Where the hell is NAACP ???

Do they have constitutional Lawyers anymore(?) if so, what happened to them??

Have they become so awash with cash that they don't give a hoot to racist
comments and commentators?

Why the silence????

Just wondering.....

discusses what they've been doing lately, as you can see.

Do you really think thats my motive behind starting this post? No dear it is not, I'm looking
for a dialog and so far I don't think I'm getting it.

why would pursuit of that be confined to NAACP lawyers?

but the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc, commonly known as the 'Inc' fund, has done a huge amount of work on such matters, as you can tell by glancing at this:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=naacp+legal+aid+and+educational+fund%2C+Inc.&btnG=Google+Search

http://www.naacp.org/news/press/2009-07-30/index.htm

http://www.naacp.org/news/press/2009-07-30/index.htm

http://www.naacp.org/news/press/2009-08-14/index.htm

Any laws broken? Being an A$$hole is still legal in this country,,

Here ya go-

NAACP National Headquarters
4805 Mt. Hope Drive
Baltimore MD 21215

What is it you want them to do?

The next question what are the good folks that oppose it going to do now they can see it for themselves. The NAACP would make themselve targets if they got involved in this now, it can only change with individual conversations one to one.

I think it was back in the 60s that laws were passed preventing any organization from being both a lobbying organization (NAACP) and public interest litigation organization (NAACP LDF).

So the NAACP, which had done both, split into two different organizations. The "lawyers" are with the LDF. They sue companies, municipalities and other government branches for discrimination. They don't get involved in protesting stupid racist private actions, such as teabaggers.

The NAACP might get involved, but I think that would be playing into the hands of the wing nuts, because Obama does not want to be seen as a "Black President" but as "the President" of all Americans.

"The NAACP might get involved, but I think that would be playing into the hands of the wing nuts, because Obama does not want to be seen as a "Black President" but as "the President" of all Americans."

But isn't he also the President of African-Americans and other minorities?

Using your logic, SNCC, SCLC, Dr. Martin Luther King and the NAACP should not have organized civil rights demonstrations and anti-racist activities back in the 60's because that would have played into hands of segregationists and right-wing racist groups.

The NAACP lawyers are NAACP LDF lawyers. They litigate civil rights cases and generally don't get involved in short term political controversies.

politics, my argument is -- if you can call it that -- to get NAACP to protest the sudden
outburst of racism that has escalated recently, if nothing is done this may continue and
the end result will not look good.

Straightens up those racists right quick. Works every time!


Oh, wait... :banghead:

c'mon, NAACP is there to counter all these hate that has been going on lately and
it is not about the President alone, this is about ordinary folks who are beginning
to feel the brunt of this misplaced rage.

Take a look at this story on dailykos;

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/9/14/781824/-Upate:-Thanx.-I-am-scared-for-my-black-husband-

you can display your frustration on what I don't know but the fact is, I would like to see an
organization as NAACP start making statements on this outburst of racism.

Your original premise eluded to legal action, which is not the same as "making statements."

And so far, as has already been mentioned here several times, no laws have been broken.

but would like to see pressure groups castigating this breed of people.

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (NAACP LDF, the Inc. Fund, or simply LDF) is a leading United States civil rights organization based in New York City. The organization began as the legal wing of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) under the leadership of Charles Hamilton Houston. In 1938, Thurgood Marshall, Houston's student and future Supreme Court justice, succeeded him as NAACP counsel. Marshall further developed the strategies and goals of the legal department. In 1957 he established LDF as an organization totally independent of the NAACP.<1>

Theodore M. Shaw was the 5th director-counsel and president of LDF.<2> John Payton recently succeeded Mr. Shaw as LDF's 6th director-counsel and president. <3>

Probably the most famous case in the history of LDF was Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark case in 1954 in which the United States Supreme Court explicitly outlawed de jure racial segregation of public education facilities. During the civil rights protests of the 1960s, LDF represented and provided counsel for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., among others.<2>


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAACP_Legal_Defense_and_Educational_Fund

Some here understand that.

Some don't.

Some don't want to...

And some are here to take advantage of the thread and stir up shit.

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on edit: if you need directions there is a function for that too.

this, I don't care, you probably are doing it because you dislike my thread or the poster,
I wish I could give a shit.

We all want conversation, thats why we're here.

n/t

this should be our fight and they should stay well clear of this.

:shrug: