New York Civil Rights Coalition Inc

NYCRC EMPLOYS EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL, NON-PARTISAN METHODS: FACT-FINDING, RESEARCH, PUBLIC FORUMS, CONSULTATIONS AND DISCUSSIONS, PUBLICATIONS, AND DIVERSITY EDUCATION TO EXPLORE MANIFESTATIONS OF RACIAL IDIOCY AND TO HELP AMERICANS DEFEAT/UNLEARN STEREOTYPES.

2021 WAS ANOTHER YEAR OF ACCOMPLISHMENT AND SUCCESS FOR THE NYCRC IN FOSTERING THE IDEAS AND PRINCIPLES OF EQUAL RIGHTS, FOR PROMOTING RACIAL RECONCILIATION AND HEALING, AND HELPING WITH THE UNLEARNING OF STEREOTYPES THROUGH EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS AND PUBLIC INFORMATION, AND THROUGH COMBATING RACIAL AND ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS PREJUDICES BY MEANS OF REFUTATION OF BAD IDEAS AND RANK PREJUDICES OF ALL KINDS. GOVERNED BY A DISTINGUISHED BOARD OF DIRECTORS, AND GUIDED AND ADVISED BY AN EQUALLY PRESTIGIOUS LARGER BOARD OF ADVISERS, WE EMPLOYED A CORE STAFF AND VOLUNTEER SUPPORT ON BEHALF OF IMPROVING RACE RELATIONS, CIVIL RIGHTS PROTECTIONS, AND USING SUCH METHODS AND EDUCATIONAL EFFORTS TO HELP STAMP OUT INVIDIOUS DISCRIMINATION, CHALLENGING RACIAL, ETHNIC, GENDER, RELIGIOUS AND OTHER PREJUDICES, AND REBUTTING SCHEMES THAT SEPARATE INTO SILOS PERSONS ON THE FLIMSY BASIS OF THEIR SKIN COLOR. OUR EFFORTS INVOLVED EDUCATIONAL AND INTERVENTION PROGRAMS TO HELP CIVIC, EDUCATION, POLITICAL LEADERS, CITIZENS TO UNLEARN IRRATIONAL PREJUDICES AND CULTURAL STEREOTYPES. THE BROAD SUPPORT FOR OUR SINGULAR, INDEED UNIQUE VOICE AND EDUCATIONAL EFFORTS AT FOSTERING EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAW AND INDIVIDUAL IDENTITY WERE MANIFEST IN MAJOR MEDIA, ON CAMPUSES, AND IN COMMUNITIES ACROSS OUR NATION. WHILE HEADQUARTERED IN NYC, OUR IDEAS LEAP OVER REGIONS AND GEOGRAPHICAL BOUNDARIES. OUR IDEAS ARE AS BIG AND AS VAST AS OUR REACH. THE INTERNET IS OUR ALLY AND WE FREQUENTLY APPEAR ON TELEVISION AND RADIO PROGRAMS-AND PUBLISH ARTICLES AND LETTERS IN NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, AND ONLINE. THAT MEDIA PRESENCE HAS ENHANCED AND SPREAD OUR REPUTATION AS A SANE AND STRONG VOICE ON THE SIDE OF RIGOROUS THINKING AND ANALYSIS OF CIVIL RIGHTS CHALLENGES AND DISPUTES. OUR RESEARCH AND FACT-FINDING METHODS AND PUBLICATION OF OUR FINDINGS HAVE STRENGTHENED OUR REPUTATION FOR INTEGRITY AND OUR CLOUT AS AN INDEPENDENT AND PRINCIPLED CIVIL RIGHTS VOICE - A CIVIL RIGHTS ORGANIZATION THAT DOES NOT SEEK TO REPRESENT OR TO SPEAK FOR ANY RACE OR ETHNIC GROUP. OUR IDENTITY IS THAT OF FOSTERING RACIAL INTEGRATION AND ELIMINATING THE BADGES OF A RACIALLY-DIVIDED SOCIETY. IN THIS EFFORT, ALL ARE WELCOME AND INVOLVED REGARDLESS OF THEIR SKIN COLOR - AS WE STRIVE FOR INTERRACIAL/MULTIRACIAL COOPERATION IN ADVANCING EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND TO REORDER THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. OUR EFFORTS ARE TO EXPLAIN AND EXPOSE THE PERILS OF RACIAL SEPARATISM AND RACIAL POISON IN OUR DISCOURSE. IN DOING SO, WE DO NOT ADVOCATE OR EMPLOY CENSORSHIP. RATHER, WE HOLD THAT FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND THE GUARANTEES OF THE ENTIRETY OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS ARE NECESSARY TO ADVANCING INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM AS UPPERMOST TO THE AMERICAN IDENTITY. NYCRC IS VISIBLE AND WELL-KNOWN AS A RESPECTED, COST-EFFECTIVE, AND LEAN CIVIL RIGHTS ORGANIZATION. ITS PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR DOES NOT WANT A BLOATED STAFF OR BUREAUCRATIC STRUCTURE. POLICIES ARE SET BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND FULLY IMPLEMENTED UNDER THE DIRECTION AND WITH THE EXPERTISE OF NYCRC'S PRESIDENT, A PROTEGE OF TWO OF AMERICA'S CIVIL RIGHTS GIANTS, DR. KENNETH B. CLARK, THE FAMED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGIST, AND ROY WILKINS, THE LONGTIME LEADER OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, WITH WHOM AND WHERE OUR PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR WORKED FOR NEARLY A DECADE. CUT FROM THE SAME IDEOLOGICAL CLOTH AS CLARK AND WILKINS, HIS MENTORS, OUR LEADER TAKES EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO BRING INTERRACIAL COOPERATION TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT OF THESE TIMES - AND TO PURSUE EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND ADVANCEMENT IN THE CORE CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUES OF OUR TIMES - PUBLIC EDUCATION, HIGHER EDUCATION, EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IN HOUSING, EMPLOYMENT, AND OUR POLITICAL AND CIVIC LIFE. WE ESCHEW RACIAL RHETORIC AND COMBAT RACIAL DEMAGOGUERY. WE EMPHASIZE RESEARCH, FACT-FINDING, ANALYSIS AND SOBER THINKING TO TAKE EXCEPTION TO ALL FORMS AND MANIFESTATIONS OF RACIAL IDIOCY AND OTHER ASSAULTS ON AMERICAN CORE VALUES.