Opinion | Something strange is going on at this civil rights institution. It must be investigated.

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Opinion: Something strange is going on at this civil rights institution. It must be investigated.

By Jim Tharpe April 5 Jim Tharpe is a retired journalist who lives in Atlanta and a former managing editor of the Montgomery Advertiser.

Dees has said little about why he was shown the door after 48 years at the organization he had come to define. But to those of us familiar with the SPLC and its inner workings, the allegations swirling around the latest drama were familiar. The question isn’t what went wrong at the SPLC; it is why it took so long for the rest of the country to learn what local reporters already knew.

That relationship, however, suddenly soured when reporters Dan Morse and Greg Jaffe began making serious inquiries about the SPLC’s finances and the treatment of black employees. In February 1994, after three years of research, the Advertiser published an eight-part series titled “Rising Fortunes: Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center” that found a litany of problems and questionable practices at the SPLC, including a deeply troubled history with its relatively few black employees, some of whom reported hearing the use of racial slurs by the organization’s staff and others who “likened the center to a plantation”; misleading donors with aggressive direct-mail...

 

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SPLC is not a civil rights institution.

You can start by helping the immigrants who are locked up in our detention center 's across America. They are being mistreated still. No food, no showers, no change of clothes, it's worst for young adults and over. The teens and children need to be with their families

stephenlemons I can’t help but think about your quick exit from SPLC & Montgomery. LOL, years ago they BLOCKED me! I think it was after I tweeted a purely rhetorical, but valid question them. Weird reaction.

You mean FBI/DOJ right?

Something talmudic.

I knew there was a problem there because I called them for help, having been a victim of human rights abuse & having read their info on their website & saw the harm done to me fell under those they supposedly help, but they said they can't help.

Send me a copy of the contract

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It's called Democrat activism.

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