Discussion for article #222059
The author hit the nail on the head. Money and entertainment before advocacy.
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I’ve edited your article for you:
“many nonprofit groups rely on charitable donations from wealthy donors and corporations.”
There. Concise, but I don’t think I’ve left anything significant out.
The mistake is thinking that an organization with an impressive name, or an organization that has a respected past, is the same as the organization that earned your respect. This mistake is easy to make with organizations with all sorts of impressive names. If it’s run by someone making a few hundred thousand or more, it’s entirely possible that the organization has become a self-perpetuating fundraising machine that actually works against the goals its founders once worked towards.
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Excellent article. It’s all part of the facade now.
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Great article. The fact the LA NAACP had planned to give the same person a second lifetime achievement award is a perfect example of organizational retardation. It’s like they weren’t even trying, or were just too stupid, to cover up how shameful this all was.
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In my article, written on Sunday afternoon, I provided a link to the LA NAACP website, which included an announcement for its May 15 banquet and listed Sterling as recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award. I just looked at the website again (http://www.naacp-losangeles.org) and Sterling’s name is gone! But will the NAACP ask Sterling to give back the Lifetime Achievement Award it gave him five years ago? Or the President Award it bestowed on him six years ago? And will the NAACP return the money that Sterling had donated over the years?
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Really racist/zionist donors stole the NAACP Legal Defense Fund from the NAACP years ago with the supreme court’s blessing. That all but separated the advocacy from the image awards. The Southern Poverty Law Center assumed the role of the monitoring of hate groups and the advocacy was moved to the ACLU.
Then the racist billionaires had their way with the organization in certain entertainment markets. Much like 12 years a Slave. It remains a venerable organization from a local perspective under local control. It is a shadow of itself nationally, compared to the golden years under DuBois, because of money. Thus the answer of why the NAACP is in bed with the likes of Bloomberg, Sterling and Walmart. Money, status and domination by power brokers.
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The answer to most “why” questions in modern America is “money”.
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for the same reason the beautiful people love the Kochs… $$$$$
Would could have predicted that a noted racist would same something spectacularly racist???
check to see how many courtside seats were gifted to naacp executives; or assorted get togethers of owners in las vegas…
There are other organizations actually doing the work that the once proud NAACP performed with a singular devotion. One can only hope this bites the NAACP leadership in the ass.
Sterling’s track record and his words scream early 19th century plantation owner.
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I appreciate the cynicism, but no, you did leave a lot stuff out. Namely the details, and those are important. You may be well aware of them already, but see, we’re not all as smart as you.
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Welcome to the NAACP! It’s not amnesia and for the most part, it’s their history as the Establishment-loyal middle class Blacks (there was a term for this commonly used in the past, but I don’t want to go there here).
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I’m glad someone is asking this question.
​​Ironic that Donald Tokowitz​ ​ Sterling is demanding a level of “due process” ​​from the NBA that he appears to have denied his own employees.
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It’s a problem. I appreciate your honesty.
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So let’s hope there’s some sort of rebellion in the LA NAACP, and the entire current leadership is removed, or else the membership just abandons them.
The O’Jays said it best “money, money, money, moooneey…”
A good article that uses Sterling as a hook! Nice!