Why the NAACP is in NO Position to Demand a "Proper" Apology from Rusty DePass

We covered the ignorance that is Rusty DePass over on Michelle Obama Watch. He is a SOuth Carolina politico that referred to the First Lady as a Gorilla.

The public excoriating of Rusty Depass was moving right along after his ignorant comments of First Lady Michelle Obama were made public. So what does the South Carolina NAACP do? They change the subject from Rusty DePass' glaring ignorance to the NAACP's glaring incompetence and nonsensical public protestations.Where was the  Civil Rights Industrial Complex (CRIC) and the various other alphabet soup organizations  when folks were posting cartoons of the First Lady being lynched or spreading ridiculous rumors about "whitey tapes?"

Yes, that cartoon actually was published online during the Democratic primary. It is one of the reasons I started this site. No, Republicans didn't create it, a Democrat did.

Previous Posts:

• "Liberals" Strike Again: New Yorker Cover Depicts Michelle Obama as a Terrorist


• So Will the INFAMOUS Michelle Obama Tape Drop Today???


• Creator of Michelle Obama Torture Depiction Unrepentant : "appropriate, historically accurate and politically relevant"


• Michelle Obama Depicted Being Tortured: Liberal Bloggers Lose Their Ever Loving Minds

The much-deserved public shaming of Rusty Depass was rolling like a freight train. What started out on a blog was bubbling up through mainstream media and American were using their First Amendment right to publicly condemn Rusty Depass for exercising his First Amendment right to telegraph to the world that he is an ignorant arse. The Mayor of Charleston issued a beautifully worded apology on behalf of the entire city for being associated with the ignorant DePass. You can read his sentiments here. South Carolina's elected leadership were tripping over themselves to publicly flog and condemn DePass:

"The comment was offensive, uncalled for, and completely inappropriate," Gov. Mark Sanford said in a written statement Monday.

Newly elected South Carolina GOP Chairperson Karen Floyd said, "Comments like the one in question are unacceptable, run contrary to the spirit and ideals of the Republican Party and have no place in public discourse. Far too often, families are seen as fair game in political fights - becoming targets of attacks and punchlines in offensive satires or jokes. Whether they're directed toward First Lady Michelle Obama or Governor Sarah Palin's children, attacks of this nature and attacks on family members of elected officials are out of bounds and should be condemned by all sides."  WXLT

Then along comes the NAACP to inject their own unique brand of Chicanery and Foolishness and snatch mass community embarrassment from the jaws of dignity and demand a "proper apology"

NAACP president Lonnie Randolph said Monday that former Election Commission chairman Rusty DePass has not offered a "proper" apology. Randolph says the NAACP isn't giving DePass undue attention, rather decrying racially charged commentary against the Obamas. CBS News

Rusty DePass is an arse. He's a racist bigot who was too stupid to realize that posting his racist ignorance on Facebook was like taking out a full page ad in the hometown newspaper saying "I'm a Racist Dinosaur'. In this country however, we have the right to be racist arses. Others have the right to use their First Amendment rights to publicly shame and humiliate others for exercising their First Amendment rights. You combat offensive speech with more speech. As we have seen online over the last few days.

Now if Mr. DePasse has any commercial interests, some might impose economic sanctions on him. If he held any position of note, they might ask for a resignation. If he chooses to attempt to run for office again, he should be firmly defeated. However, if the man has already issues his first insincere apology, what exactly is  the a "proper apology" that the NAACP is demanding. I don't need another insincere apology from Rusty DePass. Mayor Coble did a great job of issuing a heart-felt apology, I'll take that one thank you very much.

I'm irked because the NAACP demanding a "proper" apology for calling a woman out of her name rings of hypocrisy. The NAACP is hardly a bastion of women's rights in the modern era. Nor do they have any moral authority to demand an apology on any Black woman's behalf for being called or referred to in a disparaging way considering the fact that they just handed out their highest honor to a man that has dedicating his life to the exploitation and degradation of Black women, Russell Simmons. Russell Simmons who says that calling women b*tches and hoes is therapeutic and prevents teen pregnancy:

In the book, “Life and Def: Sex, Drugs, Money, and God,” Simmons suggests that such cruel words can have a positive impact on young women: “[A]fter years of hearing rappers talk negatively about women, about their babies’ mothers and sex,” he writes, “there’s been a real change in the patterns of teen pregnancy. Teen pregnancy in the black community is down, and I believe hip-hop…made girls smarter about premarital sex.”  Harvard Crimson

And the NAACP gave this man a "Vanguard" award? For bringing the world "Move. B*tch Get out the Way" and "You'ze a Ho?"
Nor can they speak with any moral authority about the appropriate treatment of professional Black women when every other president in the past decade has left his position under a cloud of sexual impropriety.

