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Jersey City's NAACP branch has withered under its current president, Kabili Tayari:

Earl Morgan - Morgan's Corner - The Jersey Journal
Published: Wednesday, August 04, 2010, 5:35 AM

Kabili Tayari, president of Jersey City's NAACP, missed the chapter's regular monthly meeting last week. Officials with the organization confirmed he is ill.

Tayari has been president for nearly a decade and in the past five years has come under increasing pressure, including a lawsuit challenging his handling of the organization's business.

Some members say they've not seen financial reports for several years. Others say they paid for memberships they never received.

Still others see Tayari's dual offices -- NAACP chapter president and Jersey City deputy mayor -- as fraught with conflicts of interest.

What can't be denied is that the NAACP chapter is a shadow of its former self.

In the 1950s and '60s, "NAACP" was emblazoned across the large plate glass window of the branch office, which was located at the corner of Forrest Street and what used to be known as Jackson Avenue.

That was a time when former branch president Ray Brown, a prominent attorney, organized a picket line in front of the Woolworth's on Jackson Avenue to coincide with the lunch counter sit-ins that were happening in the south. Brown sued restaurants and taxi companies in the city that refused to accommodate black people.

What the branch did or didn't do was deemed of such importance that in the late 1960s, the administration of Mayor Paul T. Jordan had a political ally buy blocks of memberships in the organization to try to elect a branch president more favorable toward City Hall. The NAACP national office dispatched monitors to oversee the balloting and the Jordan administration lost that one.

The current small, cramped office on Martin Luther King Drive seems to be permanently shuttered. No one answers the phone and few people even know where the office is located.

The July 27 meeting, run by branch vice president Rex Reed, was roiled with vituperation, protests and unanswered questions.

A woman at the meeting claimed to be facing discrimination in her county job, but there was never a resolution to take action, investigate or inquire into her accusation.

Former Hudson County Freeholder Bill Braker, who served time in prison for corruption, challenged Reed repeatedly about financial reports, among other issues. Reed supplied few answers.

Members critical of Tayari say they will continue efforts to elect new leaders of the organization even though several efforts to oust Tayari have failed.

Charon wrote:
SHHHHHHHHHHHHH !

Don't wake him up.

Vigilante wrote:
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