Posted on 07/21/2010 4:05:59 AM PDT by Kaslin
The NAACP approved a resolution recently condemning the Tea Party's fringe element of their movement for "explicitly racist behavior." It would require a flow chart the likes of which have not been seen since the days of health reform to explain all of the ways this is wrong.
For starters, the mere act of criticizing a black president is not racist. Nor is it racist to raise the public consciousness to the very important issues of spiraling debt, misguided bailouts, and a series of social policies that may bankrupt the country. Our nation benefits from uninhibited discussion about these serious issues. Very simply, when movements--Tea Party or otherwise--openly debate these issues, the truth rises up. When the NAACP labels and dismisses the Tea Party as racists, it has a chilling effect on this important debate. As a result, the national dialogue is stifled.
It is sad that the nation's oldest and most revered civil rights organization has been so co-opted by the Democrats that use the racism epithet to chill political discussion, rather than engage opposing viewpoints on the merits. Please understand, I have the utmost respect for the NAACP. But I cannot ignore the simple fact that the issues supported by the Tea Party relate principally to smaller government, lower taxes, less government debt, enforcing the immigration laws and more individual freedom. These issues have nothing to do with abridging the rights and dignity of African Americans. By pretending otherwise, the NAACP has willingly allowed itself to be co-opted by the Democratic party. Even more alarming, they risk turning the word “racist” into a proxy for “someone whose politics you disagree with.”
Will the NAACP also condemn the blatant civil rights violations of the New Black Panther Party when, during the 2008 elections, they engaged in wanton voter intimidation? Since when has appearing at a voting precinct, brandishing weapons and hurling epithets at voters not been something the NAACP stands up against? Perhaps when those voters are white?
Or what of Black Panther comments regarding the need to kill "cracker" (i.e. “white”) babies? How can any rational American not see such comments as racially motivated, yet have the utter gall to condemn the tea party movement?
I have in the past, and will continue today to support the NAACP when the organization is true to its founding principles – to root out racism and fight against those individuals and groups who choose to marginalize Americans of color. When the organization has held to those high, moral standards, it has no equal. By the same token, the very legitimacy of the storied group is questioned when it singles out groups not because they exhibit racist tendencies, but because they simply disagree with the legislative agenda of the NAACP.
The Tea Party is neither racist nor bigoted, and the leadership at the NAACP knows as much. Even early drafts of its resolution struggled with how to describe exactly what was offensive about the movement beyond just labeling tea party enthusiasts as “racist.” And if that wasn’t enough proof, barely 24 hours after the resolution was adopted, the movement’s leader emeritus – the Rev. Jesse Jackson – distanced himself from the manifesto and called on his brethren to do the same. At a time when so many other issues press in against the black man like jobs, Jackson argued, can’t we do better than a statement condemning a group in which everyone knows we stand against?
What does it mean when the resolution wanted to say something could evolve from Tea Party actions and “and become more dangerous for that small percentage of people that really think our country has been taken away from them”?
A “small percentage?” What polls have the NAACP leadership been reading? This sentiment of frustration and utter disgust with our government is pervasive and pandemic.
Small or not, this resolution was about one thing, and it’s not an “ism.” Instead, it’s four-square about the 2010 elections. In fact, I wager this resolution’s choreography can be traced all the way back to the White House itself.
The clues are there. For the first time in American history, an American black man sits in the Oval Office. The NAACP wouldn’t dare jeopardize that relationship with some half-cocked idea to condemn a loosely-aligned, nascent political faction. To do so would seemingly elevate the Tea Party movement while simultaneously downgrading a group as powerful as the NAACP. No, this resolution was premeditated, with the silent but deliberate pushing of those within the administration who would like nothing better than to keep its own fractioning coalition together while tearing the president’s opponents asunder.
The currency of 2010’s midterm elections is votes; something the Democratic Party needs, and lots of them. A resolution of this weak caliber was designed for one thing – to foment the bitterness of the common black man. To play into the worst fears of minorities, and, real or perceived, to set up an antebellum “whitey” in the form of tea party activists so those enslaved on the plantation will want to grab their plowshares and storm the manor. That’s such tired and sick racial politics.
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I wonder where the NAACP stands on abortion—the leading cause of death among black babies?
NAACP supports abortion “rights”.
A more appropriate title might have been “The Laborious Escape of the Cat from the Bag”. I do not ever recall the NAACP being anything but a bunch of race-baiting hustlers.
Not necessarily. You see, the word "racist" no longer means what it originally meant, namely, someone who considers his own race superior to other races. Rather, it's come to mean "a white person who says or does anything that black people find offensive." To imply that government spending ought to be circumscribed is offensive on its face to blacks, who are the largest recipients of government largesse. Therefore, it's easy to see how the Tea Party can be considered racist by people whose thought processes have been enslaved to liberal demagoguery.
And the sad thing is that the NAACP was founded in February 1909 — on the centennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday — by a group of mostly white and some black Republicans!
...the term ‘racist’ becomes more laughable every time it’s used in an attempt to silence debate.
That almost made me spit out my coffee.
Another collective, another ploy. NAACP...National Anti-American Collectivist Ployers turns fugly.
Can’t decline fast or far enough for me.
Eventually recism will raise its ugly head under another name.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Colored people? The very name of the organization is racist IMO.
It’s irrelevant. It’s racist. It’s outdated. It’s hurting Black people. It is a joke. It would be outlawed if it were the National Association for the Advancement of White People.
but
it’s not going away. There’s a lot of money supporting it, and it is responsible for bringing in a lot of money to the race-hucksters who live off White Guilt and false accusations of racism.
......As a result, the national dialogue is stifled. .....
Actually the debate is not stifled. The subject of the debate is shifted from topics guaranteed to be losers to race where the NAANP feels it can win.
The media has agreed and is heavily invested in the change of topic.
A dying media is scared to death of the debate and has chosen to bury the parts is fears most.
Wow. I did not know that. The NAACP is supporting the government sanctioned destruction of their own race.
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Yep, it's become a problem for them lately. They are not for the "advancement of colored people", they are 100% for the deeper entrenchment of the liberal power structure, regardless of who gets hurt.
America's oldest Civil Rights Group is the National Rifle Association (NRA) founded in 1871
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