Black Mark

The NAACP discredits itself in Florida

‘THERE were police officers every-where. Not in plain sight. Some in plain sight. I saw four of them in physical sites, but the rest next to buildings. I saw them behind trees,” said Stacy Powers on November 11, recalling what she had observed near a Tampa polling place four days earlier. At the time, she didn’t know why there were so many cops swarming the area. Yet she knew they were up to no good when they questioned an old black man who had just cast his ballot. Powers didn’t come away from the scene with any names or badge numbers—just an accusation: “I will call it like I see it. It was racial profiling.”