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Whoopi Goldberg, as much a social critic as comedian, has defended Snyder. "Jimmy says...we bred big Black bucks to big Black women and made big Black fast kids. Now did he lie? What did he say that offended people? He told the fuckin' truth...and America and the NAACP and everybody else was pissed...and all the white folks said Jimmy shouldn't've said that...
...briefly added an endorsement from the Columbus, Ohio, NAACP to his union support, but that was before the group's president reluctantly reversed course under pressure from national headquarters. Melanie J. Mitchell said she was acting to avoid jeopardizing the chapter's tax-exempt status as a non-profit organization...
...last week's oral arguments, Julius Chambers, director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, argued against overturning Runyon by stressing that it had become a "significant part of the web of congressional and judicial efforts to rid the country of public and private discrimination." Surprisingly, when Manhattan attorney Roger Kaplan argued to overturn the ruling, conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, who had voted to rehear the case, asked from the bench, "Let's concede that ((Runyon)) is wrong. So what? What's special about this case to require us to go back and change our decision?" When Kaplan...
...past two [NAACP] presidents cited [MCAD's] process as being not too careful or too slow," says Owens, but he adds that lately there have been few problems. He says the two groups now have "a good working relationship," adding that NAACP refers nearly 100 cases to the agency each year. He says he believes hearings are now held more often than in the past, and settlements are more frequent...
...That means someone is looking [out] more on behalf of the people being discriminated against," Owens says. And he adds he is pleased that MCAD hired two people who were referred to the commission by the NAACP's job placement program...