Following the resignation of the racist Shirley Sherrod from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the NAACP has released the obligatory non-condemnation of her comments at the NAACP Freedom Fund condemnation.
First, the NAACP President and CEO, Benjamin Todd Jealous says:
We concur with US Agriculture Secretary Vilsack in accepting the resignation of Shirley Sherrod for her remarks at a local NAACP Freedom Fund banquet.
Racism is about the abuse of power. Sherrod had it in her position at USDA. According to her remarks, she mistreated a white farmer in need of assistance because of his race.
After succeeding in defying the will of the American people, and passing an unconstitutional health care takeover, Obama challenged Republicans seeking repeal to “go for it:”
Even more intriguing than the National Association for the Advancement of [Liberal] Colored People’s (NAACP) decision to categorically dismiss the Tea Party as a bunch of racists based on fabricated claims is their silence on true racism in the United States. According to the organization’s website, the mission of the NAACP:
is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination.
Its vision statement:
is to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights without discrimination based on race.
When the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in 1909, it had a legitimate purpose. Their original mission:
To promote equality of rights and to eradicate caste or race prejudice among the citizens of the United States; to advance the interest of colored citizens; to secure for them impartial suffrage; and to increase their opportunities for securing justice in the courts, education for the children, employment according to their ability and complete equality before law.
The change was slow, but ultimately, the organization and it’s like-minded counterparts succeeded. With the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act despite an attempted filibuster by the late Democrat Senator Robert Byrd, we as a nation began the final leg of this journey. Unfortunately for the NAACP, they now face the activist’s paradox. Since they have been so successful, their organization no longer has a purpose. Their stated mission has hardly changed, which means they must continue to find racism, change their mission, or dissolve.
