The NAACP, a hotbed of racial baiting which no longer has the cachet of integrity it once held, is using accusations of slavery ties to extort money from businesses. If they find that a business has any ties at all to slavery, even if those ties are due to a company that was bought by a company that was bought by a current company 80 years ago, even if that current company did not even exist before 1900, they are extorting money. If a company doesn't pay up, the NAACP is putting them on a blacklist and saying that they won't get any more African-American dollars. I think this is disgusting behavior. They are punishing shareholders, many of whose ancestors were in Europe or elsewhere when slavery still existed here. And more, the black people receiving this windfall are not necessarily the descendents of slaves. Their ancestors may not have come over till recently, too.

The NAACP has lost all claim to my respect. I feel sure that Martin Luther King Jr. would agree with me.