Chris Muir of Day By Day contacted me last month about doing this strip, way before I knew who Eason Jordan was, but he integrated the scandal with the NAACP idea I came up with. Can you imagine me as head of the NAACP? That fossil-like organization is running on empty. It should be put out of its misery already. Kind of sad, though.
As with all things, I’ve blogged many times about the NAACP. Check the Dinosaurs category. An excerpt from the first post:
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, schoolhouse…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.
Can the organization turn itself around and become “relevant” again? Blacks are no longer newly freed slaves in need of leadership to help us navigate the dangerous waves of political participation in a system where our presence was resented and unwanted, and our disenfranchisement legitimized by law. Some people may not want us around now, but we’re here, we’re free, and by law we may take advantage of all the rights of full citizenship.
Frankly, I don’t know what the NAACP needs to do, and I certainly don’t have time to help the liberal social club figure it out.
You might want to think about the NAACP as a not-so-screwed-up UN. Wonderful goals, but totally messed up vision as to how to get there.
They lost their way, and someone needs to help them get it back. And they need that help before they truely become as messed up as the UN.
Comment by lornkanaga — 02.12.05 @ 8:05 am
Linked to all sorts of blogs. Referenced in others. And a panel in a comic strip. Ms. Barber, you have arrived!
Congratulations and good blogging.
Comment by Pat Baker — 02.12.05 @ 8:50 am
But in real life, can you imagine being the head of an organization that would make the Senate buffoons look conciliatory towards Condoleeza Rice?
Comment by The Therapist — 02.12.05 @ 9:03 am
I always liked Chris Muir.
Comment by Sissy Willis — 02.12.05 @ 9:24 am
The NAACP has lost its way completly they are trying to force southern states to remove the confederate symbol from their state flags they try to sue the gun manifacterrers into bankrupsy the NAACP should go the way of the dinosoar and become exinct
Comment by firebird — 02.12.05 @ 9:52 am
Great cartoon … congrats!
Comment by Mr. Buzzcut — 02.12.05 @ 10:14 am
Thanks for another great post LB.
It’s really sad the correlation between Clinton, the NAACP and the problems plaguing our families theses days (especially in the area of personal responsibility and sex). The NAACP gives Clinton an “Image” award, everyone says his personal life is “his” business (although he was the most prominant role model of our country at the time), he lied under oath (instead of setting a good example and taking responsibility for his actions and telling the truth) and now….
We sit here:
1. plagued by AIDS (highest among Black women) and blaming the government for not spending money
2. parents who confirm to their teenagers that “oral” sex is not really sex (STDs made a comeback among our teenagers after Clinton’s fine upstanding example)… Hey if the president says it’s not sex, it must be true? (and still b laming the government for not giving out more free condoms which they are NOT using obviously)
The list goes on and on. Now there are of course those who crawl out of the woodwork to say “it’s not the same and Clinton was so great”, as they are failing to see the correlation of our “poor choices”, the consequences of those poor choices and then blaming others for our poor choices. (A la Clinton and a host of others).
Sometime it’s easier to poke oneself in the eye with a pencil
Comment by Renee — 02.12.05 @ 10:27 am
LaShawn, if you were the head of the NAACP, I would join it in a New York minute.
Comment by Beth Donovan — 02.12.05 @ 10:29 am
LaShawn:
When you DO become president of the NAACP, could you get them to get behind some young black men and get them back in school? I have plenty of hard-working black women working over their heads in my college statistics classes, but only one lonely black man.
Comment by slimedog — 02.12.05 @ 10:43 am
Draft La Shawn Barber
Somebody has to start this. It might as well be me. So here goes: Draft La Shawn Barber as leader of the NAACP. The NAACP is holding its Annual Meeting next weekend at the New York Hilton. (No word on
Trackback by basil's blog — 02.12.05 @ 10:52 am
Somebody has to start this. It might as well be me. So here goes: Draft La Shawn Barber as leader of the NAACP.
Yeah, right … next u’ll be asking for a black female as Secretary of State!
Comment by Mr. Buzzcut — 02.12.05 @ 11:01 am
When businesses in the United States could include the notice “No Irish need apply” in help wanted ads (circa 1840), the leaders of the Sons of Hibernia were very important people in their community. Today they get to help plan a silly parade once a year. The leaders of the NAACP are terrified of such a development, and thus work to maintain racial division in this country.
