History
Like I get what it was about, I get what they try to do, and I get it's important to certain groups of people. I also understand without it things might not have change as fast as they did and it did use to keep horrible shows off the air. (Hasn't done much since homeboys from Outer-space but...)
However I think the biggest flaw with this association now is that it's too political and lobbyists like. I believe it has clearly forgotten it's main goals. Like we still have all these black who can't read, Blacks are still getting convicted more than any other minority group even though Latinos are the up and coming minority in which I say MUY BEUNO Hombres!
I gotta say for an association that claims:
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The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination.
Vision Statement
The vision of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights and there is no racial hatred or racial discrimination.
Vision Statement
The vision of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights and there is no racial hatred or racial discrimination.
They sure haven't been doing much at all. Once again I grew up in S/F, Richmond, Oakland, and other surrounding Bay area cities. ( I don't "claim" any of them either.) So maybe I'm jaded or uneducated when I say. I don't think the NAACP does a good job.
I also remember reading how one member left because she shared by opinion. I mean really anytime the NAACP is mention it usually over something that really retarded. Case in point: The Don Imus thing. Yeah it was a foul thing to say to those women however nothing change. The Dom Imus still has a job. Or the death of the N-word. neutral
Yeah you can't kill a word that's being overly used by uneducated people. If they really wanted to kill the N-word why not kill the source and educated all the under-educated Youth in places like my hometowns of Oakland and Richmond. Kay thanks.
Maybe if Black youth had some positive images in media that weren't ballers, rappers, or other entertainers we wouldn't have to such discussions. Better yet why not during "Black History month" tell the youth about all the wonderful inventions that Blacks have either improved or done over the last I dunno 400 years while being on this rock?
Also they gave an image award to R.Kelly. Yeah he makes good music but he also pissed on an under-age girl. So what's saying to the masses?
I haven't watched any NAACP awards since.
In addition to all that, I feel that it really should expand to ALL COLORED PEOPLE from tan to dark red. Why is always about the BLACK struggle or the BLACK Cause?
Native Americans suffer, Latinos, Asians, and espeically Middle Eastern people suffer just as much as Blacks and when you think about it their progress as a whole has move much, much, much slower than Blacks. So why not give them a helping hand?
Yeah I hear it all the time from my Mom's generation: They don't really care about us or they don't fight for us so why help them?
Why because it's the right thing to do and if any of them had been paying attention during the civil rights moment all minorities groups were involved!
White hippies, Native Americans, Latinos, and Asians have all been lynched, mobbed, and brutally murdered at one point and another. True after WWII Blacks were being hung like Christmas lights all over the US but all the other groups were getting killed as well. However, I guess to keep things so Whites and Black this isn't talked about as much. Don't think it's easy for any of these groups nowadays either.
In Chinatown a few years ago the SFPD shot this Chinese woman 12 times all because she was screaming at them ("in Chinese") while holding a knife because they kicked in her door like SWAT looking for someone else. I forget the woman's actual age but she was older than 40 and the police could have easily taken the knife from her.
I asked where was the NAACP on stuff like that since that was no different than when LAPD/ NYPD used to do the choke-hold to young Black youth. Yet I just got laughed at saying that the NAACP only fight for the Blacks. Plus, where were the Chinese when MLK was Marching?
Basically by divide all the colored groups as a whole we can't make any real progress in any CAUSE. Sure some of the other groups have their own political associates but you never hear about them and they aren't as strong as the NAACP.
Seriously I would really like it if one day MLK word stuck a cord in which he said: "An Injustice by one is an injustice to all."
As I see no real difference between the Black struggle compared to any other struggle. I really wish certain Blacks were so (I dunno the word for it) but Black and white about these things.
