As IF Times

link Jason Riley: The NAACPs Unhealthy Tea Party Obsession – WSJ.com.

Someone is going to take notice one day.  If the statistics revealed in this article are correct, it essentially means that the NAACP, an organization founded on promoting the ‘advancement’ of colored people has been an abject failure.  Yet, somehow despite the glaring statistics which prove its uselessness, the NAACP still tries to be relevant in the 21st century.

The group was founded just over a century ago in 1909 with the task of being an aggressive watchdog for ‘negro’ liberties as expressed in its charter.  In addition, it was also charged with ensuring civil and political liberty. http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~naacp/history.html  At the time, the rights of blacks probably needed to be monitored, but here we are, 100 years later and the mandate has been modified somewhat.  At the end of the website link above is this new modified mission statement:

“…Building on the foundation established by Du Bois, we pledge our commitment to an integrated, non-violent society that rejects all forms of racism, anti-Semitism, sexism and homophobia…”  

Notice they left out global warming and animal rights causes.  So now the plight of blacks per se are not really the objective;  the NAACP has morphed into a PC liberal lobby group.  The author Jason Riley is bold enough to come right out and state that they have become a political action group for the DNC.  Perhaps and all evidence does  point to that.

If I were a black person in the U.S., especially one of the constituents mentioned in his article who; were in the group of 16% unemployed, 41% if teenager; underperformed significantly in school; constituted 38% of the inmate population; was part of the 70% living with a single mother, I might be inclined to ask exactly what successes the NAACP has to crow about in 100 years of existence.  While it’s all fine to pursue the new modified mandate, the main objective of the organization was to enable better lives for black people.  On this front, if the statistics are to be acknowledged, they have failed miserably.  I think I might be inclined to ask that a new direction be taken to help me “better my life” and not the path of being a subcommittee for the DNC.

Someone should have a look at either their mandate, or their leadership to find out why the organization which started off with such noble intent has degenerated into an irrelevant one which does not serve to advance the lives of blacks at all.   Society has transformed and progressed over the past 100 years.  Over that time,  immigrants from all over the world have served to make the United States a strong and vibrant industrial and social dynamo, influencing all corners of the earth.  How can it be explained that even with the existence of the NAACP that the black community has seemingly failed to advance with the rising tide of prosperity?

It would be as logical as if the Women’s Christian Temperance Union still existed today trumpeting the horrors of alcohol use.   Or as logical as movements supporting the rights of minorities and women to vote.  Those ships have sailed.

Someone should get around to focusing on the correct issues affecting that community, determine how to participate in mainstream culture as members rather than as perpetual victims.  First suggestion, excommunicate the Reverends Al and Jesse, they are the problem.  At the very least, make them take a pay cut! Those intellectual giants have played the race card so many times, it’s the only one in the deck.  Bring in people like Alan West, Michael Steele and even  Bill Cosby.  It’s time for the political hacks to go.   The mandate should be changed to the National Association Against Continuing Pointlessness.

link Iran, Venezuela leaders seek new world order – Yahoo! News.

These guys are sure to be lauded as true visionaries by someone.  Probably themselves.  It’s both bizarre and disheartening that popular mass media are not poking fun and ridicule at pompous nutbars such as these two sociopaths.  Of course politicians are almost obligated to make ridiculous pronouncements, that is part of the reason they’re in office in the first place.  Even recently in the U.S. someone claimed that the oceans would recede and the earth begin healing upon his election.  This hyperbole aside, in western countries, people are mostly elected on presumed ability to run the country, whereas in banana republics such as Venezuela, the more nationalist fervor  you can drum up, the better your chances of staying in office. 

I’m trying to imagine the electorate in western countries massing and chanting with fists pumping, “death to Iran” or “down with Chavez”.  It doesn’t happen.  And a good question is, why not?  Statesmen such as Mahmood and Hugo are constantly lobbing incendiary invective in the U.S.’s direction like black flies on a summer night at the lake.  Why do we care?  Wouldn’t it be more news if they proclaimed  how civilized and compassionate western civilization is?  Now that would be a man bites dog story.

People in most nations likely could not give a rat’s ass about percieved western imperialism.  In some of those places, having enough to eat and drink likely occupies most of their daily interest as is the case in many western countries.  However, there are always the few that revel in the sound of their own belligerent voices and elevated sense of power that comes from ‘leading’ a country, which is then fueled by other countries paying attention to them! 

Does anyone in Nevada or California or New Brunswick really care what Hugo and Mahmood have to say?  With the exception of deranged liberals who think that these statesmen’s points of view have any merit at all, their pronouncements are one note taunts played in an endless loop. 

The standard line is, “U.S. imperialism has caused_______” just fill in the blank.  World hunger, world war, disease, oppression, global warming, global cooling, depleted resources, etc, etc and etc.  Sadly, there are those in the west who actually believe this as well.  It’s akin to complaining about the food in a restaurant but continuing to frequent it.  If it’s so awful, why do they stay here?

Perhaps it’s just because we haven’t been exposed to the niceties of life under the rule in the great societies of Iran and Venezuela.  There just has not been enough effort on selling the high points of living in those places.  Maybe they need to mount a Club Med style ad campaign to convince outsiders of how idyllic life can be there.

They should play up the charm of living in exotic locales where you are free to think what you want as long as it conforms to the nation’s view of things.  They can feel comfortable in knowing that there are draconian and medieval punishments for their versions of criminal behavior, such as women being seen in the company of men who aren’t their relatives.  Ah yes, a few dozen lashes and a bit of stoning keeps that outrageous behavior in line.  They can play up the business prospects of selling thousands of yards of black fabric to a clamoring female populace.  They can live in the comfort of a society in which the state will deliver all your food and power needs…eventually and only as long as you don’t lose your place in line.

I think I’ve just handed Leo Burnett some new ad customers.