Unholy Trinity

Unholy Trinity
By Lowell Ponte
FrontPageMagazine.com | July 16, 2004

?WHEN A WHITE PERSON KILLS A BLACK PERSON, we all go out in the street to protest,? said Reverend Floyd Flake. ?But our children are being educationally killed every day in public schools and nobody says a thing.?

Rev. Flake understands this problem ? and why few outcries are heard. He once was part of the conspiracy that causes this. He served for six terms in Congress as a New York Democrat.

The Democratic Party?s two evil co-conspirators in this systematic destruction of black childrens? minds, dreams and futures are a labor union, the National Education Association (NEA), and what used to be regarded as a civil rights organization, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

All three groups in this unholy trinity exploit children ? as surely as did 19th Century plantation slave owners or Dickensian industrial factory owners ? destroying millions of young African-American lives for their own selfish gain.

?By the time African-American students reach 8th grade, only 12% can read proficiently and only 7% are proficient in math?. The average black high-school senior is leaving 12th grade with 8th grade skills,? wrote U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige, himself African-American, in the July 15 Wall Street Journal. ?Fifty years ago, the NAACP?s Thurgood Marshall made the oral argument before the Supreme Court in the historic Brown v. Board of Education case that outlawed racial segregation in school. He said that ?nothing can repay? wasted years and a lost education. I agree.?

But today, by cynically working together the NAACP, NEA and Democratic Party have created for themselves a symbiotic iron triangle of wealth and power that would fall apart if any one of the three departed from their symbiotic, self-aggrandizing behavior. Their wealth and power are being paid for with the enslavement and wrecked futures of millions of black children and the betrayal of African-American parents.

We need to consider each of these three organizations separately to understand how and why they have joined together, and why this racist triangle of evil would fall apart and a new day of opportunity would dawn for African-Americans if any one of these three groups left the conspiracy.

The NAACP, which describes itself as America?s ?oldest and largest civil rights organization,? during the 1960s was seen by millions as a bipartisan beacon of hope for American equality. Its membership bridged the political spectrum from the honorable Democratic Senator and Vice President Hubert Humphrey on the left to Republican Vice President and President Richard Nixon on the right.

But the NAACP grew from left-bent roots, and those roots have in recent years killed the moderate branches that were briefly grafted to this twisted tree. The NAACP?s roots reach back to the Niagara Movement, founded in 1905 by radical black political activist William Edward Burghardt DuBois to oppose the ?elevate yourselves through hard work and economic gain? values taught by another African-American leader Booker T. Washington.

W.E.B. DuBois, born in Massachusetts in 1868, believed that blacks should rely not on their own accomplishments and hard work but instead on political agitation and the government to advance. In 1909 he and 13 others who shared this view formed the American Negro Committee, soon re-named the NAACP, with DuBois as its promoter and editor of its journal The Crisis.

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