NAACP MOVES TO MAKE ITSELF EVEN LESS CREDIBLE…

In a move that I’m sure must have left at least a few scratching their heads, earlier this week the NAACP took what I would say was an unusual step and one likely to further reduce what credibility it may still possess as an organization whose primary purpose was once to promote racial equality. And in choosing to demonstrate that it has become nothing more than a mere shadow of its former self, and in the process nothing more than a front group for the Democrat Party, the Los Angeles chapter of this once venerable organization made its selection of its "Person of the Year."

As you all know, or should know unless you’ve been living under a rock, it was the Los Angeles chapter that withdrew its lifetime achievement award intended for embattled LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling last month. So as it set out on a quest for a suitable replacement it evidently had little luck in finding someone who would actually be worthy of the award. So with very few options available to it, it was forced to settle for, of all people, Al ‘Bull Horn’ Sharpton as its ‘new’ "Person of the Year." This bogus award was given to ‘Bull Horn’ on Thursday evening, in Sterling's absence.

In his acceptance speech old ‘Bull Horn’ wasted little time in taking a jab at Sterling, saying to those in the audience, "Sterling may be rich but he’s not as rich as the history of this organization." Well that might be a bit of an exaggeration, especially if we’re going to be including this organization’s more recent foray into Democrat Party politics. And while the group may have chose to distance itself from Sterling after a recently released recording of his using racial language, there’s no arguing that old Al ‘Bull Horn’ Sharpton has his own history of racial controversy.

I’m sure most will remember ‘Bull Horn’s’ involvement in any number of racially tainted incidents over the years including the making of false accusations in the racially charged Tawana Brawley case, the inciting of anti-Jewish mobs in New York in the early 1990s, or fanning racial outrage in the Trayvon Marin case. So it strikes me that if this group was truly interested in what it claims to be interested in, the last person that they would have seen as worthy of being their "Person of the Year" would have been Al. Such a selection only serves to demean all the previous winners of the award.