[aomagrat]

The NAACP is doing more to destroy race relations than all white racists groups combined. I guess it's OK if PC is on your side.

Next step - Burning big X's in white people's yards.

[Howlin]

If they destroy the economy, who do they think will pay their reparations? :-)

[NativeNewYorker]

This is too much.

What next? NAACP members will no longer buy Mercedes-Benz cars? Will the Benz join the SUV as an object of constant scorn in the press? Should blacks employed by the firm in Michigan and elsewhere "down tools", as they say in Europe, and refuse to labor for The Man unless new plants are only built in places they approve of?

[Mr. Bird]

"Leaders of South Carolina have to decide what's important to us: attracting companies or flying a Confederate flag at the Capitol," he said.

NO. The leaders of SC have to decide what's important to them: attracting companies, tourists, and dollars that will help the citizens they are elected to serve or succumbing to the racial bombthrowers of the NAACP.

[Vidalia]

I guess the NAACP personnel were never taught in school that if the Germans got their way back in the 40s, there would be no one left to work in the NAACP.

But this bunch of black racist fools is going to "tell" the Germans how to run their business?

Incredible...

[aomagrat]

Dixie Ping!

[End The Hypocrisy]

Meanwhile, what do they do against ACTUAL slavery taking place over in the Sudan? As there's no money for the NAACP fundraisers in that one, it's quietly ignored. They claim it's because they don't want to meddle in other countries' affairs, but weren't they active regarding South Africa, and Haiti? Understandably, Mississippi's voters adhered to their flag's heritage when they were forced to decide.

[john in missouri]

The NAACP urged DaimlerChrysler not to invest in South Carolina and said Tuesday it will do the same with other major industrial prospects, extending its campaign against the Confederate flag to a new economic front.

It's so comforting to know that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People hasn't lost its focus, but is instead bending its every effort to do those key strategic things that will really help to advance the status, economic condition and well-being of Americans of color.

[stainlessbanner]

The NAACP considers it a symbol of slavery fit only for display in a historical setting.

That's incorrect - the would banish ALL AMERICAN (Confederate and Union) SYMBOLS, FLAGS, MONUMENTS, MEMORIALS if they had the power to.

[mitchbert]

Obviously I'm stupid and unsophisticated and can't see what must be the obvious logic in the NAACP's position.

Please help me with this, folks. I'm obviously missing something.

Daimler/Benz wants to build a factory in SC and the NAACP goes out of its way to discourage them. Doesn't the "P" in NAACP stand for "People"? You know, like the people who just might find a good paying job there? There must be one or two folks down there who are un/underemployed, no? I do seem to recall hearing once that auto factories sometimes hire the odd local. And if I recall correctly there are Black Americans in SC, aren't there? Do you think maybe the odd one might sort of consider applying for a job in the factory? And getting it? And having money from a decent sized unionized pay packet with which to have a good home, save money for the kids' educations, maybe retire someday without being a burden on the rest of society?

I guess I just don't get this Liberal "compassion" thing. Must be a crazed right-wing gun loving tabacco puffing (continue the usual slander as required) dinosaur. /sarcasm

Why the h*ll does anyone take these demagogues seriously any more?

[Colt .45]

So I suppose if there had been a Swastika Flag flying, or a yellow Hammer and Sickle on a red flag then it would've been okay for Daimler Benz to set up shop eh? NAALCP needs to go the way of other tyrannical racist organizations ... into the ash heap of history.

Just cause Lee surrendered don't mean I did!