# NAACP makes "more money off of race than any slave trader ever" comment **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 16, 2010, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naacp-makes-more-money-off-of-race-than-any-slave-trader-ever-comment/546856 "2010-07-16T00:17:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naacp-makes-more-money-off-of-race-than-any-slave-trader-ever-comment/546856/181 "2010-07-21T15:04:47Z")
Fed by the success of ACORN ,the righties are trying to ACORN the NAACP. They are starting a campaign to discredit it. They are relentless since they got their own TV station. This is not new. I wonder who sets these actions into motion? We can see what Dope members are programmed to jump into the fray while pretending it is not racist but their love of doing the right and fair thing. It is racist. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naacp-makes-more-money-off-of-race-than-any-slave-trader-ever-comment/546856/182 "2010-07-21T16:04:05Z")
The premise that NAACP makes more money than a slave trader may be correct. They claim 500,000 members. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2010, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naacp-makes-more-money-off-of-race-than-any-slave-trader-ever-comment/546856/183 "2010-07-21T16:21:36Z")
Not all of their members pay dues under their structure. Look at page 39 of the annual report I linked to above. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naacp-makes-more-money-off-of-race-than-any-slave-trader-ever-comment/546856/184 "2010-07-21T16:43:05Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > You have this exactly backwards. Conservatives trust people to make decisions for themselves. Liberals want to force results on society because they don’t think black people or poor people are really people capable of making their own decisions–they’re just pets. Well, if we’re going to fling mud: Both sides know that the average American is a fool. Liberals tend to want to educate and guide Americans out of foolhood. Conservatives maintain popularity because people get defensive about being called fools, even implicitly. Conservatives have a vested interest in maintaining that the average American is not a fool and is in fact perfectly capable of making their own decisions, because after all, a fool and his money are soon parted. Liberals want to empower the sheep. Conservatives want the sheep to be happy and proud to be sheep so that they don’t fight back when they’re shorn. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naacp-makes-more-money-off-of-race-than-any-slave-trader-ever-comment/546856/185 "2010-07-21T16:45:17Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > Well, if we’re going to fling mud: You’re not very good at mud-flinging. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naacp-makes-more-money-off-of-race-than-any-slave-trader-ever-comment/546856/186 "2010-07-21T16:46:22Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > You’re not very good at mud-flinging. Bite me, turkey-neck. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2010, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naacp-makes-more-money-off-of-race-than-any-slave-trader-ever-comment/546856/187 "2010-07-21T16:46:29Z")
Also, conservatives have issues with black sheep. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naacp-makes-more-money-off-of-race-than-any-slave-trader-ever-comment/546856/188 "2010-07-21T18:16:15Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > Liberals want to empower the sheep. Conservatives want the sheep to be happy and proud to be sheep so that they don’t fight back when they’re shorn. And Patrio-Psychotic Anarcho-Materialist SubGeniuses have their own very different plans for the sheep. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Bambro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df705f/32.png) [@Bambro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambro)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naacp-makes-more-money-off-of-race-than-any-slave-trader-ever-comment/546856/189 "2010-07-21T18:36:25Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Conservatives trust people to make decisions for themselves. You mean like deciding who I can marry, or trusting me to decide if I want an abortion? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naacp-makes-more-money-off-of-race-than-any-slave-trader-ever-comment/546856/190 "2010-07-21T20:13:40Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > And Patrio-Psychotic Anarcho-Materialist SubGeniuses have their own very different plans for the sheep. 😉 _Ewe!_ ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naacp-makes-more-money-off-of-race-than-any-slave-trader-ever-comment/546856/191 "2010-07-21T23:59:26Z")
