After a Florida juryacquitted George Zimmermanin the killing of Trayvon Martin, theNAACP pledgedthat
it "will not rest until racial profiling in all its forms is outlawed."
The reaction is characteristic of today's NAACP, a group that deals
more in political demagoguery than in advancing the causes relevant to
African Americans. The group is a shadow of what it once was.
There was a time when the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was at the forefront of the fight for equal rights and black empowerment. As a two-term president of the NAACP branch in Garland, Texas, in the 1980s, I led our efforts to help the black community rise.
We believed that every child deserved a quality education that allowed him or her to become a leader in the community. We fought for the society that espoused the same values championed by Martin Luther King Jr., where our children would be judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/07/22/trayvon-zimmerman-naacp-column/2572955/
There was a time when the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was at the forefront of the fight for equal rights and black empowerment. As a two-term president of the NAACP branch in Garland, Texas, in the 1980s, I led our efforts to help the black community rise.
We believed that every child deserved a quality education that allowed him or her to become a leader in the community. We fought for the society that espoused the same values championed by Martin Luther King Jr., where our children would be judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/07/22/trayvon-zimmerman-naacp-column/2572955/
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