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Newly-elected Maine Governor Paul LePage (R) didn’t mince words when confronted about comments from the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) that his actions show a pattern of indifference to blacks. In fact, he had a message for the group: “Tell ‘em to kiss my butt.”
WCHS says LePage declined an invitation from the NAACP to take part in a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day event on Sunday. That upset the group, and on Thursday WCHS confronted LePage with the NAACP’s accusation. LePage, a white man with an adopted black son, didn’t really care what the NAACP thought of him, calling it nothing but a “special interest”:
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Maine Gov. Tells NAACP: ‘Kiss My Butt’
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:40pm by Jonathon M. Seidl Print » Email » Newly-elected Maine Governor Paul LePage (R) didn’t mince words when confronted about comments from the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) that his actions show a pattern of indifference to blacks. In fact, he had a message for the group: “Tell ‘em to kiss my butt.”
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| he can probably get away with it in Maine. The real question is just how relevant is the NAACP today? |
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Mon Jan 17, 2011 8:35 am |
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| Get away with what? Do you think he should be booted from office?? |
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No I did not mean to imply he should be booted from office. I have seen how the local NAACP will try to intimidate and in some communities the NAACP will have more clout. In maine, their sphere of influence is limited. I applaud the governor for refusing to give in to their attempts at intimidation.
I too am tired of their special interests. |
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Newly-elected Maine Governor Paul LePage (R) didn’t mince words when confronted about comments from the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) that his actions show a pattern of indifference to blacks. In fact, he had a message for the group: “Tell ‘em to kiss my butt.”
WCHS says LePage declined an invitation from the NAACP to take part in a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day event on Sunday. That upset the group, and on Thursday WCHS confronted LePage with the NAACP’s accusation. LePage, a white man with an adopted black son, didn’t really care what the NAACP thought of him, calling it nothing but a “special interest”:
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Maine Gov. Tells NAACP: ‘Kiss My Butt’
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:40pm by Jonathon M. Seidl Print » Email » Newly-elected Maine Governor Paul LePage (R) didn’t mince words when confronted about comments from the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) that his actions show a pattern of indifference to blacks. In fact, he had a message for the group: “Tell ‘em to kiss my butt.”
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No I did not mean to imply he should be booted from office. I have seen how the local NAACP will try to intimidate and in some communities the NAACP will have more clout. In maine, their sphere of influence is limited. I applaud the governor for refusing to give in to their attempts at intimidation.
I too am tired of their special interests.
Wow!! is right Ryan!! I feel the same way about special interests groups. |
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What a flip flopping wimp. He got punked!
Maine gov. who blasted critics changes MLK plans
By Glenn Adams
Associated Press / January 17, 2011
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WATERVILLE, Maine—Gov. Paul LePage changed his Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend plans and showed up at a breakfast honoring the slain civil rights leader Monday, days after he said critics of his decision to skip other events could "kiss my butt." He even joined some of the participants in an African dance.
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The Republican governor's appearance was organized in the days after he made the remark Friday, responding to a reporter's question about criticism he had received over his decision not to attend the state NAACP's annual King Day celebrations. He said at the time that he didn't attend events for special interests, and his spokesman cited scheduling conflicts.
"Tell them to kiss my butt," LePage said.
The comment drew harsh criticism from state and national leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Maine NAACP Director Rachel Talbot Ross said her organization is no special interest, and the group's national president and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous said LePage's comments "inflame racial tension."
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| Ya right bend over Gov. like the naalcp will ever support you. Moron. |
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NAACP said they Covered the Statue of George Washington because they “Didn’t Want to Offend Anyone”.
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NAACP Creates Box O’ George Washington
Posted by Lloyd Marcus on January 19, 2011 at 8:50am
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While reading her emails, I heard my wife say, “This is so absurd, it has to be an internet hoax doctored photo”. It was a photo of a rally on MLK Day hosted by the South Carolina NAACP held at the state house. The statue of George Washington at the state house was boxed in on three sides hidden from the rallying crowd. The NAACP said they covered the statue because they “didn’t want to offend anyone”.
