Prometheus 6

is clarence page such a ho? seriously? what's with the bullshit poverty statistics - as if the index is actually relevant...that name's been ruined for a generation...awful!!!!

Check out Anthony Asadullah Samad's take on the NAACP over at the Black Commentator.

DuBois leaving the organization. He created an organization which was hijacked at its inception. That he left the organization in the manner he did speaks volumes about what this organization and its leaders have been about for DECADES. In many respects, they're akin to the Vichy French.

It was insightful, and disheartening.

There has been a battle going on between the NAACP and pro-Black organizations/individuals for nearly 100 years. This is merely a lightweight manifestation of that fight. This is in a small way a continuum of the battle fought against Washington's disciples and Garvey and against the radicalism of A. Philip Randolph and the political/labor/education agitation of Adam Clayton Powell and the emergent radicalism of SNCC and the theoretical clarity of Ella Baker and the operational courage of Fannie Lou Hamer. What's new here? Nothing. This is part of a continuum of subsidized dysfunction. White America has paid the bills for this organization since 1919. It's been a wrap from jump street.

Of course the organization has had tremendous utility for its narrow focus.  There was/is some value in that - but it has always been INTENTIONALLY MISMATCHED to the needs of the core majority of Black folk.  For a people who still do not control a single industry to expend energy of this organization is simply foolhardy.  Time is short...we're all gonna be dead soon enough.

DuBois leaving the organization. He created an organization which was hijacked at its inception. That he left the organization in the manner he did speaks volumes about what this organization and its leaders have been about for DECADES. In many respects, they're akin to the Vichy French.

The Vichy French! That's harsh, T3, harsh. Some of the NAACP's black founders did encourage the government to go after Marcus Garvey but that's a mild form of collaboration, nonetheless deplorable, compared to the Vichy French

Many black socialists and radicals looked askance at DuBois because, for example, he was anti-union, favored America's entry into World War I and was opposed to efforts to forge links between folks in the African Diaspora. DuBois later changed his mind about these and other issues but the radicalism we remember him for came late in his life.

There was/is some value in that - but it has always been INTENTIONALLY MISMATCHED to the needs of the core majority of Black folk.

Amen! This is an important insight into the core problems of the organization.

the goal of the organization has been to carve a way out for those at the top of the heap - at the expense of building anything that looks like a sustainable economic or cultural program. no people on the planet can be sustained without economics or culture - they simply cease to be a people...and the naacp has long ceased to organize, hence it is an "organization" in name mostly which is propped up by wealthy white interests...take away those corporate dollars and that board would shrivel like an 98 year-old penis. they'd be lucky to have two members (no pun intended). of course dubois was no spring chicken when he founded the naacp...he just about lived forever...and you are absolutely correct that he became more radical (ie. focused on economic and cultural solutions for black folk) with each passing year.

and the naacp has long ceased to organize, hence it is an "organization" in name mostly which is propped up by wealthy white interests.

That's why we called it the National Association for the Advancement of Certain People.