Michael Myers is director of the New York Civil Rights Coalition and former assistant national director of the NAACP. Today in the Wall Street Journal he has a few choice words of advice for the NAACP, which he says “is in dire straits, financial and otherwise, … down in membership, down in funds, down in glory and accomplishments….[U]nless it makes the right choices and wise decisions it may shrivel up and die.”
… the shifting of its purposes — from an interracial and integrationist organization to one aimed at airing racial grievances — threatens the NAACP with oblivion. For more than a decade, no one at the top has uttered the “i-word” for fear of alienating young blacks who were segregating themselves on campuses. Instead the organization began identifying with ghetto blacks who deified skin color, and lashed out at “Uncle Toms” and others whose moral behavior and speech patterns displayed middle-class values.
In other places Myers says what he really thinks of the NAACP, and lays out a recommended agenda for its future.
What, standing up for Michael Vick doesn’t count as glory?