Man Shoots Foot…Again
on September 15th, 2009 at 12:37 amWell, not actually a man. More like an entire organization.
From businessandmedia.org:
“The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), also known as the Black Press of America, which is a non-partisan 501(c) 3 tax-exempt organization, has decided to show its disapproval of South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson’s “You Lie” remarks by canceling a convention in the state.
“Rep. Wilson’s remarks were racist, disrespectful and a disingenuous violation – not only of President Obama – but to the institution of the presidency and only solidified our position and the importance in not spending Black dollars where Black people are not respected,” NNPA Chairman Danny J. Bakewell Sr. said in a statement.” (more…)
The article later makes the point I have been making about these foolish boycotts against South Carolina.
“According to the U.S. Census Bureau, South Carolina has one of the largest African-American populations by percentage in the country. And, the state falso aces a higher than average jobless rate of 11.8 percent, according to data released by the state’s Employment Security Commission. So, the move by the NNPA could directly hurt blacks, even though it is intended to do the opposite.”
Let’s crank up the ol’ time machine again, folks.
This was posted at thestate.com back in 2006.
COLUMBIA, S.C. – The NAACP’s economic boycott of South Carolina may bother Gov. Mark Sanford and even hurt some minority businesses, but the civil rights group has no plans to end the sanctions before the confederate flag is taken off Statehouse grounds, NAACP Chairman Julian Bond said Friday.
Bond’s comments came one day after Sanford called for the civil rights group to end its boycott. Sanford addressed the state National Association for the Advancement of Colored People during a forum held in Augusta, Ga., to honor the boycott.
Sanford said the boycott is not an effective tool.
“But if it’s ineffective why is he asking us to end it,” Bond said. “We know that it’s an effective tool. We know that the NCAA and other organizations have stayed away rather than come here. We wish more groups would do so. I think the very fact that he’s asking us to stop it means that it bothers him.”
Some black business owners have complained the boycott is hurting them. Bond said that’s unfortunate.
“In any movement for social change people suffer and we’re sorry about that and try as much as we can to minimize that suffering but that’s just a consequence of change,” Bond said.
Like I said back then and I’ll say it again: “You cannot teach an old dog nuttin’”. In the theater of their minds, the world is one big black and white film and they are civil rights action heroes leading crowds of millions in one big march.
