[NavVet]

I’m afraid I don’t have a clue as to what you are trying to say in either this post or #11. If you were saying that she wasn’t trying to gain the approval of the NAACP, then why was she a guest speaker, pausing for applause etc.

The “Southern Friends” thing is a little too cryptic as well.

[fight_truth_decay]

...guest speakers are just that...invited to speak. She didn't invite herself. Bill Cosby was a guest speaker at a telecom equipment maker celebratory dinner which I attended, as an example.

I grew up in the North, enjoyed American history, was interested in the underground railroads, hated how the blacks were treated in the South; hated the KKK for the terror they inflicted and of course young and not well traveled thought all white Southerners were racist, lazy and hateful to blacks..so I held a prejudice. That was then, this is now.