AP, February 3, 2009
The NAACP’s new leader intends to hold President Barack Obama accountable for his promises about civil rights, regardless of Obama’s status as the first black occupant of the White House.
“The president being black gives us no advantage,” NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous said in an interview with The Associated Press, adding that Obama’s background as a community organizer and civil rights lawyer may make him more receptive to the NAACP’s agenda.
Jealous said he expects “the traditional relationship” that presidents have had with the NAACP: “We will be the people at the end of the day who help make him do what he knows he should do. We will help create the room for (Obama) to fulfill, I think, his own aspirations for his presidency.”
“If he aspires to be the next Abraham Lincoln, I aspire to be his Frederick Douglass,” Jealous said, referring to the slave-turned-abolitionist who pressed a cautious Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
100th anniversary approaches
As the NAACP prepares to celebrate its 100th anniversary on Feb. 12, Jealous outlined several issues for Obama to address during his first year in office: ensuring fair distribution of federal bailout funds, programs and contracts; double-digit black unemployment; lenders pushing minorities with good credit into subprime mortgages; reducing the disparity between unsolved homicides in minority and white communities; and ensuring that minority children have access to good schools.
The NAACP also has prepared a list of judges, from the federal down to the local level, that it wants considered when vacancies are filled.
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For example, Jealous said, when the Supreme Court issued its landmark 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which struck down segregation in public schools, the goal was access to educational equality. “Same schools are a civil right,” Jealous said. “The aspiration of the case was being able to go to the same GOOD school … that good schools are a human right… .”
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Hasn’t met yet with Obama
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Today’s NAACP members are not satisfied with simply having a black president, he said. “What they want to know is, ‘What problem in my life will he be solving? Dad’s out of work, Mom’s not getting paid enough, the kids’ school is an embarrassment. What is he doing for me?’”
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Today’s NAACP members are not satisfied with simply having a black president, he said. “What they want to know is, ‘What problem in my life will he be solving? Dad’s out of work, Mom’s not getting paid enough, the kids’ school is an embarrassment. What is he doing for me?’”
Why is Dad out of work? (A: He’d rather stay home and drink all day) Why is mom not getting paid enough? (A: Because she dropped out of high school) Why are the kids’ schools an embarrassment? (A: Because the kids commit vandalism, the black teachers don’t care, and the municipality can’t collect its property taxes from black homeowners). What will Obama do for me? (A: Hopefully give me a big fat check paid from White taxpayers’ dollars to take care of all the problems that are our own making).
“NAACP says Obama’s being black gives them “no advantage.”
Well, they’re wrong about that. Obama, and his majority in both houses of Congress WILL move this country into socialism, even if it is on a piecemeal basis, and because blacks can’t compete in an equal society that will ensure that there are even more affirmative action programs available to them everywhere.
Up to now, I’ve been a rabid capitalist. However, I’ve watched the capitalist corporate greed mongers take over our country, fire American workers and bring in foreign professionals and labor, move their corporations overseas, while a group of mediocre talent gives themselves multimillion dollar bonuses for dong so. They have forsaken the principles, ideals and traditions of our country in favor of satisfying their greed, and they support the replacement of white citizens in favor of non-whites, because it is more profitable for them to do so.
This is only part of the ugly transformation of capitalism that has taken place, and I’m sickened by it.
As an entrpreneur I can earn money a dozen different ways whether it is via a partially capitalist/socialist society or a strictly capitalist one, so it doesn’t really matter to me. My reluctance to any form of socialism was because it allowed the non-white rabble to inundate our country, but that happened anyway with the blessings of the corporate geeks on Wall Street.
While I will continue to support white causes, I won’t support the corporate pigs any longer. If their hands are tied by socialism, fine, I couldn’t care less.
This whole affair just might be a moot point anyway, because with every day that passes there is more and more dire reports of the economy accelerating quickly downward, and it is very likely we will be going the same route Europe is going right now, with their slowly accelerating riots that promise to get more intense and vicious with every job that is lost.
This could well be the point in history where the American Empire has collapsed. If we’re chased out of Iraq and Afghanistan, which looks likely at this point, mark your calenders on that date because it will designate the point at which the empire was no more.
“……Obama’s being black gives them no advantage”
Cry me and Ocean. All the white Presidents I’ve lived through haven’t given most whites or myself an advantage, not that I can think of.
