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When people make the Goetz case a referendum on race, they are forced into defending vigilantism for all in order to oppose racism. Opposition to the Goetz verdict is reminiscent of the challenge presented to the death penalty which was struck down in a recent Supreme Court decision. The NAACP challenged the death penalty on the grounds that Blacks were more likely to be sentenced to execution than whites. The challenge stood for the principle of equality with respect to race, but in this case that meant non-discriminatory use of the death penalty...
...other words, the NAACP presumably would be satisfied with the death penalty so long as it applies equally to both Blacks and whites. And the net effect of the challenge being upheld would have been that once Americans overcame their racism, more people would be sentenced to death. What was never questioned was whether the death penalty as a punishment is acceptable for any person, Black or white...
...National Association for the Advancement ofColored People (NAACP) will oppose the nominationwhen it arrives on Capitol Hill, and the UnitedNegro College Fund, the Urban League, and theNational Education Association said they areconsidering following its lead...
...local office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, she became aware that there were no attorneys to represent poor blacks. She went off to Yale Law School, then became the first black woman admitted to the Mississippi bar. As a staff attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, she met her husband Peter, a fellow attorney and an adviser to Senator Robert Kennedy. Convinced she could achieve more as an advocate than as a litigant for the poor, Edelman moved to Washington in 1968 and five years later founded the C.D.F. Says Edelman...
Although Rasheed acknowledges that "the Coors as a family seem to have conservative Republican politics," he maintains that the covenants have helped serve the NAACP's interests. "Our primary concern was to generate more jobs and more business opportunities for Black Americans," he says...