Comment by triticale — 02.12.05 @ 11:05 am
Cute cartoon! lol
Comment by RepJ — 02.12.05 @ 11:08 am
La Shawn,
Can we change the name if you are elected?
Comment by Renee — 02.12.05 @ 11:26 am
I’ve asked this question in general so I’ll ask again.
Since people know the NAACP is irrelevant, why keep beating a comatose horse?
Really? I don’t understand.
Blacks know the organization is full of older individuals stuck on the old school. Younger Blacks say they arean’t willing to change or make way for younger Blacks. Some within the NAACP say the same thing. Everyone knows, including NAACP members, that the membership count shows the NAACP is in trouble.
So, why make it a factor?
Comment by DarkStar — 02.12.05 @ 11:40 am
WEll, the press, among others, still hold the NAACP as spokesgroup and voice of the Amercian blacks. Just like they treat NOW as having an exhalted posistion among women.
Comment by SCSIwuzzy — 02.12.05 @ 11:52 am
DS - Because it’s fun.
Comment by La Shawn — 02.12.05 @ 11:56 am
With the NAACP suing a waffle house and Al Sharpton teaming with PETA to take down KFC, I just wanna know where I’m supposed to eat?
Comment by Mark La Roi — 02.12.05 @ 11:56 am
If you don’t know who La Shawn Barber is, get over to her site and read this. On second thought, go read 12:00 pm
Mark,
Watch out, they may be reading, and label you as subversive… so keep it up! LOL
Comment by SCSIwuzzy — 02.12.05 @ 12:03 pm
Your own Day-by-Day cartoon! How cool is that?
Love your blog :o)
Comment by MargeinMI — 02.12.05 @ 12:05 pm
Triticale, true but LOL just the same.
I don’t think La Shawn wants to become head of the NAACP just to organize an annual silly parade featuring cassava beer
Seriously, La Shawn, kudos to you. If NAACP was transformed by you and other new generation types, the focus would be on intervention and holding the responsible accountable.
No more blaming declining education standards on lack of funding.
No more pandering to unions trading on soft-bigotry.
No more making excuses for why Li’l Johnny ain’t hooked on Phonics.
No more making excuses for why Li’l Tawanna ain’t keeping her legs closed.
No more making excuses allowing gangsta punks to get away with murder.
No more shrill partisanship & rhetoric, engaging instead all comers with reason.
No more chasing deep pockets and frivilous AA claims.
No more elevating jivin’ hucksters and selfish celebrities as heroes and role models to be emulated.
Just the facts and merits, Ma’am.
Comment by Andy — 02.12.05 @ 12:35 pm
Andy - DITTO!!!
Comment by La Shawn — 02.12.05 @ 12:38 pm
La Shawn Barber in webcomics
La Shawn Barber was mentioned in today’s Day by Day. Cool, huh? She doesn’t seem to
Trackback by Back of the Envelope — 02.12.05 @ 1:04 pm
LaShawn Barber,
Please draft LaShawn Barber to head NAACP if you can change board of directors! Consider people such as Thomas Sowell, Walter E. Williams, Larry Elder, and Star Parker. This new NAACP could take on CNN and other MSM and work to solve problems that did not exist 40 years ago. BTW, Thomas Sowell should be over 65, so do not make it all young people! Is that cartoon in the Washington Post and other such papers?
JMB
Comment by James M. Barber — 02.12.05 @ 1:53 pm
Thanks, James. It’s a web comic only, as far as I know. Muir self-syndicates it online. A conservative comic strip with a black main character who’s conservative. Too cool.
Comment by La Shawn — 02.12.05 @ 2:01 pm
Congratulations La Shawn!
Mr. Barber - what a lineup for the board! That’s a dream team group no matter what you put them in charge of.
Comment by Janette — 02.12.05 @ 2:25 pm
Topping EasonGate
“Accountability…it’s a brave new world! What could top that?” This. (Tip of the Trilby to Chris Muir for the heads up.) Update: More here….
