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The NAACP has a long and storied history of representing the interests of the African American community, but in recent years it has maintained its intense focus on racism—which has been declining for decades—to the exclusion of the biggest problems facing the black community.
In the process, the NAACP is fostering a “victim mentality” among blacks instead of helping them improve their lives. For the NAACP leadership, shifting the NAACP’s focus to address more pressing problems such as black-on-black crime, out-of-wedlock births, and failing schools would risk losing funding and status.
August 23, 2017, was one of the most surreal days for the NAACP. - NAACP President Derrick Johnson sent an open letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell addressing the fact that free-agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick had not been signed by a team. Johnson claimed the NFL was discriminating against Kaepernick for his actions in the previous season, when he knelt during the national anthem in protest of police brutality.
Although the NFL integrated in 1946, a full year before Major League Baseball, and about 70 percent of current NFL players are black, the rally organizers demanded that the NFL “establish a unit tasked with developing a league wide plan to improve racial equality.” The distance in outer space from which that sentiment came was exceeded only by former NAACP President Cornell William Brooks’s answer in the previous year, “It’s lofty, but it’s not a stretch” when asked if Kaepernick should be compared to Rosa Parks.
NAACP History
The NAACP has a long and storied history. Founded in 1909, it spent decades fighting Jim Crow laws in the South and played a pivotal role in the landmark desegregation case Brown vs. Board of Education. It also pressed hard for the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
But over time, the idealists in the organization were replaced by opportunists. Or, as social philosopher Eric Hoffer once wrote, “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
While the NAACP may have rooted out corruption in its ranks, it has never regained its idealism. The NAACP today is a business that generates millions in revenue by campaigning against racism. But racism has long been on the decline in America and is no longer the most serious problem plaguing the black community.
Biggest Problems Facing the Black Community
Taleeb Starkes, author of the bestselling book Black Lies Matter, lists five problems as the biggest ones facing the black community in America:
Lack of diversity,
Urban terrorism,
Proliferation of baby mommas, and Unquestioning allegiance to progressive policies.
Too many blacks, he claims, view themselves as victims. They believe that they are not responsible for their own situation. Their problems are all someone else’s fault, and they see little chance of improving their lives. Black churches, liberal politicians, and public schools all reinforce this mentality, according to Starkes.
Starkes claims that the black community lacks diversity of opinion and thought. The black community does not have an honest dialogue about what is holding it back because too many blacks listen only to leaders such as Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, while opposing voices such as Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams
Surveys have also found steep drops among whites in the negative stereotypes they hold of blacks and in whites’ opposition to interracial neighborhoods and marriage.
This is not to say that racism no longer exists in America. It does and, to some extent, it always will. Yet racism has declined greatly in the past few decades—to the point that blacks in America face far greater problems than racism.
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