Another venerable institution risks irrelevance by failing to adequatetely deal with the fact that its membership is just too old and too white:
INDIANAPOLIS - The National Organization for Women has elected a 56-year-old Maryland woman as its next president in a narrow victory over a candidate who had been endorsed by the group's current president.
NOW said Terry O'Neill, who is white, defeated Latifa Lyles, a 33-year-old black woman from Washington, D.C., during a three-day national conference in Indianapolis.
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Gandy had said Lyles, who would have been NOW's youngest president, would "take NOW to a different level" by recognizing the nation's "generational shift."
Lyles had said she could help give NOW, with a mostly white and over-40 membership, a new image of youth and diversity that would appeal to younger feminists.
Too bad. I've never cared much for old, white women myself, and, God knows, I despair of finding a way to "appeal to younger feminists."
