The NAACP wants the NCAA to expand its ban of post-season competitions in South Carolina because of the presence of the Confederate battle flag on State House grounds.
In letters, NAACP President and CEO Bruce S. Gordon thanks the NCAA and black coaches for their “strong principled stand” and for providing a “stern message to those in authority that symbols of oppression, hatred and bigotry as the Confederate Battle Flag should have no place of sovereignty in our society today.”
A note to Gordon: The University of Mississippi football team has more black players than white. When these black players run on to the field to a thunderous ovation, the song “Dixie” is playing and dozens of Confederate Flags are flying.
Singling out South Carolina athletics seems a bit extreme, although the NAACP does have a little-known tourist boycott of South Carolina still underway because of this issue.
Quite frankly, doesn’t the NAACP have better things to with its time, including cleaning up the St. Louis city chapter?