NAACP Threatens Legal Action Vs. The Radiance Foundation

Ads like this have ticked off the NAACP

The liberal organization ain't feeling the anti-abortion group's satirical description of its name. From the blog of Alveda King, a prominent pro-life activist: "The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) is falsely accusing The Radiance Foundation and its chief creative officer, Ryan Bomberger, of 'trademark infringement' over an ad campaign that exposes the NAACP’s pro-abortion position. In response, Radiance and Bomberger, who is black, has asked a federal court to declare that the First Amendment protects their exercise of free speech and that their speech does not infringe on any of the NAACP’s trademarks or other rights. The lawsuit does not seek any damages."

More about the NAACP's trademark lawsuit: "Bomberger has written for several years about the NAACP’s pro-abortion actions, satirically referring to the organization as the 'National Association for the Abortion of Colored People.' 'It is ironic that a black man is being sued by the nation’s oldest civil rights group for exercising his most basic civil right — the freedom of speech,' said Bomberger. 'This threat of legal action from the NAACP is nothing more than a multi-million dollar organization’s attempt to bully someone who’s simply telling the truth. Our inner-cities are crumbling, two-parent married families barely exist, 72.3 percent of our children are born into homes without fathers, and the NAACP wants to silence me for pointing out its support of abortion.'"