{"id":4879,"date":"2009-07-21T03:54:19","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T07:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncdata.wpengine.com\/?p=4879"},"modified":"2017-11-15T12:57:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T16:57:38","slug":"naacp-seeks-to-impede-black-advancement-by-endorsing-climate-based-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2009\/07\/21\/naacp-seeks-to-impede-black-advancement-by-endorsing-climate-based-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"NAACP Seeks to Impede Black Advancement By Endorsing Climate-Based Regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><em>Washington, DC<\/em> &#8211; Contending with political realities such as the election of the first black president, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is understandably struggling to justify its continued existence.\u00a0 At its centennial convention, it clearly moved in the wrong direction by allying with environmental lobbyists to promote economically devastating climate policy opposed by the majority of black Americans.<\/span>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">&#8220;I&#8217;m all in favor of the nation&#8217;s oldest civil rights group redefining its mission and agenda; however this indicates that the NAACP continues to struggle with current realities that face the nation&#8217;s black communities by promoting policies they are opposed to,&#8221; said Project 21 member Joe Hicks, who is also a PajamasTV commentator.\u00a0 &#8220;If this group simply wants to be defined as another left-wing organization touting the weak science on climate change, then it is destined to face ever-growing irrelevancy.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Project 21 fellow Deneen Borelli added: &#8220;It&#8217;s outrageous for the NAACP to place liberal ideology over the welfare of the nation.\u00a0 By aligning with the environmental activist lobby, the NAACP is now an official member of &#8216;Club Green&#8217; &#8211; the exclusive club of elites waging war against fossil fuels.\u00a0 Tragically, the cover charge for their membership &#8211; job losses, reduced standard of living and high energy costs &#8211; will be borne disproportionately by the very people the NAACP claims to represent.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">At its New York City convention earlier this month, the NAACP entered into a partnership with the National Wildlife Federation to &#8220;ensure that the response to climate change can take a higher ground than business as usual.&#8221;\u00a0 President Obama, during his speech to the group, sought to equate his energy policy with civil rights.\u00a0 Additionally, NAACP president Benjamin Todd Jealous now characterizes the group as &#8220;a multiracial, multiethnic human rights organization.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">The NAACP&#8217;s newfound zeal for promoting further environment-based regulation of the American economy, however, is opposed by the vast majority of black Americans.\u00a0 In a recent poll of 800 black Americans, there was significant concern that climate change regulations &#8211; much like the Waxman-Markey &#8220;cap-and-trade&#8221; legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in late June &#8211; would have a harmful and disproportionately negative impact on black America.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">For example, the poll found that 76 percent felt Congress should make economic recovery rather than climate change its top priority and that 56 percent believe Washington policymakers do not adequately consider the quality of life of black Americans when addressing climate policy.\u00a0 When asked how much they would pay for gas and electricity to reduce greenhouse emissions, 76 percent said they would be unwilling to pay more than $50 a year while 52 percent were unwilling to pay anything at all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">According to research from The Heritage Foundation, regulations created by the Waxman-Markey bill would raise electricity costs by 90 percent, gas by 58 percent, and natural gas by 55 percent by 2035 (an average of $1,241 more for a family of four by that time).\u00a0 Furthermore, the Congressional Budget Office reported in 2007 that &#8220;most of the cost of meeting a cap on CO2 emissions would be borne by consumers, who would face persistently higher prices for products such as electricity and gasoline&#8230; [and] poorer households would bear a larger burden relative to their income than wealthier households would.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Hicks added: &#8220;The NAACP shows how out of touch it has become by advocating Obama Administration policies on so-called climate change that impact the very population that claim to represent &#8211; poor, black Americans.\u00a0 Adding an increased burden of higher coast for essential things like gasoline and electricity at a time of economic hardship demonstrates that they have no independent course of leadership, but instead is blindly following this administration&#8217;s disastrous lead.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">The survey mentioned previously was conducted for The National Center for Public Policy Research by Wilson Research Strategies and has a margin of error of\u00a0 3.4%. 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