acorn

yeah, some of the stuff they've been busted for is dumb, but a lot of that is the result of the right wing's vendetta against them --- acorn has done a lot of good and now they're getting pilloried --- people can get awfully exercised over a few tens of billions getting into the hands of poor (black) people while untold gazillions are transferred to haliburton, blackwater, and rich (white) people in general and it's all goodness and light

If you walk into this scene out of the lily-white suburbs, you're likely to be shocked at first by what you see. Things are turned upside down. The role models are felons, the clean kids are working the black market. But, spend some time there and you'll quickly adapt and begin to see how there is dignity and fight and pride and ambition and resourcefulness and tremendous faith that sustains these communities in the face of enormous odds. Anyone who had ever seen what I have seen would never, ever, cut off all funding for ACORN or use them as a symbol of black dependency and corruption.