Ward Connerly Quoted Re: NAACP
Michelle Malkin quoted the American Civil Rights Institute’s Ward Connerly in a recent column about that nasty business with the NAACP accusing the tea party movement of racism:
“The NAACP is a laughingstock…The group no longer represents the best interests of oppressed minorities, but the thin-skinned whims of the black elite and the ravenous appetite of the Nanny State. Establishment civil rights leaders now use their once-compelling moral authority to hector, bully and shake down corporate and political targets.
”As Ward Connerly, the truly maverick opponent of government racial preferences who is black, wrote recently, ‘the NAACP is not so much a civil-rights organization as it is a trade association with clear links to the Democratic Party, despite the claim of its chairman that the NAACP has always been non-partisan.’ Such a statement doesn’t pass the giggle test. The NAACP uses the plight of poor black people as a fig leaf to hide its true agenda of promoting policies that benefit their dues-paying members, not black people in general or poor black people in particular.’”
The NAACP is part of what I call the civil rights industry, dedicated to searching for “racism” under every rock and opposing policies that actually would help lower-income blacks become more self-reliant. For example, the NAACP opposes the use of taxpayers’ dollars to pay for school vouchers for families seeking a better education for their children. The organization would rather families “contribute” their hard-earned money to government schools run by the teachers union, arms of the Democratic party.
Malkin also mentioned Kenneth Gladney, a black conservative, beaten by union henchmen and called an Uncle Tom by so-called civil rights leaders.
