Ronnie Wallace, Publisher
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The NAACP has been a mighty warrior who has stood as a proud champion of our nation. When we don't participate in its purpose, we are guilty of devaluing the tremendous amount of hard work and sacrifices that went into creating this powerful organization. Individuals banded together is the NAACP, it's not a building or a place.
We need to lift the banner of the NAACP once again and make it the proud fighter of injustice that we knew restrained the actions of renegade companies, and, in the cases of Birmingham, Jasper and now Jena, renegade cities.
This is not the time to send a message to our young people that the NAACP is not important anymore, but, just the opposite. We need to join, participate and encourage our NAACP branches to continue the strong legacy that began on the backs of some very proud individuals, and became the essential guardian of our Civil Rights.
We are responsible for the injustice that goes unchallenged in our country. We can't continue to be victims of the inducements of an apathetic spirit that lures us into thinking that someone else should do something. We need to embrace the courage and standards that the NAACP was built on.
We make the difference, and for years the NAACP has been the vehicle carrying us into battles against injustice. If for no other reason than to provide for our youth an opportunity to have access to this most valuable historical resource, we must see ourselves as sentinels protecting an inheritance.
Injustice would dance in the streets if we allow such an important resource to become stagnant, inconsequential and removed from the fight altogether. We need to each challenge one's self to be the protector that we are expected to be of this great historical organization. ‘It must not die…under our watch.