Posted on 02/21/2009 6:25:33 PM PST by tobyhill
Leaders of the NAACP on Saturday called for the firing of the New York Post cartoonist whose drawing lampooning the federal stimulus bill has drawn charges that it's racist and encourages violence toward President Obama.
Speaking at the civil rights group's annual meeting in New York, NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous said that if Sean Delonas is not fired, the group will call for protests of the paper and Fox television affiliates, which are owned by Post parent company News Corp.
"There is consensus that if the Post does not ... get rid of the journalists who are responsible for this bit of hate speech seeing the light of day, that we will move this from a local, regional issue to a very national issue," Jealous said.
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Not only thin skinned but ignorant.
Niggardly is a perfectly acceptable word yet they fire someone who uses it. Tar-and-feather refers to King George's tax collectors in New England. Southern blacks were not tarred-and-feathered. Little Black Sambo refers to a boy in India, not in Africa. The list of this nonsense is endless.
If ignorant people kept their mouths shut we wouldn't know how ignorant they are.
No, NAACP certainly does not like freedom of speech. They reveal their desire for a dictatorship along the lines of the old USSR.
I was thinking about that very comparison. When does so called sensitivity become fanaticism?
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