On 3/5/10, DH said:
Jim Devine wrote:
Someone should mention the content of Cockburn's (and Silverstein's)
critique of the Southern Poverty Law Center. It's that it exaggerates
the prevalence of racism in the South in order to raise funds for its
own leaders.
And they have lots of funds! Also, they won't touch death penalty
challenges, because that doesn't work so well in fundraising. Too
controversial. So they stick with scaring Yankees with tales of a
resurgent Klan and neo-Nazis on the march. That's gold in the mails.
Depends what one means by "lots of funds". According to its Oct. 31, 2009
financial statement (released in Jan. 2010), it generated a paltry
$32-million in revenues for the year and had only $31.8-million in "net
assets" in what it referred to as its "operating fund" with a mere
$189.67-million in "net assets - endowment fund" and, with adjustments,
year end "net assets" of $199.9-million.
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