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Proceedings recently began in a suit brought by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) against 85 gun makers and distributors. At first glance, this would seem to be a commendable action: guns currently pose a serious threat to the safety of Americans that is impossible to ignore, and their production and sale must be extensively restricted...
...while the measures the NAACP suit aims to bring about—tighter regulations on the sale and distribution of guns—are admirable, the organization’s rationale for this suit is badly misguided...
...Organized by the Win Without War coalition, an umbrella group whose members include big names such as the NAACP, the Sierra Club, NOW, Oxfam America and the Rainbow/Push coalition, the "march" took the form of a barrage of faxes and phone calls directed at the phone lines of the White House and selected members of congress. And, perhaps mindful that most callers wouldn't get as far as a "your call is important to us" message, a primary goal was to drown out the drumbeat of war with a busy signal...
...addition, Wright said he has begun filing a complaint against Harvard police with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP...
...both races that convicted Byron De La Beckwith, the white assassin of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. (Another multiracial jury recently convicted the white church arsonists that had terrorized the state.) Earlier this year, Myrlie Evers, the widow of Medgar, announced that she was donating her husband's NAACP papers, personal correspondence and assorted memorabilia to the State Archive in Mississippi. "That's where his paper's belong," she said. "He would be pleased by how far Mississippi has come in terms of race relations...