The inequality in gains among white and black Americans is the real obstacle to the progress planned by the local NAACP branches, both in the enterprise marketplace and the in politics. Not giving up the progress made at the voting booth over history is the fight at the lead of the NAACP's work.
Concern over discrimination at the southern polls that the organization's Washington leaders have put a spotlight on will be a favorite developing story that gets more common news flashes from the capital than the marketplace opportunities this year.
But, evening the playing field in enterprise continues to be a task its local members take straight on.
Learning to succeed in today's marketplace, and not get turned aside, depends on an open door to the colleges and universities in America that is not made an impossible door to walk through by the cost of education that must get paid back. The California Dream Act was passed in 2011 with organization support to stop the higher education opportunities from being a high priced bargain always out of reach of many low income people of color.
The tough contest over a proposition is now in a different corner of the U.S., Michigan. The NAACP that opposed Prop 209 in California in 1996 that put an end to considerations of race in the state's public hiring and public education filed a friend of the court, or amicus curiae brief, supporting the decision made by the U.S. 6th Circuit Court to overturn the great lakes state's Proposition 2, an anti-affirmative action act.
Blacks' opportunities to choose a successful path to becoming a productive working citizen are still popular work focuses for members after last year's victories. Contracting companies owned by California blacks can still take adavtange of the Caltrans disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program the San Diego NAACP that gives a preference to the applicants for transportaion contracts the state labels as "socially" and "economicall" disadvantaged after a period the department had gutted the race and gender ebiligility criteria making Caltrans say, after the minority participation between 2005 and 2009 dropped from 11 percent to 2 percent of federally funded projects, the program was discriminatory while the state hiring preferences were not used. The March 2011 decision by the U.S. District Court in Sacramento confirmed the state agency's judgment. A victory that stands until the appeal filed by contractors in May is decided.
The unpleasant discussions in 2011 over the NAACP's report "Misplaced Priorities: Over Incarcerate, Under Educate" that revealed the story of underfunded schools that produced poor results getting less funding support increases than prisons did not give any member a justification for bowing out of the work on progress. They again plan on making black San Deigans one of the citizens that experiences a secure field of opportunity.
The organization's local movement continues to march ahead slowly during a black history month Attorney General Kamala Harris led off by saying,"From our schools to our laboratories to our courtrooms and the Oval Office, African-Americans have overcome tremendous barries to help America realize its potential of justice and opportunity for all."
Members will come together during February to do more work to preserve the honors in the city given to Martin Luther King Jr.
The line continues next week.
To read earlier articles in Citizen Agenda Action Line on Tuesdays, read
Suit the political action to the green word
Staying at the post to guard opportunities to get hired
Board a ship to take a break from a growing harbor
Making a neighborhood drive for microenterprise
Picking up the many local farm crops
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