Gregory Kane: NAACP has lost its luster in Tea Party fight

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Surely, the NAACP is jesting.

Last week the civil rights organization held its annual convention in Kansas City, Mo. I almost wrote “the nation’s oldest and most esteemed civil rights organization,” but that described the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in its pre-Julian Bond years. After Bond took over as board chairman, the NAACP morphed from the nation’s oldest and most esteemed civil rights organization into its most bilious and annoying one.

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