NCAA vs. NAACP

Do YOU know the difference between these two organizations?  I had thought this was a fairly simple question. I did not realize it was that easy to mix these two acronyms up... or to not even know what one of them even  means.  If you're over the age of two, I had kind of figured you'd know.

Well, I know a rather bright young man.  He was one of the auditors on Howard University at some point.  (Skinny white boy driving to work everyday in a Benz... anybody else surprised he didn't get shot???  Aaahhh, the un-pc-ness of Mo... Christina or Derrick, you're not allowed to kill me.)

He's reviewing the invoices of HU for auditing purposes and says to a co-worker (who happens to be African-American) something to the effect of,

"In doing the NAACP audit of the basketball team, we need to..."

The co-workers response?

"You don't know much about sports do you?"

Let me clarify in case you happen to be in this poor young man's court... or in this case... the stands.

NAACP stands for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people.  Now, a traditionally African-American college is what HU is, therefore, the NAACP is not a difficult conclusion to come to.  Except it has nothing to do with a federally-funded school or its sports.

What this poor man was going for was the NCAA.

The NCAA is the National Collegiate Athletic Association.  Let's connect the dots.  College+Basketball=Part of the NCAA... not the NAACP.

The acronyms are a little funny and awfully similar, don't get me wrong.

But... did anybody watch sports or take history???

I'll stop now before he keeps reading and then smacks the crap out of me for sharing such a private embarrassment about him.

But I simply couldn't not share this with you.  The laughter I gleaned from this was thrilling...