Kweisi Mfume who left his NAACP position under own cloud of suspicion of corporate harem-making took over from Ben Chavis who left under his own cloud of harem-making:

He took the reins from Benjamin Chavis, who had left the organization in disgrace in 1994 over charges that he used NAACP funds to quiet sexual harassment allegations against him at a time when the group was mired in debt.

Which would indicate some lax internal human resources practices as it relates to sexual harassment in the workplace and a pattern of turning the professional women who work in the national headquarters into a harem. The NAACP that is running around demanding apologies and "diversity committees" has its own issues when it comes to gender equity:

True or not, the charges come 11 years after two senior NAACP staffers urged the organization to create a task force of board members and staff to examine charges that female employees were being underpaid and passed over for promotions.

"We have raised the topic with you out of concern over the substantive and political impact of allegations of sex discrimination," they wrote in 1994 to the NAACP's interim leaders. That action came just days after NAACP executive director Benjamin Chavis was fired for secretly using $332,400 of the group's money to settle a sexual harassment complaint by his assistant, Mary Stansel.

"The failure to address legitimate concerns over employment discrimination, pay equity and possible sexual harassment within the NAACP will expose us to greater legal liability and undermine the moral authority of the association," Wade Henderson and Ed Hailes Jr., wrote to Earl Shinhoster and Fred Rasheed. At the time, Henderson ran the NAACP's Washington bureau. Hailes was his deputy. Shinhoster, who died in 2000, and Rasheed briefly shared the responsibility of running the NAACP after Chavis was fired. "I recall the memo, but I don't recall that it was acted on," SOURCE

My ultimate pet peeve, however, is how the NAACP rallied on behalf of gang rapists in West Palm Beach Florida, while IGNORING the plight of the two victims, a woman and her 12 year old son. I don't care what kind of back tracking and side stepping they did in the aftermath.

Posts:

Earlier Posts about the NAACP and Dunbar Village

• Al Sharpton Wants Rapists and Torturers Roaming Your Neighborhood—NAACP and Sharpton Get Into It at Press Conference


• NAACP National Office Responds to the Dunbar Village Email Accountability Campaign


• Chicago Tribune Covers NAACP & AL Sharpton Joint Dunbar Village Press Conference and the Email Accountability Campaign-UPDATE: Larger NAACP Role???


• Open Letter Regarding NAACP, SHarpton, and Dunbar Village Atrocity

Other than attention, what does the NAACP expect to extract from Rusty DePass other than a few brief minutes in the next news cycle? An agreement to form the Rusty DePasse Diversity Counsel and meet with the NAACP twice a year? We see how well that worked with News Corp.

Way to change the subject! Instead of talking about DePass the arse, we're all looking quizzically at the NAACP trying to figure out what a "proper" apology from an unrepentant racist looks like. Why not just publically demand cash and be done with it.

Comments

[miriam]

Other than attention, what does the NAACP expect to extract from Rusty DePass other than a few brief minutes in the next news cycle?

I don't know but I think its time for him to sit down. Honestly, I don't even like that others think he's representing all BF.

Al Sharpton, stand down.

[gem2001]

Um Miraiam what has Al Sharpton said? It wasn't the National Action Network, it was the NAACP.

[Lovebabz]

BEAUTIFUL!

They gave R. Simmons that award to attract folks to come out and party with the NAACP. Clearly he was not the best choice. CLEARLY.

The NAACP...well, they have be trying to figure out what their mission is for the last 25 years or so.

South Carolina...ah don't they still fly the confederate flag? I think you are right...ignorance does not play well in broad daylight...nor does overt racism. The SC NAAP needed to appear to be on the forefron of this..why? Because they have nothing else to do. I mean what exactly do they do? Oh I am sure they do some really good things...but the good stuff pales in comparison to what they could and should be doing....but I digress.

