What Went Wrong with the Southern Poverty Law Center?
Plenty!
Plenty!
(Heritage.Org) – …The Southern Poverty Law Center began as a public-interest law firm in the South representing, as the name suggests, poor people who couldn’t represent themselves in court. And it was the brainchild of this man, Morris Dees, who was always an inveterate fundraiser. Like, you read his autobiography and a bunch of stories about him when he was growing up, in high school he started selling things on the side. In college, he was selling cakes. He started developing these relationships, building donations, and he eventually got the idea to start this public-interest law firm. And it was great because he had this passion for justice and he would represent these people who didn’t have any recourse.
One of the SPLC’s big wins early on were these three Black men, the Tarboro Three, who were accused of raping a white woman. And there was no evidence whatsoever that they had done this, but they were still convicted in court of raping her and sentenced to death. And so Morris Dees and the SPLC comes along and they represent the men. They get the case reopened, they examine the evidence, and they get these three men, who are falsely accused of raping this woman, off of death row. It’s this tremendous victory for justice. This is exactly the kind of thing that an organization like the SPLC should exist to do. The real question is why isn’t that their main focus today?
And there are two big answers to that question. I don’t want to talk all day, but the main thing was Morris Dees, despite his passion for justice, he also had an interesting personal beef. His uncle was a…
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