Is NAACP relevant in a Barack Obama age?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/o…,5467209.story …… Actually, I do not believe that Obama’s election has made the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization unnecessary. Rather I fear that the NAACP is making itself irrelevant. I raised a question on national TV that a lot of people find too uncomfortable to raise in public in anything but hushed tones: If we did not have the NAACP these days, would anybody notice the difference? Then I concluded out loud that, in too many instances, the answer would be no. Not because it isn’t doing anything, but because too few people see the organization’s work making a difference in their lives. That disconnect helps to explain why the organization’s treasury, membership rolls and name recognition among young people, in particular, have been shrinking in recent decades. While we should celebrate the organization’s past, I’m worried about its future. I don’t want the organization to disband. I would like to see it catch up with a
