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| NAACP will vote today on whether you are a racist |
| 2010-07-14 |
| Tea Partiers are called racists for opposing a black president, racists for wanting lower taxes, and racists even for opposing health care reform. So it should come as no surprise that today, the NAACP will vote on a resolution condemning Tea Partiers for the fact that there are racists in their midst. This racism was brought to their attention at the time of the House health care vote, when people shouted repeated racial slurs at Reps. John Lewis, D-Ga. and Andre Carson, D-Ind. -- 15 times, Carson said -- so quietly that none of the dozens of nearby video cameras picked it up, nor did anyone but Lewis, Carson and one aide ever claim to have heard it. NAACP CEO Benjamin Jealous puts it thus: "The Tea Party movement knows that there are tens of thousands of dedicated racists and ultra nationalists in their ranks," Jealous said. Those groups "must be repudiated by the regular, law-abiding members or they must take responsibility," Jealous added, saying "they can't have it both ways."I have not seen a single interview of any Tea Partier -- and certainly of any credible movement leader -- who did not repudiate and denounce racism when asked. I hope they all continue to repudiate it, but I don't really think that's what the NAACP is trying to accomplish here. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #13 Hope someone counts the vote. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2010-07-14 23:58 |
| #12 |
| Posted by: KBK 2010-07-14 23:45 |
| #11 Well, Sarah Palin does sound pretty racist when she says the tea party doesn't care if Obama is half white or half black. I know from Australia that if you identify as being black, then for someone to bring up that you are half white or half black is pretty insulting. It's like calling an Aboriginal person a half-caste. It's a backhanded way of doing it too... 'we don't care that you're half-white or half-black, it's your policies we are against' ... no even i get that message. It means : You're a half-caste and we hate your policies too. What she really should say is just stick to: we don't like the policies. |
| Posted by: anon1 2010-07-14 22:44 |
| #10 Michelle Obama spoke and the NAACP awoke. I wonder how they are going to vote? The suspense is excrutiating. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-07-14 17:25 |
| #9 The NAACP hasn't been relevant since about the time "colored people" was the accepted term. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-07-14 16:21 |
| #8 Several Black candidates supported by Tea Parties came out today and had their say regarding the NAACP. |
| Posted by: wr 2010-07-14 16:17 |
| #7 They only account for 12% of the population, they should sit down and shut up while they are ahead. Lest they invoke an old timey backlash from the great majority of the country that is sick of their bullshit. |
| Posted by: bigjim-CA 2010-07-14 16:08 |
| #6 Sooner or later it will be a self-fulfilling prophesy. The left will push too far and the right will eventally have to fight back. |
| Posted by: Hellfish 2010-07-14 12:50 |
| #5 ALL non-blacks are RACISTS by definition. Get it yet? |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-07-14 10:16 |
| #4 No, we're not racists, we despise the white side of him too. |
| Posted by: HammerHead 2010-07-14 08:39 |
| #3 ..shouldn't they vote to abolish themselves? And give up the money? The greatest threat to their self identified group for the last two generations has been the failed unionized monopolistic state education systems. However, since the unions like, themselves are just another arm of the Democratic Party, they don't speak or raise hell for real reform to 'advance' their much embraced identity group. Selling out is an appropriate descriptor. Now who is really keeping the man down? /rhet question. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-07-14 08:23 |
| #2 The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is claiming someone else is racist?! Clearly a case of the pot calling the fridge black. If they object to organisations which a racist bent, shouldn't they vote to abolish themselves? |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2010-07-14 04:32 |
| #1 I suspect there will be no Supreme Court style 5 to 4 decision on this one. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-07-14 01:48 |