Posted on 07/19/2006 9:31:58 AM PDT by river rat
Press Release Source: Ford Motor Company
NAACP Recognizes Ford Motor Company With 'Top Honors' on Automotive Industry Report Card Wednesday July 19, 9:00 am ET - NAACP votes Ford as one of its highest performers on 2006 Economic Reciprocity Initiative Report Card - Ford to serve as title sponsor of Youth Freedom Fund Dinner - Baton to be passed to Detroit as the host city for the 2007 NAACP Convention - Ford to serve on host committee
WASHINGTON, July 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- For the second year in a row, Ford Motor Company was one of two automakers to earn top honors from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on the organization's Economic Reciprocity Initiative (ERI) industry report card, which graded Ford and its global competitors in several key areas. Results of the study were released at the NAACP's 97th annual convention, "Voting Our Values, Valuing Our Votes," in Washington, D.C. ADVERTISEMENT
The NAACP ERI report card measures the exchange of economic costs and benefits between African-American consumers and various industries. Areas measured for performance included employment, advertising/marketing, procurement/vendor relationships, dealerships, and charitable/philanthropic activity.
"Ford is honored that the NAACP recognizes our commitment to diversity associated with our employees, customers, suppliers, dealers and philanthropic programs," said Sandra E. Ulsh, Ford Motor Company Fund president.
The companies surveyed generated more that $30 million in revenue and have at least 300 dealerships in the United States.
The automaker continues to serve as the title sponsor for the NAACP Youth Freedom Fund Dinner at the 2006 convention. The Youth Freedom Fund honors the efforts that NAACP youth councils and college chapters have made to advance the economic, education, social and political status of African Americans and other minorities.
At the conclusion of the week's events, the gavel will be passed to the city of Detroit, which will host the 2007 NAACP annual convention. Ford will serve as a member of the host committee.
"We are pleased that the baton has been passed to Detroit as the host city of the NAACP's annual convention next year," said Pamela Alexander, director of community development and business operations for Ford Motor Company Fund. "To have such a prestigious organization choose Detroit is a tremendous opportunity for the city to share its rich history and culture," Alexander added.
Ford Motor Company, a global automotive industry leader based in Dearborn, Mich., manufactures and distributes automobiles in 200 markets across six continents. With about 300,000 employees and 108 plants worldwide, the company's core and affiliated automotive brands include Aston Martin, Ford, Jaguar, Land Rover, Lincoln, Mazda, Mercury and Volvo. Its automotive-related services include Ford Motor Credit Company. For more information regarding Ford's products, please visit http://www.fordvehicles.com .
Contact: Ntouch Communications Group Xina Eiland, (202) 321-8022 xinae@verizon.net
Latrisha Jackson (248) 423-9205, ext 224 llatrisha.Jackson@yahoo.com
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source: Ford Motor Company
Of the Jesse Jackson loins?
Semper Fi
The check must have cleared...
How did Ford score on NAMBLA's report card?
Ford's stock is down 1.8% so far today.
Ford bent over the most.
Wow. Makes me want to run out and buy one.
Yeah, "reciprocating" with the likes of the NAACP-- that'll keep them out of Chapter 11. Ford is run by idiots and its shareholders should demand that it be liquidated.
Never bought a Ford, not likely to anytime in the foreseeable future.
NAACP votes Ford as one of its highest performers on 2006 Economic Reciprocity Initiative Report Card...
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How many Fords will this crap sell? Pandering to the likes of a radical victim-mongering racist group like the NAACP? Sorry, Ford just went off my list of supplier candidates for my next vehicle. Maybe you can sell a car to both Jackson and Sharpton.
One more reason not to buy a Ford.
Yet another reason not to buy a Ford.
Another one of the Jacksons just copped a franchise.
FORD = first on RACE day
Is this like the unions honoring Eastern Airlines for its union shop?
Is it like parasites honoring their host for being such a nice host?
And I notice that in other news via Drudge, President Bush has agreed to speak to the tantrum-throwing, breath-holding group as a reward for all the mean things they have and will continue to say about him.
I was looking at an Escape as a smaller SUV, but not any longer. We have purchased Ford products in the past, but not now.
Fix Or Repair Daily
Found On Road Dead
On a more positive note racial note
Central Indiana voters
don't forget Eric Dickerson for Congress
US Marine
GM Employee
GM Buick dealer
http://www.ericdickersonforcongress.com/
Whitey not invited, whitey not in the quotas, then whitey no buy Ford cars...
If you want a car that works, buy a Nissan. I've been buying Nissans since 1986 and haven't had to use my AAA card since. Get the oil changed and the tuneups according to the schedule in the owner's manual and you'll never have a major problem.
As a bonus, my Nissan Altima was manufactured in a red state (Tennessee) by non-union labor who don't get strong-armed into voting the straight Democratic tickets by corrupt, pinky-ringed union bosses from Detroit.
Yet another reason I don't buy Fords.
Fond Of Racist Dirtbags (or, if you prefer, Dingbats).
This company was recently running radio ads that had a father interrogating his daughter about her boyfriend. The father asks: - Ever been arrested? - Ever in the military? - Any diseases?
NAACP gives Ford top honors?? I guess for all the changes Ford went through after the NAACP and Jesse Jackson's shake down of Ford
Old Henry was too, wasn't he?
The Hitler regime honored Henry Ford for his enduring support by bestowing upon him this medal, the
Verdienstkreutz Deutscher Adler (the Grand Service Cross of the Supreme Order of the German Eagle).
Good point. I'd forgotten about that.
I won't be buying any new Fords either. My two Fords are only 2 and 3 years old, so I won't be needing one for a very long time.
"Atlas Shrugged" also had a car company that went down the tubes because it cared more about social justice than it did about making good cars.
first on RACIAL day?
Never have used my AAA card for my Ford (nor has any family member with their Fords)...
I wouldn't touch a Nissan with a 10 foot pole, considering how many friends and relatives have had severe problems with them recently, and the fact that they can't build a non-flaming 4 cylinder Altima.
Nissan is actually finishing WELL below Ford, Lincoln, and Mercury in quality surveys nowadays...
So do gays.
FYI, the other "top grade" went to DaimlerChrysler
Grades given by the NAACP went as follows:
Ford B-
DaimlerChrysler B-
GM C+
Nissan C
Toyota C
BMW C
Honda C
Volkswagen D
Hyundai D
Mitsubishi D
For other info, in stores you see:
Federated Dept. C
Walmart C
Sears C
May C-
(Dillards, JC Penney, Kmart, Saks, and Target did not respond)
Financial services:
Wachovia B
SunTrust Banks B-
(11 others got Cs)
They can't make any money but they can sure do "Affimative Action" aka Anti-white discrimination.
Damn...
All these years I thought they meant "race" as in fast...
Not "race" as in race baiting or race entitlements or race discrimination...
Ford and the Ford Foundation -- couldn't possibly do more to alienate the American public than they already have....
I hope!
Semper Fi
That's right....I forgot about that Jaguar program..
Owned by FORD...
Semper Fi
Now we ALL know. What happened to PONTIAC?
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