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| Ben Jealous, head of the NAACP |
Asks the moderate pundit, about the NAACP's new website to track "racism and other forms of extremism within the Tea Party movement. She argues that Black America itself - not racism - is now the biggest problem facing Black America: "As noted black historian
Dr. Lerone Bennett. wrote recently, 'A black child had a better chance of growing up with both of his parents in slavery than he does now.' The black marriage rate has declined dramatically since the 1970s. The black divorce rate has soared in the past two decades. Black on black crime and violence in the past two decades in cities like Detroit, Chicago, Camden, St. Louis, Oakland, Cleveland, Birmingham, etc. has caused more death and destruction in our communities than all of the lynchings of black people (that we know of) that took place in the Jim Crow South. And I simply do not have space here to talk about the black male incarceration rates, the
AIDS crisis and black women, drug use, domestic violence, sexual abuse, and everything else that is seemingly plaguing the black community at large in alarming rates."
More: "In the final analysis, I would rather see the
NAACP's wisdom and energy spent focusing on policing 'us' and our own community so that we can redefine a better, healthier, more prosperous destiny for the next generation to come. When the
NAACP gets back to its core mission and values, I will renew my membership and support it wholeheartedly!"
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