Here's something you don't see everyday. Thousands of American blacks held a rally in Harlem last week to protest . . . the NAACP.
The New York state chapter of the civil rights organization and the United Federation of Teachers, the local teachers union, have filed a lawsuit to stop the city from closing 22 of Gotham's worst schools. The lawsuit also aims to block the city from giving charter schools space to operate in buildings occupied by traditional public schools.
Protesters at the rally, which included parents and charter school operators like Geoffrey Canada of the Harlem Children's Zone, urged the NAACP to withdraw from the suit. But Hazel Dukes, president of the state NAACP chapter, is unpersuaded. Using the kind of language more readily associated with past opponents of black civil rights, Ms. Dukes said that critics of the lawsuit "can march and have rallies all day long. . . . We will not respond."
Read more at: http://blackamericans.com/blogs/news/archive/2011/06/05/naacp-vs-black-parents.aspx
It's so warming to know that the pursuit money is a core priority regardless of race. Perhaps Albert Shanker, the former head of the NYC United Federation of Teachers said it best:“When school children start paying union dues, that 's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.”
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