Execellent post...hard hitting. You captured my sentiments exactly.

[Goldenah]

>>I’m irked because the NAACP demanding a “proper” apology for calling a woman out of her name rings of hypocrisy. The NAACP is hardly a bastion of women’s rights in the modern era. Nor do they have any moral authority to demand an apology on any Black woman’s behalf for being called or referred to in a disparaging way....

Without black women there would be no NAACP, but they only want them for doing all the leg work, and sexual conquests (see past leaders of the organization).

These people don't even want a woman to head the organization. They get a raspberry from me, just for that alone.

You're on fire this week. Nice.

[Wanna Twinkie]

Thanks for posting!
Someone has got to call out the foolishness and the disrespect of black women esp. the First Lady.
DePasse (De Asse is more like it) needs to resign PDQ.

Goldenah, you hit the nail on the head when you said that there would be no NAACP without black women...brothers seem to forget who had their backs fighting for Civil Rights and black male rights while ours were and still are being ignored!

[A. Moore]

Let’s not forget that the NAACP also gave Isaiah Washington an Image Award fresh off of his homophobic rant against a co-worker. The NAACP is now, unfortunately, for the birds and DuBois is rolling over in his grave . My dealings with them ended with my youth membership termination long ago. It’s such a shame. . .a once great organization ruined by our so-called/self-styled “Black Leaders”.

[miriam]

My bad.

[Monie]

The NAACP is like most Black churches. The majority of members are middle-aged Black women and yet both of those institutions do their best to disrespect their majority membership at every turn. If Black women walked away from the Black church and NAACP en mass both would collapse.

@A. Moore

And don't forget that the idiots at the NAACP gave R.Kelly an award too. That's when I knew they had become a worthless organization.

[A. Moore]

@Monie-

Wow, I forgot about that one. Shame, shame, shame.

[katrina]

I was wondering where was the NAACP's 'outrage' when left wing nut jobs drew disgusting cartoons of Condoleeza Rice as a mammy and other offensive characters.

I guess you only get support from your fellow black folks when you are a Democrat.

Sad and hypocritical.

[mg]

No, you only get support from the NAACP when you're a black man. Clarence Thomas?

NAACP is a complete joke and has barely any relevance. It's pre-occupation with supporting black males who get themselves in trouble is mind boggling to me.

The fact that it's coddles to sexaual harrassers DOES NOT SURPRISE ME. This is the same group that coddled the Florida rape suspects and Generalow in GA and the list goes on. This is the same group that is made up of mostly women who only want to see a black male in leadership roles in this organization no matter how nasty, filthy, or unqualified. It's the same organization mostly made up of women who stifle other women and go after them if they are not interested in being mistresses or refuse to be sexually harrassed by their male superios. The black women of the NAACP, I liken to an enabling wife of a pedofile. She see's abuse and does nothing.

[Fred]

I was wondering where was the NAACP’s ‘outrage’ when left wing nut jobs drew disgusting cartoons of Condoleeza Rice as a mammy and other offensive characters.

I guess you only get support from your fellow black folks when you are a Democrat."

Agreed.

By the way, check out this ad condemning sexism against non-Democrat women:

http://thenewagenda.net/2009/06/17/hollywood-reporter-publishes-ad-that-variety-censoredentertainment-industry-can-you-hear-us-now/

"Sad and hypocritical."

Amen to that.

[Fred]

A Moore wrote:

"Let’s not forget that the NAACP also gave Isaiah Washington an Image Award fresh off of his homophobic rant against a co-worker."

NAACP homophobic?

*Isn't this the same NAACP that remained silent when White pro-homosexual liberals hurled racist slur at then-candidate Barack Obama and Black America in general:

http://www.whataboutourdaughters.blogspot.com/2007/10/white-progressive-blogosphere-takes-aim.html

*Isn't this the same NAACP that supported overturning Prop. 8, which was strong supported by Black voters?:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/nov/18/a-marriage-mandate/

That's sad how the NAACP fought for the Black vote in the past, but now will sacrifice it for the sake of being PC.

*Isn't this the same NAACP that refused to condemn White homosexual activists attacking Black voters, who became scapegoats in the wake of Prop. 8?:

http://holycoast.blogspot.com/2008/11/n.html

So, is the NAACP "homophobic"? Not really.

Is it hypocritical? Yep.