Washington DC NAACP

Washington DC NAACP
Update - 1/15/2012
I have always held out the hope that on the eve of the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that the NAACP would unequivocally come out and state that

-blaming all white people for the slavery;

-accusing Hispanic Americans of taking jobs from African-Americans;

-blaming Asian-Americans for getting ahead of African-Americans on the socioeconomic ladder by working very hard 24/7

is wrong and does not honor the memory of Dr. King.

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With his message of non-violence, I do not believe he would not justify theft, assault, or robbery as legitimate responses to unemployment, poverty, inequality, or perceived discrimination, as millions of African, Caribbean, Asian, and Middle Eastern immigrants have proven over the past half century.

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Dr. King would also be saddened to know that on the day after of his assassination on January 16, 1968 black students would attack with fists, feet, and umbrellas hundred of thousands of school-children of a different skin color in the hallways and bathrooms of their own schools and that the country would still continue over 40 years later to refuse to acknowledge this part of the national tragedy.
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11/30/2009First to Review
A child of the '60's and the Civil Rights era, I had always admired the NAACP for its historic work in the last century.

But now I think the NAACP has become anachronism, unable to change with the times and still hammering the message that racial discrimination and injustice in the U.S. are the main barriers to African-Americans' advancement. This "victim" mentality infects the community in a far more damaging way than any external forces now can.

Even President Obama has called on blacks to take more responsibility--rath er pointing the finger at society, white people, other minorities, and so on, as is so often the case.

"We hold it as an eternal truth that African Americans have a historical and never changing role as victims--past, present, and future--never as perpetrators of violence and hate" could be their motto.

Indeed, racial profiling would not be such an issue if such an astonishingly disproportionate amount of violent crime were not being committed by members of the community.

And the disingenuous, coy, and oft-heard "I just hope it wasn't a black man that did it [so that we don't all get blamed]" doesn't work anymore.

Both having that very same community see itself as a victim largely of its own ingrained attitudes and behaviors is something the NAACP is unwilling and unable to reflect on, much less confront.

What about confronting the super-macho attitude among African-American men and the view that "might makes right"?

Or being honest about the--under-reported- -bullying and harassment of non-blacks by BLACK people that goes on daily in the schools of and on the streets of our cities?

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