Upon investigation, the photo was confirmed to be real.
This misdirected ridiculous behavior by the NAACP epitomizes why I, a black American, will never join or give one nickel to this exploitative divisive organization. With black high school dropout rates at epidemic levels, 80% of black kids growing up in fatherless homes and 50% of black pregnancies ending in abortion, why on earth would the NAACP invest time and energy into running around covering up statues of long dead white guys; rather than addressing “real” issues plaguing black America today?
Regardless of what you think about George Washington, he was our first president. Exploiting the occasion of MLK day to dis America’s first president is part of the NAACP’s continuing effort to find irrelevant crap to protest about, impugn the greatness of our country and live in the past as if American race relations have not progressed since the 50s.
The NAACP’s mantra is blacks are eternal victims of an eternally racist America; white America should feel eternally guilty and loyal blacks should feel eternally entitled.
I’ve heard, “Always follow the money”. Somewhere along the way, the once great NAACP strayed from being dignified true advocates for fairness, civil rights and holding blacks accountable to “gettin’ paid”.
The NAACP’s searching the past for evidence to reenforce their victim status and protesting things which have zero effect on the lives of contemporary black Americans is laying the foundation for more government handouts, extortion of businesses and reparations.
The NAACP has morphed into a left wing political action committee committed to electing liberal democrats who support their eternal victim, America sucks; eternal entitlement agenda.
I am president of the NAACPC, National Association for the Advancement of Conservative People of All Colors. If he were alive today, MLK would be a proud member. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=118694148152736&ref=ts
Lloyd Marcus, Proud Unhyphenated American
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LePage willing to meet with Maine NAACP
By Kevin Miller, BDN Staff
Posted Jan. 16, 2011, at 7:09 p.m. Print | E-mail | Facebook | Tweet AUGUSTA, Maine — The NAACP continued to criticize Maine Gov. Paul LePage over the weekend for last week’s flippant “kiss my butt” remark, although both sides indicated a willingness to sit down and talk.
On Saturday, local leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People accused LePage of setting a tone in his first 10 days in office that “should be an offense to all Mainers and the office he has been entrusted to lead with civility, honesty and decorum.”
“We want to be part of this process and continue to ask for a meeting to begin working in a respectful and transparent manner for the betterment of our state,” Rachel Talbot Ross, state director of the NAACP in Maine, said in a statement.
Dan Demeritt, spokesman for LePage, said Saturday the Republican is certainly open to a meeting with the NAACP, as long as the issues on the table are applicable to all Mainers, such as poverty, immigration and education. He did not give a time frame for a meeting.
“He told me today that if they want to meet and talk about things that are important to everyone, he is willing to have that conversation,” Demeritt said.
Reached by phone later that evening, Ross said she was pleased to hear that LePage was open to a meeting, which she said has been the organization’s goal all along. Ross said she hopes such a dialogue could help the governor better understand the NAACP’s work.
“We work on behalf of all civil and human rights,” Ross said. “So we have got a common agenda [with LePage] and we look forward to meeting with him.”
LePage made his now-infamous “Tell them to kiss my butt” statement Friday morning after he was pressed for a response to suggestions that his decision to skip two NAACP events honoring Martin Luther King Jr. were part of a troubling pattern.
As a candidate and as governor, LePage has declined several invitations to meet with the NAACP or attend organization events, to the growing dismay of organization leaders.
But LePage insisted it had nothing to do with race, pointing out that his family took in a black, Jamaican-born teenager, Devon Raymond, who remains part of the family.
While LePage frequently refers to Raymond as his son, he was never legally adopted by the family, Demeritt said. But Raymond, who graduated from Waterville High School and now attends graduate school in Louisiana, is “as much a part of the family as anyone else,” Demeritt said.
LePage’s “kiss my butt” remark, while said with a smile and a laugh, riled both local and national NAACP members and drew national media attention to Maine’s outspoken and unabashedly nonpolitically correct governor.
LePage also angered NAACP by repeatedly calling the organization a “special interest.”
