NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson (center) with Moore County NAACP President O’Linda Watkins-McSurely (Mr. Johnson’s left shoulder) and the rightful President of the North Carolina State Conference of Branches of the NAACP Rev. Dr. T Anthony Spearman (far right).
THE NAACP MISSION STATEMENT IS “TO SECURE THE POLITICAL, EDUCATIONAL, SOCIAL, AND ECONOMIC EQUALITY OF RIGHTS IN ORDER TO ELIMINATE RACE-BASED DISCRIMINATION AND ENSURE THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF ALL PERSONS.”
The NAACP Justice Coalition is comprised of very active members from across the country (including lifetime members, and local, state, and national officers) who have, to the limits of their ability, shared their time, treasure, and talents in pursuit of that mission.
We work to achieve the Mission of the NAACP within the framework of the NAACP Constitution and Bylaws. We are guided by the principle set forth so eloquently by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., that “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”. We are all veterans of the struggle, working wherever we are needed. You will find us speaking truth to power in our communities, in our towns and counties, in our state legislatures and executive offices, and in Washington, DC - and now, as circumstances and conscience dictate, within the hierarchy of the NAACP, itself.
What began as an effort to address injustices visited upon The North Carolina State Conference of Branches has grown into a coalition that includes members who have suffered very similar injustices in Georgia, Louisiana, and San Diego, CA. A pattern of retribution from the executive office and within the Board of Directors of the NAACP has been revealed in which state conferences and local branches are placed under administratorship and individual members are suspended whenever the judgment or authority of those in the national office is challenged.
Our mission statement and Constitution compel us to stand up to those who would ignore or deliberately distort our organization’s constitution and bylaws, and deny due process to its own members, in order to usurp the power that rightly belongs to state conferences and local branches where our organization’s mission is executed.
The work of the NAACP Justice Coalition is not an attack on the organization we are all dedicated to. Rather we are working to defend its mission, its constitution, and to restore it to an organization that values the rights of “all persons”, including those of its own membership.
To learn more about the NAACP justice coalition, please visit the website, naacpjusticecoalition.org.