Thread: NAACP committee hasn't changed plans to come to Kansas City

------ NAACP committee hasn't changed plans to come to Kansas City

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Though NAACP members were critical of Frances Semler's appointment to the city's park board, the group still plans to hold its convention in Kansas City three years from now.

Mayor Mark Funkhouser's June appointment of Semler, a member of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, to the park board drew criticism from both the National Council of La Raza and the NAACP. On Saturday, La Raza announced it is pulling its 2009 convention from Kansas City.

But the NAACP so far has kept its convention plans for Kansas City intact.

"It is our intent to come to Kansas City in 2010, pending a site visit," said Anita Russell, president of the group's Kansas City branch, who attended a meeting Friday with the NAACP's Convention Planning Committee.

Richard McIntire, a national NAACP spokesman, said the decision about the 2010 convention is not final.

La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy organization, had urged Funkhouser to remove Semler from the board or have her step down because of her affiliation with the Minuteman group, which opposes illegal immigration. Last week, La Raza said it would still hold its conference in Kansas City if Semler would at least cut ties to the Minuteman group.

http://www.hdnews.net/Story/k1004_BC_MO ... 10_23_0925

The NAACP has an unprecedented opportunity here to gain respect for honoring a commitment and an opportunity to flaunt their independence. They are showing far more grace than the La Raza group.

Saying the NAACP is with them is just another attempt by La Raza to appear main stream and respectable.

Foolish is as foolish does. La Raza is standing out there with egg on their faces, desperately yelling at people to come over and make them look acceptable and right. They are out on a limb trying to lure more people out.

I wouldn't blindly follow them into an obviously bad decision. They should suffer thier stupidity all alone.

Fools rush in where angles fear to tread.

Dixie