NAACP, Cries to United Nations

All my life the American news media used words like "revered", respected or maybe highly regarded when referring to the NAACP (National Association of Colored People).

OK, a lot of times they get it right, but mostly I wonder what just what they are all about.

NAACP Urges U.N. to Investigate U.S. for ‘Racially Discriminatory Election Laws’

I cant remember the last time I made a comment on the Headline of a story before before presenting the story.

I mean really. Except for headline value, and getting attention from bloggers like me, what do they expect to accomplish?

To me, it is one thing to have a complaint, but go to the United Nations, as if they have any authority in our internal affairs.

I really wonder, does the average NAACP member have a clue?

(CNSNews.com) – Charging that millions of citizens, two-fifths of them black, have been denied the right to vote because of felony convictions, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People called on the United Nations this week to investigate America’s “racially discriminatory election laws.”


“Today, nearly 5.3 million U.S. citizens have been stripped of their voting rights on a temporary or permanent basis, including more than 4.4 million citizens who are no longer incarcerated,” said Lorraine Miller, who chairs the NAACP national board’s advocacy and policy committee.

NAACP Senior Vice President for Advocacy Hilary Shelton told the panel that the restrictions on voting “prevent those most in need of an advocate from the ability to elect someone who will represent their concerns: the need for a decent public education, for a health care system that addresses their specific demographic needs, as well as the creation of decent jobs, a functional criminal justice system and other basic human needs.”

CNSNEWS

Thank you Senior Vice President for Advocacy Hilary Shelton for that succinct argument in behalf of rapists, murderers and other violent felons.

I just don't buy it.

When it comes to violent crime, I am color blind.