Actually, the Pitting is of the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP.
It is not the entirety of the organization. The NAACP chapters are all pretty much independent and are not taking orders from the National Headquarters.
It IS mind numbingly stupid, but it appears to be the efforts of the five or six people who sit around the Los Angeles offices looking for something over which to be outraged, rather than an actual movement by an entire organization with thousands of volunteers to demonstrate that everyone with skin darker than a grocery bag is a hypersensitive idiot.
So you could say, they’re basically black holes in the greeting card section?
(As for the NAACP – were they the ones who put out that long list of item that were supposedly invented by blacks – even when it was determined to be factually incorrect? I think it was a campaign for Black History Month.)
Go to the NAACP website and of the 30 or so press-related stories of interest on their front page, there isn’t any mention of this ‘controversy’ whatsoever.
I know plenty of folks enjoy taking shots at the NAACP but I wouldn’t use this as fodder for fresh ammo.
They can’t do anything, or say anything, about the number one issue facing black Americans in Los Angeles, which is illegal immigration and its downstream consequences.
I wasn’t impugning the NAACP in general - go look at the context and the bolding (I knew I should have used red text instead!).
MeanOldLady used the term “colored people,” (winkingly, I believe).
Lobohan jokingly called her out on it.
And I was trying to point out that “colored” is right there in the name of the organization (as we went through a period when that was the preferred, respectful term).
When I was lambasting the dingbats who are featured in the story, I always made sure to refer to them as the NAACP of LA, since the NAACP at large isn’t doing this, and does do lots of helpful work.
The NAACP was once an activist organization which pioneered peaceful community action, at times protests, at other times civil actions, and court actions at a time when no one else in the entire US was really willing to even admit that “Land of the Free” was a meaningless slogan to a very large minority of Americans.
Sadly, that day has passed into history. Now it is mostly a clearing ground for educated, privileged black people to wear their psychic slave chains publicly for political capital. In a very sad way, it is a perfect reflection of what white social activist organizations have done over history. Labor organizers of the early twentieth century were beaten, hunted, and killed for speaking out against massive corporate crimes. Now days, union bosses are probably mostly aware of criminals in their ranks, even in the rare case where they are not criminals themselves.
Folks are fairly decent, by and large. Of course you get them together in groups. . . well, with mobs, at least the phenomenon passes quickly. With Organizations, the only difference is they tend to last forever.
Well, they both claim to speak on behalf of all darker people, so obviously they speak for each other as well. And both are capable of saying some pretty dumb shit.
By some grace of the gods, the term ‘black hole’ actually came up – as a dirty non-double entendre (for once, Pierce wasn’t being racist/sexist) – on a *Community *rerun the other night. Doesn’t change my opinion, but a weird coincidence.
