The NAACP Needs a Name Change

An Organization so Concerned With Racist Names, They Forgot About Their Own

It’s time to discuss the irrelevance of the NAACP and there’s no better place to start than with the name. The letters “CP” in “NAACP” stand for “colored people,” a term universally known to be a Jim Crow Era racial slur. If you don’t believe it’s a problem, start referring to all black people you meet as “colored people” and then report back– if you can still walk.

That being said, how has the NAACP gotten away with being any kind of a moral authority on civil rights issues when they don’t even seem to notice or care that their very name is offensive to Blacks? It is beyond rational understanding.

And for an organization so obsessed with shaking down “vestiges of racism” from any institution whatsoever, you’d think they might have caught their own gaffe by now. 

Could you imagine the vegetarian animal rights organization “PETA” being allowed to go by the acronym “People Eating Tasty Animals” without an uproar? Would the NRA be taken seriously if their letters stood for “No Rifles Allowed?” So why have we entertained a civil rights organization that uses a name so historically oppressive to the people they are supposedly representing?

Yet with the self-awareness of a box of crayons, the NAACP charges ahead, waging war on the oppression of symbols and names under the cringeworthy misnomer of “colored people."

And what’s worse, they often double down on their ignorance when the should leave well enough alone. For instance in 2019, the Hanover County Virginia chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People had the gall to order the local School Board to remove the “corrosive racism” of Confederate names on Lee Davis High School and Stonewall Jackson Middle School, but even after Pat Hunter-Jordan the NAACP President won the battle and got her way, she recently ran crying “racism” to the local media accusing a school board member of using the offensive term “colored people” in a conversation in 2021…

It’s almost impossible to fathom the lack of self-awareness it takes to be this oblivious to the proverbial “log in one’s own eye.” Yet, the NAACP and Pat Jordon persist.

Moreover, the most disturbing of all is the common reasoning defenders give when confronted with the double standard of using a name rooted in segregationist history while executing a search and destroy mission on others. According to an explanation in a recent Chicago Tribune editorial it’s simple- Blacks, especially the younger generation simply don’t have an obligation “to try and educate white people about what it means to be black in America.”

In other words, using “colored people” is only offensive when White people say it and they don’t have to explain why.

Another solidly ironic justification for the organization’s two-faced charade was recently given by an apologist on a Hanover social media group.

He claimed “tradition” and “historical context” explain why the “CP” is socially acceptable decades after society deemed it verboten. If this explanation is to be taken seriously, he would be wise to recall that it is also the very reason given by the Hanover School Board for having and keeping Confederate names - which the NAACP flatly rejected.

But you know what else you can’t spell without a “C” and a “P?” Hypocrite.

The truth is, there is no rational explanation to support the NAACP keeping “colored people” in their name, but it’s my belief that it isn’t just ironic or ignorant, it’s intentional. It subconsciously solidifies two of their deepest, darkest, not-so secret motives:

1.   They do not accept the modern reality that racism as they were founded to defeat over a century ago no longer exists. 

2. They have BECOME the racists they accuse others of being. 

As Thomas Sowell said, “Racism is not dead, but it is on life-support— kept alive by politicians and race-hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as ‘racists.’”

By perpetually resurrecting and inventing false, external grievances to keep the racist narrative alive, they keep their organization in motion like a reanimated corpse. By professing that everything wrong in society is due to racism, they return blacks to marginalization and whites to oppressors thereby claiming power over both.

This is also why they take the low-hanging fruit of names on buildings and refuse to address the real enemy of Blacks — Black subculture, Black-on-Black violence, and Black anti-intellectualism - all because solving these cultural problems would dry up the lifeblood of their power - victimhood. 

Unlike the old days, the NAACP of today operates solely to advance their own power and wealth and in order to do so, they will gladly step on the neck of their own race.

So to them, Black people must always be “colored people.” Always sufferers, always hopeless, always controllable, and Whites always oppressors. There is simply no other way for the NAACP to stay relevant.

To close, I’d like to suggest a few names more fitting of the NAACP’s current mission and achievement they may want to consider:

National Association for the Advancement of Conning People

National Association for the Acceptance of Corrupt Politicians

National Association for the Approval of Constant Prejudice

National Association for the Authorization of Crooked Policies

No matter what letters on their marquee ultimately are, there’s only one that will ever truly fit - “R” for “racist.”