LA NAACP Head Resigns Over Sterling Lifetime Achievement Award

Leon Jenkins has resigned from the Los Angeles NAACP over his decision to give LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling a lifetime achievement award.

In his letter of resignation Thursday evening, Jenkins said the “legacy, history and reputation of the NAACP is more important to me than the presidency. In order to separate the Los Angeles NAACP and the NAACP from the negative exposure I have caused … I respectfully resign my position as president of the Los Angeles NAACP.”

The group granted Sterling an award in 2009, the same year the real estate magnate and L.A. Clippers owner paid $2.73 million to settle U.S. government claims that he refused to rent his apartments in Koreatown to Latinos and blacks.

The chapter was set to give Sterling a second award when a recording emerged in which a man said to be Sterling asked a female friend not to publicly associate with African Americans.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.