Tag: NAACP

Why is the Delaware NAACP Bullying Councilwoman Lisa Diller?

Filed in Delaware by cassandra_m on October 12, 2013 • 25 Comments

This past Tuesday, the NCCo County Council met for usual business, but ended with an extraordinary bit of public commentary directing actual threats at Councilwoman Lisa Diller. We talked about the original incident here. But the NAACP President, Richard Smith, read a letter into the record that you can hear via the County’s audio of the meeting. The full meeting is about 30 minutes long, but if you go to about the 26 minute mark you can hear from Mr. Smith and Mr. Roosevelt Nichols (not sure I heard the name correctly) who read the letter sent to Ms. Diller.

The letter recommends that Ms. Diller take Diversity Training and Anger Management Training. It also says that “…we will monitor your future County Council behavior from now on.” (my transcription of the audio). Mr. Smith then takes the mike to also recommend Diversity Training and ask for a meeting with Ms. Diller. And if that doesn’t happen, “We’ll do what we have to do — you can take that any way you want to.” ‘Refuse to take the black community for granted” and he’d have 14-18 NAACP states here to protest or something.

Got that? The Delaware NAACP suits up in County Council to defend the indefensible behavior of Bernard Pepukayi — that behavior being an inept dodge of a valid request from a Council Member for a briefing on a the status of an appeal of a recent court decision in the Pike Creek Golf Course case.

NAACP Issues Charter School Resolution

Filed in Delaware, National by pandora on February 9, 2012 • 10 Comments

Here’s what caught my attention:

WHEREAS, in some cases, charter schools have become a school model that is used
to segregate students; and

Ya think? Charter Schools have also allowed School Districts to shift their responsibilities to these students to Charters. Which is why I’ve always wondered why Charter proponents wanted to serve on Public School Boards. Always struck me as being an employee of Pepsi, but promoting Coke. And you gotta love the way a Public School District Board’s plan for your public school is to give it away. It’s almost as if they’re saying, “Hey, we stink at this education thingy, so we’ll give it to someone else.”

What Is A Hate Group?

Filed in National by Unstable Isotope on December 31, 2010 • 5 Comments

The Southern Poverty Law Center named 13 anti-gay groups as hate groups. Not to be outdone, the Tea Party Nation made it’s own list of hate groups: the ACLU, the NAACP, the Department of Homeland Security, SPLC and the SEIU.

Shirley Sherrod Gets Her Apology

Filed in National by Unstable Isotope on July 22, 2010 • 20 Comments

Shirley Sherrod who was unjustly smeared by Fox News and Andrew Breitbart gets a formal apology from the President and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack.

Beware of Winguts Bearing Tapes

Filed in National by Unstable Isotope on July 21, 2010 • 55 Comments

Dedicated public servant Shirley Sherrod was fired from her USDA job after conservatives edited a tape of a speech she gave and viciously smeared her reputation.