NAACP Endorses Climate Change Legislation

Climate change advocates gained the support of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People on Tuesday, the first time the organization has addressed the issue head-on.

Delegates to the NAACP Centennial Convention resolved to work with the National Wildlife Federation to "ensure that the response to climate change can take a higher ground than business as usual -- one that ensures that we capture the real public benefits from the new energy economy."

Spokesmen attributed the NAACP's support for climate-change legislation to the promise of green jobs for poor urban areas that need rebuilding, a sentiment echoed by Congressional Black Caucus Chair Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.).

"Communities of color have and continue to be disproportionately impacted by global climate change, environmental degradation, and our nation's dependence on fossil fuels," Lee told the Huffington Post. "The CBC will continue to work with the Senate to ensure that our priorities that were included in the House energy legislation remain in the Senate version."

Those priorities, Lee said, include a number of programs endorsed by the NAACP and added to the Waxman-Markey bill that passed the House last month, such as $100 million for green retrofitting of public and federally assisted housing, financing for minority-owned green businesses, green job training and funding for green programs at historically black colleges and universities.

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[RomeoMD25]

07:09 AM on 07/18/2009

Goldman Sachs to be carbon regulator?

As the global warming bubble inflates and then bursts, will Goldman Sachs self-regulate all the way to the bank� making record profits at the expense and misery of taxpayers and consumers?

Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, is ostensibly about climate change, but it is in fact a bill of staggering economic ramifications that is going to accelerate the takeover of the economy by the well-placed financiers who have already plundered the Treasury and the Fed of $12+ trillion and counting. It was rushed through the House in the tradition of such nightmarish legislation as the Patriot Act and the banker bailout of last October: hundreds of pages were added to it at the last minute and it was humanly impossible for anyone to have read it before they voted on it.

It's passage will be a particularly dark day in American legislative history, something almost unthinkable given the constitution-destroying atrocities passed during the Bush years.

[crayola 08b]

06:16 PM on 07/15/2009

who's the white guy in the picture?

[Tanyars5]

06:24 PM on 07/15/2009

http://www.naacpwebcast.com/2009/naacp-09-watch.aspx


go here and learn

[scoops2]

06:57 PM on 07/15/2009

LMFAO! I have darker skin than that dude!!

[crayola 08b]

09:32 PM on 07/15/2009

yeah, you'd think in all of blackdom they'd be able to find actual blacks to be leaders of the naacp.

[vagabondvet]

05:53 PM on 07/15/2009

I thought the standard liberal heuristic was that only scientists could weigh in on climate change? I guess that's changed to scientists and longtime liberal constituencies.

[scoops2]

06:58 PM on 07/15/2009

gotta beef up the ranks, their case is falling apart. Silly Gore, He picked the wrong molecule LMFAO!

[Joe Caps]

04:15 PM on 07/15/2009

"Communities of color have and continue to be disproportionately impacted by global climate change, environmental degradation, and our nation's dependence on fossil fuels,"

How so? This really makes no sense.

Cap and Trade will disproportionately effect "communities of color" in a bad way. It is not all that complicated to understand. Everybody has to pay for energy. A large proportion of "people of color" live in poverty. A greater proportion of their wages go towards energy compared to wealthier individuals (who end up with more disposable income in comparison). Same goes for food. When energy prices go up like Obama said they would, it will effect the poor the most and they will have even less money to spend on other things. Wealthy individuals will be able to weather the hit, many of our nation's poor will not be able to. If the NAACP cared more about those they represent and less about liberal ideology, they would have not supported Cap and Trade. This is a truely foolish move on their part.

[vie2012ne]

04:19 PM on 07/15/2009

But Joe, Obama is going to "share the wealth" by giving the "poor" vouchers to cover the increases in energy costs, so their net cost will be zero. This policy will also ensure that the "poor" continue to vote Dumbocrapic. Our Republic is in grave danger when the entitlements claimed by the majority (who pay no taxes) are financed by the minority. Unsustainable.

