A SHAMEFUL NAACP BOYCOTT


I am willing to assume that there was a time when the NAACP did some good. (I do not make the same assumption about the SPLC.) But that time is long, long gone. For many years, the NAACP has been a force for ill, not for good. An excellent example is its just-launched boycott campaign:

The NAACP is calling on Black athletes and fans to boycott the athletic programs of public universities in states that are taking steps that the nation’s oldest civil rights group says are restricting Black voting rights.

There is no conceivable theory on which anyone is restricting black voting rights.

Launched Tuesday, the “Out of Bounds” campaign urges prospective Black athletes, their families, alumni and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from major public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation.”

If Black athletes participate in the boycott, it could deplete rosters for powerhouse football and basketball programs across the Southeastern Conference and Atlantic Coast Conference.

They are talking about the Supreme Court decision that says it is unconstitutional to draw Congressional district lines based on race. You can gerrymander, but you can’t racially gerrymander. The Court’s decision is race-neutral, but of course that isn’t good enough for race grifters.

Civil rights activists have mobilized across the South to protest redistricting plans by Republican state legislatures that eliminate majority-Black congressional districts after the high court’s ruling. Activists have looked for pressure points to dissuade GOP-led states from redistricting maps, including calls for mass protests and economic boycotts.
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The NAACP’s campaign calls out Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas and South Carolina as states to boycott, arguing that the athletic programs of those states’ flagship universities are especially reliant on Black athletic talent and should protect Black political interests.

Call me an optimist, but I’m pretty sure the NAACP is delusional if it thinks it can stop black athletes from wanting to play at Alabama, Florida, Georgia, LSU, Mississippi, Texas and South Carolina. It isn’t going to happen. Although, come to think of it, this campaign may be evidence that the NAACP is being funded by Ohio State and Michigan.