A New Mission for the NAACP

African Americans are just seeking power and they are being reckless. These Black politicians keep bringing up race and playing the race card....its gonna backfire bigtime on them. Common ordinary day to day folk are getting sick and tired of hearing remarks by Holder " nation of cowards ' ,.....remarks from Wright.....Congressmen Conyers , ...and Obama himself. African Americans make up 13 % of the population but they want to control 100 % of everything in America. What in the heck is that ? Everyday on tv....its all about African Americans complaining and protesting and lying about stuff. Its shameful...just shameful.
The NAACP has to be dismantled before it starts causing serious problems throughout the American population. Blacks are using this " slavery history" as their hammer on everybody else and they don't care who they are harming. Enough is enough.
As for Obama...his stupid economic executive orders are killing the economy in the USA and around the world. Obama can't handle the power he now finds he has to exercise. His rhetoric is distressful and alarming.
Currency should return to the gold standard. The Federal Mint can only print money with gold bullion to back it up. Obama is using a mountain of borrowed money on top of a huge debt already. That goes against everything in 101 economics.
For mortgage problems...why not propose to have no interest charged on the down payments ...0%..and the Fed can
reimburse the banks for the unpaid interest. It could work due to the fact only 8% of the home mortgages in the nation are in trouble. If the borrower can't meet the mortgage payment still...the bank takes it over and sell it for fair market value with the government making up the difference.
The government should be allowing income tax free periods for wage earners which will only help right away.Get rid of the mark to market stuff from the banks and for heaven sakes..don't raise taxes. This kind of stimulus approach will work quicker and its a whole lot cheaper.

not-fooled-by-slick-talking-charlatans, I have no complaint with your humility and apologetic attitude towards life-to-go. Personally I see no reason for you to apologize. I make this statement because the thesis of life-to-go comment is that he personally has not participated in the atrocities racist committed towards Blacks. I take issue with that reasoning, and this is why.

The first reason is that life-to-go framed his comment in such a manner that is only accurate in a general way. Perhaps he personally did nothing to harm Blacks; but if he is a political ally of those that have persecuted Blacks, does he get to wear a hat of denial? I think not! Life-to-go framed his commentary as if the racist actions by Southern Whites that designed Jim Crow Laws specifically to oppress Blacks happened years ago. The truth is these laws were abolished about 48 years ago, and then by force. Southern Whites fought tooth and nail to continue their way of life that codified racism into law. They invented and sought to maintain a way of life where oppressing, humiliating, intimidating Blacks, murdering Blacks was their idea of a Society they wanted. They did not want to give that way of life up. They were forced to.

One must be foolish if one believes that a forced end to Jim Crow Laws means those that perpetrated, participated in, fought to uphold legalized racism, that has been exercised by Racist White Southerners since the founding of this nation have suddenly changed their minds because Federal Law and Supreme Court decisions forced them to stop. During the last election, a vast majority of White Southerners voted Republican. Which means the vast majority of Southern Whites that are the age of Baby-Boomers in 2009 lived under, perpetrated, participated in the Jim Crow era. White Racists of the Jim Crow era voted Republican. Ergo, a majority of the Southern White Republican Constituency are racist. This is not a secret. Is this not common knowledge? Can what I just said be refuted? Older Southern Whites embraced the ideology of White Supremacy, Racism; however you want to label it and they are still around. Millions of them. If life-to-go supports those racist Whites, he is supporting who they are, their political goals either purposefully or inadvertently. Either way, I can not support any person at the polls that supports and/or are allies with racists.

The NAACP is a joke. They need racism to survive. They don't care if it's right or wrong as long as they can make a rascial issue out of it. Why else would they defend Michael Vick.

Mr. Jealous has a lot of work if he wants to keep the NAACP viable. If the Assoc. can have a positive impact as far as promoting the black nuclear family, you know, man, woman married with kids in the same household, it has a chance. The strength of any society is in the family unit.

I worked with a blonde haired blued-eyed lady who during a conversation about job applications mentioned that she could put down African-American. A fellow worker who was black went livid, saying there was no way. But the truth of it was the blonde was born in Johannesburg, Africa...so yes by birth she was African-American it had nothing to due with the color of her skin. So truth be told to expect that the term African-American automatically means the person is black is racist. I don't not use the term "African-American" when speaking of black people, even though I had it drilled into me for YEARS to be "polictically correct". But what I have found over the years is that quite a few of my black friends who are from around the world (Jamaica, Europe, etc) find being called African-American offensive...just because they are black does not mean that they are African-American and for someone to assume that they are based solely on the color of their skin is offensive to them.

Rev Lowry at the inauguration...."Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get back, when brown can stick around -- (laughter) -- when yellow will be mellow -- (laughter) -- when the red man can get ahead, man -- (laughter) -- and when white will embrace what is right." Racist but it was okay because a black man said it. Yeah that makes me feel wonderful! Also proves my point. The assumption that of course the "white" man is the one that has to fix himself and that he is the one in the wrong...because "white will embrace what is right". Can't get much more blatantly racist than that and it was on a political stage, but it was okay.

So to answer the question on this post...the time for the NAACP has definietly passed. It is not fair or balanced. It is very onesided and we all know it. A perfect example is the Vogue cover with LeBron James ....people cried RACISM even when he didn't have a problem with it (another supposed linking blacks with monkeys). If someone (and we all know who they are) looks HARD ENOUGH they will find something negative about everything..then twist it to fit their cause. The latest cartoon was another example. Maybe if they spent less time trying to find other peoples "faults" and spent that time more productively then MAYBE we could all moved forward.

.................................The Right Wingers in the blogs keep posting like the Republicans are still in power and that their Bush agenda needs to be followed. The truth is that there is a new coalition in place with Obama and many people are getting their interests looked after other than the people from the top echelons of economic wealth. Obama has strong support now and Americans are disgusted with the poor performance of the Rush Limbaugh thinkers that have been having influence with Bush and his cronies for the previous 8 years.

I have always considered the viability of the NAACP to be a mute point. Such a discussion should be filed under "things they fear" and be allowed to continue its fight in the honorable manner it has for 100 years. Jews have made tremendous economic strides, surpassing most whites, yet no one is perched on the mountain top calling for the end to the ADL. I think the thing that bothers me most about this discussion (other than the fact that we have it) is that many assimilated blacks fall in line by questioning the purpose of the NAACP.

Bigsky007: It is absolutely ludicrous to ask of the functionality of the NAACP today. That organization is as necessary now, as it has ever been, and perhaps even more so. Ask those, who are making such asinine assertions whether or not they trust their government and perhaps sixty percent or more will say ???no???. Why should blacks, as a group, be any more gullible? We have a major political party, the gatherings of which still look more like apartheid South Africa some twenty-five years ago and which takes it cues from THUG RADIO. Whereas South Africa has changed, this party has not and looks as un-American as a party can. There is absolutely nothing about this trickle down party, which is attractive to minorities to any great extent. Furthermore, as long as the minority groups own less than two percent of the nation???s wealth, whereas they constitute about fifteen percent of the population, there will be an ongoing need for the NAACP. Folks don???t give up and /or share positions of power, money and prestige without a fight. Schools, neighborhoods, health, education, job/pay, justice are just a few of the areas where disparities are great and glaring. Those, who are the major beneficiaries of these vast differences, are not stepping up to the plate of responsibility in large numbers acknowledging this fact. Rather, one is more likely to hear them say that the playing field is even.