NAACP: Racist to Blacks

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored                  People is interested in "advancing" the cause of blacks.                  Well, some blacks, anyway. But not all blacks; only those                  who toe the NAACP's political line get NAACP "support"                  and praise.                  Like "women's rights" groups who, ironically, defended                  President Bill Clinton when his trysts with Paula Jones,                  Gennifer Flowers and Monica Lewinsky were made                  public, the NAACP is also picking and choosing --                  hypocritically -- the "causes" it will take up on behalf of                  blacks.                  For example, black lawmakers who supported a South                  Carolina measure removing the Confederate battle flag                  from atop the capitol building in Columbia to a "place of                  honor" elsewhere on statehouse grounds were labeled                  "weak-kneed, shifty-eyed, back-bending" legislators by the                  NAACP's leader, Kwesi Mfume.                  Could you imagine the outcry from the establishment leftist                  media if someone like David Duke had made such                  remarks? The outcry of "racist!" would still be                  reverberating throughout the countryside.                  Yet, those comments can be equally equated with racism                  as it condemns people because of their ethnic makeup,                  albeit in a back-door manner.                  Early last week Mfume blasted black lawmakers for                  having the audacity to support the compromise legislation                  passed by the South Carolina legislature. As far as Mfume                  and the rest of the NAACP leadership is concerned, any                  display of a Confederate flag is inherently racist, let  alone                  a display that is placed anywhere near "official" buildings                  on state-owned ground.                  For that "injustice," black legislators were subjected to a                  blistering attack from Mfume.                  "We need to embrace all the candidates who have                  embraced us. And we want to defeat all those who did not                  ... Democrat or Republican," he blared last week at the                  NAACP convention. Even if they're black.                  According to a study conducted in early 1998 by Rachael                  Simmons-Northcross, a student at Spelman College and                  the University of Rochester in New York, though plenty of                  historical evidence exists about white-on-black racism, she                  said "there is also the existence of interracial color                  discrimination-blacks discriminating against each other on                  the basis of color.                  "Origins of color discrimination stem from slavery, but                  even after slavery, distinctions by society and within the                  African-American community were made relative to                  color," the study said.                  The study admits that there isn't much data "out there"                  discussing black-on-black racism; but it concludes that it                  exists.                  Mfume's tirade against members of his own ethnic group                  also proves it.                  But what's different about this kind of racism is that it                  doesn't "discriminate" based on ethnicity; it discriminates                  based primarily on ideology.                  In another vein, Mfume and other black liberals blame                  members of their own race for failing to toe the                  liberal/socialist line. For some predetermined reason,                  liberals insist that all blacks believe in a single set of                  values and ideals and there can be no dissent or difference                  of opinion.                  That's inherently racist -- and it's as racist as if a  white                  were making the same claims.                  Columnist Richard Dixon, who says he is a "former Black                  conservative," wrote in Black Oklahoma Today (home                  state of Rep. J.C. Watts, a conservative black                  Republican), that "Black Conservatism finds its roots in                  White Conservatism. Its elements are a total belligerency                  to present day black leadership, an indifferent attitude to                  the historic struggle of the African-American experience,                  an elitist view of the urban poor, and a total  disconnection                  with the black populace in general."                  In reality, that statement does little more than criticize all                  blacks who don't aspire to NAACP or other liberal black                  standards, even if they don't consider themselves political                  conservatives. Dixon also implies that black conservatives                  are little more than mindless "slaves" to white                  conservatives, but he doesn't draw a similar line between                  white and black liberals. Hypocrisy. Blatant hypocrisy. It                  isn't about labels; it's about ideology. Period.                  "It is from a white elitist perspective that such black                  conservatives like Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, and                  Shelby Steele derive their notions about the state of Black                  America in this country," Dixon continued. "They harbor,                  embrace, and validate these notions to the detriment of                  African-Americans and add fuel to a widening racial                  polarization."                  But these black conservatives would disagree, saying                  instead that what they believe is a product of their own                  conclusions and life experiences. In other words, they've                  made up their own minds and do not have to be told what                  and how to think by the likes of an activist like Mfume and                  his NAACP.                  So, do you see how it works? If a black liberal makes a                  statement, he or she makes it from a presumed position of                  "authority" and based on his or her own thoughts and                  conclusions; such pronouncements are the final thoughts                  on the subject and they are automatically correct.                  If, however, any black disagrees with the liberal socialist                  ideal, he or she is "belligerent" to the "cause of  blacks" and                  is only doing so on the basis of being an "Uncle Tom"                  doormat for "the White Man."                  That is an unbelievably arrogant, hubristic and racist point of view.                  The irony is sweet, but maddening.