NAACP: Many challenges despite Obama presidency

Trust God, not government, Baptist convention told

By Niraj Warikoo • Free Press Staff Writer • June 25, 2009



Despite the election of President Barack Obama, African-Americans and others still have not achieved equality, the president of the NAACP told an audience of Baptists Thursday night in Detroit.



"We're not the National Association for the Advancement of a Colored Person," said Ben Jealous, the youngest president in the history of the 100-year-old civil rights organization called the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "Until all of them are OK, we'll be fighting hard."



Speaking at the Detroit Marriott in the Renaissance Center, Jealous said many in the U.S. suffer from extreme poverty, racial profiling, poor schools, and a criminal

justice system that he said unfairly targets minorities. And so while the election of Obama was a great event, on Jan. 21  the day after his inauguration  "to be honest, not much had changed" for many Americans, he said...

Congress President's Address

"I know General Motors is in bankruptcy. I know Chrysler" is facing problems," said the Rev. R.B. Holmes Jr., of Tallahassee, Fla., president of the Congress of Christian Education of the National Baptist Convention USA. "But when you put your faith in his hands...when you do this, you will find victory over fear, over doubt, over demons, over depression..."