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NAACP More Concerned With Excusing Rapists, Than With Helping Their Victims
April 1st, 2008
Okay, I’m not going to go through the arduous task of recapping all the happenings point by point; but here’s the situation in a nutshell:
Back in the summer a woman was gang rapped in her apartment while her son was beaten, and then she was forced to perform oral on him; as they screamed for help in a thined wall project apartment, and no one bothered to even call police.
Back in late November, four suspects were charged.
Though there have been persistent calls over the months for Al Shaprton and the NAACP to bring their advocacy powers to bare on behalf of the torcher victims as well as for the safety of Dunbar Village residents in general; these people have been mostly muted, until they decide to take up for the apparent rapists (Though according to West Palm Beach (WPB) chapter president Maude Ford Lee, the chapter helped relocate the families with some churches. Her statement making this claim gives no specifics as to the veracity of this “help”.)
Let me first be abundantly clear: due process must be insisted upon for all defendents, even when we think “we know” who do it; as to protect the freedom of the innocent and to be sure and punish the rightfully guilty, especially when dealing with a racist and classist injustice system.
However, with that principle strigently in hand, there by no means should be calls for likely rapist to roam free based on another set of accused rapist in another case having received bail; as has been called for by Al Sharpton and the NAACP. If anything Sharpton and the NAACP should be calling for the other defendants to be held without bail as well, but not that the Dunbar (self-confessed in some cases) rapist be unleashed back onto the community. If there are no due process issues and sufficent evidence (there is cooberating evidence such as DNA) to support a solid belief that these are the right supspects; there’s no reason why they should receive bail.
Sharpton and the NAACP have claimed it a matter of fairness. Somehow to these folks, because Group A rapist were let out on bail; its fair for women and children to be subject to rape, and therefore, Group B rapist should be released.
Since a Blogger campaign started a couple of weeks ago to “Stop NAACP Support of Rapists”, Al Sharpton has retracted his position and admitted he made a mistake. The NAACP however, persist, and claim that you can’t believe your lying eyes and ears. The NAACP continues to take up for criminals just because they’re Black.
We (Black people with any decent level of integrity) don’t defend criminals just because they’re Black. And we don’t let “Leading Blacks” tell us that bruatal rapist are “precious” and “tender” misunderstood youth:
This is the flyer they passed out at the press confrence where they “didn’t” defend rapist.
Even while advocating against the gross overreach of a malicious prosecutor in the Jena 6 case, I never claimed that Mychael Bell, Bryant Purvis and company were sweet and pure; and in their case, even if they are the perpitrators, their alleged crime was nowhere near as horrific as this.
We’re asking people to contact Mrs Lee of the West Palm Beach NAACP (unit5143@naacp.org or 561 655-9798) and encourage her to refrain from advocating that rapist get bail; and for all NAACP members everywhere to withhold funds and participation in this organization until it does the right thing to “Advance” our community. The national and state NAACP are aware of this issue. Their silence is nothing less than a nod of agreement with the position of the WPB branch.
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Glad to have your voice joined in this campaign as well! Thank you for sharing this information with your blog readers…
peace, Villager
Villager, I’m glad to do what I can to help.
Congradulations to you on being a good leader in spreading this campaign.
Very well said, Yobachi.
We have a podcast planned on Thursday, in which the President of the Florida chapter will call in.
I am hoping that they will come to their senses on this issue. It only harms the cause of civil rights
to try to lie yourself out of situations — there are eyewitness accounts from many reporters,
there is video tape, there are the physical artifacts like flyers and interoffice memos.
Our goal is not to diminish the NAACP– it is to shed light on a terrible, misguided action, and
to let the will of the majority of black people be known to this organization. If their goal is
to be our ‘voice’, then they MUST learn to listen to our heart first.
Thanks Shecodes.
They’re running up hill against facts and reality. That flyer really disgust me.
I think the NAACP diminishes itself, and has for a very long time. this situation just tipifies what’s BEEN wrong with the NAACP.