Well, the sainted NAACP has had plenty of its own scandals over the years-from payoffs/hush money, to accounting issues. Who are they to start whining? The fact is, the NAACP and Al Sharpton are cut from the same cloth-both prosper from exploiting division-and like Rev. Al, the dread the day the gravy train stops rolling. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naacp-makes-more-money-off-of-race-than-any-slave-trader-ever-comment/546856/192 "2010-07-22T00:57:28Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > The fact is, the NAACP and Al Sharpton are cut from the same cloth-both prosper from exploiting division-and like Rev. Al, the dread the day the gravy train stops rolling. It is true that, at his worst, Al Sharpton is a publicity loving horse’s ass who loves the sound of his own voice. Thank God white people, the Tea Party movement, political parties and other organizations don’t have anybody to compare with that. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naacp-makes-more-money-off-of-race-than-any-slave-trader-ever-comment/546856/193 "2010-07-22T01:09:17Z")
> [@Bambro](#): > > You mean like deciding who I can marry, or trusting me to decide if I want an abortion? I was talking about fiscal conservatives, not social conservatives. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naacp-makes-more-money-off-of-race-than-any-slave-trader-ever-comment/546856/194 "2010-07-22T02:18:03Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > Why hold back? He’s absolutely correct. You really think that liberals see blacks as pets? > [@](#): > > Conservatives are willing to ignore every quality you were born with Yeah cuz segregation was a liberal concept. > [@](#): > > and demand that you be a productive member of society. Cuz liberals were the ones filibustering the Americans with Disabilities Act > [@](#): > > Liberals are the ones that separate people into racial categories Yeah cuz conservatives have NEVER distinguished on the basis of race. > [@](#): > > and say “Blacks are poorer than Whites”. While liberals say “we should fix that,” the more intelligent conservatives say “so?” Yeah this I agree with. Conservatives just don’t see any problem with this sort of wealth disparity given the relatively recent history of slavery and segregation. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naacp-makes-more-money-off-of-race-than-any-slave-trader-ever-comment/546856/195 "2010-07-22T02:27:46Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Not all of their members pay dues under their structure. Look at page 39 of the annual report I linked to above. How many do you need to beat the income of a 19th century slave trader? ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naacp-makes-more-money-off-of-race-than-any-slave-trader-ever-comment/546856/196 "2010-07-22T02:49:07Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > I was talking about fiscal conservatives, not social conservatives. Yeah cuz no true conservative would… ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naacp-makes-more-money-off-of-race-than-any-slave-trader-ever-comment/546856/197 "2010-07-22T03:18:00Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > Yeah cuz no true conservative would… Jesus Christ. My position is that both the NAACP defenders _and_ the Tea Party defenders are idiots. Did you have to prove me right so eloquently? Has this thread degenerated into “I know you are, but what am I?” 'Cause if it has, I’m going to line all of y’all on both sides up, kick your asses, and take your lunch money. ---
**Author:** ![Gustav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/919ad9/32.png) [@Gustav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gustav)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naacp-makes-more-money-off-of-race-than-any-slave-trader-ever-comment/546856/198 "2010-07-22T09:31:08Z")
But elucidator wasn’t talking specifically about fiscal conservatives, so in that case Rand Rover’s response was just a non-sequitor… ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naacp-makes-more-money-off-of-race-than-any-slave-trader-ever-comment/546856/199 "2010-07-22T13:42:34Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > Well, the sainted NAACP has had plenty of its own scandals over the years-from payoffs/hush money, to accounting issues. Who are they to start whining? > The fact is, the NAACP and Al Sharpton are cut from the same cloth-both prosper from exploiting division-and like Rev. Al, the dread the day the gravy train stops rolling. > [@Sampiro](#): > > It is true that, at his worst, Al Sharpton is a publicity loving horse’s ass who loves the sound of his own voice. Thank God white people, the Tea Party movement, political parties and other organizations don’t have anybody to compare with that. Certainly none of those you mention, **Sampiro** , have ever, ever, taken payoffs/hush money or exploited divisions, cultural, economic, racial or otherwise. **Ralph124c** , thanks for pointing that out to us, you’ve served this country from a lot of division, strife and partisanship. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2010, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naacp-makes-more-money-off-of-race-than-any-slave-trader-ever-comment/546856/200 "2010-07-22T13:43:03Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > How many do you need to beat the income of a 19th century slave trader? If only **somebody** in this thread would take the time to figure that out… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naacp-makes-more-money-off-of-race-than-any-slave-trader-ever-comment/546856.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naacp-makes-more-money-off-of-race-than-any-slave-trader-ever-comment/546856.md?page=11)