“The NAACP is not a ‘special interest group,’ as Gov. LePage assumed,” Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO of the national NAACP, responded in a statement released Saturday. “In fact, we are a public interest group, and our goal for over 100 years has been to build one America and one Maine.”
Both privately and publicly, NAACP members and supporters of the organization have also pointed out discrepancies in LePage’s explanation for why he would not attend NAACP events for Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Sunday or Monday.
In the case of the Monday event — a breakfast being held at the University of Maine in Orono — LePage has said he plans to attend a funeral for a former Maine State Police trooper. But NAACP members point out that the governor declined the invitation a month ago — long before he knew about the funeral.
They also have accused LePage of grossly misrepresenting in his public statements an earlier invitation from the NAACP.
“They invited me to go to the state prison to meet black prisoners,” LePage told reporters during the Friday interview. “I told them I would go, I’d be more than happy to go but I would meet all prisoners. And that wasn’t acceptable to them, so tough luck.”
But NAACP leaders pointed out that the event was a voter registration drive for all prisoners — not merely black inmates — and that half of the members of the NAACP chapter at Maine State Prison in Warren are white. Furthermore, prison policies would prohibit segregated events.
The “kiss my butt” incident is likely to be a topic at today’s events memorializing King. In addition to the breakfast at UMaine, the NAACP is helping to organize a Martin Luther King March for Justice and “community conversation” in downtown Portland.
A key focus of the Portland event was supposed to be a controversial executive order signed by LePage on his first day in office that directs state employees to ensure that anyone who applies for state or federal benefits is in the country legally.
While administration officials said the order was intended to end perceptions that Maine was a “sanctuary state” for illegal immigrants, civil rights and immigrant rights groups have suggested the order could have a chilling effect on legal immigrants and harm the children of undocumented immigrants.
LePage, meanwhile, used his second weekend radio address — prepared before Friday’s dust-up — to pay tribute to King and to call on Mainers to remember the victims of last week’s shooting involving Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
“I hope this weekend as we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s life we all take a moment to reflect on the other lives that have been lost in our great nation this week,” LePage said. “We have come far through the years, but the journey continues to make Dr. King’s dreams a reality.”
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NAACP: LePage has set a tone that ‘should be an offense to all Mainers’
By Kevin Miller, BDN Staff
Posted Jan. 15, 2011, at 7:38 p.m. Print | E-mail | Facebook | Tweet
Robert F. Bukaty | AP
Gov. Paul LePage AUGUSTA, Maine — The NAACP continued to criticize Maine Gov. Paul LePage on Saturday one day after his flippant “kiss my butt” remark and other comments riled the organization’s leaders and sparked a national media firestorm.
But local leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People say they are still interested in having a sit-down with Maine’s new Republican governor. And a LePage spokesman said the governor is certainly open to a meeting, as long as the issues on the table are applicable to all Mainers.
“He told me today that if they want to meet and talk about things that are important to everyone, he is willing to have that conversation,” Dan Demeritt, the governor’s director of communications, said Saturday.
LePage made his now-infamous “Tell them to kiss my butt” statement Friday morning after he was pressed for a response to suggestions that his decision to skip two NAACP events honoring Martin Luther King Jr. were part of a troubling pattern.
As a candidate and as governor, LePage has apparently declined several invitations to meet with the NAACP or attend organization events. But LePage insisted it had nothing to do with race, pointing out that his family includes an adopted Jamaican-born son, Devon, who is black.
Instead, LePage labeled the NAACP a “special interest.”
“The NAACP is not a ‘special interest group,’ as Gov. LePage assumed,” Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO of the national NAACP, responded in a statement released Saturday. “In fact, we are a public interest group and our goal for over 100 years has been to build one America and one Maine.”
Rachel Talbot Ross, state director of the Maine NAACP, accused LePage in the release of setting a tone in his first 10 days in office that “should be an offense to all Mainers and the office he has been entrusted to lead with civility, honesty, and decorum.”
Talbot Ross said, however, that her organization takes seriously LePage’s pledge during his inauguration speech to listen to and work with anyone offering “honest solutions that benefit all Maine people.”
