You mean the lenders instructed to do so by the Democrats in Congress, like Barney Frank and Chris Dodd?

Perhaps the public is busier trying to figure out how to get out from under this financial disaster. Particularly the minorities who were targeted by predatory lending institutions. Another possibility is that, as the march was held on a Sunday, folk were busy with church and post-church activities. I canvass on Sundays and I have found this to be the case.

In the meantime, you might consider avoiding making (putatively humorous) political hay over people who were killed in riots. And you know very well that the Democratic Party of the 1890s (through the 1960s) was the party of white segregationists. And you also know that is not the case anymore. If you don’t know that, you have no business advertising yourself “[Our] political road for the Carolinas”.

The issue of reparations is one thing. It is worth debating. It worth debating honestly. The issue of reparations for people who were harmed in documented and demonstrable ways is a separate issue, also worth debating. It is separate from the issue of (your perspective on) the relevance of the NAACP.

If you are interested in a civil rights group that you might deem less irrelevant and “LOL” worthy, I recommend ColorofChange.org . I am a proud (white) member of that organization.

(As a final thought, I recommend you have a march on the irrelevance of the NAACP, or civil rights issues in general. See if you can get 12 folks to show up in 13 locations across the state and demonstrate their public support for “black folk chilling out already”, or whatever precisely your position is.)

It worked, of course, as blacks feared for their lives and weren’t able to safely vote again for another 60 years. Wilmington’s black US Congressman was forced to flee north. And since that time, Republicans have only been elected governor or been elected to lead the state house twice in over 100 years. They haven’t led the state senate since Reconstruction.

Meanwhile, two organizers of the massacre, Democrat muckity-mucks Charles Aycock and Furnifold Simmons, went on to lucrative post-massacre careers. Aycock was elected governor as a Democrat. Simmons was an old-school southern political boss who practically ruled N.C. for 30 years while simultaneously holding a seat in the U.S. Senate. As a Democrat, of course.

So here’s my compromise: If we’re going to give money to descendants of people killed in the riot, fine. As long as those responsible are forced to pay. I think the NC Democrat Party ought to pony up a big number, don’t you?