The NAACPs Red Roots

Original Post Date: 2001-08-19  Posted By: Jan

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Date & Time Posted: 8/19/2001 3:41:18 AM
The NAACPs Red Roots

Al Benson Jr.

(123){HYPERLINK “SierraTimes.com”(125)}SierraTimes.com (124)| June 26, 2000

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Seeing that the Confederate Battle Flag is coming down from atop the state
house in Columbia, South Carolina within just a few days, thanks to the
much touted efforts of a racist group called the NAACP, I thought just a
bit of history concerning this group might be in order at this time. Many
think the NAACP was, in the beginning, a worthwhile organization that has
just outlived its usefulness. While some good, honest folks hold to this
opinion, I do no share it. What I have been able to discern about this
group from the beginning seems to say differently. Much of the information
I will present is taken from a book called Biographical Dictionary of the
Left which was written by a Francis Gannon and was published by Western
Islands back in 1969. If you can still find this book somewhere, I would
recommend it. The NAACP “emerged” in 1909, supposedly to promote equality
and rights among the races. Needless to say, it has done neither. However,
the formation of this group was urged by the leading radicals of that day,
among whom were Jane Addams and government school “educator” John Dewey.
Other radicals were among the first officials in the organization. Among
these was Oswald Garrison Villard, grandson of the infamous abolitionist,
William Lloyd Garrison. The first president of the NAACP was, strangely
enough, a white man, Moorfield Story, a lawyer from Boston. Black radical
WEB DuBois, who later joined the Communist Party, was the organization”s
first director of publicity and research, as well as editor of the group”s
monthly publication The Osiris. This publication gave DuBois an excellent
outlet from which to pour forth all manner of racial invective against
whites, supposedly in the name of “promoting equality.” According to the
Biographical Dictionary of the Left, “Long tenure in office has also been
characteristic of the NAACP”s presidents–all white men: Moorfield Story
(1910-1915), Joel Springarn (1915-1940), Arthur Springarn (1940-1966), and
since 1966, Kivie Kaplan.” Since the Biographical Dictionary was published
in 1969, obviously some things have changed. However, it is interesting to
note how long the organization had white presidents, almost as if the
radicals didn”t trust the blacks to take the organization in the proper
direction (to the left). WEB DuBois, one black that did hold a prominent
position, was no problem because he was already on the left. DuBois was
known to have “hailed the Russian Revolution of 1917” and he travelled to
the Soviet Union in 1926 and 1936. He especially liked “the racial
attitudes of the Communists”.” In 1922 the NAACP started to receive grants
from the Garland Fund, a big source of funding of Communist Party
projects. Officials of the Garland Fund included Communists William Z.
Foster, Benjamin Gitlow, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and Scott Nearing. Other
prominent left-wing officials were Roger Baldwin, Sidney Hillman, and
Harry F. Ward, the “Red Dean” of religion in America.” The Garland Fund
continued to pour money into the NAACP until around 1934. Even when the
money stopped, the Communist connections continued. “In 1938, the NAACP
was represented at the World Youth Congress, a Communist enterprise. In
the 1940s the NAACP was affiliated with American Youth for a Free World,
the American affiliate of the World Federation of Democratic Youth, a
Communist clearing house.” A most literate apologist for the NAACP was the
well-known Langston Hughes. Hughes was affiliated with Communist Party
projects from the mid- 1920s until he passed away in 1967. In fact, in
1962, Hughes wrote a book entitled Fight for Freedom: The Story of the
NAACP. In this book he stated the following: “Attempts to label the NAACP
subversive, Communist-influenced, or out and out Communist have continued
for a long time.” In light of the evidence available, can anyone with a
brain honestly wonder why? The organization has, from time to time, gone
through the sanitized ritual of “opposing Communism” but this has been a
self-serving action designed to keep the support of those that are astute
enough to see communism as a problem. In 1946, the NAACP helped the
Communist Party in one of its major political projects, the establishment
of the Progressive Citizens of America”the basis for Henry Wallace”s
Communist-dominated Progressive Party in the 1948 presidential election.
In 1953 the Communist newspaper Daily Worker recommended that Communists
and labor unions “give every possible support to any and all campaigns
conducted by the NAACP.” One can only wonder if this strategy has changed
in the intervening years. Although the NAACP has taken several twists and
turns over the years to try to “cover its six” as the military saying
goes, the record of its early affinity to the Left and the affinity of the
Left for the NAACP is a matter of record. The organization”s blatant
attack on all Confederate symbols would certainly have the unqualified
support of the Left and can truly be construed as nothing more than
updated racism. WEB DuBois would have loved it! Needless to say, the
Battle Flag was a soldier”s flag, used on the battlefields. It had nothing
whatever to do with slavery–and for that matter, not much else in that
war did either, at least not from the Southern perspective. Let it suffice
to say that slavery existed in all 13 original colonies, both North and
South, and that all the slave ships flew the United States flag after we
won our independence from Great Britain. Lots of “good” Northern folks got
rich off the slave trade. So, as the NAACP breathes out fire and threatens
continued boycotts all across the South for the forseeable future,
Southern folks and others of a sincere and honest mindset, should
contemplate the history of the NAACP. Where they have come from is where
they are going, (ever leftward) and we had best continue to resist being
taken there. Al Benson Jr. is editor of Copperhead Chronicle. E-mail him
at [email protected]. (194)Â 2000 by SierraTimes.com Posted on FrontPagemag.com
7/7/2000

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