“We want to be part of this process and continue to ask for a meeting to begin working in a respectful and transparent manner for the betterment of our state,” Talbot Ross said in a statement released Saturday.
For the LePage administration, the key words in that phrase appear to be “all Maine people.”
Demeritt said the governor is perfectly willing to talk with NAACP representatives about the broad issues facing the state, such as poverty, immigration and education.
“The governor is willing to meet with anyone to talk about things that affect all Maine people,” Demeritt said.
But both privately and publicly, NAACP members and supporters of the organization have pointed out discrepancies in LePage’s explanation for why he will not attend NAACP events for Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Sunday or Monday.
In the case of the Monday event — a breakfast being held at the University of Maine in Orono — LePage has said he plans to attend a funeral for a former Maine State Police trooper. But NAACP members point out that the governor declined the invitation a month ago — long before he knew about the funeral.
They also have accused LePage of grossly misrepresenting in his public statements an earlier invitation from the NAACP.
“They invited me to go to the state prison to meet black prisoners,” LePage told reporters during the Friday interview. “I told them I would go, I’d be more than happy to go but I would meet all prisoners. And that wasn’t acceptable to them, so tough luck.”
But NAACP leaders pointed out that the event was a voter registration drive for all prisoners — not merely black inmates — and that half of the members of the NAACP chapter at Maine State Prison in Warren are white. Furthermore, prison policies would prohibit the segregated events.
The “kiss my butt” incident is sure to reverberate into next week. In addition to the King events sponsored by the NAACP on Sunday and Monday, a rally is also planned in Portland on Monday to protest an executive order from LePage regarding undocumented immigrants.
LePage, meanwhile, used his second weekend radio address — prepared before Friday’s dust-up — to pay tribute to King and to call on Mainers to remember the victims of last week’s shooting involving Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
“I hope this weekend as we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s life we all take a moment to reflect on the other lives that have been lost in our great nation this week,” LePage said. “We have come far through the years, but the journey continues to make Dr. King’s dreams a reality.” |
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Guests from Hell: The NAACP's Shakedown of the Hospitality Industry
By Nicholas Stix
January, 2002
Middle American News
The race hustlers who have engineered race hoaxes and shaken down one American industry after another have found most hospitable hosts in the hotel and motel industry. Hotel and motel owners have responded to demands for payoffs to blacks by meeting every demand -- and have been rewarded for their troubles with frivolous lawsuits and public condemnation by the very groups whom they have so dutifully served.
Consider the case of Adam's Mark, a St. Louis-based, national chain of 24 hotels. Twenty percent of Adam's Mark executives are black, 60 percent of its employees are "minority," the firm forces all employees to undergo diversity training, and executives at its Daytona Beach hotel had for so long been involved in the planning of Black College Reunion weekend held annually in the Florida city, that BCR representatives made Adam's Mark the official BCR headquarters. And yet, all these initiatives failed to protect Adam's Mark from repeated law suits by black BCR guests seeking to shake it down, and a national boycott the NAACP organized against it, with the connivance of the federal Department of Justice and Florida Attorney General Bob Butterworth.
On December 3, Adams' Mark agreed to a settlement that will cost it at least $5 million: The chain will pay $1,000,000 to be split among the five black plaintiffs -- Dante Gilliam, Jamie Morrison, Latoya Straughn, Napoleon Berrian and Mark Simmonds -- who initially sued it; $600,000 to four racially segregated, black Florida colleges; $400,000 to be split among the 400 black guests who were in the Daytona Beach Adam's Mark during BCR 1999; and the hotel chain agreed to forfeit payment on $3 million dollars in contracts that were broken by groups and individuals that had cheated the hotel, in support of the NAACP shakedown. (The four black schools are Bethune-Cookman College, $150,000; Florida A&M University, $250,000; Edward Waters College, $100,000; and Florida Memorial College, $100,000).
