Not many folks would dispute that statement. I suppose it happens to every group that achieves at least some form of success with their original mission (NOW comes to mind also) - whereby after achieving at least a portion of their main goals, they lose focus and drift off into oblivion as they begin to pick at smaller and less significant 'gains' until they over-reach and become entirely irrelevant. Both NOW and the NAACP are somewhere down that path - how far is arguable, but they definately don't have the importance or the purpose that their founders had.