[GPSCC-chat] National NAACP Convention in Los Angeles

[Spencer Graves]

Hi, Alex:


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       Spencer


On 7/26/2011 5:16 PM, alexcathy at aol.com wrote:
> Dear Green Friends,
>
> If you don't know the 102nd national convention of the National 
> Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is currently 
> underway here in Los Angeles, California.
>
> Friends, I gotta tell you. This is driving me crazy.  It is all 
> corporate.  100% corporate.
>
> The official heading graphic of the convention includes the logos of 
> their top 3 so-called "leading sponsors," that is, those who have 
> donated $250,000 to $300,000.
>
> (See http://www.naacp.org/pages/2011-naacp-convention-sponsors ).
>
> Thus, in the lower right corner you'll see little symbols for Edison 
> International (Southern California Edison), Toyota, and, inside the 
> little red box, Wells Fargo Bank.
>
> *Wells Fargo Bank! *
>
> Just yesterday, the New York Times published an op-ed piece by Joe 
> Nocera about how even the do-nothing Federal Reserve has issued a 
> "cease-and-desist order against Wells Fargo for predatory lending 
> practices.
>
> Not only that, but just two years ago a lawsuit was filed "accusing 
> Wells Fargo and HSBC of forcing blacks into subprime mortgages while 
> whites with identical qualifications got lower rates."
>
> Pray tell, what organization filed these charges in in federal court 
> in Los Angeles in March 2011?
>
> None other than the National Association for the Advancement of 
> Colored People.
>
> (See: 
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/13/naacp-wells-fargo-hsbc-fo_n_174564.html 
> )
>
> As near as I can tell, the only dissenting voices have been a raggedy 
> group called the "South Central Tea Party."
>
> (see 
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/22/blackonblack-politics-_n_906758.html). 
>
>
> They say:
>
> "The NAACP is set up as a non-profit organization with the pretense of 
> helping black people get themselves together, but I can clearly see 
> that the NAACP is a political pawn for the liberal elite white racist 
> Democratic party and they are using black Americans for their own 
> personal gain," said Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Lee_Peterson>
>
> Behold, our wonderful Two-Party system!  This is supposed to be my 
> "alternative" to the Dems.
>
> * * *
>
> I want to know what the status of Green Party members thinking of 
> running for election in 2012 in California. I know I can't win.  I 
> know I can't raise the kind of money required to run a serious 
> campaign nowadays. I know at age 62 I don't even have the energy 
> required to campaign flat-out for a whole year.  But I just cannot 
> allow these damned Democrats to slide right through another national 
> election leading my city, my state, and my country to perdition with 
> the only dissent from rightwing nuts.
>
>
> Alex Walker
> Los Angeles Greens.
>
>
>
>
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