“I was kind of lynched, so to speak,” said Willie Breazell to the Gazette-Telegraph, when he was forced to resign his post as president of the Colorado Springs branch of the NAACP.

And he had still more to tell to the Wall Street Journal, that reported him as saying, “If you join the NAACP, you sacrifice some of your liberties, and if you don’t have the group-think mentality, you won’t last.” Just what set the big boys at the national NAACP against Breazell? He had the temerity to write an article supporting school choice and vouchers. (more…)

So little has changed since.

From Issues & Views Summer/Fall 1999



 

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