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0740, 19 Jul 17

NAACP Opposes Naming Madison Building After Obama

Heh. By that argument, we can only ever name government buildings after white men who represent the racist patriarchy, right?

Support from Dane County officials may be waning for a plan to name the City-County Building after former President Barack Obama, after the county’s chapter of the NAACP voted against it.

The NAACP is objecting to the idea on grounds that naming a building that houses a portion of the county jail after the nation’s first black president is inappropriate.

“The building is symbolic of the extreme racial disparities evident in the treatment of African Americans by the criminal justice system of the United States,” the NAACP resolution states.

Greg Jones, president of NAACP Dane County, included the resolution in a letter Monday to the Dane County Board, the Madison City Council, Dane County Executive Joe Parisi and Madison Mayor Paul Soglin stating the organization’s objections to the idea.

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0740, 19 July 2017

9 Comments

  1. billphoto

    extreme racial disparities evident in the treatment of African Americans by the criminal justice system

    Sounds more like the NAACP thinks this is guilt by association?  Maybe ‘All Lives Matter’ is anathema to them?  Bet
    Rachel Dolezal or Shaun King would have some interesting comments.  And where is Elizabeth Warren when we need her?

  2. Kevin Scheunemann

    Sometimes the insantiy liberal political correctness is just mind blowing.

    First rule of liberalism, be miserable about everything, even the little things.

  3. billphoto

    Ditto.

  4. billphoto

    credit Ann Coulter:  (I know, it will make the liberals nuts but too good to not share)

    When we’re allowed to call things whatever we want in order to win an argument, there is a total breakdown in democratic politics, fair commerce, and social interaction.

  5. Pat

    “When we’re allowed to call things whatever we want in order to win an argument, there is a total breakdown in democratic politics, fair commerce, and social interaction.”

    Amen to that!

  6. Le Roi du Nord

    Pat:

    I agree. While I seldom agree with Coulter, I’m with that sentiment 100% as long as it applies to both sides.  No more alternative facts.

  7. billphoto

    Nice to see so much support.  Coulter was specifically talking about Rachel Maddow calling Medicaid biggest “health insurance provider in the country by a mile” except Medicaid is not insurance, it is welfare.

    Reminds me of Act10 where we pay for our retirement and municipal employees retirement.

  8. Le Roi du Nord

    bill:

    Well then maybe I don’t agree with it 100%.  I was hoping you would also include being Conway’d with alternative facts, but it looks like you only want a one way street of truth.

    BTW, the retirement earned by a public employee is part of an overall compensation package, just as it would be at any other employer that offers any $ toward retirement.  No different than the % I pay at a retail establishment, restaurant or contractor for any goods and services provided.

  9. billphoto

    I think an example, one geared to Owen’s audience is appropriate.

    In October 2012, the Washington County Board of Supervisors passed the Employee Pay Parity Plan which gave County employees pay parity with the private sector. While this may sound good, missing was the fact that the calculation omitted the employee’s taxpayer 50% funded, 100% taxpayer guaranteed retirement pension and ‘Cadillac’ healthcare insurance. I know this for a fact because in the fall of 2011, I asked the then County Administrator Doug Johnson, in open session, if these benefits would be included in the comparison calculation and he replied, “No.”

    (Of note is my running battle with then County Clerk Brenda Jaszewski for omitting pertinent information from the meeting minutes. County Board Chairman Herb Tennies backed the Clerk so only minimal information was recorded.)

    One could make the case that the County Supervisors were ignorant of the facts, too lazy to do their due diligence or wanted to transform County employees into an elite class of workers but calling this the Employee Pay Parity Plan is a untruthful. Considering the hypothetical of putting this to a vote by taxpayers, few would most likely vote for such a plan if all the facts were known.

    I suppose one could blame taxpayers for being ill informed or misguided for electing the Supervisors that approved the Plan but fault here also lies with the Fifth Estate. In particular, reporter Dave Rank. Whether this information was not published might be caused by laziness, injecting his own politics or just that he was a tool for the paper’s management. That does not matter. It is the responsibility of the media to report.

    In a benevolent society, we strive to take care of those less fortunate. Medicaid is not an insurance company but a program whereby deserving individuals receive healthcare services paid for by taxpayers. Rachel Maddow, whether by by laziness, injecting her own politics or just that she is a tool for the channel’s management, she still had the responsibility to not mislead the public and call Medicaid insurance. It is a welfare program.

    In the case of the NAACP, objecting to naming a building after Obama on the grounds that it also houses a jail that is “symbolic of the extreme racial disparities evident in the treatment of African Americans by the criminal justice system” is simply the same tactic trolls use to change the topic to something different to push their own narrative. Coulter’s statement rings true here, too.  If the NAACP has a valid reason to not name the building after our first black President, they should reveal it .

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