Posted on 04/23/2002 6:57:18 AM PDT by aomagrat
The NAACP owes the people of South Carolina an explanation for its continued persecution of this state.
The boycott by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is not simply a local disagreement. Last week, the national president of the group came here to help picket the state at its borders — spreading the message that tourists should avoid the state and travelers should not spend money here.
Why?
Can it really be because of one flag flying at one Confederate soldier’s monument?
It doesn’t seem possible. Not when this same organization has decided not to conduct an official boycott of Mississippi, which includes the Confederate emblem in its official state flag. That means that the Confederate flag flies over every state building in Mississippi.
But the NAACP doesn’t post border patrols at Mississippi welcome centers urging people to hurt its economy.
It doesn’t make sense.
The NAACP’s action did make sense when the Confederate flag flew over the Statehouse and in the chambers of the House and Senate. Then the flag was in a position of sovereignty. State laws were passed under it. The representatives of all the people met under this divisive banner.
But state leaders fixed that problem. They took the flag off the Statehouse dome and out of the chambers of government. Now it flies in a historical context at a monument to Confederate soldiers.
Yet, the boycott of the state continues.
It might make sense if the boycott were maintained only by some local hard-liners who refused to accept any compromise.
But NAACP president Kweisi Mfume came to South Carolina last weekend to help push this boycott.
This is the very same Kweisi Mfume who decided he didn’t want his group to boycott Mississippi or dictate to the people of that state what they should do.
Why is South Carolina different? Why is one flag in Columbia so much more offensive than thousands of flags all over Mississippi?
The NAACP owes an explanation to the South Carolinians who see their state being protested on a regular basis. It owes an explanation to the workers in the tourism industry, which the NAACP is trying to hurt. It owes an explanation to the lawmakers who crafted the compromise that brought the flag down from the Statehouse dome. It owes an explanation to the entire state.
Because the politicians of South Carolina turned yellow and showed weakness. Now the NAACP is acting like a pack of hyenas circling a wounded animal.
The people of Mississippi stood strong like a lion against the hyenas and they ran off to South Carolina in search of an eaiser meal.
After it was moved they went away and then shortly later came back and started demanding it be removed from the memorial.
Is my memory making things up or is that what happened? And why is Sen. Fritz Hollings (D-SC), who as governor put the flag on the dome totally left out of the discussion and never asked about the matter? I know the answer, but the questions should be asked.
You have absolutely nailed it. The only way to neutralize the racial divisiveness this organization promotes for self aggrandizement is to aggressively fight back. They feed off liberal guilt. Stand up to their propaganda and they slink away like the racist one trick ponies they truly are.
better still, tell us here in Maine how to get them to boycott us. For the life of me I can not figure out what you're complaining about. you're upset that the naacp won't come to your state? We should be so lucky, better still, let them boycott the whole country and move.
Mark
Some of us think it is a blessing in disguise. Less crowded beaches, restaurants, golf courses, highways, etc.
Glad I am, to see Mr. Kwambly Majumbly taking on the mighty Stars and Bars of the rashist confederate empire! Yes, Brother Mabumbly, you have once again stared inquisitively into the prism of denial and determined what the REAL cause of Black America’s sorry state is.
While others might try to advance that same old tired self-reliance and responsibility song and dance, you know the real problem! The Confederate flag:
· It’s the Confederate Flag that goes into our neighborhoods and makes us have 3 babies before they’re 18 with 3 different fathers.
· It’s the Confederate Flag that’s responsible for the unbelievably disproportionately high criminality amongst black males.
· It’s the Confederate Flag who constantly disrupts our classes and destroys our schools resulting in a horrifically “educated” populace.
· It’s the Confederate Flag forcing us to speak Ebonics, embrace “rap culture”, and further de-similate from the rest of society.
· It’s the Confederate Flag that makes us spend three times more money on drugs, alcohol and cigarettes than on computers and books.
· It’s the Confederate Flag that shames the intellectually gifted amongst us for “acting white”.
Thank you, Brother Magoblystlapa, for another easy answer. Once we are freed of the asphixiating yoke of the Confederate flag, the fine African American brother can at last stand equal.
Rest assured, Martin Luther King would be proud of where you’ve taken the Civil Rights Movement!
Owl_Eagle
”Guns Before Butter.”
It will be a cold day in hell before NAACP explains or justifies their actions. IMHO the NAACP is very similar to the Palestinian Authority (PA). Both groups thrive on confrontation, turmoil, violence and chaos. Both groups make outrageous demands for things not theirs and accusations about things that do not exist.
If at any given time these groups get their targeted opponents to acquiesce to their demands, they create another crisis. You see, without continuous causes for confrontation they become irrelevant and that is what they fear the most, irrelevancy.
They thrive on power and without causes, just or unjust, they are nothing. Without an agenda they revert back to being the little people they really are and crawl back under their rocks.
Nada.
Immediately after the Chisholm v. Georgia decision, the state was so outraged that it passed legislation prohibiting any sate official from complying with the decision. The penalty was DEATH by hanging, without any last rites or the presence of preacher/minister.
That's when men were men, not the spineless carpetbaggers we have today.
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