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Article: Victims of Racism-or Just Crooks?
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- September 30, 1987
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"Made your contribution to the fund yet?" the cabbie asked.
I suspected I was being set up, but I decided to take a chance.
Just which fund did he have in mind? I asked.
"Why, the NAAPC, of course," he said.
I explained that I had made my annual contribution to the NAACP
back in January, simultaneously establishing my civil-rights bona
fides and correcting his acronym.
"I'm not as dumb as you think," the cabbie said. "I know how to
spell NAACP. I asked you about the NAAPC-the fund for Negroes
Accused of Awful Pecuniary Chicanery."
He handed me a newspaper report of a panel discussion during the
Congressional Black Caucus Legislative Weekend on harassment of black
officials. He had ...