Tag Archives: NAACP

NEW YORK: Gay Groups To Denounce NYPD’s Stop-And-Frisk Policy

A broad coalition of LGBT groups and others will gather at Manhattan’s Stonewall Inn today to jointly denounce the NYPD’s racist stop-and-frisk policy. “We are all standing together against police harassment on the basis of a person’s identity,” Rea Carey, the executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, said in an interview. “There was no rational reason …

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Alveda King Fires Back At Critics

“The 21st century homosexual lobby likes to point to the professional relationship between my uncle Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bayard Rustin, his openly homosexual staffer who left the movement at the height of the campaign. Rustin attempted to convince Uncle M. L. that homosexual rights were equal with civil rights. Uncle M. L. did not agree, and would …

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Alveda King Denounces The NAACP

“Neither my great-grandfather, an NAACP founder, my grandfather Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr. an NAACP leader, my father Rev. A. D. Williams King, nor my uncle Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. embraced the homosexual agenda that the current NAACP is attempting to label as a civil rights agenda. In the 21st Century, the anti-traditional marriage community is in league with …

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Black Pastor Calls For Quitting The NAACP

“When you recognize that the black community is strongly a Christian-based group of people, conservative in most of the things they believe, the NAACP has gone diabolically the opposite direction of tradition of the black community. [The NAACP] really is doing this in order to stay relevant and in order to build up their revenues as it relates to what …

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NAACP Endorses Marriage Equality

MAJOR news today. The board of directors of the NAACP has voted to officially endorse same-sex marriage. Reactions from other civil rights groups will be added to the bottom of this post as they arrive. “The mission of the NAACP has always been to ensure the political, social and economic equality of all people,” board chair Roslyn M. Brock said …

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State NAACP Head William Barber Preaches Against NC’s Amendment One

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Headline Of The Day II

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Julian Bond: NOM Is Scary

(Via Good As You)

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NAACP Denounces NOM

“This memo only reveals the limits of a cynical agenda. The truth is that no group, no matter how well-funded, can drive an artificial wedge between our communities. People of color understand what it is like to be the target of discrimination. No public relations strategy will make us forget that.” – NAACP president and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous, via …

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Julian Bond On NOM’s Race-Baiting

“NOM’s underhanded attempts to divide will not succeed if Black Americans remember their own history of discrimination. Pitting bigotry’s victims against other victims is reprehensible; the defenders of justice must stand together.” – Julian Bond, Chairman Emeritus, NAACP.

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Help Stop Voter Suppression

Watch this clip and learn how to help fight the GOP and Tea Party campaign to stop minorities from voting. Millions may be stopped at the polling station door if we do nothing.

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Julian Bond For Marriage Equality

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NAACP Denounces NC Marriage Bill

The North Carolina chapter of the NAACP has issued an open letter to all state residents. An excerpt: Our legislature and all North Carolinians should focus on providing sound basic education for every child; equal access to good health care; living wages; workers rights; recovery from natural disasters; and protections for maximum voter turnout. Who can tell thousands of families …

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VIDEO: Marriage Vote In NC Senate

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NAACP Stages First-Ever Panel Discussion On Black LGBT Rights

Clip via No More Down Low TV. A partial clip description: The debate gets heated when the current NAACP president is asked how can the LGBT community take the NAACP seriously when its current board members are out saying that gay rights are not civil rights, referring to current NAACP board member Rev. Keith Ratliff recent statement: “Gay community, stop …

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OKLAHOMA: Sally Kern Votes To Approve Her Own Reprimand For Racism

After facing calls for her resignation by GLAAD and the NAACP, Oklahoma lawmaker Sally Kern has voted to approve her own reprimand by the state House for racist remarks made last week. Kern preceded her vote with another apology, this one delivered to the full chamber. “Last Wednesday night while debating a bill, I said some words that were not …

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NAACP To Sally Kern: Resign Now

The NAACP is calling for the resignation of Sally Kern after the Oklahoma legislator said that black people have higher rates of imprisonment because they are lazy. Via Advocate: NAACP state president Anthony Douglas wants Kern to resign. “This is an outrage. We’re calling for her to go today. She needs to step down now,” he said. Under the leadership …

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About Maine Gov. LePage’s Black “Son”

Over the weekend, newly-elected Tea Party-backed Maine Gov. Paul LePage called the NAACP a “special interest group” and told them to “kiss my butt” when they requested his presence at an event honoring Martin Luther King. LePage then offered up his black adopted son as proof that he isn’t a racist. Only, wait. That black “son” of his is actually …

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Quote Of The Day – Maine Gov. Paul LePage

“Tell ’em to kiss my butt. They are a special interest. End of story. And I’m not going to be held hostage by special interests. And if they want, they can look at my family picture. My son happens to be black, so they can do whatever they’d like about it.” – Tea Party-backed Maine Gov. Paul LePage, after refusing …

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KKK Grand Wizard David Duke Defends The “Whiteness” Of The Tea Party Movement

Former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard and white supremacist David Duke thinks it’s ridiculous to criticize the Tea Party for being so white. Completely unrelated (yeah, right) is today’s report from the NAACP that ties the Tea Party to several white nationalist groups. According to Duke, Zionists are trying to wrestle the Tea Party away from its rightful white founders. …

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