(http://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/do…)

On page 132 of his autobiography, “A Season for Justice”, Morris Dees explains how he offered Julian Bond the “largely ceremonial” office of President when he first opened the SPLC in 1971.

Dees explains that he “needed a name” to put on his first batch of fund-raising letters. Neither man had ever met the other, so it's unlikely Bond gave Dees the use of his name for nothing. This was purely a case of “celebrity endorsement”.

Bond gets two and a half paragraphs in Dees' 353 page book. You have to wonder how much of an impact he had then as the “ceremonial President” and now as one of several unpaid “Directors”. (http://wp.me/pCLYZ-p)

This is more “brownwashing” from the consummate marketeer, Morris Dees. Lot's of “colorful” people, but no pay and no impact on the organization.

Lecia Brooks may possibly be the highest paid minority at the SPLC. Pages 7 and 8 of the Form 990 lists the “Compensation of Officers, Directors, Trustees, Key Employees and Highest Paid Employees.” Ms. Brooks does not make this list.

The lowest paid person on that list is Michael Toohey, at $73,454, (The only 5-digit salary on the form). Ms. Brooks must be making less than that.

My statement that “NOT ONE of the SPLC's top ten, highest paid executives is a minority” is accurate.

The SPLC “talks the talk,” but that's about all.

(http://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/do…)

On page 132 of his autobiography, “A Season for Justice”, Morris Dees explains how he offered Julian Bond the “largely ceremonial” office of President when he first opened the SPLC in 1971.

Dees explains that he “needed a name” to put on his first batch of fund-raising letters. Neither man had ever met the other, so it's unlikely Bond gave Dees the use of his name for nothing. This was purely a case of “celebrity endorsement”.

Bond gets two and a half paragraphs in Dees 353 page book. You have to wonder how much of an impact he had then as the “ceremonial President” and now as one of several “Directors”. (http://wp.me/pCLYZ-p)

This is more “brownwashing” from the consummate marketeer, Morris Dees. Lot's of “colorful” people, but no pay and no impact on the organization.

Lecia Brooks may possibly be the highest paid minority at the SPLC. Pages 7 and 8 of the Form 990 lists the “Compensation of Officers, Directors, Trustees, Key Employees and Highest Paid Employees.” Ms. Brooks does not make this list.

The lowest paid person on that list is Michael Toohey, at $73,454, (The only 5-digit salary on the form). Ms. Brooks must be making less than that.

My statement that “NOT ONE of the SPLC's top ten, highest paid executives is a minority” is accurate.

The SPLC “talks the talk,” but that's about all.

http://www.splcenter.org/who-we-are/board-of-di…

You're absolutely right. If you're comfortable with the fact that your pet charity was founded by a self-avowed Klan lawyer, (http://wp.me/pCLYZ-F), and won't hire a single executive of color, (http://wp.me/pCLYZ-3r), that's good enough for me.

A lot of people would be bothered by the fact that the Better Business Bureau hasn't listed the SPLC as an accredited charity in years, …”due to a lack of commitment to transparency…”, but not us. (http://www.bbb.org)

Some hate-filled racists would look at the SPLC's own audited financial statement, prepared by their own bookkeepers, and be bothered by the numbers. Not us.

Who cares if the SPLC took in $31 MILLION donor dollars last year, spent $1.1 million, (about 3.5%) on “legal case costs”, while spending $2.2 million on fund-raising postage, $3 million on fund-raising printing costs, and dumping a cool $4 million donor dollars into their $189 million donor dollar slush fund? Not me.

Frankly, I'm with you that $12.4 million the SPLC paid in wages to multimillionaires like Morris Dees and Dick Cohen was money well-spent. Lots of non-profits spend 43% of their annual incomes on salaries. That's why they're called non-profits, right? (http://wp.me/pCLYZ-34)

If none of those minor details bother you, who am I to be concerned? This is still a free country and you have every right to give your hard earned dollars to anyone you please.

Go in peace.

Silly me. I looked at the shiny white faces of the people the SPLC listed in their IRS Form 990 as their top ten, highest paid officers, and for the life of me, I couldn't see one single minority. (http://wp.me/pCLYZ-3r)

Thanks to your parsing and mincing, the scales have fallen from my eyes and I can now see just how wrong I was. It's a veritable rainbow.

Peace be with you,

Proverbs 15:2

There are even a couple of White women on that list, are you going to pretend that at 52% of the population, WOMEN are a “minority” too? How desperate are you to make a point?

Did you actually say that one out loud before you typed it?

My statement that “one of the nation's foremost civil rights groups,” headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama, the very cradle of the American Civil Rights movement, with nearly $190 MILLION donor dollars on hand, cannot, or will not, hire ONE SINGLE person of color to a six-digit-salaried, decision-making office on its board of directors stands true and accurate.

I'm sorry if it hurts your feelings that your heroes are racists, but like the Ghost said to Scrooge, “I told you these were shadows of the things that have been,' said the Ghost. 'That they are what they are, do not blame me!”

Take it up with your heroes.

And the fact that Morris Dees once defended a Klan member is utterly irrelevant. The ACLU has defended the Klan's rights along with many other loathsome groups, as well they should; if the Bill of Rights does not apply to them, it is put at risk for all of us. One can, of course, defend their constitutional rights while still condemning their hateful message.

As for the claim that none of the SPLC's executives are minorities, perhaps you should check the statistics on the number of Jewish people in America. They are a very small minority.

Professional journalists should not use this inaccurate and misleading term, or in any other way perpetuate SPLC fund-raising propaganda.

If “hate groups” really did exist in law, the SPLC would be unqualified experts on the subject as the organization was founded by self-avowed Klan lawyer, Morris Dees. (http://wp.me/pCLYZ-F)

This may account for the fact that NOT ONE of the SPLC's top ten, highest paid executives is a minority. (http://wp.me/pCLYZ-3r)

The last remaining “Whites Only” sign in Montgomery hangs in the boardroom of the SPLC. Some “experts.”