Los Angeles, CA – The president of the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP has resigned, following scrutiny of his decision to give Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling an award for promoting civil rights.
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According to the national leader of the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, Leon Jenkins resigned Thursday.
Jenkins had planned to present Sterling with a “lifetime achievement award” later this month. Jenkins rescinded that offer this week after a recording surfaced on which Sterling disparaged black men.
In his resignation letter, Jenkins wrote that “In order to separate the Los Angeles NAACP and the NAACP from the negative exposure I have caused the NAACP, I respectfully resign my position.”
The national NAACP said it is “developing guidelines for its branches to help them in their award selection process.”
Pretty funny that the only one to lose out in the whole episode is a black guy. Go figure.
They must have liked him if they were planning to give him a honor eventhough he had an opinion of blacks that were not so politically correct.
Could be he thinks lowly of backs but wants to help them?
Are they going to give back the money he paid for the award?
can we get a list of places he donated money to?