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2010-07-16 Home Front: Politix
NAACP: We didn't call tea party 'racist'
NAACP President Ben Jealous said Thursday that the resolution passed by the group on Wednesday does not call the tea party "racist."

The resolution the NAACP approved Wednesday at its annual conference in Kansas City alleges that the tea party has used racial epithets against President Barack Obama and has verbally and physically abused African-American members of Congress.

A portion of the resolution does indeed characterize the behavior as "racist," but Jealous said Thursday during an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that the resolution was not intended to condemn the entire movement as such.

"We aren't saying that the tea party is racist," Jealous said. "What we're saying is that with their increasing power comes an increasing responsibility to act responsibly...and to call out when they see those things on those signs."

Jealous argued that racist groups have embraced the tea party movement and said that what the NAACP would like to see one of the movements leaders -- whether it be former House Majority Leader Dick Armey or former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin -- denounce those elements of the tea party.

"These sort of KKK type groups saying they like the tea party and want to be a part of it, it would just seem someone would call out and say we don't want them to be a part of it," he said.

Asked if he thought members of the tea party are racially insensitive, Jealous responded: "No, not at all."

The NAACP was attacked over the resolution by the likes of Palin, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele and South Carolina congressional candidate Tim Scott, who if elected would be the first African-American Republican in the House since Rep. J.C. Watts (R-Okla.) left in January 2003.

"I believe that the NAACP is making a grave mistake in stereotyping a diverse group of Americans who care deeply about their country and who contribute their time, energy and resources to make a difference," Scott said in a statement.

"Americans need to know that the tea party is a color-blind movement that has principled differences with many of the leaders in Washington, both Democrats and Republicans," he added.
Posted by Fred 2010-07-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ]  Top

#1 And of course I don't think of the NAACP as racist any more than they think of me as racist.

Got the feeling that you were just hung by your own petard?

Great. Now go pound sand.
Posted by gorb 2010-07-16 00:52||   2010-07-16 00:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Depending upon geography, the term racism can actually mean many things to many people. I challenge you as a caucasian or coloured person, try to gain public office or land a government or oftentimes private sector job, such that remain, in any of the emerging "democracies" of sub-saharan Africa.
Posted by Besoeker 2010-07-16 04:45||   2010-07-16 04:45|| Front Page Top

#3 struggling for relevancy and press, they attack the tea party with their last card: the race card. F*ck them when they find out that the tea party is AMERICA. This NAACP band of old racial hucksters will be back-pedalling fast. Liars and thieves who've outlived their original lofty goals, they struggle to find a reason to exist without dealing with their own internal cultural issues: single moms, anyone? baby daddys, anyone? guns, drugs, and gangsta role models anyone?
Posted by Frank G 2010-07-16 07:43||   2010-07-16 07:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Been Jealous. Been Fibbin'. Been Foolish, too.
Posted by lex 2010-07-16 08:47||   2010-07-16 08:47|| Front Page Top

#5 they did get support from CAIR...nuff said
Posted by Frank G 2010-07-16 08:51||   2010-07-16 08:51|| Front Page Top

#6 The very finest part of the TEA Party is that it has no specific leader to isolate, personalize, whatever-the-hell-else those Alinskyites like to do.
Posted by eLarson 2010-07-16 09:26||   2010-07-16 09:26|| Front Page Top

#7 "These sort of KKK type groups saying they like the tea party and want to be a part of it, it would just seem someone would call out and say we don't want them to be a part of it," he said.

So, according to our man Ben, while these groups appear to like the tea party message, they also appear not to be welcome in the movement. In his own words "We aren't saying that the tea party is racist".
So, besides trying to appear relevant in this day and age and providing cover for your man in the White House...what was the point of this whole exercise?
Posted by tu3031 2010-07-16 09:39||   2010-07-16 09:39|| Front Page Top

#8 Frank writes: struggling for relevancy and press, they attack the tea party with their last card: the race card.

I'd add one more motivation to that list: they simply can't conceive that tea party members would be acting out of honest belief. In the progressive/socialist mindset, no reasonable person would ever come to believe in the principles that tea party members believe in -- limited government, individual responsibility, separation of powers, checks on government authority, holding down non-essential spending, and so on.

The progressives simply can't buy the idea that you or I would believe these things as a result of honest intellectual inquiry.

Therefore, we must believe these things as a result of some influence that is more sinister and nefarious. When you get to that point, the race card is the first one you use.

When 'racism' doesn't work, believe me, they'll find other reasons to 'explain' our behavior.
Posted by Steve White 2010-07-16 09:47||   2010-07-16 09:47|| Front Page Top

#9 Desperation.

Obvious now that we are in a depression, not a recession, and that the political class has lost the confidence and trust of the people.

