NAACP - An Unwise Response

The NAACP has positioned itself to be seriously subjected to a “post Black American experience” in the coming years.  The organization has insulted ALL Americans by becoming a political pundit of the Democratic Party’s agenda to further insulate itself from understanding that our government must govern by the consent of the people.  Furthermore, it reveals that NAACP president Ben Jealous, not merely articulated his position regarding the Tea Party movement, but he did so with an emotional intensity that offered no desire for clarity, understanding, or resolve. Rather, his demeanor revealed an agenda to embolden racial division rather than create a place for honest dialog towards resolution for the benefit for ADVANCEMENT for all people, which is the very objective of the NAACP – or once was.  Perhaps my assessment might be based on an assumption, but after repeatedly viewing his fervor aimed at alleged racist Tea Party signs on news shows throughout America, I seriously doubt it because his claims offer no evidence whatsoever.

This unwise act is a revelation of more government intrusion into organizations whose objective should be to represent the people who depend on them to perform their function in creating opportunity, not becoming an opportunist against a relevant movement that is all about Americans—regardless their race. It shows us where leadership is headed. People possess degrees of education, however, they lack depth of personal conviction to keep ones knowledge on point for the people, not for the government system. Such leadership can be easily persuaded to carry out an agenda that is even opposed to that organization’s core purpose! What strikes me is the lack of concern that such “leadership” has for its own members. 

This is evidence of the need for a clarion call to Black leadership throughout America to challenge this obvious neglect within the NAACP.  Failure to do so is to support it. Jealous should be more “zealous” for those he represents than for the Democratic Party.  From their own website, NAACP leaders attempt to justify their position regarding the Tea Party movement: “Civil rights legend John Lewis was called the “n-word”…while others in the crowd used ugly anti-gay slurs to describe Congressman Barney Frank, a long-time NAACP supporter and the nation’s first openly gay member of Congress.”  First of all, there has yet to be any evidence that n-word was used, and as far as Barney Frank is concerned, the fact that he has done significant damage against the Black community in his policies, I would expect the NAACP to identify him as a threat to the American Dream rather than the first openly gay member of Congress.  When one looks at his track record, this is easily provable.  For one, many Black Americas were devastated by Fannie May and Freddie Mac which forced banks to give loans to people who could not qualify for the loans. In turn, many people lost their homes.  Why has this, and other significant issues, been ignored--as well as misrepresenting Americans and especially the members of the NAACP?

This type of misrepresentation is not fair, albeit expected, when an organization has lost its North Star, particularly in navigating the waters of politics and ignoring principles: the people suffer.  Such a petty and unsustainable argument will not serve to aid the members of the NAACP; it will only reveal that their use for America's liberty, freedom and constitutional protection has fallen haplessly by the wayside. 

As a Black American, a Tea Party speaker and the author of the book, Obama: Why Black America Should Have Doubts, I encourage ALL Americans to delve deeper into the basic objectives of the Tea Party movement.  I can tell what the Tea Party Express stands for: 

Lower taxes

Free markets

Fiscal responsibility

Smaller government

Strong national defense

Respect for the strength of the family as the core of a strong America

Who wouldn’t want all of these regardless of what color we are?