bump

[gawatchman]

It's because the banning of the Confederate flag and war memorials is more about stripping Southern white people of their heritage than anything else.

[lilylangtree]

NAACP has lost credibility. While pointing the finger at perceived wrongs, it never cleans house. For example, why is Senator Bobby Byrd still in office after calling blacks "niggers" on national tv in 2001? Yet, black activists were willing to force Trent Lott out of a leadership position because the activists PERCEIVED a wrong instead of a wrong being done. NAACP is laughable.

[stainlessbanner]

they do very little and even benefit from the profits of slavery themselves!

Bingo!

[4CJ]

Slavery is rampant in the world today (see those "peaceful" Islamic countries?), yet the NAACLP says nothing. It's ONLY about the money.

[stand watie]

returned in memory of our valiant NC troops.

FRee dixie,sw

[Constitution Day]

I will be helping my SCV camp at a monument dedication in Wilson, NC.
The cemetery there has many graves of soldiers who died in the Confederate hospital there, but until now, they were not listed by name.

[azhenfud]

If the Endoubleayeceepee thinks the image of the CBF is "divisive", wonder if they've ever considered the image of Lincoln on the penny and five "divisive" to the Native American - after all, the N.A. is just as much defined a person of "Color", deserving just as much of the organization's effort, and Lincoln's army slaughtered and enslaved many of them while "fighting" for the A.A. slaves' freedom.

[aomagrat]

NAACP - The klan with a tan.