How did I miss this story?

The NAACP recently decided to let all the nation’s coloreds drink from their water fountain of perpetual victimhood.

A grizzly bear of a white man with a shock of gray hair on his chin stares from the front row. Near him, a young white guy, arms thick with muscles, leans back in his chair. Three rows behind, a balding white man with blue letters tattooed across his forehead sits quietly. White face after white face, inmate after inmate — a sea of white men with few exceptions.

Here they are: the Maine State Prison Chapter of the NAACP.

And here is Jealous (ed. – head of the NAACP): on a mission to do no less than revitalize his aging organization in a racially changing America.

In other words, a sales call.

“Hey, guys,” he says.

“Hey guys.” Heh.

Am I the only one who thinks they need to rename their organization to something that sounds a little less racist?

Joseph “JJ” Jackson — the chapter’s vice president, who is black — was locked up in May 1995 and knows Flynn well. “This is a black organization, but you have that felon beside your name and that makes you a minority,” he says.

That’s quite a stereotype you’ve got there, JJ. Felon = Minority. Speaking of stereotypes, the head of the NAACP is going into the jails to help register felons of all colors to vote. I’ll let you guess for which party.

A rainbow of prisoners

Then Jealous speaks. He takes a moment to look out at his audience. A Native American with long black hair is sitting four rows from the front; and two black men, one bald and another with cornrows, are sitting in the back row. A Latino man is near the front, and a South Asian man is in the center of the crowd. The rest are white.

“It was pointed out that the name of the NAACP is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. That confuses folks sometimes,” says Jealous, standing behind the wooden lectern. “As they say, colored people come in all colors.”
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“It’s nice for a change not to see so many black folks,” Jealous says as he pulls away.

I don’t think the head of the Ku Klux Klan could have said it any better.

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