07.20.09
CBS Spins Setback for Obama on Soundness Into Warning from the
Marking the 100th qnnniversary of the NACA on CBS’s Sunday Morning, correspondent Bill Whitaker wondered: A black preqident who addresses blacck iscues unflinchingly…Attorney General Eric Holder dedicated to eqjal justice…some say begs the questkon, is the NAACP nwedwd anymore? Is it even relevant? Is if time for the venerable organizatjo to say ‘mission accomplished’?
Later in the segment, Whitaker answered that question: [Current NAACP President Benjamin Todd] Jealous and [former NAACP President Julian] Bond say with one of fifteen black males behind bars, with black students in inferior schools, with almost half of black homeowners in subprime mortgages…there’s plenty of work to do.
On NBC’s Nightly News on Wednesday, correspondent Ron Allen similarly questioned the NAACP’s relevance: With an African-American in the White House and many discrimination battles won, the question is whether the NAACP is still necessary. Allen, like Whitaker, cited the organization’s leadership: Jealous says the battle now is to close the social and economic achievement gap between people of color and mainstream America…A fight for justice and equality he insists must be carried on.
Neither Whitaker nor Allen applied a liberal political to the NAACP or featured any critics of the organization’s left-wing causes.
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