The NAACP has nothing left. As badly as they want to pretend that America remains as racist as ever, and thing things are worse than ever for black people (in which case, the NAACP must be the least successful organization in history), anyone who's paying attention knows that's no longer true. Oh sure, you've got lots of race-obsessed liberal journalists who try to make everything that ever happens evidence of racism. And you can always point the finger at neo-Nazi groups and pretend they're part of the mainstream of society - rather than fringe nutbags that conservatives as well as liberals completely reject.
You can try all that. But normal Americans are not running around obsessing about race or having problems with other people because they are of a different race. So when the political left points its collective finger at a Republican politician and screams raaaaaaaaaaaaaciiiiiiiiiiist, most people just shrug their shoulders and recognize it's the same old, tired, stupid, dishonest routine.
And it's rarely been more dishonest than it is with the left's attempt to do it to attorney general-designate Jeff Sessions. Shortly after Sessions was nominated, writer Quin Hillyer of the Wall Street Journal eviscerated this total lie:
No sooner did President-elect Donald Trump name his pick for attorney general, Sen. Jeff Sessions, than allegations of racism began to fly. A writer at the website Slate lamented the Alabama senator’s “long history of racist words and bigoted deeds.” A headline at Salon called Messrs. Trump and Sessions “two peas in a racist pod.” Nonsense. The charge that Mr. Sessions is a latent racist is belied by a long trail of evidence, strewn with cocaine, through the country of Colombia.
The accusations stem from Mr. Sessions’s unsuccessful nomination for a federal judgeship in 1986. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted down that nomination after hearing testimony about remarks Mr. Sessions had purportedly made in the early 1980s that were deemed racially insensitive. Throughout three intervening decades of public life, Mr. Sessions hasn’t evinced an iota of racial animus. Yet Democrats are clucking that the now-ancient incidents—disputed even then as taken wholly out of context—should disqualify Mr. Sessions from being attorney general.
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He spoke about addicts and criminals not with vilification, but with compassion. “You’ve got these poor guys in the inner city,” I remember him saying. “Nobody provided them much of an education; they can’t find a job; and somebody tells them they can get high for relatively cheap by smoking these crack rocks. They get addicted and they do something terrible and end up in jail and their lives get ruined. We’ve gotta help our Colombian allies defeat these drug lords at the source, where they grow this stuff. It’s just ruining all these lives.”
It was this same train of thought—compassion for the users of crack cocaine—that led Sen. Sessions to introduce the Drug Sentencing Reform Act in 2001. The law at the time punished crack cocaine 100 times more harshly than powdered cocaine. Mr. Sessions specifically argued that this created unfair racial disparities, since crack was the drug of poor inner cities, while powder was favored by white Wall Streeters. Such compassion for black addicts is far from a hallmark of someone motivated by racial animus.
The totality of the man's career demonstrates that not only is he not a racist, but that he cares deeply for the plight of minorities who have gotten caught up in drugs and crime as a result of their poverty backgrounds. If the NAACP really cared about the "advancement of colored people" as its name suggests, it would consider Jeff Sessions one of its best friends. But it doesn't. It cares only about the advancement of the Democratic Party and the slander of anyone who doesn't supports its agenda as racist.
And that's why they're putting on this absurd circus at Sessions's office:
The NAACP is staging a sit-in at the Mobile, Alabama, office of US Sen. Jeff Sessions to protest Sessions' nomination as US attorney general.
The protesters say they will stay until Sessions is no longer the nominee or they are arrested."We are asking the senator to withdraw his name for consideration as attorney general or for the president-elect, Donald Trump, to withdraw the nomination," NAACP President Cornell William Brooks said Tuesday afternoon from Sessions' office.
"In the midst of rampant voter suppression, this nominee has failed to acknowledge the reality of voter suppression while pretending to believe in the myth of voter fraud."
Alabama NAACP President Benard Simelton said he and 15-20 others are there "conducting business as usual" and will remain until "Sessions meets our demands or the arrest -- whichever he chooses."
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Oh stop. First let's deal with the absurd suggestion that Voter ID laws amount to "voter suppression." As we've dealt with in this space previously, this argument is based on a totally racist presumption that black people are too stupid to get their hands on easily obtainable (and free) state-issued ID cards. Why does the NAACP hate black people? Why does it think they are so stupid and inept? I think they can do whatever they need to do in order to be able to vote. But then, unlike the NAACP, I respect all people regardless of their color.
As to the suggestion that Jeff Sessions would not defend people whose rights were violated under the law, Mr. Brooks should take an honest look into Sessions's record both as a prosecutor and as a lawmaker. What he'll find is that Sessions not only defends the rights of all who need it, but he often bends over backwards to do so.
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So if the NAACP demands either the withdrawal of the Sessions nomination or their own arrest, I say bust out the handcuffs. These people deserve to be locked up, not because they held a protest, but because they are slandering a good man. And the only reason they're doing so is that their act grew tired decades ago, and they never came up with anything else.
It's time people started standing up to the NAACP and told them that if they want to remain relevant, they need to deal with the realities of today. And that does not include smearing good people with obviously false accusations. When the only thing you have in your toolbox is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. The NAACP thinks everything it doesn't like is caused by racism, because it's been invested for decades in the idea that victim-mongering is the way forward for black people.
As our boss can tell you, successful black people learned otherwise a very long time ago.
