Seattle NAACP president Alfoster Garrett Jr. has finally resigned his post, having badly embarrassed the organization by botching a high profile legal case, and exhibiting serious additional problems with personal and professional responsibility. It marks the end of a another bleak chapter for the Seattle NAACP. Garrett had succeeded as the unit's president Carl Mack, a King County employee who in his separate role with the Seattle NAACP specialized in race-baiting, blocking traffic and calling press conferences, before he mercifully left town to take a job near Washington, D.C.
The NAACP is obsolete. As obsolete as the CP in their name, which stands for "colored people." If the organization wanted to really join the 21st Century in America, it would formulate a new initiative addressing parenting issues among urban low-income blacks, and another for expanded school choice, namely charters and vouchers. But the NAACP would still rather blame Whitey. Sad.
Posted by Matt Rosenberg at November 22, 2005 08:33 AM | Email ThisMost of draconian child support legislation was created to address the parenting issue in the black community. The state however uses it to bleed and break up middle and upper middle class families.
Critics insist that many fathers will spend time time with their kids only to reduce the child support obligation. For most this is utter nonsense and for the cases that it might in fact be true...every study has shown that the kid is better off with 2 parents involved. Something money can't buy.
I believe individuals in the black community UNDERSTAND this. Unfortunately their mouth peices do not.
Posted by: Andy on November 22, 2005 08:57 AMTom DeLay, money laundering, strong arming, nice man.
Bill Frist, the only man in America who can see his blind trust and sell just before the bottom drops out of his portfolio. Oh, did I mention that the stock he sold is a company controlled by his family. But of course (wink) he had no inside information.
David Irons, beat his mother and displays his temper when Costco is out of onions for his hot dog.
Let's throw stones. It is fun.
Dug
Posted by: DugoutNut on November 22, 2005 09:48 AMWe'd like to discuss how to improve the lives of the least fortunate members of our society....and look at the rebuttal we get. Cheap, ignorant, idiotic, and childish. What would one expect from the left nowadays?
Posted by: Larry on November 22, 2005 09:55 AMIf it were me, i'd got for POrt of Seattle? Sweet deal?
Posted by: righton on November 22, 2005 11:02 AMDug- wanna throw mud?- hows about your buddies in the Kennedy family snuffing their mistresses? I give Clinton credit- however there aren't enough rivers in the Eastern seaboard to hide that many bodies and after all, if Bush lied to the American public, we have Bill's good example to follow.
Now please Stefan block this clown's IP address.
The response from mouth pipes "Bush hates black people."
and let's not forget the all too hysteric comedy of 12 kkk pinheads announcing they would march and then leaving after 10 minutes. Where was the NAACP on that one? Seriously, this is totally due to a lack of fathers in these households.
Posted by: Andy on November 22, 2005 11:32 AMMore importantly, I am disappointed by this post by Matt. Normally he is a balanced voice of reason. Here he promotes straw man thinking where one picks on a flawed individual to impune an organization as a whole. Sad...and shallow.
School choice is B.S. You can choose any school you want. We all have an interest in a strong public school system. It reduces crime, gets more kids involved in positive efforts, and is generally a wise way to spend tax dollars. Certainly better than handouts to corporate America or wars without an end game. Yes, there are flaws, but put your energy in to fixing them rather than creating more separation between the rich and poor in this country.
"Whitey" does bear responsibility. As much as you comfortable white folks would like to declare racism dead and gone--it still exists. This is a country which actively denied rights to people of color until relatively recently. Many vestiges of racism still exist in society today.
But you comfortable, rich, white, Republicans act like you are the victims...Sad.
disecting your comments into two demographics
1- the fathers who go through 100k in legal fees to get access to their kids. You're an idiot if you want to take me on with this topic. If you think most men simply walk away- then you would be all for equal parenting laws wouldn't you? It would genuinely expose us for the frauds we are.
2- The black population getting pregnant before 18 and pumping out fatherless kids by truck load. How exactly would you propose getting fathers back into this demographic? The 1996 welfare reform train wreck sure hasn't done much (except to pay states to break up other families so DSHS will get a bigger budget each year). It must still be whitey's fault.
Posted by: Andy on November 22, 2005 10:22 PM2) "The black population getting pregnant before 18 and pumping out fatherless kids by truck load."---Typical racist BS. Do many black teens get pregnant, yes. Do many not get pregnant, yes. What I would propose is better access to contraception, what I would propose is a society that values all lives. For many of these teens getting pregnant means that someone will care about them for the first time in their lives. Sad, but true.
You know, it is really tiresome to hear white males talking about how they have no rights and are wronged. I guess when you get used to having it all, it is easy to blame the poor and people of color. The tired Republican refrain that their rights are being denied is pathetic. Grow up--you live in a country with a long and current history of racism and sexism. When you own that, I will care about your silly problems. Affirmative action exists because racism exists.
Posted by: bfree2think on November 23, 2005 02:38 AMKnow that when I call you an idiot it is not because of your point of view- I agree, men who walk away from their families do need to be accountable and since the law is highly not in our favor, having unprotected sex puts one at risk of an 18-21 year sentence to financial servitude with no rights as a parent.
I call you an idiot because you jump into this with no data and invent it as though I weren't an expert on the topic. Tell tale signs of a moonbat are arguing on emotion and then throwing a $10 word in the mix like diatribe, nexus or my personal favorite "acumen." You know neither my skin color nor if I even have children.
1- Show me the data that says 10:1 men walk away in divorce cases- you are "sure" of it right or you just invented it? FACT: the average of dads being awarded full custody in divorce is 10-20% for mothers the stat is at least double and often triple that in all states. The problem is that 80% of the cases are not equal custody. The biology argument is backed up by no data or study that kids raised by mom are better off than kids raised by dad. However every study on the subject shows that kids who do not have significant access to their father are more likely to drop out of school, go to prison, commit a violent crime, become a teenage parent, have serious self esteem issues and the list goes on.
2- Fact: Fatherlessness is peaking at 75% among blacks. It's ~30% for the larger population. Racist BS huh? Go read the testimony leading up to the 1996 welfare reform act- this is the very reason the support laws were put in place.
These very same laws are screwing the rest of us because states get paid for how many families they coral into CSE's web. One of the silver lining's to Katrina was the federal government was looking to cut that "administrative" subsidy by 50%.
However my fight is for joint custody laws and CSE reform. Because leaders in the black community don't step up to the plate, everyone else becomes a victim to the laws addressing that 75% statistic. In KC, they have been approached, they don't return our phone calls or they have some other agenda (cough, jesse jackson).
Posted by: Andy on November 23, 2005 09:44 AM