Ten Things Americans Can Live Without?
Posted on Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 and is filed under Political & General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Or let’s start by asking, “What can you live without?” Certainly, most people can live without many of their material possessions, but what about pastimes like “the prom,” or, I dunno, the NAACP, or, better yet, vice presidents of the United States?
The Washington Post’s Outlook section asks several writers this question. Jonetta Rose Barras said that the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a civil right’s organization) is outdated and reminds her of “a favorite elderly relative, telling the same story every time he sees you.”
The section will also ask readers to send in their ideas of things they think are no longer useful or needed in this week’s issue. The editors will then list the top five things and post them online and in its newspaper.
Some of the things that the writers stated we could live without included:
• West Point
• Prom
• Larry Summers
• Tenure
• The White House Press Corps
• Vice Presidents
• Nobel Prize in Literature
• The term “Islamic World”
• NAACP
• Television
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Shame on you to include the NAACP in this list. A storied and transforming organization such as this is just as relevant, important and needed today as it ever was.