NAACP Covers For Obama
By Gary Bauer
The governing board of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) endorsed same-sex
"marriage" over the weekend. The move is not likely to go over well
with blacks, many of whom were not pleased with Obama's endorsement of same-sex
"marriage" either. I suspect many will view this announcement as a
political decision intended to give Obama cover with his base.
But politics aside, it is complete nonsense. The
socio-economic status of black Americans has declined over the last few
decades. We have an emerging black middle class, but the percentage of
out-of-wedlock births, the number of abandoned black women, the number of black
men incarcerated, etc., have all gone up and in some cases dramatically so. The
NAACP's marriage to liberal ideology has been a failure.
The unemployment rate among blacks is a
staggering 13%. Yet, the leaders of the NAACP got together this weekend and
decided that a top priority for their organization was men "marrying"
other men. How does that help the black family, which is already suffering from
a lack of men in the home? If black leaders want to come up with a plan to
address the ills of the black community and restoring fathers to their children
and mothers is not at the top of their list, then they are not helping the
black community.
The NAACP's decision pits the breakdown of the
black family versus the demand of a largely white, upper-income sexual minority
to redefine the meaning of marriage. That would seem to be an easy choice. But
NAACP leaders chose to spend their political capital fighting for the interests
of San Francisco and Greenwich Village. In doing so, they risk losing the moral
authority of the people they claim to represent.
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