Moving Towards More Fairness, Equality, Justice and Safety

  • Protecting Against Discrimination

    1. Government sanctioned discrimination.

    2. Voter suppression.

    3. Disenfranchisement through gerrymandering.

  • Enhancing the Fairness of Our Society

    1. Mass incarceration.

    2. Educational disparities in school funding and resources

    3. Racial profiling.

    4. Police misconduct.

    5. Fighting educational segregation.

  • Making Our Communities a Safe Place to Be

    Strategies

    1. Broken windows policing: cracking down on small crimes (e.g. graffiti, fare evasion, loitering)

    2. Aggressive policing of quality of life offenses (e.g. public drinking, panhandling, squeegee men; homeless encampments.

    3. Increased police presence.

    4. Harsh sentencing and prosecution support.

Our Key Initiatives

Through work done by the national office of the NAACP and work done by local chapters and branches and in partnership with like minded individuals of all races, colors, creeds, gender and walks of life, we push to move forward. Here are some of the major initiatives we have ongoing within the Fayette County branch.

01
Protecting Against
Discrimination

02
Fairness in This Society

03
Community Safety and
Taking Our Young Adults
Off of the School to
Prison Train

UPCOMING EXPERIENCES

Why Building Coalitions With Humans Who Don’t Define Themselves As African-Americans Matters.

We asked ChatGPT a simple question.

If 100% of the eligible African-Americans had voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election , would Harris have been the winner? The system was asked to use the available population data for each state in making this calculation.

The short answer was it depends. Let’s examine the estimates ChatPT used.

First the total population of eligible African-Amercians who could have voted in the 2024 elections was between 30 and 35 million.

Second, the percentage of African-Americans who did not vote was roughly 40% of the total number of eligible African-Americans. Compare that to the election of 2008 when roughly 35% of the eligible African-American population did not vote and 2012 when roughly 34% did not vote.

Third, the percentage of voting African-Americans who did not vote for Kamela Harris was between 10 to 15%. By comparison, roughly 95% of African-Americans supported Obama in 2008 and between 93-95% voted for Obama in 2012.

Fourth, the population distribution of African-Americans in some critical battleground states such as Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin is such that more African-American votes in favor of Harris could flip several of these states.

If votes had turned out for Harris and supported her in the same percentages that Obama received, Harris could have won the election, but it would not be guaranteed.

Here in Tennessee we have seen the types of persons elected to state offices for much of the state. Would you trust the future for your child, your family or your neighbors and friends to this brand of leadership?

When you look at how much African-Americans have at stake, how can our voting participation rates be so low in some elections? How can Trump have garnered even 10% of the vote in our community?

But this data also tells us that fighting this battle for democracy and civil rights and fairness and for human decency needs to be a joint operation. Yes many of the persons opposed to civil rights and democracy are labeled as white. But so were many of those who fought against the South in the Civil War Who marched with Dr. King in the 1950s and 1960s? Who voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012? Who fought in the Civil War for the Union (regardless of why the personally fought)?

Coalitions matter in this country and we have to continue to have faith in the belief that majority of this country stills wants fairness and justice and non-discrimination for minorities who are called by some of a different race.