The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #37699   Message #527318
Posted By: GUEST
13-Aug-01 - 10:10 PM
Thread Name: Folk Alliance vs. NAACP
Subject: RE: Folk Alliance vs. NAACP
Right catspaw, read the link you posted. I may be in the minority, but I always read the links other posters provide of this sort.

The problem I'm having with a few posters here is what appears to me to be a presumption on their part that the word of the NAACP should be treated as suspect regarding racial discrimination against African Americans.

The OAH reflects a diverse constituency, it is true, but they don't represent African Americans exclusively, as the NAACP does. This case is about racial discrimination against African Americans specifically. So one wonders why the NAACP suit against the hotel chain is viewed with such suspicion, particularly in light of the previous judgments against the hotel chain in question for similar civil rights violations.