Radio Derb Transcript, Friday Aug. 17, 2012 by John Derbyshire
Southern Poverty Law Center is a shameless money racket is not just my opinion, and not even just the opinion of conservatives. The American Institute of Philanthropy, for instance, publishes a Charity Rating Guide & Watchdog Report, rating charities by how much of their donations they actually spend on their stated mission, as opposed to executive salaries and benefits. The last rating I can find for Southern Poverty Law Center, for 2009, is an F.
And here's a piece by Ken Silverstein in the liberal Harper's magazine, March 2007, longish quote:
Back in 2000, I wrote a story in Harper's about the Southern Poverty Law Center of Montgomery, Alabama, whose stated mission is to combat disgusting yet mostly impotent groups like the Nazis and the KKK. What it does best, though, is to raise obscene amounts of money by hyping fears about the power of those groups; hence the SPLC has become the nation's richest "civil rights" organization. The Center earns more from its vast investment portfolio than it spends on its core mission, which has led Millard Farmer, a death-penalty lawyer in Georgia, to once describe Morris Dees, the SPLC's head, as "the Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker of the civil rights movement" (adding, "I don't mean to malign Jim and Tammy Faye").End longish quote. I once had lunch with some lawyers in Montgomery, guys who worked for the state Attorney General in a cramped little building next to the SPLC's extravagant multi-storey headquarters. Their joke was, that they worked in the shadow of poverty.
And as my friend Steve Sailer has written: "The Southern Poverty Law Center has worked tirelessly to eradicate the last vestiges of poverty, Southern or otherwise, in the lifestyle of founder Morris Dees." Indeed: back in March 2010 the Montgomery Advertiser ran a 60-photograph feature on the home Morris Dees shares with his wife Susan Starr. If you'd like to see that feature for yourself, go to the transcript of this broadcast on my personal website www.johnderbyshire.com, the "Opinions" section, subsection "Radio Derb," and there's a link in the transcript. Check it out. Poverty has been very, very good to Morris Dees and his pals at the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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