And not just the political class. The main engines of our growth, prosperity and middle-class democracy overall-- private sector big employers and the financial sector-- have completely failed to end or even make any dent in the jobs drought.

Both corporate America and the major banks are sitting on literally trillions (IIRC $1.8 trillion in the case of the Fortune 500 alone) in cash-- and they're not hiring. Net employment growth in the tech sector in Silicon Valley since 2000 has been ZERO.

The banks, recipients of many times that sum when you factor in real interest rates down to Japanese levels thanks to the Fed's largesse, are sitting on their reserves. They aren't lending. They are, however, back to their off balance sheet prop trading whoring ways, however. (Tunku Vardanyan of Forbes and NYU Stern B-school notes that Government Sachs, in purchasing its reputation back from the Securities Eyewash Commission, paid half a billion and received an immediate $3 billion boost to its market cap yesterday.)

No hiring, no lending: our country is ossifying before our very eyes.

This time is different. Neither party has the faintest clue as to how to get companies hiring and banks lending.

A pox on both your incompetent, lying houses.

Time for a new political class in this country-- before we become another $hitty latin-style oligarchy.
Posted by lex 2010-07-16 10:11||   2010-07-16 10:11|| Front Page Top

#10  verbally and physically abused African-American members of Congress

An outright LIE. If we had a decent press they would ask him to substantiate that accusation instead of parroting it like its a fact. The "spitting" and "n-word" NEVER HAPPENED. No proof other than lying race-baiter congressman's words that are contradicted by video and witness testimony. Plenty of proof to the contrary. When will the press stop being a tool, and start doing its job of finding the facts?
Posted by No I am The Other Beldar 2010-07-16 10:45||   2010-07-16 10:45|| Front Page Top

#11 Representative Sheila Jackson Lee: ....

And I thank you professor very much. I'm going to be engaging you with those very powerful numbers that you have offered on what the tea party recognizes, uh, or is recognized as. Might I add my own P.S.? All those who wore sheets a long time ago have now lifted them off and started wearing [applause], uh, clothing, uh, with a name, say, I am part of the tea party. Don't you be fooled. [voices: "That's right.", applause] Those who used to wear sheets are now being able to walk down the aisle and speak as a patriot because you will not speak loudly about the lack of integrity of this movement. Don't let anybody tell you that those who spit on us as we were walking to vote on a health care bill for all of America or those who said Congresswoman Jackson-Lee's braids were too tight in her hair had anything to do with justice and equality and empowerment of the American people. Don't let them fool you on that [applause]....
Posted by Beavis 2010-07-16 10:52||   2010-07-16 10:52|| Front Page Top

#12 Suppose the Tea Party got everything it wanted. How would that impact any group in a bad way? Other than liberals, of course. NAACP members better figure out what they have to gain and get with the program.
Posted by gorb 2010-07-16 11:21||   2010-07-16 11:21|| Front Page Top

#13 The NAACP by it's very name is Racist. I automaticly ignore anything they say about
"White Racists".
Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-07-16 11:59||   2010-07-16 11:59|| Front Page Top

#14 Steve,

For the Progressives its all about power. They can't fathom people who can believe in principles and oaths. The adherence to words as written and as read rather than (intentionally mis-)interpreted for the aggrandizement of power and ego is beyond their mental constructs. That's why even in the imperfect application of principles and beliefs groups like the evangelicals and the military are literally alien to them. So, to point out to such creatures that what the Tea Party actually is about, Constitutionalism, won't alter their perceptions.

The warm and fuzzing in all this is the knowledge that they are violating Sun Tzu's admonition -
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
Posted by Procopius2k 2010-07-16 13:26||   2010-07-16 13:26|| Front Page Top

#15 Andrew Breitbart has tape:

“Let me say something a tad newsworthy to the president of the NAACP. You can go to hell. ... I have tapes…tape of racism and it’s an NAACP dinner. You want to play with fire? I have evidence of racism and it’s coming from the NAACP."

link
Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-07-16 14:23||   2010-07-16 14:23|| Front Page Top

#16 Barbara, I heard on Fox and saw it somewhere else also that Breitbart offered $100,000 six months ago to anyone who could prove that racist remarks, etc. were said or on signs at the Tea Parties. So far no one has done that.
Posted by JohnQC 2010-07-16 16:25||   2010-07-16 16:25|| Front Page Top

#17  Breitbartoffered $100,000 six months ago to anyone who could prove that racist remarks, etc. were said or on signs at the Tea Parties.

Mr. Breitbart periodically mentions in one or another essay on his site that no one has come forward to claim the reward, JohnQC.
Posted by trailing wife 2010-07-16 19:55||   2010-07-16 19:55|| Front Page Top

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