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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 NAACP passes resolution blasting Tea Party ‘racism’ – CNN.com.

Really?  And this motion is meant to impress or influence whom? For those who are members of the NAACP, the motion has significance because it reaffirms the views of those who are members.  Sort of like frat boys affirming their interest in large breasts.  Outside of their membership, it’s doubtful that this motion will have any kind of impact at all on America.  Why is that?  Because the group has proved itself to be an irrelevant organization.  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.  It even sounds like a relic of the 1800’s.  Any organization which dismisses the improvements to society in the area of race relations over the past hundred years is one that deserves to be ignored by the mainstream.  From noble beginnings, the NAACP has morphed into a group solely interested in making racial mountains out of molehills. 

If they have not noticed, many of the most influential top paid entertainers in America are black including of course Oprah.  Most of the top paid atheletes are black.  Also, in case no one noticed, the holder of the highest office in the land including many in his cabinet are people of color or black.  The struggle for equality ended long ago.  The only impediments to ‘colored’ people advancing in their lives are themselves.  If anything, the deck is stacked in favour of many minorities in the guise of affirmative action programs at school admissions and job postings.  The struggle to survive and get ahead is the same for everyone.

So if the playing surface is equal for all Americans, where is the need to push one race over another?  What many fail to grasp is that in a free society, one is free to fail as well as to succeed.  Not every failure is a product of overt racial bias.  To hear the racism slander hurled at the Tea Party probably induces eye rolling for most people rather than elicit any feelings of sympathy.  The Tea Party, in a knee jerk defensive response, denies the racism label and so the media jumps on the ‘conflict’.  The fact of the matter is, black people make egregious mistakes as well as non black people.  Incompetence is an equal opportunity characteristic. If Terrell Owens is criticized for dropping an easy pass, it’s not racism, it’s because he’s a dufus.  If the president enforces policies that are ill advised, he also is guilty of dufusness. There is no free pass when you screw up a country just because one happens to be of color. 

There’s a classic Seinfeld episode in which a dentist converts to Judaism and begins to tell self depricating Jewish Jokes.  Jerry Seinfeld tells him the dentist’s jokes are offensive.  The dentist replies that it’s ok, he’s Jewish.  Seinfeld responds the jokes are offensive to him as a comedian.  The NAACP may wish to change their mandate to the National Association for the Advancement of Competent People.  Boy do we need that.