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fanteeking
Comment: This shoulda been done YEARS ago! The NAACP heard the cries of a respect-demanding C. Delores Tucker but rather than launch an all-out war, they stayed in the shadows. No wonder many Black folks including myself have lost faith in NAACP. I've been a PAID member for many years, but I question their guts when real issues are on the table. It's nice to go to yearly conventions, stay at plush hotels, impress "peoples" with impeccable diction and rub elbow with movie stars, but if at the end of the day, ain't nuthin' but a whole lotta of profiling & gesticulating, back-slapping done taken place then "we just spinning our wheels".
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Name:
nightshift
Comment: Fanteeking, where's the petition you can sign me up. I haven't heard from Jesse, I guess he's laid up with his Nappy-headed-ho!
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Name:
McNasty
Comment: I can't think of a better mission for the NAACP! It will also help to give them more insight into the ones they discount so easily. Understanding abounds!
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Name:
khufu
Comment: LOL..Oh boy...SO first thing go back and take back all the Image Awards given to people like R. Kelly and others that have contributed to the problem.......wonder if this new initiative qualifies them for a governmental grant of some sort?
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Name:
khufu
Comment: the NAACP should have done somthing when they were under Hooks...they were too busy trying to be part of the glamour and glitter...they should have attached this in early 80s.....they continue to look for a purpose for being!
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Name:
fanteeking
Comment: Some of the relatives of W. E. B. DuBois live here in Naptown. Whenever, I bring up the topic of NAACP the conversation becomes muted. I wonder why?
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Name:
fanteeking
Comment: Khufu: Newly elected head Dennis Hayes is from Naptown, but I wonder what he's gonna do.
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Name:
khufu
Comment: damn fanteeking you know everybody! I would love to have that op to spak to them...how do THEY live? WHat is their social and poltical leaning?
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Name:
khufu
Comment: FANTEEKING I think the NAACP culture needs radical transformation....J Bond is the person running it and the yt ultimately runs it so there you go!
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Name:
fanteeking
Comment: Khufu: Contact me at rusty46254@yahoo.com and I'll run it down and tell you interesting things. By the way, RUSTY was my beloved doggie of 15 years that I lost 3 years ago. Miss my Rusty badly.
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Name:
YLawdY
Comment: What is Naptown?
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Name:
khufu
Comment: FANTEEK...I have two puppy wuppies I have to get rid of..this time my DOrie Wori had nine and I have a hard time getting rid of them...they are like lil people.....wish I could send one to you.........she has beautiful and sweet puppies
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Selah
Comment: YlawdyY- Naptown is an alias for the city of Indianapolis. Some folks call it the Circle City as well.
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Name:
YLawdY
Comment: Selah ...thank you.
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Name:
Bad_Kitty
Comment: The NAACP was reactive instead of being proactive on this topic, which as most have said, should have been addressed years ago. The music is so far down in the gutter that I believe it will take decades for our community to recover. Which is sad.
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Name:
sweetpea
Comment: I'm not impressed with todays NAACP. In my opionion they have been absent on issues in the black community.
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Name:
SweetieDarlin
Comment: This is cool and BTW how about stop derogatory language on this board when someone doesn't agree with you. I've seem people who claim to be oh so pro-black and proud the minute there's a disagreement to derogatory terms come flying out. Can we agree to respect each other since we are all about getting respect?
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fanteeking
Comment: @YLawdyY & Selah: Naptown is the term Black folks coined back in the 1920's to represent the vibrant culture & history of BLACK Indianapolis. Culturally/historically, it represents Madame CJ Walker, the Inkspots, Wes Montgomery, Freddie Hubbard, Larry Ridley, Oscar Robertson and Baby Face. I have an ENTIRE chapter on this in my soon-to-be completed book.."Entertainment History of Indiana Avenue 1910-1970. 20 years ago, white folks expropriated by imminent domain all our property in the Black community around the downtown area for the Indian Univ. Medical Center. White folks obliterated OUR history and RE-NAMED OUR INDIANA Avenue and called it INDY. Whenever you hear Indy thatz white folks talkin'. Naptown is Black folks talkin'. If you want to insult a Black here ask them if they've from INDY. LOL!! To add insult to injury, I got a liitle cousin who's one of the best high school players in the coutry who will attend IU, the thieves of our history. Yes, God has got a sense of humor. LOL!!
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Name:
TesticAl
Comment: They need to add STOP SNITCHIN' STOP LYIN' to that campaign. This shyt is getting out of hand.
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Name:
fanteeking
Comment: @Selah: One last thang. Circle City is a term used by everybody regardless of race or social station. The center of INdianapolis has monument circle which is a monument to Indiana soldiers and sailors. Black folks have the Circle City Classic each October wherein 2 top HBCUs play a football game here. Just wanted to clarify that point.
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Name:
MsVanese
Comment: So does that mean that this will also carry over to Television & The Movie Theaters?
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Name:
FreakyQue2U
Comment: The NAACP is a joke on the local, national, and international level!! They've lost their luster years ago. But what do you expect a white run organization to be with a Black face on it. Sadly, without asending,it will always be that "negro" organization that "used" to fight for civil rights "back in the day", instead of being a flagship for social change and justice here and now in the 21st century.
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Name:
YLawdY
Comment: fanteeking ...thank you for the knowledge.
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Name:
fanteeking
Comment: YLawdY: You welcome.
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Name:
SpecialK
Comment: I'm glad they're finally doing something about the African American image. Have they been sleep for the last 15 yrs? The NAACP should also consider a name change to get rid of the word "colored". Times have changed and hopefully the NAACP is changin with it.
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Name:
lindadianeedwards
Comment: IF THE RAPPERS START CHANGING THE WAY THEY RAP I'LL STOP BUYING THE MUSIC.
LEAVE THE RAPPERS ALONE.
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Name:
RMP7772000
Comment: Fanteeking, i'm with you! I just finished doing letters to the Untited Negro College Fund CEO(Dr.Michael Lomax) and The NAACP about what's going on in one of our black colleges(Voorhees College,S.C)involving a no good president and three older females in a female dorm called(Battle Hall). This is suppose to be a christian college, and our black students are listening to vulger hip hop and the females are goign out dressing like prostitutes!I was an Armed Security Officer for 19 overnights straight! Know one is listening to me and by me coming from Brooklyn,N.Y., they don't want me working there. BUT I got enough information to go to all the news papers and ask Rev.Sharpton, Rev. Jesse Jackson, NAACP and United Ngro College Fund to speak out publicly. I'm not afraid of a damn soul! So thanks for giving me the chance to join you in your opinon spot light on EURWEB.COM!
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