These are the words of a student at Fayetteville State University (Faye State for those who know better) over the waining boycott sponsored by the NAACP on South Carolina.

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If Crystal Hunt and Marquita Jackson were looking to draw attention, they succeeded. Wolf whistles and honking horns followed the bikini-clad duo as they strutted down Ocean Boulevard.

Hunt was wearing a red-white-and-blue Confederate battle flag wrap over her white two-piece, Jackson a bra bearing the familiar diagonal blue cross and white stars co-opted by the Ku Klux Klan. You could say the two black women were thumbing their noses at the NAACP’s five-year-old boycott of South Carolina except for one thing: Neither of the 21-year-old North Carolina women had any idea there even was a boycott.

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Logic questioned

Some visitors questioned the logic of the boycott. Sitting in a lawn chair outside his hotel on the strip, Lamar Banks, an Air Force staff sergeant from Hampton, Va., said:

“Most of the people working in these hotels, cleaning the rooms, sitting at the front desk are African-American. So if we don’t come down here, then we’re taking money out of their pocket and food off their table. How’s that helping us as a whole?”

Hunt, one of the bathing suit rebels, feels the NAACP should be focusing on more important things, like educating poor black youth. If the boycott hasn’t achieved its objective in five years, she said, it never will. (more…)

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If the NAACP is wondering why both financial contributions and membership enrollment are down, they need not to look very far. This is a very sad commentary on an organization that has done so much back in the day.