I'm a decade older than you and a bona fide member of the generation that declared that the letters NAACP stood for the National Association for the Advancement of Certain People. Ben Chavis' mission was doomed from jump street regardless of his personal failings. My experience with the NAACP at the local and national level is that it has little or no interest, all its opposition rhetoric aside, in advancing the very causes and issues that would have a direct bearing on the lives of poor black people. That being said, you were right to take issue with those who purpose in criticizing the NAACP masks and hides an invidious agenda.

Posted by  PTCruiser on November 29, 2004 - 7:41pm.

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