JOURNALISM OR BOOSTERISM? :

Not resting on its laurels : Renewed NAACP says civil rights fight isn't over (LORI RODRIGUEZ, July 7, 2002, Houston Chronicle)

When the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People last convened in Houston 11 years ago, white Americans were retrenching and blacks were in crisis.

Rodney King had been beaten by Los Angeles police that spring. Liberal stalwart Thurgood Marshall was being replaced on the Supreme Court by the conservative Clarence Thomas. Congress was debating civil rights legislation under threat of executive veto.

This embarassing article reads like an NAACP press release--from its title, to this deranged picture of life in America in 1991 to its fellating of Julian Bond. Imagine, if you can, a similar article headlined "NRA not resting on its laurels". Posted by Orrin Judd at July 7, 2002 6:26 PM