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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe NAACP kinda sorta deals with Royal Mayo, rape supporter
They disavowed his words, covered their asses, and kept him on the board of the Steubenville chapter: http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/the-naacp-almost-deals-with-their-disgusting-steubenville-board-member/
As far as I'm concerned, they are still tacitly supporting him. So long as he is a member and a board member, they own this sick, twisted, woman-hating fuck. And therefore, his words and actions.
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)to remove him.
Virtually every national organization is going to have some nutters embedded in local offices due to local autonomy.
riqster
(13,986 posts)Reading the press release, they spent as much time saying he wasn't a chapter president and wasn't a spokesman as they did condemning his remarks.
If a local chapter is doing something to discredit the organization as a whole, the national leadership needs to nut up and do the needful.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)riqster
(13,986 posts)"You see, Royal Mayo is still a board member of the Steubenville NAACP. They can say hes not a spokesperson, they can say hes no longer a chapter president, and that may be true. But he is still an officer and member of the organization. So they dont appear to be all that upset about what their official said, now do they?
If they were really concerned by the Mayos pro-rape positions and his spreading of lies about the victim of a crime his buddy Malik Richmond was convicted of committing, theyd at least have removed him from the board. But they havent. So they arent.
As a public service, this writer most humbly suggests a new slogan for the NAACP: advancing civil rights for men, and putting women in their place. Seems to fit."