What would be so bad about the NAACP being run by people supported by the majority of the NAACP membership? If allow to do so through a fair process they would probably chose the wrong leaders, from the Strib's point of view.
NAACP branch leaders acceptable to the Strib are unlikely to have the support of a majority of Minneapolis NAACP branch members and its broader constituency now or anytime in the near future. And one cannot be certain that a majority of the members who were eligible to vote and attempted to vote in the last election of branch officers (2002) supported the Lyndsey-Gallmon slate. If the election for branch officers was really fair, why was the vote so lopsided in favor of the Lyndsey-Gallmon slate (111 to 21), yet a majority of the people who have been showing up to branch meetings since the election have not been supporters of the Lyndsey Gallmon slate? Is it just that most of the Lyndsey-Gallmon supporters wouldn't ordinarily be caught dead at a branch meeting? I've never seen Judy Farmer or Dee Long at a branch membership meeting. I am one of just a few whites who have regularly attended branch meetings over the past 6 years, yet an awful lot of white people voted and very few or none were disenfranchised or required to cast a challenged ballot in the 2002 election of branch officers. Due to all of the never-counted contested ballots and all of the members who were not allowed to vote at all, we can't be sure who a majority of the membership actually supported. A group of NAACP members are heading to court to force the NAACP to do the 2002 branch election over again after having gone as far as they could with formal appeals within the NAACP. -Doug Mann, King Field REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