What Benjamin really means by all of this rhetoric is just how much more money is this President going to be giving to blacks. Irrespective of his skin color, if the average black did not think that money would soon be flowing his way, this President would still find himself fighting for his senate seat from Illinois.
The only change the average black wants is to have more of it in his pocket [and, of course, at whitey’s expense].
MoMo
The NAACP is going to hold Obama accountable. For what? His upcoming move to the right? Or else? All those black voters voting for the white guy or gal over Obama in 2012? Get real.
The NAACP is struggling to remain relevant. The NAACP’s President is named Jealous, and he is just that.
“The president being black gives us no advantage,”
I knew it wouldn’t be long before African-Americans started to openly admit that they really don’t want to be “equal” to European-Americans, but rather be superior .
“Same schools are a civil right,” Jealous said.
Does anyone else here remember that failed political/socioeconomic system which insisted on “everyone and everything being equal”?
“The aspiration of the case was being able to go to the same GOOD school … that good schools are a human right… .”
Maybe I should’ve applied to Harvard, Yale or Oxford by claiming attendance there as a “human right”.
Seriously, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that :
Everyone has the right to education . Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit. - Article 26.1.
I knew it wouldn’t be long at all…
Typical of black “leaders,” who sound like eternally spoiled children: “I want!” “We demand!” Also typical of the Associated Press, which accepts all Jealous’s claims about how terrible blacks have it at face value. No effort on the part of the AP to ascertain if his claims are true, or if many of them are more than a tad self-serving.
But then the AP is just following the rule it always uses when writing about a group it likes and approves of: Why check the facts and thus ruin a good story?
“Today’s NAACP members are not satisfied with simply having a black president, he said. “What they want to know is, ‘What problem in my life will he be solving? Dad’s out of work, Mom’s not getting paid enough, the kids’ school is an embarrassment. What is he doing for me?’”
Oh really what the hell happened to “it is NOT what your country can do for you, but rather what you CAN do for your country.”
How about TAKING responsibility for yourself and household members. When a person treats the nation state as a GOD, he is truly a slave and does NOT deserve to be free.
Non-white people are easier to control through entitlement programs that the big nanny government offers; whereas white people in general want the exact opposite freedom and liberty from an all-intrusive big government. This is why the two races can NOT live together under the SAME government.
It is long over do for an amicable divorce from one another.
“Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.” Thomas Jefferson – he was RIGHT by the way.
He might be right on some level. Obama may have been a die-hard idealogue/activist-type in his younger days, but now he seems pretty darned comfortable in his grand-scale, megalomanical political incarnation…you know, the “Mulatto Messiah - Savior of ALL Mankind!!” No, I think spending a great deal of time fussing over poor Blacks is just beneath a man hailed as the de-facto second coming!! I could be wrong…
100th anniversary approaches and the NAACP has never built a school, a hospital, a sewage treatment plant, a shelter for battered black women, nothing.
It’s been 100 years of complaining and demanding that whites use their money to build all of the above for blacks, while the Officers of the NAACP embezzle money and party.
It is hardly worth commenting on this outrage: we elected you (in small part), we now expect some form of compensation that furthers our ethnic/racial aims; if you don’t deliver, we will publicly hound you until (blackmail again)you cave in and wallow in your presumed “blackness.” Prove to us that you are “black enough.” Ask not what you can do for your president, but what your president can do for you. Obama’s headaches are just beginning. It’s racial loyalty, dummy.
“What is he doing for me?”
Finally, a brutally honest statement of black political beliefs. Give Ben Jealous the Peggy Joseph award.
Ranger:
What most economic libertarians conveniently forget is basic first day of law school stuff: A corporation is a governmentally-recognized artificial person. No government, no corporation. Virtually all corporate CEOs are not the analogue of an entrepreneur with a great idea, they are merely high-level managerial employees. Government can set speed limits on government owned and maintained roads, and they can also set limits on exec pay of corporations, especially public traded ones.
My suggestion is not a hard number cap, but a multiple-of-the-median, e.g. a CEO cannot make more than, as an example, 50 times the median of the entry-level workers. It gives them the chance to make more, by making the company better, and directing the prosperity to its entry level workers first.
I’m also of the opinion that CEOs should not be allowed to own stock of the company which they manage. It’s one thing if an entry-level worker owns stock, s/he can only affect his or her own quality of work (notwithstanding a lot of other things) — their owning stock gives them an incentive to work better. A CEO can affect almost every worker down the line, and since his owning stock means that his incentive is to pump up the stock price as high as possible and as quick as possible, he satisfies The Street by layoffs and outsourcing.
