NCAAP Leader: Racism ‘Complex’

Item: NAACP leader urges action against racism: She decries city’s response to incidents as inadequate /Meghann M. Cuniff, SR

More Info: Racism “is much more complex” than the elite and the bigots think, said V. Anne Smith. “So the struggle to stop this is more difficult, not because racism is more entrenched and complicated, but because of the denial this city and other cities have experienced throughout the years,” Smith said. “It’s not always the good ol’ boys or the rednecks. They are the three-piece-suit-wearing people. They look like young preppies.” The news conference at City Hall was in response to a human rights activist discovering a noose on her doorstep in north Spokane Sept. 20.

Question: What grade would you give the Inland Northwest for its battle against racism? Why?