Posted on 10/20/2010 6:21:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The NAACP is calling on Sarah Palin and Dick Armey to forcefully denounce what the civil rights group calls racism in the ranks of the tea party movement.
In a call with reporters to tout a new report on some tea partiers' ties to hate groups, NAACP president Benjamin Todd Jealous slammed the former Alaska governor for working with the Tea Party Express, whose now-expelled leader, Mark Williams, ignited a firestorm earlier this year after a string of racist and anti-Muslim comments.
In response to a question from The Upshot, Jealous charged that the Tea Party Express, a prominent tea party group run by a California GOP consultant, has yet to fully hold Williams responsible for his remarks.
"Palin is out there with Tea Party Express, which hasn't held Williams to account," Jealous said, adding that Palin should "distance herself from Tea Party Express until they've held Williams accountable."
Williams has referred to Allah as a "monkey God." And in July, after the NAACP passed a resolution condemning racism in the tea party movement, Williams penned an online mock-letter, written in the voice of Jealous, suggesting that blacks were happier under slavery. The Tea Party Express denounced the letter and ousted Williams from the group's leadership soon after. Williams has since apologized for the letter and had it removed.
Earlier this week, Palin helped launch the Tea Party Express's latest bus tour with a speech in Reno, Nev...
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He should lead by example and condemn all of the racists in the NAA(L)CP first.
Oh will these jackasses just go F off?
Pat Cadell is rightly calling this an act of desperation on the part of the NAACP.
An act of desperation before the kill.
I think the communists in the NAACP should apologize to all Americans for their communist views using racism to justify their views.
Come on NAACP, admit the fact that you are white people hating racist communists.
That would be the truth.
The 92%* of blacks who voted for Obama is perhaps the most telling statistic proving racism that America has seen in the last thirty years.
*The figure varies from report to report but you get the idea.
Conservatives need to just come out every other day and call on liberal groups to denounce whichever of those things. Clearly you don’t even need to have proof, you just need to keep saying it over and over.
I’m sure LaRaza will be changing its name any day now...
I don't think many Black people pay any attention to the clowns anymore. Do they?
This charge doesn;t deserve a response.
What would happen if Grizz-Mama demanded the NAALCP stop “hating whitey”?
Black organizations are rich. The epitome of hypocrisy. Those who kowtow to them can GF themselves.
BTW who give a flying flip what D. Armey has to say?
When is the NAACP going to apologize for the KKK Black Panther Party..when pigs fly probably. I think Bill O’Reilly said it best on his program tonight when he said this is an act of desperation, to get out the black vote so the Dems have a fighting chance. Make them scared like the KKK is coming back..I love the smell of desperation in the air from libs, they know the end of near
I think claims of tea party racism are mostly for the media and an attempt to frighten independents back onto the plantation.
Tea Party supporter Meyer calls on NAACP to condemn racists within their all-black organization.
When will they denounce "Hymie Town" Jackson? My guess is never.
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