The racist NAACP has thrown Winsome Sears under the back of the bus.
SORT OF UPDATE: 11/3/2025 – The NAACP denies endorsing either candidate in the VA gubernatorial election, which basically reaffirms the purpose of this article. In other words, why would the NAACP opt out of endorsing a Black American who is probably the most qualified person of any color to hold governorship of a State?
In a move that reeks of institutional hypocrisy, the NAACP—the self-proclaimed champion of Black advancement—has thrown its weight behind Abigail Spanberger, a white liberal Democrat and former CIA operative turned congresswoman, in Virginia’s 2025 gubernatorial race.
This endorsement comes at the expense of Winsome Earle-Sears, the sitting Republican Lieutenant Governor, a trailblazing Black Jamaican immigrant who would shatter glass ceilings as the state’s first Black female governor and the first Jamaican-born woman to lead any U.S. state.
Earle-Sears, a retired U.S. Marine with a master’s in organizational leadership, embodies the very grit and self-reliance the NAACP once purported to uplift. Yet, in their eyes, her conservative principles render her an outsider, unworthy of support. This isn’t advancement; it’s a calculated snub that exposes the organization’s drift from racial justice to partisan loyalty.
Founded in 1909 to combat lynching and disenfranchisement, the NAACP’s mission is clear: “to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights… for all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination.”
Fast-forward to today, and that noble charter feels like a relic. By endorsing Spanberger—a white woman whose career highlights include undercover work tracking terrorists but whose policy platform aligns seamlessly with Democratic orthodoxy—the NAACP prioritizes ideology over identity.
Spanberger, a helicopter-flying ex-spy who served in Congress from 2019 to 2025, has never hidden her progressive bona fides: advocating for abortion rights codification, raising the minimum wage to $15, and expanding voting access.
She’s a safe bet for the party’s base, but what does she offer Black Virginians that Earle-Sears can’t? More of the same: symbolic gestures wrapped in establishment comfort.
Contrast this with Earle-Sears, whose life story is a masterclass in Black resilience. Arriving in the U.S. at six, she joined the Marines, rose through the ranks, and shattered barriers as Virginia’s first Black woman elected statewide in 2021. Her platform? Merit-based education reform, economic deregulation to boost Black entrepreneurship, and school choice to empower families trapped in failing systems.
These aren’t fringe ideas; they’re lifelines for communities the NAACP claims to serve. Yet, history shows the organization’s disdain for her. In 2022, when Earle-Sears backed merit over race in college admissions—echoing Martin Luther King Jr.’s call to judge by character, not skin—the Virginia NAACP branded her a “pawn in the larger game of White supremacy.”
