They've been huge in both grassroots fighting anti-gay legislation across the South and were incredibly helpful on the national level with things like DOMA repeal. They are also fighting tooth and nail for things I believe in like poor people being allowed to vote and keeping women's clinics legal.
Both the head of the national NAACP head and a number of the state level folks have been doing national media and local media for several years publicizing the need for human rights for their LGBT members and getting black preachers to hold events and do media saying the same. It's a huge help having the full strength of civil rights organizations and their associated preachers out and about doing organizing and PR. There are still issues with representation, but there have always been LGBT folk in prominent positions in the civil rights movement generally and now that an organization as important as NAACP has fully embraced rights for all their members, they've been doing the hard, unglamorous work that groups like HRC aren't interested in doing. They bring lawyers to the lawsuits, sure, but they they also go out in the community and turn people out for demonstrations and to vote. Given how effective they've been since they got serious about it and the fast upward trajectory, I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt for the rest.
HRC only cares about rich, white, LG people and maintaining the money and power they get from lobbying for those folks. They routinely through the rest of us under the bus, and when they let in someone who isn't from that one demographic, it's always a short term PR stunt. SLDN is pretty much the same. They made this huge deal about letting a trans woman into leadership and then fired her before she'd properly settled in or had time to make any changes. GLAAD has a similar history, though I am reserving judgement or their latst round of reform. They say they are going to stop discriminating, but I don't trust them at all given the history and my money is on empty PR. I'd love to be wrong. To trust any of these folks, I'd need to see at least a year or two of solid upward trend.
NAACP doesn't have a history of lying and pulling the Lucy and the football stunt like the white Lg organizations do. The NC head stated his policy to fight hard for his LGBT members and immediately went out to show he meant it. The National chapter followed suit a month or so later and a lot of the local heads went with. The ground swell was already in motion a couple of years when the President joined the wave, at which point the more conservative chapters joined. Yes, it's recent, but I genuinely trust them at this point.
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Date: 2013-08-03 01:18 am (UTC)Both the head of the national NAACP head and a number of the state level folks have been doing national media and local media for several years publicizing the need for human rights for their LGBT members and getting black preachers to hold events and do media saying the same. It's a huge help having the full strength of civil rights organizations and their associated preachers out and about doing organizing and PR. There are still issues with representation, but there have always been LGBT folk in prominent positions in the civil rights movement generally and now that an organization as important as NAACP has fully embraced rights for all their members, they've been doing the hard, unglamorous work that groups like HRC aren't interested in doing. They bring lawyers to the lawsuits, sure, but they they also go out in the community and turn people out for demonstrations and to vote. Given how effective they've been since they got serious about it and the fast upward trajectory, I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt for the rest.
HRC only cares about rich, white, LG people and maintaining the money and power they get from lobbying for those folks. They routinely through the rest of us under the bus, and when they let in someone who isn't from that one demographic, it's always a short term PR stunt. SLDN is pretty much the same. They made this huge deal about letting a trans woman into leadership and then fired her before she'd properly settled in or had time to make any changes. GLAAD has a similar history, though I am reserving judgement or their latst round of reform. They say they are going to stop discriminating, but I don't trust them at all given the history and my money is on empty PR. I'd love to be wrong. To trust any of these folks, I'd need to see at least a year or two of solid upward trend.
NAACP doesn't have a history of lying and pulling the Lucy and the football stunt like the white Lg organizations do. The NC head stated his policy to fight hard for his LGBT members and immediately went out to show he meant it. The National chapter followed suit a month or so later and a lot of the local heads went with. The ground swell was already in motion a couple of years when the President joined the wave, at which point the more conservative chapters joined. Yes, it's recent, but I genuinely trust them at this point.