NAACP ATTACKS UTAH

Is This Really The NAACP?

Or Perhaps Is It The CRL Up To Their Standard "Playbook" Tactics?

Read On, Then You Be The Judge.

July 14, 2008

This recent report (here or here) talks about how the NAACP plans to target payday lending in Utah.  Now, Utah is a state with a one percent black population.  Why would they do this?  We think we know the answer.  The Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) connections are at work again.

Click on the picture at the right and see for yourself how the CRL continues to use their incredible reach and connections to leverage their power.  If you doubt this, see what the industry leaders in Ohio had to say about CRL's tactics.

Then read the unprecedented series in the Anniston Star that was launched against the industry in Alabama.  Notice the biblical references and notice the incredible number of quotes from the CRL.  Then notice how they then connect to the local adversary group, Alabama Arise.  Do you see a pattern?

Finally, you may want to print the "Quick cash loans" article below that appeared recently in the Greenville, MS based Delta Democrat Times.  Click on the picture to see and print the full article.  Read the article and note the biblical based similarities with the Anniston Star series.  Then read on to see the numerous quotes from the CRL and the connections to their local advocacy group, The Mississippi Center for Justice.  Do you think this is all just a coincidence?  Okay.

Our industry is under  unprecedented attacks by an incredible adversary -- the CRL.  They are different.  They are strong, they are smart and they are totally focused on destroying our industry.  They have also been incredibly successful so far.

The CRL works on all fronts to win.  That includes the press, the legislature and local adversarial groups.  Our industry is fighting the wrong battles in the wrong places and we are loosing.  We cannot continue to fight just with our lobbyist as we have for the last ten years.  The battle has moved on to other fronts and we must move now.  Of course, we can always continue to ignore it as many are doing and it will all go away.  It just may not go away as we might hope and expect!

If you don't believe any of this can you say Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, Washington D.C., Virginia, Arkansas, Oregon and a whole host of others?