subject: How can you end racism when you career depends on it? [print this page] "Not the America these people fought and died for."
The New York Post reports an accounting firm hired by Al Sharpton's National Action Network found the civil-rights group in such financial disarray that it flunked its record-keeping and may not even survive.
"The organization has suffered recurring decreases in net assets and has been dependent upon advances from related parties and the nonpayment of payroll tax obligations to maintain continuity," the firm KBL concluded in an April 2, 2010 audit of NAN's 2008 financial records, the most recent available.
This news comes as another slap in the face to Black America, as premier Black self-appointed spokespersons and organizations for Civil Rights continue to distance themselves from sound business practices to a "hand-to-mouth" system of survival not different from the corporate greed that took the banking system down. In this case, there will be no President Obama stimulus package for Black Civil Rights organizations.
Star Parker, A Black Woman and Republican candidate for US Congress in California's 37th District, a syndicated columnist, author and the founder and president of CURE, the Center for Urban Renewal & Education, a 501(c)3 non-profit think tank that explores and promotes market-based public policy to fight poverty talks about the flagship Black organizations Parker states, "What we know, there is an agenda of a secular status mentality. A cultural war with two sides vying for space. You have a biblical world of view that was set in our rule of law as a nation, but on the other side you have a secular world view that doesn't like the fact that God said Here are the boundaries, here are the rules,' and that our founders thought is was important enough to thread them through are declaration and into our Constitution so that the role of government is limited to protect in our interests, protecting us from our neighbors sin. The rest of it is up to us to life free you have to be responsible, but there's a war against that. So we have those that have this agenda to their core, the secular status agenda. But then think about the old slave plantation. There are 4 million slaves in the country and they live in this plantation, the owner lets put him where secular status is. But you had over-seers whose exclusive job was to keep those slaves in place. That's were I would categorize the Urban League and many of the other Civil Rights organizations, as well as the People for the American Way, the ACLU, and the media there like the old plantation overseer if anybody decides their going to talk about freedom or anybody decides that they really want different' or change,' that person is brought before the rest, kind of like what they use to do when someone would run away at the underground, they would capture them; they'd bring them back; they would bring all the other slaves out to watch them (overseers) strip the skin off the slaves back and bruise them forever so nobody else would ever try to run away. That's were I put the Urban League. They have shaken down corporations in this country for multiple, multiple millions of dollars and their exclusive job now is to keep poor people poor. They keep them on the plantation and keep them in a victim mentality." (Listen to the full interview starparkerurbanleague)
As "soul brothers and sisters" mount up to attend the Congressional Black Caucus in Washington, DC yet a little more than a thousand miles away in Dallas, a scandal began to percolate: Democratic Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas) admitted to steering thousands of dollars in Congressional Black Caucus Foundation scholarships to several relatives and the children of one of her top aides. The congresswoman's actions were a clear violation of the Foundation's own rules, and have called down the furies from numerous ethics watchdogs.
Ms. Johnson's actions are all the more disdainful when viewed in light of the scandals that have beset the Congressional Black Caucus in recent months. Many observers have been quick to accuse the CBC's critics of racism. But in these cases, an unfortunate yet unambiguous pattern has emerged: many black congressmen have begun taking care of themselves instead of the constituents they represent.
If an organizations mission is to solve poverty, is it fruitful for that organization to be effective?
If an organizations mission is to end racism, what will happen if racism ends?
Making a living off the suffering of poor Black people has always been a billion dollar institution some of the best-paid people in the industry look like us.
Who really represents the interests of Black America?
I hate to say it, but I think we've check for the deep part of the pool with both feet in.
How can you end racism when you career depends on it?
