NAACP is also clarifying its focus after 100years
Hazel Trice Edney/NNPA Editor-in-Chief
Issue date: 7/26/09 Section: Politics
(NNPA) - In a grand centennial meeting that drew thousands to New York City - the founding place of the NAACP - last week, President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous proclaimed that the next move of the civil rights organization against new "layers of racism" will be to strengthen its inner ranks by becoming a majority through coalitions.
"We will change. Not for the sake of change itself, but for the sake of growth," Jealous said in prepared remarks to be rendered at the convention. "We must be able to march forth as a majority and that means we have to be about organizing coalitions, maximizing our power to build bridges of understanding and mobilizing our entire rainbow of champions for social change."
"But we can't do this work alone. So today, we issue a new call for a new century,'' he said.
That call comes in what is historically among the most exciting years for African Americans. Jealous reflected on the election of President Barack Obama as the nation's first Black president, but also underscored how his election spotlights the vestiges of racism that still prevail.
"January 20, 2009, was a day when hopes were fulfilled, when dreams came true, when ancestors sacrifices were remembered with tears of joy, in short, it was a day when the dream of this country seemed within reach of every family," said Jealous, 36, historically the youngest president to lead the civil rights organization.
"And then January 21st came, like every day thereafter, and families woke up to a new morning and were facing the same questions: Why can't Dad find a job? Why does Mom have to work so many jobs just to make ends meet? … Why are so many of our children... and mothers... and fathers dying of AIDS?"
President Obama also spoke during the convening, setting at tone of great anticipation for the organization's annual Spingarn Awards Dinner. Veteran Civil Rights Leader; NAACP Chairman Julian Bond was the Spingarn recipient this year.
It was February 12, 1909, the 100th year after the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, that a racially diverse coalition met in an apartment in lower Manhattan "to issue an historic call to action," Jealous recounted the founding of the NAACP.
"We will change. Not for the sake of change itself, but for the sake of growth," Jealous said in prepared remarks to be rendered at the convention. "We must be able to march forth as a majority and that means we have to be about organizing coalitions, maximizing our power to build bridges of understanding and mobilizing our entire rainbow of champions for social change."
"But we can't do this work alone. So today, we issue a new call for a new century,'' he said.
That call comes in what is historically among the most exciting years for African Americans. Jealous reflected on the election of President Barack Obama as the nation's first Black president, but also underscored how his election spotlights the vestiges of racism that still prevail.
"January 20, 2009, was a day when hopes were fulfilled, when dreams came true, when ancestors sacrifices were remembered with tears of joy, in short, it was a day when the dream of this country seemed within reach of every family," said Jealous, 36, historically the youngest president to lead the civil rights organization.
"And then January 21st came, like every day thereafter, and families woke up to a new morning and were facing the same questions: Why can't Dad find a job? Why does Mom have to work so many jobs just to make ends meet? … Why are so many of our children... and mothers... and fathers dying of AIDS?"
President Obama also spoke during the convening, setting at tone of great anticipation for the organization's annual Spingarn Awards Dinner. Veteran Civil Rights Leader; NAACP Chairman Julian Bond was the Spingarn recipient this year.
It was February 12, 1909, the 100th year after the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, that a racially diverse coalition met in an apartment in lower Manhattan "to issue an historic call to action," Jealous recounted the founding of the NAACP.
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