Posted on 09/19/2009 7:21:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
ACORN is probably significantly to the left of my politics in a lot of ways, but the heart of my reason for donating to it is that critics are taking advantage of the fact that ACORN recruits its employees from the low-income, poorly-educated, socially-disadvantaged communities that it's trying to serve. In that situation, some of its hundreds of employees will make stupid mistakes - that's no reason to condemn the whole organization.
An analogy that's probably offensive to those communities but might be the only way to get the point across to some people, is to employees working at alcohol and drug rehab clinics, many of whom are themselves recovering addicts. To expect a no-screwup rate at ACORN is like expecting a no-relapse rate among hundreds of recovering addicts given jobs at clinics.
Anyway, for more info, see this surprisingly balanced article by conservative columnist Debra Saunders (pointing out that the Philly ACORN office kicked out the posers), and broader context by Michael Tomasky. Or click on the ACORN link at the beginning of this post for their take.
One might expect a low level of competency among the rank and file. However, one would expect expertise and accountability of the leadership of any organization given $8 BILLION of taxpayer money.
What are the odds of walking into the 5 different offices that just happened to have criminals working for them? There are some 1200 ACORN offices in the country and you would think that finding wrongdoing would be a bit harder.
Am I reading this wrong, or is the author stating that black people are too stupid to be held accountable???
That was pretty much my take. Isn't that called the bigotry of low expectations?
**Am I reading this wrong, or is the author stating that black people are too stupid to be held accountable???**
Democraps have been saying that and Proving it by their actions for YEARS!!!
The ONLY Person who said the two kids got KICKED OUT of the Philly OFFICE is BIG BERTHA of ACORN..
YO BERTHA... If there’s a POLICE REPORT.. LET”S SEE IT ...
Or is it in Hawaii with ODUMBO’s Birth Certificate.
/sarc
**What are the odds of walking into the 5 different offices that just happened to have criminals working for them?**
Odds are GOOD, apparently. only guessing but Andrew Breitbart said there’s even more and something coming from LEFT FIELD... so I’ll just wait and see.
“ACORN recruits its employees from the low-income, poorly-educated, socially-disadvantaged communities that it’s trying to serve”
Right, like McDonald’s; oh, except they’re not a criminal enterprise.
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