Posted on 10/22/2010 7:34:13 AM PDT by Bodhi1
The NAACP has released its unbiased report on racism in the Tea Party and has unexpectedly found it is racist.
Hardly surprising.
The president of the North Carolina NAACP chapter, Rev. William Barber, went far enough in his condemnation of the group to be noticed by the Washington Post:
"We have to have particular concern about supremacy attitudes, violence, hate language, particularly when it's rooted in notions of restoring or taking back or redeeming the country," Barber said. "Because, in the American social-historical-political psyche, we have historical markers that tell us how dangerous this is to be given legitimacy."For instance:
"We know in 1867 when the Ku Klux Klan, for instance, laid out its political purposes, it was about restoring and re-enfranchising, if you will."
"And then when you go to the Reconstruction Era, you find this same attempt to spew this division, this hate language out.... 'We need to restore America. We need to take it back.'"
Barber moved on to 1963. "When George Wallace used this language and themes of division, very vitriolic hate language," Barber said, "Medgar Evers was killed in June of that year... We had the bombing of a church, four girls were killed at Sunday school and then we had a president assassinated."
It's hard to believe I have to do this, but I guess I do, at least for the good Rev. Barber.
In 1867, when the Ku Klux Klan was still wet behind the ears, one of the leaders of the group and future Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest is reported as saying "that the Klan's primary opposition was to the Loyal Leagues , Republican state governments, people like Tennessee governor Brownlow and other carpetbaggers and scalawags ."
A little bit about Governor Brownlow. He was a Republican.
And during the Reconstrution, it was the Radical Republicans that made the most sweeping changes in the South, after they broke with Democrat Andrew Johnson in 1866. Democrats opposed the changes.
And really? George Wallace? He actually brought up George Wallace, the four term Democrat Governor of Alabama, who is best known for a) saying "I say segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever," b) standing in the doorway of Foster Auditorium in order to prevent black students from entering and c) being a Democrat.
Read more at All American Blogger.
There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles,
the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that
they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled
habit of advertising their wrongs, partly because they want sympathy and partly because
it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they
do not want to lose their jobs.
Booker T. Washington
1904 quote
The naalcp is the most racist organization in America... they should be outlawed.
LLS
Right back atcha boys.
Nothing is more racist than the NAACP unless it is the Congressional Black Caucus.
The only thing that keeps the NAACP going is racism, the same is true for the Congressional Black caucus and their cries of racism are a joke.
Don’t confuse us with facts. /sarcasm
Outstanding find hosepipe.
I am sad to say that my state, North Carolina, is full of Democrat reverse racists like this NAACP guy.
It wouldn’t make any difference if the Tea Partiers had used no signs or said much of anything at all about Obama. The mere fact that they oppose any part of Obama’s socialist agenda makes them racist. Because in their eyes, any opposition to more money wasted on welfare and redistribution is racist. It wouldn’t even matter if Obama were totally of european ancestry like Bill Clinton. Because most members of the NAACP are socialists, opposition to a socialist agenda aka redistribution makes you a racist.
A sure way to create racists is to accuse good people of racism until they are sick of your race.
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