Ben Jealous answered the question

George Curry outs the National NAACP all for the betterment of the organization. Or was there a lot of self-interest in getting the scoop on the story of the behind the scene bickering among the board members of the NAACP? According to Curry, some folks did not like the answer that Ben Jealous gave about old hat civil right leaders:

During Jealous' presentation before the full board, he made a remark that underscored Rev. Brown's earlier reservations about the candidate: "Jealous got up before the board and dissed Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Someone asked him during the question-and-answer period what was his relationship with present civil-rights leaders, how did he feel he would get along and interface with them. He said, 'Some of them, I don't think too highly of . . . And when I was with the national black publishers, I discovered that Jesse Jackson did not show up at the meetings unless he wanted something.' He said Al was nothing but an opportunist."

Ouch! It was a little direct and too the point wouldn't you say? Dang, Jealous did not say anything that folks did not already know. According to an article by Howard Witt, Jesse disses African-American bloggers and goes directly to Huffington Post:
"Yet Jackson acknowledges that bloggers "can get issues to the marketplace faster"—a fact he said he used to his advantage after a recent trip to Haiti to draw attention to a hunger crisis there. He gave the first accounts of what he saw to the Huffington Post, a widely read political blog." And didn't I see Al on television with Pat Buchanan? Do these folks really care about the interest of the masses?

I guess Jealous did not dress up his response with a little barbecue sauce. According to Curry's article Jealous made,

vituperative remarks about Jesse and Al."

That's right vituperative remarks, look it up. But Curry goes on to rehash the disappointment that Minister Haynes did not get picked.

Why had Haynes been passed over? Bonds told board members it was because when asked whether he would step down as pastor of his church in Dallas, Haynes said he would not.

Haynes says his recollection was different. When the issue was raised in his first interview in February, he said, " 'I've been there 25 years and I've not given it sufficient thought because this process has just started. It's something I can look into, but I have to pray about it.' That was not part of my thought process because Ben Hooks had pastored two churches. We have a history of doing more than one thing." (Hooks had simultaneously pastored churches in Memphis and Detroit while directing the NAACP from 1977 to 1993.)

He said that while he did not state he would give up his church, he told the executive committee he felt he could hold down the job of NAACP president and preach on Sundays in Dallas. He cited a list of public figures, including former Congressmen William H. Gray III and Adam Clayton Powell Jr., who held high-profile positions while still pastoring churches in their home districts.

"I told them I have a staff of 60-plus individuals, which is more than they have," Haynes said.

The issue did not come up at all in the second interview, in March. But in the third interview, Haynes said, "the first question posed to me was by Julian. He said, 'In the first interview you indicated in the affirmative that you'd be willing to leave your church. Is that still true?' I had said no such thing, but I could tell he was setting me up to look like I was a liar or that I had changed my mind. He was determined to paint a certain picture."

Hello Curry, call it divine intervention, the Minister did not want to give up his church for the position and more than likely the Minister is not technological advance as Mr. Jealous.

Disclaimer here: I am a NAACP member, what say you Mr. Curry?

H/T to Field Negro