Of course, if I had that much power to impose this, there wouldn’t be any outsourcing anyway.
“‘What problem in my life will he be solving? ‘
Does this guy know what he is saying? The President of the world’s greatest power, a country that is facing a terrible depression that the world community looks to Obama and the US congress to solve is supposed to solve this idiot’s personal problems?
Obama’s got other things to do. Whine, whine, complain, complain, it never ends.
I wonder how Obama will feel about blacks endless demands and complaints after a couple years?
“Human rights” is one of those cant phrases (like “social justice”) that although really meaningless often appears as philosophical top dressing to justify whatever the person uttering the phrase wants, whether that thing is some material object or something less concrete. Blacks don’t just want something for nothing, you see, it’s a matter of “rights.” It’s an appalling but amusing case of a civilization’s philosophical heritage being picked up as a crude cudgel by a much more primitive culture who understand the real philosophical tradition not in the slightest but who do understand the power this incantation (“human rights”) has over the minds of people even modestly inculturated into Western thought.
Why don’t whites ever respond with the obvious questions? By what “right” are blacks entitled to have things—“good” schools, jobs, money, Free Everything—provided for them by others? Why don’t whites, for instance, have a “right” to good schools (meaning, usually, schools free from blacks and mestizos)? Why do blacks have a “right” to live among whites, whereas whites have no right to have the sort of neighborhoods they want? Whence do “rights” derive? Says who?
Finally, most of us predicted this sort of thing in November. B. Hussein Obama, Big Chief, is expected to come down the chimney like a Luo Santa Claus and fix Mom and Dad’s finances and Junior’s lousy school work.
Hey Mr. Obama, can you loan a unemployed white guy a few million, I need a bailout…is Hell freezing over yet? Probably not.
Virtually all the Obama voters are complaining that he has yet to wave his magic wand and grant their wishes.
Medical marijuana is against federal drug laws. Some of the medical marijuana clinics in California have been raided in the last week. The legalize marijuana advocates are complaining that Obama has “betrayed” them.
Medical marijuana is probably # 100,000 on his to do list.
Is the NAACP President really named Jealous? That is too funny to be true.
Whites should understand by now that blacks will never stop hounding us and making preposterous, unrealistic demands. The race-realists knew all along a black president would make no difference and this point is rapidly being driven home. Blacks have long been taught to rely on the government as their provider rather than making their own way but the NAACP won’t get the “equality” they want from Obama any more than they would from a white president. No amount of government intervention can change the inherent genetic qualities that determine the black’s success or failure. Nature will always reign supreme.
How about a black king? Pope? Will that do it?
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I am totally convinced that very negative picture so many Americans have of Blacks, is well-founded. This whine by the NAACP simply confirms it further. Blacks are the ones disdaining getting an education, finding a job, getting on a career path. Blacks thus are responsible for their own perpetual cycle of poverty, welfare and crime. So having a BLACK PRESIDENT is supposed to magically “cure” these problems?
When Black males do more than father children, usually with a number of different females… and accept the premise THEY are responsible for raising and supporting their kids… NOT the state and the taxpayers. When Blacks learn to live without cheap alcohol and drugs, without crime and violence… then White people will accept them as equals. The idea Obama is going to change their mentality… well, apparently there is no bottom limit to human stupidity after all.
When I first read this article I asked myself WHY, WHY are blacks so concerned with everything whites DO and HAVE? Why don’t they START hepping themselves? Then I looked at this guys name and I had the answer. Benjamin Todd (JEALOUS) ..
With all this talk about civil rights, one wonders whatever happened to civil responsibilities: refraining from fathering illegitimate children, for example. Staying in school. Not using drugs. Obeying the law. Getting up, even on Mondays, and actually going to work. Not mugging, stealing from or murdering other people. Now THERE’s a new concept for the NAACP to work with: get your members to do the yang side if the yin is civil rights.
Regarding the NAACP and all the many leftist organs of lies, deceit and hate, including the SPLC, the ADL, the ACLU, take heart in the fact that the deep pocket leftist oddballs have taken a tremendous hit on the initial economic crash and are in line to take another this Spring as the commercial real estate market goes into collapse just as the housing market did.
