{"id":7367,"date":"2013-07-18T08:12:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T08:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7367"},"modified":"2013-07-18T08:15:08","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T08:15:08","slug":"not-black-enough-naacp-rejects-black-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7367","title":{"rendered":"Not black enough: NAACP rejects black conservatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7369\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7369\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/borelli.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7369\" alt=\"Denee Borelli\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/borelli.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7369\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deneen Borelli<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to author and Fox News contributor Deneen Borelli and her husband, Tom Borelli, black conservatives have been blacklisted from the NAACP&#8217;s national conferences for years. When the Borellis, who are employees of the conservative group FreedomWorks, attempted to pay for booth space at this year&#8217;s 104th National NAACP conference in Florida, they were told there was no room for them despite plenty of exhibit space remaining open.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The NAACP website states that the mission of the organization is to, &#8220;ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination.&#8221; The objectives of the NAACP include ensuring &#8220;the political, educational, social, and economic equality of all citizens,&#8221; and removing &#8220;all barriers of racial discrimination through democratic processes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mrs. Borelli has been an outspoken critic of the Obama administration and the Democratic Party. In March her book, Blacklash: How Obama and the Left Are Driving Americans to the Government Plantation, came out in paperback. &#8211; Townhall.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to author and Fox News contributor Deneen Borelli and her husband, Tom Borelli, black conservatives have been blacklisted from the NAACP&#8217;s national conferences for years. When the Borellis, who are employees of the conservative group FreedomWorks, attempted to pay for booth space at this year&#8217;s 104th National NAACP conference in Florida, they were told &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7367\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not black enough: NAACP rejects black conservatives&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[4011,2133],"class_list":["post-7367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-black-conservatives","tag-naacp"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/borelli.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7371,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7367\/revisions\/7371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}