@pooty said:
@jnr6lil: Yes it is discrimination. If you exclude a person based off of race, gender or religion then that is discrimination. There's no way to sugar coat it. The Klu Klux Klan tells that same lie about "it's to focus on our people". No it's discrimination
That's two different scenarios.
The NAACP is an activist organization for blacks, a white person doesn't necessarily need to join it in the same way a black person would need to join a business to feed their family, and the white person didn't hire him.
The KKK are a terrorist group. The reason they don't want minorities joining them is because they have an actual hate of minorities, and probably wouldn't want said minorities to know their goals.
The KKK are also a member of a racial group that for the most part has all the institutional power in society. Starting a White Power group
Their agenda is much different from a social group such as the NAACP.
If you have an association called the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, it would be best to make sure that organization is predominantly black as a white person will never have the best interests of black people more than a black person would let alone the fact that plenty of black organizations that allowed white people in, eventually crumbled when those whites turned out to be using the organization for said own gains or were informants for the FBI. Plenty of organizations such as the BPP, OAAU, etc didn't allow white people in despite having many white allies. The Black Panther Party of the 1960s/1970s were allied with many white groups but they didn't let whites into their ranks. Is that racist? No. It wasn't because they hated white people, it's called keeping it in their community. As Malcolm quoted "Blacks must first unite with themselves before they untie with other races"
Not to mention the amount of white people who are sincere about black issues are little. A lot of these people protesting for Black Lives Matter are a bunch of white liberals who want to protest to make themselves feel better or be apart of what's different & "cool". Those are not the type of people I would want joining the NAACP.
Let someone like John Brown in, people who were willing to give up their privileges as a white male for the sake of black people. I'm not advocating people risk their lives, but those are the type of whites that come few and far between, not white people who protest for a few hours just because they saw #BLM, trending on Twitter
If I have an organization for the advancement of Jewish people, it'd be pretty stupid to have a bunch of Chrisitans & Muslims. Have people who are not familiar with life as that religion, running that group.
If you go to an Asian community such as Chinatown, they probably don't hire any other race there. Self segregation is beneficial to many ethnic groups.
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