The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a once-venerable organization that stood between blacks fighting for dignity and racists determined to maintain legalized discrimination, has sunk as low as it can go.
Every year the NAACP (”the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the U.S.”) nominates a group of “entertainers” for an Image Award, given to “black artists who strive for the portrayal of positive images and meaningful opportunities for African-Americans in motion pictures, television, literature and recording.”
This year one of the nominees was R&B singer R. Kelly, a man indicted on 21 counts of child pornography by a Grand Jury. He seems to be having trouble staying away from underage girls and video cameras.
For those who’ve never heard of Kelly, he sang that corny song, “I Believe I Can Fly” from the movie “Space Jam,” with Michael Jordan and a bunch of cartoon characters. He’s also known for such treasures as the “Bump ‘N Grind” song and “Feeling on Yo Booty.”
When I read about Kelly’s arrest a couple of years ago, I didn’t think much of it. I’d heard rumors he was into teenage girls. But if you’ve seen one deviant, you’ve seen them all.
For those interested, here’s the latest news on the child molester.
So why, you’re probably wondering, was R. Kelly nominated for an Image Award in the first place? Let NAACP President and CEO Kweisi Mfume tell you: “It is not he that is being nominated, it is the album by him,” he clarified. “It’s a soulful album. I think it’s going to be accepted by people in different ways.”
Got it? The album was nominated for the award, not Kelly. So who, you’re probably wondering, is Kweisi Mfume? He’s the brains behind the idea that there should be more blacks on TV so black kids can watch more TV instead of reading or doing homework. Most of what’s on TV is amoral garbage, but Mfume thinks sitting kids in front of an idiot box all night is good for their self-image.
I digress. Mfume wants to make sure you know that it’s not his fault Kelly’s album was nominated.
“One good thing about this process is that it’s not driven by myself or Julian Bond. It’s the members of the NAACP nationwide that vote for the nominees in the categories and has been the case in previous years.”
My friend and fellow conservative columnist Mychal Massie (check out his column archives), who appeared on “The O’Reilly Factor on January 14, had some words for Kelly and the NAACP.
“[R. Kelly] has a propensity for having sex with teenage girls and there allegedly is a long history of this going on and for the NAACP to reward him with a nomination is offensive on its face.”
Massie added: “It should be viewed as nothing less than lamentable that an organization with such an august beginning allowed irrational minds to permit this embarrassment to happen in the first place.”
Bill O’Reilly asked Massie, “Why isn’t there an outcry from the black community? Certainly, most African Americans cannot admire a guy like R. Kelly. They simply cannot.”
Massie said, “That’s an excellent question. I can only respond to that to say there is an animus in the black community — the inner city black community — against the white community or that which is viewed as the establishment that defies understanding and allows for the acceptance of that which is harmful to the children, the family… which leads to a detrimental lifestyle.”
Well, Kelly didn’t win the award, but just to cover themselves next time, the NAACP is changing a few rules.
Kweisi Mfume, President and CEO, of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) said today that he will ask the organization’s national Board of Directors to place the NAACP Image Awards nominating process under the complete control of the association for the first time in the 35-year history of the awards program.
Mfume said, “It’s important from this point on that Image Award nominees be totally selected by the NAACP in order to insure [sic] that they reflect the standards for which the award was created.” Yeah, right.
Oh, how the mighty have fallen! From it’s beginning in 1909 through the Civil Rights movement, the NAACP fought legal battles for equal justice, protested and spoke out against discrimination at the voting booths, schoolhouses…you name the place, they’ve been there.
Today’s NAACP gave Bill Clinton an Image Award for “improving the lives of blacks during his eight years in office.” This was after he was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives for lying under oath and obstructing justice. Nice image.
Today’s NAACP is a social club for limousine liberals who sit around and plan fancy dinners and dredge up discrimination claims where none exist. Racial discrimination is no longer black America’s biggest problem; it’s the collapse of the family. What are they doing about that?
It’s time for the NAACP to go the way of the dinosaur: extinction.
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I think one of the main reasons that the NAACP and Jessie “out-of-wedlock” Jackson are still playahs in the media world is simply due to the media bias. If the MSM were fair they would be laughed off the air and off the headlines as irrelevant anachronisms.
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