Trackback by Ed Driscoll.com — 02.12.05 @ 4:01 pm
Lazy Saturday Linkfest
Angry in the Great White North has a great post on Homosexual Unions And Monogamy. Bloggledygook finally gets his say in Eason We Hardly Knew, Ya. La Shawn Barber says she won’t run for President Of The NAACP. David’s Medienkritik
Trackback by Common Sense Runs Wild — 02.12.05 @ 4:11 pm
La Shawn:
When you take over the NAACP, will you do us white folks a favor? Get on your pulpit and explain to all Americans the difference between Affirmative Action and reverse discrimination.
Every time we white folks hear the term “Affirmative Action”, we think of cases of reverse discrimination that were labeled “Affirmative Action”.
I am all in favor of Affirmative Action (as I state on my own blog), but I don’t like it when Black Americans support reverse discrimination in the name of Affirmative Action.
By the way, I found out about your blog from one of the other major blogs. I have placed your blog on my list of favorite websites.
Thanks! L’Chaim!
-Dodo David
http://dodouniverse.blogspot.com
Comment by Dodo David — 02.12.05 @ 4:43 pm
‘This was after he was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives for lying under oath and obstructing justice. Nice image.’
Very nice: of the whiny GOP’ers in congress.
Comment by actus — 02.12.05 @ 4:48 pm
“LaShawn, if you were the head of the NAACP, I would join it in a New York minute.
Comment by Beth Donovan - 02.12.05 @ 10:29 am”
Me too.
You should consider it; they could use the diversity.
Comment by capitano — 02.12.05 @ 5:31 pm
It is much easier to understand the current agenda of the NAACP if you realize that the “P” now stands for “Peonage” srather than its original meaning.
Comment by Diane C. Russell — 02.12.05 @ 8:50 pm
You all should also know there are new things to protest in Los Angelas. A 13 year old boy was stealing a car and the police have killed him. The community is up in arms about the “pigs murdering children.” The death of the young man is tragic. But why are they not blaming the parents, community? For not raising responsible young men. How were the police to know this was a 13 year old boy?
Comment by shari — 02.12.05 @ 9:44 pm
Blogosphere 2/12
Late Night Blogospehere In the Bullpen - Zarqawi in Kirkuk? Young Pundit - Extensive look at Howard Dean’s “Plan” Dummocrats - Interest Rates on Credit Cards - Good/Bad Thing? Mark Kilmore has the Sunday Morning Talk Show’s guests and topics…
Trackback by The Political Teen — 02.12.05 @ 11:10 pm
La Shawn,
Congratulations on playing a major role in keeping the spotlight on Eason Jordan. Next up: drive CNN’s ratings down.
Comment by Brian Blazevic — 02.12.05 @ 11:35 pm
WEll, the press, among others, still hold the NAACP as spokesgroup and voice of the Amercian blacks.
But if conservatives keep saying they don’t really represent Blacks, then why do they adhere to “liberal” standards vs. their own?
DS - Because it’s fun.
That’s fair.
So, then just as the NAACP is show boating for the most part, when it comes to targeting the NAACP, you are also show boating.
So LB, let’s take it to the next level.
What Black groups ARE doing positive things that the NAACP is not doing? Let’s get beyond grabbing the low lying fruit, shall we?
Comment by DarkStar — 02.13.05 @ 12:26 am
One useful thing the NAACP will NOT do - which might just bail them out - but will not because they are undoubdtedly collaborating with these White liberal women who are collaborating with them - accusing a “favorite son” who has defied the “slave master” - leaders of NAACP- Bill Cosby.
Comment by Frank Zavisca — 02.13.05 @ 12:33 am
Good point Frank. I was trying to think of a sarcastic comment tying the Coz’ perdicament with the NAACP’s silence. By jove, you got it nailed.
Comment by Andy — 02.13.05 @ 1:13 am
LaShawn, if you were the head of the NAACP, I would join it in a New York minute.
Make that a three-fer!
Comment by Dave Huber — 02.13.05 @ 8:23 am
La Shawn Barber head of the NAACP? If only, if only! Being mentioned in Day by Day is a distributed Instalanche. The number of bloggers who carry Day by Day is humongous.
Comment by Douglas — 02.13.05 @ 2:09 pm
Why just president of the NAACP… why not QUEEN!
