Huge Corporations (Liars) & NAACP

[j]

I can't take credit for this (it's Ralph Bristol's - a talk show host), but it will definitely open your eyes to the big bad and politically correct American Corporations:

Liar Liar!

I wish it was my birthday - so I could make a wish - and it would come true, just like in the movie Liar Liar, starring Jim Carrey. If you didn't see the movie, it was his only funny one.

He plays the part of a yuppie lawyer whose five-year-old son doesn't believe a word he says because he has repeatedly promised his son to do things and never delivered. So, on the boy's birthday, which his dad missed of course, he blows out the candles and makes a wish - that for just one day his dad would tell the truth. For the next 24 hours, the lawyer is unable to lie.

Last week, at the NAACP's national convention in Florida, corporate benefactors lined up on the stage of the Miami Beach Convention Center, toting their generosity in the form of huge checks made out to the civil rights group. One by one, corporate spokesmen from Wal-Mart, Shell Oil, General Motors and American Airlines announced donations ranging from $100,000 to $250,000. Wachovia banking corporation topped them all with a $1 million contribution.

Here's what some of them said:

Wal-Mart spokeswoman Sarah Clark said donations to the NAACP come because, "they are well-recognized and well-respected. We benefit from their expertise."

"What we try to look for are organizations whose objectives align with ours," said Alison Rice, a spokeswoman for the Wachovia Foundation, which allocates the company's donations. "We found that our platform and theirs are the same."

In case you are not familiar with the NAACP platform, which the Wachovia Foundation says it shares, here's a reminder.

Julian Bond, chairman of the "non-partisan" NAACP, in his keynote speech for this year's convention, said Republicans appeal "to the dark underside of American culture, to that minority of Americans who reject democracy and equality."

The NAACP is a ferocious opponent of school choice, even though it is favored by a majority of African-American parents. As the Washington Times reported, the group has devoted considerable resources to fighting politicians who support almost any education option outside the nation's government-run schools.

Somehow, I suspect that the Wachovia Foundation and the NAACP don't really share the same platform. I doubt that Wal-Mart actually relies on the "expertise" of the NAACP to makes its business successful.

I wish for just one day, the spokespeople for the giant corporations lining up to make donations to the NAACP would not be able to lie. I would ask them, "Why did you really make that donation?" The answers, I imagine, would make a great movie. In fact, I invite you to submit some of the dialogue. Pretend you are the spokesman for Wal-Mart, Wachovia, General Motors, or American Airlines. You have to answer the question - and you cannot tell a lie.

[j]

bump..... for your benefit Linda as long as we're on the subject of NAACP

[Lindaloo]

I have said this all along and I will say it now. The NAACP are the ones who use the "dark underside" to receive "pay-off" by corporations. I am just waiting for the day when all this is brought out into the open. Another sad day when they targeted NASCAR for pay off and Nascar complied.

The NAACP is no better than the KKK.

[j]

There is only one Media person you can count on to expose them for what they are, and he doesn't work for CNN or CNBC

[Stormsfury]

I have said this all along and I will say it now. The NAACP are the ones who use the "dark underside" to receive "pay-off" by corporations. I am just waiting for the day when all this is brought out into the open. Another sad day when they targeted NASCAR for pay off and Nascar complied.

The NAACP is no better than the KKK.

Agreed with this. Though the organizations use different forms of intimidation ... the KKK using intimidation, threats, and violence, whereas, the NAACP also using threats, intimidation, and the legal gerrimandering ... the NAACP may be less violent, but both are symbols of extreme examples ...

[j]

with all due respect..why quote somebody, then say nothing in the post?

[Lindaloo]

Geez j... everybody has typos. Give him a chance to fix it.

[j]

sorry..I was way to quick on the trigger.

hey Lin....nobody makes more mistakes typing span be.

[Stormsfury]

with all due respect..why quote somebody, then say nothing in the post?

J, I accidentally hit submit before I even got a chance to post my thoughts...