And so, all of the BCR celebrants whom the hotel had so assiduously reached out to, ultimately got to stay in the hotel for free, while five of them made a cool, $200,000 profit out of the weekend. Those free stays, shakedown payoffs, and broken contracts will ultimately have to be paid off by Adam's Mark's white guests.
The inspiration for such racial extortion was apparently born in 1990, during a racial love fest hosted for black South African leader, Nelson Mandela, by Miami's black leaders. When leaders from Miami's Cuban expatriate community criticized Mandela for his support of Cuba's communist dictator, Fidel Castro, black community leaders demanded apologies and reparations. (The concept of reparations is not limited to the white man's guilt for slavery and Jim Crow.)
Led by the Florida Conference of NAACP chapters, black activists organized a boycott of Miami, producing a film which they sent free to organizations around the country, telling them not plan events in Miami, irrespective of the fact that such boycotts would disproportionately harm blacks. As Jared Taylor recounted in Paved with Good Intentions, "A year later, the group estimated that it had managed to keep $27 million of convention business out of the city."
The activists demanded that the hospitality industry apologize and pay extortion to blacks, in the form of jobs, college tuition, and other protection money. Had white organizations engaged in such behavior, their leaders surely would have been arrested and tried for extortion and conspiracy; but since these were black extortionists, they were able to operate with impunity, and the targeted industry caved in.
The hospitality industry and its media rushed to serve its new masters. As Brian S. Lonergan put it in a celebratory 1999 article in USAE News, a convention and hotel industry magazine, "Facing the possibility of millions of dollars of lost tourism business, the Miami hospitality community rallied. It worked with [local NAACP leader, Adora] Obi-Nweze to develop a 20-point plan to improve opportunities for African-Americans in Miami.... To date, 115 scholarships have been awarded to students studying hospitality management at Florida International University and over $1 million in cash, on-the-job positions and in-kind services."
Observing the Florida NAACP Conference's winning formula, national NAACP CEO, Kweisi Mfume, decided to "wet his own beak." In 1997, Mfume started publishing an annual report on the hotel-motel industry, rating all major players. The problem is, Mfume's "rating system" provides no criteria, and he almost never gives any white-owned hotel or motel chain a good rating. Only the Cendant and Marriott hotel chains have ever gotten a rating above a "C." And caving in to black extortion demands has now inspired a spate of frivolous lawsuits against hoteliers.
The Adam's Mark hotel chain has been the target of shakedown lawsuits following each of the two previous annual Black College Reunion weekends. In each case, black guests claimed that by being required to wear orange wristbands showing that they were hotel guests, they were being racially discriminated against, and that they were charged higher rates than white guests.
In 2000, Adam's Mark agreed to pay an $8 million settlement, but the settlement was scuttled by a federal judge on technical grounds.
Apparently seeing that there would be no end to the lawsuits, last fall Adam's Mark's Fred Bossert decided to fight them. In early September, Adam's Mark spokeswoman, Sharon Harvey Davis, denied the charges. Davis told me, "No, they're not true. The higher rates are true for all special events -- any high demand event for the city -- Daytona 500, Oktoberfest. Requiring a security deposit is true for all special events that require advance registration. It's a demand that's not specific to Black College Reunion weekend.
"The ID bands are [for] when there are a lot of non-guests trying to enter the hotel, and to make sure that our paying guests have a chance to enjoy the facilities." Davis noted that the same practice is used "most notably in New Orleans during Mardi Gras week. So, it's industry-wide, and it's not just done to African Americans."
So, are you telling me that this is a frivolous lawsuit? "We are saying, that we are going to aggressively defend the lawsuit. Everything we did during BCR week were done to control crowds, and make sure our guests were able to enjoy the facilities of our hotel."
Why is the NAACP targeting Adam's Mark? "I'm not sure," Davis responded, "but I know that we are working hard to keep the doors of communication open to the NAACP, and to find a common ground."
In December, Adam's Mark surrendered.
Hoteliers are learning the hard way, what happens when you lie down with dogs. However, it is most likely the white hotel and motel guests who must subsidize racist black extortionists, who will be waking up with fleas. And that is most inhospitable.
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