[Joe Caps]

04:34 PM on 07/15/2009

The goal of the NAACP should be to empower blacks. They achieve the opposite by lobbying to have their lives subsidized more and more. What motivation do you have to make something of yourself when you have the government paying you to sit home and stay poor. The NAACP wants blacks to be rewarded for doing nothing with their lives and want them to be punished (have their subsidies taken away) for trying to make something of themselves. It's despicable. You have no freedom as long as you are not self-sufficient. These people advoate having blacks move from one type of slavery to another.

[vie2012ne]

03:54 PM on 07/15/2009

"Communities of color have and continue to be disproportionately impacted by global climate change, environmental degradation, and our nation's dependence on fossil fuels," HAHAHAHAHA

What a crock. The NAACP just sees an opportunity to agitate for more entitlements from the tax revenue that will be collected under Cap'n Trade. "Gonna git paid by the gub'mint"

[AFAN]

04:02 PM on 07/15/2009

NAACP is right and justify in supporting global climate change since it has impacted the urban community. Try living their if you wish!

[vie2012ne]

04:10 PM on 07/15/2009

Try learning to speak English.

[NedroidPrime]

04:50 PM on 07/15/2009

I'm in an urban community, but i'm not black. Does that mean that the NAACP is representing a wh1te male?

They have no business interjecting themselves into the climate debate. The guy isn't a scientist for crying out loud...

[bla2009]

03:04 PM on 07/15/2009

Great, my people finally joining the 21st century.

[NormDePleum]

02:36 PM on 07/15/2009

Hah! Hah! Hah! Joe Bfitsky's Bicycle Repair Shop made the same endorsement today, too!

[antifluff]

02:28 PM on 07/15/2009

Maybe they told the NAACP the 'meangreenie' office would be in urban areas. That will provide two jobs per city to keep the urbanites downand tell them how good they have it. You have been sold out....again.

[jimrs6]

02:21 PM on 07/15/2009

This is great news. Now we just need the Microsoft Office Users Group, the US Association of Municipal Dog Catchers, and the American Pie Association to endorse as well. It will be unstoppable.

[dennissinned]

02:15 PM on 07/15/2009

Ben, the two of us need look no more.
We both found what we were looking for.

Ben is cute.

[NedroidPrime]

02:14 PM on 07/15/2009

.....

What in the world does the NAACP have to do with climate legislation? Seriously, why don't we get endorsements for healthcare from Goodyear?

Completely meaningless...

[leftypower]

01:58 PM on 07/15/2009

Wow - I wish the NAACP would now endorse the addition of LGBT Americans to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

[RJII]

02:14 PM on 07/15/2009

to me the NAACP has always been behind the times, even for CP.

[Forester]

02:28 PM on 07/15/2009

Ben J is a new young force. If anyone can update it, he can.

[LilGlow]

03:06 PM on 07/15/2009

When will GLAAD get behind civil issues for african americans? I never hear them speak out when cops are beating innocent black folks or how about when black folks are being denied jobs or how about when little black children along with latino children are being denied assest to something as simple as a place to swim. I can go on and on about things black folks and other people of color face every day but never a sound from GLAAD.

When will they step up to the plate or is only a one-sided thing?!

[Tanyars5]

06:06 PM on 07/15/2009

LMAO....... you want the white LGBT community to be concerned about Black people's civil rights?

[ChknFngr]

01:56 PM on 07/15/2009

I will soon be accepting applications for membership in the NAAWP. Just e-mail me and I'll get back to you....

[RJII]

02:15 PM on 07/15/2009

Oh did they change the name of Congress.

[NedroidPrime]

02:36 PM on 07/15/2009

What, you don't like the r@c1sm in your own community pointed out to you?

What is wrong with having an equivalent organization for wh1tes?

[AFAN]

03:45 PM on 07/15/2009

So you can create a movement to banned interracial marriages?

[angry expat]

01:51 PM on 07/15/2009

Can we change the name of this organization already?
If anybody called me colored in 2009 they'd have a real bad day from that point on.

[vie2012ne]

04:11 PM on 07/15/2009

Now that's an endorsement I could support.

[vippy]

01:39 PM on 07/15/2009

We humans can't even clean up our waste. How are we going to change climate? This is ridiculous!

[Forester]

01:51 PM on 07/15/2009

vippy - you accidentally answered your own question! Here's a gold star.