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Originally posted by Honeykiss1974
That all depends on your priorities though. For example, if you consider yourself a black woman before ANYTHING else, then yes, you may be able to ignore any and other less than desireable rhetoric that the NAACP may say or be involved in.
But there are MANY Af Am. that do not feel that have that same list of priorities, yours truly included. I use to be a member of the NAACP until recently. They have become involved in issues that go against the core of who I am, not to mention I feel like they are taking up causes that in the grand scheme of things are not important to the Af. Am in general.
Yes, they did a lot to give us the rights that we enjoy today, however that does not mean that I will just blindly follow you based on what you DID - and just completely ignore what you are doing today. Plus, the NAACP is not the ONLY organization that is working globably to help the Af Am community. There are plenty of other options available.
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I agree with you. I feel, however, that the NAACP is one of the most significant organizations of our history and rather than just dismiss it because we don't agree with all of its positions, we should try to make sure it does what it is supposed to do in our communities, if possible. Believe me, I am the last person who would advocate blindly following any organization just because of it's name, but I would be one who would promote holding an organization such as this accountable for what its true function in our community is supposed to be for the sake of maintaining the integrity of it's history as well as ours.