I’m looking for FAR FEWER donations to these evil groups of dispicable malcontents, which will cause them to cut back, and if things unfold as many are predicting, they’ll never get back on their feet enough to cause the trouble and spread the lies they have been involved with for so long.
This “stimulus” package is obviously a pork barrel project benefitting mostly blacks, and there is every indication it will lift things up slightly for a month or two then the bottom will fall out completely.
We must fail economically before we can succeed socially.
>>>When I first read this article I asked myself WHY, WHY are blacks so concerned with everything whites DO and HAVE?
Because Blacks can’t or won’t understand the idea White WORKED for what they have and own! They think the ‘guvmint’ (Whites) are supposed to grant them their every wish… preferably before they can even think of what they want next.
Blacks also refuse to accept the premise that equality DEMANDS equal responsibility, equal accountability. Blacks are unshakeably convinced they should be handed a lifelong “GET OUT OF JAIL FREE” card at birth, and never be held responsible for any crime they commit, for anything they say or do.
Let a Black perp be charged with a crime… the first thing they do is fall back on that race card… “if he wuz White, nobody’d care what he did.” Remember how often we heard that whine when Congressman Jeffords was caught with a freezer full of cash (bribe money) for his influence peddling. While Congressman Cunningham, charged with the same crime, accepted his guilt, confessed and took his punishment. But, it must be noted, Cunningham, a former war hero, was a White man.
There must be some reason 96% of black votes when to Obama. Barak Obama spent his entire career organizing black people under the banner of “community organizing” or “social Justice” in order to put a white coat of paint over everything.
The irony is that Obama might end up organizing the white community in a way he never intended.
It’s beside the point Obama is half-white.
When Obama demands “social justice” for people of color, minorities, women, etc. he does it explicitly. When he asks people to pay for it he uses a lot of “we” “us” and the like. That is not an accident. What he should really be saying is white people should be transfering money to blacks.
Posted by Fed Up at 7:29 AM on February 5
Your obiviously blind or a child. At least 60% of blacks live middle class or better. 40% live at the poverty line or below. The NAACP is not the voice of the black community no more than DAVID DUKE is the voice of the white community. Whites in general that I’ve seen work with blacks, have many black friends, and see blacks as equals. So don’t go around classifing whites as viewing blacks at an inferior level. Most (not all) of the problems in the black community are going down and many black leaders (with of course the xception of Jesse and good ol Al) are stepping up to the plate and saying this problem is your responsibly now handle it. Most of these problems wont be here in a few generations.
I watch the STATE OF THE BLACK UNION I sit in black town hall meetings and I once attend a black church so I know alot more about blacks than you do.
I wish, that me and my four brothers (combined) made the amount of money they paid Mrs. Obama for Doing Nothing in Chicago. She spent all her time with him on the vote getting trail, When Did She Work? To Earn that massive 371,000 salary? But then again he did the same thing with the time he was being paid to act as a Senator, Not A Messiah?
I watch the STATE OF THE BLACK UNION I sit in black town hall meetings and I once attend a black church so I know alot more about blacks than you do.
I heartily disagree with everything you just typed out loud!!!
“I watch the STATE OF THE BLACK UNION I sit in black town hall meetings and I once attend a black church so I know alot more about blacks than you do.”
Posted by rational thinker at 11:18 PM on February 5
It doesn’t take an Afrophile to know about blacks, my severely misinformed friend.
All of us have experience with blacks, and unlike you, we make accurate judgements about what they’re really all about.
Our opinions are objective. For some unknown reason you want to push a black agenda that depicts them in a false favorable light for reasons unknown.
Can you elaborate more on that, please?
“For some unknown reason you want to push a black agenda that depicts them in a false favorable light for reasons unknown. Can you elaborate more on that, please? “
Posted by q
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It’s not hard for me to guess the reason. It’s pretty obvious that “Rational Thinker” is black. Very few whites could match such a degree of obtuseness, naivety, and illiteracy. Who’s she kidding? … (or he?)
I reckon, Pastor Manning has got the black mindset well taped.
He can’t abide the black ‘you owe us, whitey’ attitude and with good reason. It makes him ashamed of being black.
Now, it appears, they’re saying to their new elected black saviour, ‘you owe us, ‘cause we’re black like you’.
Up to now, blacks have gotten away with their perpetual blame game against the white world for their own inadequacies and shortcomings, but that crutch is fast collapsing since Obama man.