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San Diego NAACP Fights Back
The San Diego NAACP took action last Thursday night that is certain to generate a strong response from the National NAACP. On January 6, at its first regularly scheduled General Membership meeting of 2022, the San Diego NAACP voted to approve a motion that would protect the individual members of the San Diego branch from reprisals from the National NAACP, as the San Diego Branch seeks redress from the actions of the national office. This comes after the San Diego Executive Committee, in a closed session that left many members of the organization on hold in the Zoom waiting room for three hours, voted in December not to add the administrator appointed over the branch to the branch bank accounts, as demanded by the National NAACP in a letter to the branch.
The motion came in the form of a resolution which reads in part:
Preservation
However we may choose to view them— as slave holding villains or heroic visionaries, or a mix of the two— the framers of the U.S. Constitution understood the immutable human tendency to abuse power. Looking back at models of governance throughout world history, the conclusion the founding fathers arrived at was this: Humans cannot be trusted with unchecked power. In response, and borrowing from the old world, as well as from the Iroquois Confederacy on Turtle Island, they created a government in which a system of checks and balances would theoretically restrain abuses of power. They decided Democracy in America should, for the most part, be transparent. That its representatives would be chosen by free and fair elections. That these representatives could be voted out of office. That they would be subject to the rule of law. That they could and would be held accountable if they abused their power.
NAACP Secret Meeting Threatens Civil Rights Legacy in San Diego
The National NAACP removed the local San Diego Branch President, Francine Maxwell, from office in a letter last week that said she had refused to cooperate with the Nationally appointed “Administrator” who has taken over the San Diego Branch. They also suspended her Life Membership.When the NAACP San Diego Branch called for a closed door “executive session” meeting on December 21st, the outcry was immediate. Members of the NAACP started asking, “Why is this meeting closed?” The answer, apparently from Alphonso Braggs, the National NAACP Administrator who is now in charge of the San Diego Branch was, "This meeting...is planned for Executive Session only, due to ‘personnel issues’ on the agenda."