Point Thirteen: Organize, Strengthen and Provide Funding For Our Civil Rights Enforcement Agencies and Statutes Now

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To help make us One North Carolina, and to help the weak grow strong, we must strengthen the enforcement of our civil rights laws.  Here are A. J. Donaldson, from and Al McSurely, Chair of the NAACP State legal redress committee

A.J. Donaldson: DID YOU KNOW that our State statutes do not cover employment discrimination by private employers?

DID YOU KNOW that our State statutes do prohibit employment discrimination against most State employees, but not county or municipal employees, but they do not provide adequate remedies when discrimination has been found?

DID YOU KNOW that most states, including South Carolina, have set up a state agency to investigate and challenge employment discrimination, with remedies as strong as those in federal civil rights laws?

AL McSURELY: THEREFORE, That’s Why We Demand that the General Assembly must collate and update  the hodge-podge of anti-discrimination statutes that have evolved since the l970’s, providing adequate remedies when discrimination has been found.

AND, that’s why we demand the State strengthen the few agencies it now has, so they can do their job of eliminating racism from the workplace and the housing field.