And I emphasize the "supposed to be."
2007-01-25 00:31:50 · 8 answers · asked by Lionel 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Ok, I guess I knew the answer to that question, but my real question is, have they ever fully supported a Republican/platform?
2007-01-25 00:38:29 · update #1
Neutral non-profit organization, they even got Rush Limbaugh off for Dr. Shopping because of illegal search and seizure. Rush Limbaugh was guilty as sin.
2007-01-25 00:42:04 · answer #1 · answered by RUMMY the DUMMY 2 · 14⤊ 2⤋
It already is a non-for-profit organization, they will help anyone who's Civil Rights are being violated if the case warrants it. Like was said above they helped Rush Limbaugh.
2007-01-25 09:21:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I remember their ads in Fall 2000:
Renee Mullins (voice over): I’m Renee Mullins, James Byrd’s daughter.
"On June 7, 1998 in Texas my father was killed. He was beaten, chained, and then dragged 3 miles to his death, all because he was black.
So when Governor George W. Bush refused to support hate-crime legislation, it was like my father was killed all over again.
Call Governor George W. Bush and tell him to support hate-crime legislation.
We won’t be dragged away from our future."
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Gee, right in the middle of the presidential race. How could that be considered "partisan"?
And people wonder why Bush didn't accept an invite to speak to the NAACP for 5 years?
Some other NAAC non-partisan quotes, from Julian Bond and Kweisi Mfume:
-Republican's idea of equal rights is "the American flag and the Confederate swastika flying side by side, "
- Bush intended to take America "back to the days of Jim Crow segregation and dominance."
- Republicans "draw their most rabid supporters from the Taliban wing of American politics"
- Republicans want to "write bigotry back into the Constitution."
- compared conservatives to the KKK and the Bush administration to the Confederacy.
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To answer the "supposed to be" question. Yes, they are supposed to be. To maintain their tax-free status, they are required to be non-partisan. They failed, miserably.
2007-01-25 08:55:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
No, not really. Things are so bad that one political cartoonist joked that it should be called the NAADP, the national association for the advancement of the Democratic Party.
2007-01-25 08:42:28 · answer #4 · answered by Love YHWH with all of oneself 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I see you have found the secret to understanding any such groups where as " suppose to be " and reality have no relationship to each other.
2007-01-25 08:36:37 · answer #5 · answered by ramarro smith shadow 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, they are not. They work tirelessly to achieve their cause, the advancement of colored people (that's why they're called the NAACP).
2007-01-25 08:34:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
yes and so are churches. but they both involve themselves in politics.
2007-01-25 09:09:14 · answer #7 · answered by J Q Public 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Supposed, it is by law.
2007-01-25 08:34:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