Racism in either direction is the result of an individual blaming a group for something done to him by some other individual. It’s easier to blame a group than to analyze why some individual “did you wrong.”

Transparent or not, the NAACP began in the 1960′’s to include “other minorities” and still claims to represent them. We all know they don’t. They never did. In the 1960’s there may have been an honest desire to represent other minorities. That’s clearly changed “under current management” and the original effort, sincere or otherwise, has been a complete flop.

My only point was a technical one pointing out the fact that they do claim to represent other minorities and you said they didn’t.

Color me nitpicker. LOL

Ma’am, I’ve bookmarked your spot in the ether, memorized your spatial coordinates in the blogosphere…

Ahll bi bock.

(http://www.americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=485) The NAACP dinosaur

re: the students at University being challenged on their residency- same thing happened at UW-Madison last go around. First, as UWMadison is in the main as white as the snow that falls there, how is this bit about college kids and their residency uniquely a “Black Issue”? Second, it was widely surmised that several students were able to vote both in Madison and in their hometowns via absentee ballot- which is where the whole business of challenging students comes into play- it isn’t a conspiracy unique to Black students, no matter how much the sclerotic NAACP howls to the contrary.

But there is one instance of Black voter suppression that the NAACP missed that took place in the last Presidential election….. believe the Lil’ Woodboy from Tennessee did his darndest to suppress the overseas military vote- last I checked, there was a good percentage of Black people in the military. So where’s the outrage from Kweisi and Co. about that? (eh, that’s a rhetorical question- no need to explain people)

In Florida, in 2000, it was an issue because it was the first year that FAMU (an Historically Black University) students were not allowed to vote. It had not happened before and to their knowledge, no rules were changed.

The flyer situation actually happened. It was news when it did happen.

Some of what is pointed out by the NAACP is weak.

The current news out of Florida concerning the “felon list purge” and the current investigation of elderly voters should be off putting to everyone.

Voting irregularities happen in every election. It just made news last silly season because of the closeness of the race.

I have also walked up to my polling place and been handed a listing of the candidates I should vote for, all of them Democratic. The thing about the listing I found amusing was that some of the candidates were not going to be on the ballot, despite that fact that the list was printed for use in my precinct.

The fact that my ballot would not allow me to vote for the candidates I was supposed to vote for from my list, was not an issue of vote supression, because I knew what was being voted on. I am sympathetic to those in Louisiana who did not vote because of the flyer, but at the same time they might have been half asleep on the day it happened anyway to miss the bus normally sent to pick them up and tell them which button to push.

I can’t imagine what else it could be.

“Even if true (and I hope it�s not), does it rise to the level of state-imposed skin color segregation, for crying out loud?”

Hey, hope is on the way. But no, it doesn’t rise to the level of jim crow. But is the shadow cast by it. Vote suppression tactics are here today. They’re not the same as the ones that the VRA addressed, but they are there, and they are the shadow of jim crow.

We all cannot thrive in an environment which is determined to keep people below their capabilities. Time for NAACP to let go of their own fears.