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A wise man once told me, “When you throw a rock at a pack of dogs, the one that gets hit is the one that yells first and loudest.” Yesterday, the NAACP threw (emphasis added):
“Late this afternoon the NAACP passed a resolution calling on all people — including tea party leaders — to condemn racism within the tea party movement.
“We feel it’s very important that we educate our membership about the tea parties,” said Anita Russell, head of the Kansas City branch of the NAACP, as the debate on the resolution began. “We are concerned that there is a racist element within the tea parties.”Delegates said they wanted to make it clear, however, that the resolution wasn’t indicting the entire tea party movement as racist.”
And immediately, without reading the entire statement, the St. Louis Tea Party yelled:
“Normally, we ignore childish hostility from belligerent people and groups. But the NAACP today intends to condemn 20 million tea party activists as racists.”
The St. Louis TPers also referred to the NAACP as a “bigoted” “partisan attack dog organization” Then the people that allegedly wants the government out of everyone’s lives called on the IRS to investigate the NAACP and consider taking away their tax-exempt status.
The TPers often claim that the racist signs on display at their rallies are just a few isolated incidents, and don’t reflect the sentiments of the tea party movement as a whole. Having attended local tea parties I don’t buy that, but for the sake of argument let’s imagine that’s true—it’s just a few random people scattered among the crowd. What about the leadership?
What about Dale Robertson, founder of teaparty.org who carried this sign at the Houston Tea Party last February:
What about Mark Williams, chairman of the Tea Party Express? Williams wrote on his blog last September that President Obama is “an Indonesian Muslim turned welfare thug, and a racist in chief.” Williams in May of this year called Muslims “animals of Allah” who “worship a monkey-god.”
What about Amy Kremer, national coordinator of the American Tea Party movement? Last July Ms. Kremer wrote in support of David McKalip who was forwarding this picture on a tea party mailing list:
“David, we all support you fully and are here for you. I can assure you of one thing and that is we will protect our own. We all have your back my friend!Let me know what I can do to help. I am here for you if you need me David.”
That’s the leadership of the tea party movement, not just a few random nuts carrying a few random signs. I’d say the NAACP is being lenient, it’s not just a racist element within the tea party movement. This fish is rotting from the head.
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codecrackx15 said:
Really, fighting racism with racism is never going to work. The Black Caucus, the NAACP, Affirmative Action…all would be considered racist if they were on the other foot.
Even things like BET and the BET awards, can you imagine that for white people. There would be picket signs blazing.
Racism is not just white vs. black anymore. In order to get rid of racism then both sides need to see themselves as American’s and stop defining themselves by color. Think about these things and whether or not they would be offended if the shoe was on the other foot.
I’m so sick of people crying racism but then having no problem being decisive and celebrating their race as if it is perfectly fine to do.
I’ve been to several Tea Parties, here in Georgia, in the south!!! And never saw or heard any racist statements but when you have Obama or Michelle Obama stand up at the NAACP and tell Black’s that they need to once again rise up in the vote…that is racist and disgusting and nothing but using the race card to be decisive. What would happen is a white politician asked for the white vote?
I really wish people could look beyond race but until people stop defining themselves and using groups to define race, there will always be racial tension.
lavar said:
It’s really objectionable that because of the corporate media and the collective insecurity of the american people that even merely pointing out overtly racist conduct gets somehow deemed as “race-baiting”. As for the NAACP, I say good for them. But unfortunately more still needs to be done.