It can't be easy to be the NAACP these days. Oh sure, you've got Hollywood and the news media squarely in your corner. But when you're entire raison d'etre is the enduring scourge of widespread racism, what do you do when said racism has almost entirely been relegated to the non-influential fringes of society?
Well. If I was on a mission to rid the world of something awful and I had largely succeeded, I would relish my victory. But not the NAACP. They have to pretend they have made no progress at all, because they're not sure they can think of a reason to exist unless America today is as racist as Bull Connors was back in the day.
