Speak Out!

of the you black youth that are being sentenced to life in Florida for non violent crimes, or in any penal system that keeps you in their system by writing tickets that goes well beyond the time you were to serve and your are mentally ill and don't even know why you are even incarcerated, who will expose the judges and those in authority that sit back and watch this happen who?

After being mia for two generations I think the NAACP is making a positive move. The first initiative should be to educate the young people about the different groups of civil rights fighters that existed back in the sixties. The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis ,Tn. was my educational moment, if these children only knew the truth about the courage and pride that we had as a people at a time when whites only signs were in our face and legally so, we still stood up for our rights. But the kids are taught today that when someone stand up and speak out about a civil rights injustice, the media, society, teachers, bosses, etc... try to isolate them and label them as trouble makers, and the youngsters are learned to shy away from that type of activity not knowing that we wasnt always bought off that easily. I think that the NAACP might be able to really get some things done now because our civil rights are not just for people that being were hung on a regular, but for everyother group that is not favorable to society but now wants to help. Anyway if nothing else I hope that we can bring some hope and pride to our youngsters by educating them and setting an example for them.

Did not know this part of history....That Jews were part of the NAACP PLIGHT.
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The conference resulted in a more influential and diverse organization, where the leadership was predominantly white and heavily Jewish American. In fact, at its founding, the NAACP had only one African American on its executive board, Du Bois himself. It did not elect a black president until 1975, although executive directors had been African American. The Jewish community contributed greatly to the NAACP's founding and continued financing. Jewish historian Howard Sachar writes in his book A History of Jews in America of how, "In 1914, Professor Emeritus Joel Spingarn of Columbia University became chairman of the NAACP and recruited for its board such Jewish leaders as Jacob Schiff, Jacob Billikopf, and Rabbi Stephen Wise."[10] Early Jewish-American co-founders included Julius Rosenthal, Lillian Wald, Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch and Wise.

According to Pbs.org "Over the years Jews have also expressed empathy (capability to share and understand another's emotion and feelings) with the plight of Blacks. In the early 1900s, Jewish newspapers drew parallels between the Black movement out of the South and the Jews' escape from Egypt, pointing out that both Blacks and Jews lived in ghettos, and calling anti-Black riots in the South "pogroms". Stressing the similarities rather than the differences between the Jewish and Black experience in America, Jewish leaders emphasized the idea that both groups would benefit the more America moved toward a society of merit, free of religious, ethnic and racial restrictions."[11] Pbs.org further states, "The American Jewish Committee, the American Jewish Congress, and the Anti-Defamation League were central to the campaign against racial prejudice. Jews made substantial financial contributions to many civil rights organizations, including the NAACP, the Urban League, the Congress of Racial Equality, and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. About 50 percent of the civil rights attorneys in the South during the 1960s were Jews, as were over 50 percent of the Whites who went to Mississippi in 1964 to challenge Jim Crow Laws."[11]