Comment by Fr. John Whiteford — 02.13.05 @ 3:09 pm
Would join our other brethren at NAACP if Ms. B. became Head Honchoette. Sad to say her analysis is all too accurate about this dinosaur organization. Part of a wider trend- 20th Century organizations have trouble justifying their existences in the new millenium. The U.N. also mentioned- no doubt many of its bureaucrats upset that no new equivalent of the Oil-For-Food Program is available for funneling money from the tsunami victims. Or the National Hockey League- remember professional hockey? Or the Democratic Party now that Dizzy Dean is at the helm. Your work has only begun, Ms. B. Perhaps your blog motto- in light of your great work in forcing Eason Jordan’s unemployment (and how valid is CNN now that Fox News cleans its clock all day, every day) is Obsolesence ‘R Us.
Comment by Gerard E. — 02.13.05 @ 4:37 pm
You’d be great. Won’t happen this change, but even “trying” for it puts the ideas out (like Andy said).
Poor Black people in America, like all poor people in America, have opportunity to choose …
better behavior.
Poverty is the natural “stick” of bad behavior. Getting educated, then a job, then OUT of poverty is the carrot. But free people must earn self-respect, by respectable behavior.
(Applies to gypsies in Slovakia, too.)
You should join, if you haven’t, the NAACP, and try to change some minds from within.
Comment by Tom Grey - Liberty Dad — 02.14.05 @ 6:29 am
LaShawn, for amusement; what would be on you agenda were you ever elected to head the NAACP?
Comment by Dominic — 02.14.05 @ 12:41 pm
who is the current president of the N.A.A.C.P.]
PLZ TELL ME TODAY!!!!
Comment by nicole — 02.15.05 @ 7:29 am
I am white, but feel for the blacks who fall prey to these “social liberals”. I never will forget listening to Dr. Walter Williams on Rush Limbaugh’s show one day. In Paraphasing ” I don’t under stand why blacks want jobs because of qouta’s. Blacks need to stand up on there own and be qualified to do the job.” He also said the NAACP was useless in advancing blacks at anything anymore.
Thanks for the honesty Lashawn.
k
Comment by IKW3804 — 02.15.05 @ 9:37 am
I presume that if you were President of the NAACP, Howard “Yeeeargh” Dean would be roasted for his blatantly racist speeches at his inauguration party. Cause the current leadership sho is quiets.
I mean come on, the DNC couldn’t host everyone in one big ballroom?
They ain’t that poor are they? Oh yeah, sKerry is holding out on them.
Instead we see everyone segregated by victim class and Dean running from room to room delivering a different message depending on the “message”.
And we hear him crowing that the RNC couldn’t ever get as diverse a group of people under the same roof unless they counted the wait/housekeeping staff.
Yo Dean, how about people of color in significant DNC positions? No? Didn’t think so, seeing how the DNC can’t ever forget their institutional roots.
Well then Dean, guess what? If Bush gets his way with SS, those are going to be the very people that will be proud new members of the GOP-PO (Grand Old Party of Personal Ownership). Bwaaahahaha
The hypocrisy of those who feign insult here that for blacks to be anti-AA is to be “acting white” is laughable. Such silly people, can’t cha tell Dean WAS being himself and acting white in every sense of the word — as white as his klanned brother-in-arms’ bedsheets? Dean doesn’t have to say it, but it is plain as the bulging veins in his neck that a good minority is one who knows his place on the donkey plantation. So how do ya like da Man now?
Personally, I’d rather not see a blog swarm over Dean for a while yet. I’d just as soon see him weave his rope of partisanship and personal destruction in “peace”. Only to wake up on the 8th of Nov 06, wondering how he wound up hanging by his own rope, as the political landscape just turned a redder shade of purple. Hee-haw-unk.
Comment by Andy — 02.15.05 @ 6:34 pm
Carnival of the Vanities #126
Welcome to Carnival of the Vanities #126. Before we start out little excursion around the blogosphere there are a few things to get out of the way. First of all thanks to Silflay Hraka for originating Carnival of the Vanities…
Trackback by Soccer Dad — 02.16.05 @ 5:01 am
You are a boorish individual who wants to take anti-Black sides against things and institutions that don’t fit your demagogue ways. Just looking at the spelling of the people who have posted, shows me what type of leadership you have. The NAACP still plays an important part of the citizenry, and, though it needs some fine tuning, it is still relevent in the racist and bigoted climate we live in today. Go get your right wing token credentials. They need one, since they’ve turned their backs on Armstrong Williams.
Comment by Thaddeus Hale — 02.17.05 @ 9:16 am