NAACP Hosts Dinner, And Controversy

National Review Online: The Organization Invited Rev. Wright Despite His Notorious Comments

(National Review Online)  This column was written by Henry Payne

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One of the country’s most inflammatory orators is coming to town this Sunday.

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Democratic presidential frontrunner Barack Obama’s close friend and pastor for 20 years, represents a noxious brand of American politics -- one that sees the AIDS and crack epidemics as white conspiracies against blacks, finds the U.S. deserving of 9/11, and damns America rather than blesses it.

Public figures with similar messages have dotted the American landscape before. Most have been boycotted and marginalized by mainstream community groups, political activists, and corporations. But Jeremiah Wright’s Detroit visit is being given a free pass.

Why? Perhaps because Rev. Wright is the guest of the NAACP. Normally, the NAACP is a community leader in the fight against hate. On Sunday, however, they’re playing host to it.

Detroit NAACP spokesperson Latoya Henry confirms that the organization’s provocative choice as speaker for its annual dinner has elicited no negative news coverage and not a peep of protest from the local community. (Only a Jewish group in Philadelphia has asked the NAACP to reconsider its choice -- inspired, perhaps, by Wright’s equation of Zionism with racism.) “We’re predicting a great crowd,” Henry says.

Indeed, the guest list reads like a Who’s Who of the Detroit establishment: AAA, AARP, Bank of America, Beaumont Hospitals, Coca-Cola, Comcast, Compuware, Flagstar Bank, Ford Motor Co., and so on. All of them are paying good money to buy tables at the largest annual sit-down charity event in Detroit, where they will hear a racial demagogue who has infamously said: “We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost.”

Detroit’s establishment isn’t protesting, in large part because the Detroit NAACP isn’t calling their board of directors and demanding that they do so.

This week, NAACP leaders supported Rev. Wright as a great man whose words had been taken out of context. But the NAACP has made an art of protesting controversial comments by public figures.

For example, in April, 2007, NAACP president Rev. Wendell Anthony and other representatives of the Detroit group traveled to New York City to demand that talk radio host Don Imus be fired after referring to the Rutgers women’s basketball team as “nappy-headed hos.”

U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks-Kilpatrick, a Detroit Democrat and chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, said of Imus, “He does not yet know he has really set himself and our country back.”

Under intense pressure from the NAACP and other activists, advertisers fled Imus’ program and CBS Radio pulled the plug on him. Too bad NAACP leaders don’t hold themselves to their own standard.

They don’t know how far they have set their cause back.

[theadamsrepo]

The most fascinating aspect of this political process has been the lack of any concern for how the generation after us see us and how we conducted the business of our times. Thank you America for bringing me back down to earth. I was beginning to actually believe we were actually ready to become what our creator envisioned for all of us...to love and respect one another, I was actually starting to believe that maybe things could get better between the races, now I believe we all had better ask ourselves: Just what does being an "American" mean?
By who''s standard or bar is the term set, for everytime you mention J.Wright I dig-in deeper to support him. By the way, I didn''t see CBS,NBC,ABC,FOX or you... in my Church today.

[sharncedar]

If the NRO and if "Henry Payne" get away with this, our nation is endangered. He and they are dividing us against ourselves, creating war within our nation. This is a great and terrible crime; it goes beyond politics, it goes beyond discussion, it is an act of violence against the foundatinos of a nation of the people and by the people. The NRO has crossed a line now and thrown down a challenge to the rule of law. They are openly touting racism and division within the nation. This is no "Islamofascism" fantasy that eggs us on to hate some ill-defined foreigners; this is an attempt to get us to hate our own neighbors and coworkers and friends. They have crossed a line which cannot be accepted or tolerated if we are to remain a nation. We must also now cross a line, and act to remove this offensive organization from America, to cut out this filthy boil from our nation''s flesh, less we be consumed by their murderous sowing of divison and strife within us.

[sharncedar]

What is odd this electino cycle is that racists are now coming out openly in a war of hate against mixed race Americans, which since the future of America will be mixed race as we combine genetically, these are the chilling voices of those who hate our children and our future.

The last election, we had the hate of Islamofascists drumnmed into us. At least those invented creatures were supposedly foreigners. This electino cycle, the same mouth organs of hatred are pushing anti-black racism openly. This is a crime against America, against our future, against our ability to come together and be prosperous, against our own children. This challenge needs to be met.

Anyone who openly touts racism, such as this author, needs to receive appropriate feedback for their actions, and that is to be condemned as an enemy of our country and its untiy, and destroyed. we need to stand up for our country, this is really the great crisis of our times.

This man, "Henry Payne", needs to be held accountable for his attempt to divide and destroy America through infalming racial hatreds.

We cannot laugh this off, wre cannot ignore this. This is an attack on the foundations of our country, it needs to be met like we met the Germans on D-day, without fear and without mercy.

[chad55555]

Let me get this stright,NAACP is allowed to operate in public,it''s well known for it''s hate of whites and the government passes laws to lower standards for them to get out of college and get jobs over others,I''ve been turned down for jobs was told their only hiring miniorty(yet I have a family to feed also). When Frank Rizzo in Phila wanted an equal for whites program he was kicked out of Phila. I always belived equal for everyone but it seems as if equal does not include whites in this country,On a well known talk show she joked about having whites as her slaves now and she brings enough blacks into this country to help vote whites out of office. DOES ANYONE ELSE OUT THERE SEE A 3ed WORLD COMMING TO AMERICA.
Just kidding everyone is equal in America,we all have food to eat,medical care when needed and none of our American people are giving their life for this country and Chirst is still the God of choice in America. JUST FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

[bluestardad]

YEA AND CBS STILL PRINTS THE NRO AND WEEKLY STANDARD DISPITE THEIR DRUMBEAT PROMOTIONS THAT GOT AMERICA INTO THE IRAQ WAR!

AMERICA STAND UP OR SHUT UP!

[bill1fj]

Racism is racism
and the Reverand
is a Racist
He should be ashamed of himself
and
his sponsors should be ashamed of themself.

[paris1969]

It''s all about "black first" .. and whatever else is second. Perhaps the NAACP could demand that Rev. Wright apologize to the family of Natalee Holloway and in that they would have at least some credibility for giving a d*mn about this man''s gross and vile rhetoric. I will never give another dime to the NAACP because of this.