# Is the NAACP a racist concept? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [March 4, 2011, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-naacp-a-racist-concept/573494 "2011-03-04T17:13:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Heyoka13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Heyoka13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heyoka13)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-naacp-a-racist-concept/573494/41 "2011-03-09T18:45:54Z")
The Shirley Sherrod case might give one pause to consider that the NAACP might be as racist as Mark Fuhrman. They threw Shirley ‘under the bus’ so fast it made a sonic boom. The rush to judgment on their part (and it was THEIR tape!!!) is particularly galling. Seg of AG Vilsack has been very public in making amends to Sherrod, but it apparently is not ‘PC’ to hold the NAACP to a similar standard, which implies those who adjudicate such matters don’t expect them to be ‘capable’ of it. Where is the racism? Indeed . . . 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-naacp-a-racist-concept/573494/42 "2011-03-09T18:52:38Z")
Um… are you suggesting that the NAACP is prejudiced against blacks? ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-naacp-a-racist-concept/573494/43 "2011-03-10T03:53:18Z")
Racist? No. Racialist? Sorta. Look, a National Association for the advancement of [del]Colorless[/del] [del]Clear[/del] White (that is, Bleached) Persons need not be racist in its manifesto, either. I used to think I’d love there to be a NAAWP, there are a lot of white people who could use someone in their corner. Maybe fraternal organizations used to do that, sorta. But I think in this country such a group would _attract_ racists. Blacks in this country tend to process race differently. Serious black racists, while they do exist, haven’t been able to co-opt the NAACP that I can tell. ---
**Author:** ![Heyoka13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Heyoka13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heyoka13)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-naacp-a-racist-concept/573494/44 "2011-03-10T03:59:58Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Um… are you suggesting that the NAACP is prejudiced against blacks? They were apparently prejudiced regarding at least one. ---
**Author:** ![Heyoka13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Heyoka13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heyoka13)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-naacp-a-racist-concept/573494/45 "2011-03-10T04:02:41Z")
(or I might just be making a point about ‘human nature’, and also pointing out that that ‘point’ is lost on some of the folks who make a point about pointing that out in regards to OTHER people) ---
**Author:** ![margin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@margin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/margin)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-naacp-a-racist-concept/573494/46 "2011-03-10T13:45:07Z")
> [@Khaki\_Campbell](#): > > So the NAACP is against affirmative action ? It would be nice if somebody tackled the problem of mediocre white dudes like the Bush sons who clutter up colleges. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-naacp-a-racist-concept/573494/47 "2011-03-10T15:27:39Z")
Those problems take care of themselves. I don’t think they went to class much. Well, not W anyway. ---
**Author:** ![EasyPhil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47c2d/32.png) [@EasyPhil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EasyPhil)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-naacp-a-racist-concept/573494/48 "2011-03-14T01:36:20Z")
> [@New\_Deal\_Democrat](#): > > How are blacks discriminated against? Here’s one way: > [@](#): > > Between 1997 and 2007, police arrested and jailed about 205,000 blacks, 122,000 Latinos and 59,000 whites for possessing small amounts of marijuana. Blacks accounted for about 52 percent of the arrests, though they represented only 26 percent of the city’s population over that time span. Latinos accounted for 31 percent of the arrests but 27 percent of the population. Whites represented only 15 percent of those arrested, despite comprising 35 percent of the population. > > Government surveys of high school seniors and young adults 18 to 25 consistently show that young whites use marijuana more often than young blacks and Latinos. The arrests also are heavily skewed by gender. About 91 percent of people arrested were male. > > “The numbers speak for themselves,” said Donna Lieberman, executive director of the NYCLU. “The NYPD routinely targets young men based on their skin color and where they live. Arresting and jailing thousands for marijuana possession does not create safer streets. It only fosters distrust between the police and community and strips hundreds of thousands of young New Yorkers of their dignity.” > **[Letter: Principled Voices Must Counter Anti-Muslim Hostility (Buffalo News) -...](https://www.nyclu.org/commentary/letter-principled-voices-must-counter-anti-muslim-hostility-buffalo-news)** > > To the Editor: The rise in anti-Muslim hostility across the country is deeply troubling, but compromising core American values is no way to remedy it. In calling on Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf to relocate the Park51 community center, The News pays... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-naacp-a-racist-concept/573494.md?page=2)