By Antonio D. French
Filed Sunday, April 2 at 6:34 AM
The website of The St. Louis American is reporting that a press conference that was scheduled for Friday morning was cancelled at the last minute because of what one participant called 'organizational turmoil' within the St. Louis City and County chapters of the NAACP.
That assessment came from Rev. B.T. Rice, a member and past president of the County branch. According to the American, the press conference was meant as a response from some NAACP members and at least one elected official, State Rep. Ester Haywood, to a press conference earlier in the week in which Harold Crumpton, president of the City chapter, surprised many people by standing with former KTRS host David Lenihan and asking the radio station to give the white host his job back after being fired for using the word "coon" on the air.
"City chapter president Harold Crumpton has damaged beyond repair the city chapter," former national NAACP board member Gentry Trotter told the paper. "He should be removed from office."
2 Comments:
All evidence in furtherance of the argument that the NAACP has outlived its usefulness. The infighting between these "negro leaders" is embarassing and enough to make you want to never give them a dollar, no less join their membership. Who needs this crap?
8:14 AM, April 03, 2006
I had a conversation with Harold Crumpton, president of the City branch, a few months ago. When I voiced my opinion that the local NAACP was silent on some of the most important issues in the city, he said I didn't know what I was talking about and that my generation was perpetually uninformed. And he walked away.
If you follow this blog at all, you know that I may be many things, but uninformed is not one of them.
So I got a little upset. I walked over to him and interupted his conversation. I asked him if he noticed what had just happened.
A young, college-educated, politically active black male just politely and articulately explained to him why the NAACP was not relavent to his generation, and he dismissed me.
He didn't get it.
And he still doesn't.
10:06 PM, April 03, 2006
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