Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

abc: What Do You Think of the NAACP's Condemning Tea Party Elements as 'Racist'?
abcnews ^ | June 13, 2010 | HUMA KHAN

Posted on 07/13/2010 9:05:51 AM PDT by maggief

The NAACP is expected to approve a resolution today condemning the Tea Party for "racist elements that are a threat to democracy."

The proposed resolution, which is expected to pass today at the organization's annual convention in Kansas City , Mo., cites cases of what it calls "explicitly racist behavior," including "signs and posters intended to degrade people of color generally and President Barack Obama specifically."

NAACP spokeswoman Leila McDowell told ABC News, "We're deeply concerned about elements that are trying to move the country back, trying to reverse the progress that we've made," and asked that "law-abiding members of the Tea Party repudiate those racist elements, that they recognize the historic and present racist elements that are within the Tea Party movement."

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abcnews; elements; kansascity; leilamcdowell; naacp; racist; resolution; teaparty
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-55 last
To: 556x45

Detroit!


41 posted on 07/13/2010 10:00:25 AM PDT by usslsm51
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: RJS1950

I have a black friend whose friend was going to Africa on a tour. She asked the other woman to bring her back a baggie of dirt from the mother country.


42 posted on 07/13/2010 10:04:35 AM PDT by kalee (The offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies]

To: maggief

Since there are few things more racist than lying about another race, and since the NAACP is lying about white (in the NAACP’s perception) Tea partiers, the NAACP is a racist organization. Case closed.


43 posted on 07/13/2010 10:08:23 AM PDT by JimRed (To water the Tree of Liberty is to excise a cancer before it kills us. TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: brooklyn dave
Too many of your rank and file are good people who have done great work in the past.

The good people you describe need to leave the NAA(L)CP and join CORE.

44 posted on 07/13/2010 10:13:15 AM PDT by JimRed (To water the Tree of Liberty is to excise a cancer before it kills us. TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: maggief

The Tea Party has no problems nor issues with race. It’s mostly about big spending and big government. Poking fun at President Obama is fair play.


45 posted on 07/13/2010 10:17:31 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Democrats = authoritarian socialists)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: maggief

I think Obama and Co want to start a war.


46 posted on 07/13/2010 10:19:15 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: kalee
I have a black friend whose friend was going to Africa on a tour. She asked the other woman to bring her back a baggie of dirt from the mother country.

That's no different than me asking an acquaintance visiting Ireland to bring me back a scrap of the Ould Sod! We can find plenty of real issues to call them on.

47 posted on 07/13/2010 10:19:30 AM PDT by JimRed (To water the Tree of Liberty is to excise a cancer before it kills us. TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 42 | View Replies]

To: Noumenon

So what will violence accomplish? Zero. Let your enemy be violent, if they’re stupid enough to resort to that. You can win more politically by being non-violent.


48 posted on 07/13/2010 10:20:02 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Democrats = authoritarian socialists)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: maggief

If you’re gonna argue with the FEDS ...be prepared to be called a racist...and even charged with terrorism!!


49 posted on 07/13/2010 10:20:26 AM PDT by mo
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DGHoodini
"I think at one time, the NAACP was an organization of honorable people trying to do good."

NAACP was founded by international socialists and marxists.
50 posted on 07/13/2010 10:27:53 AM PDT by mrmeyer ("When brute force is on the march, compromise is the red carpet." Ayn Rand)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: popdonnelly
Do you know your history? The assassination of ArchDuke Ferdinand was accomplished by one Gavrilo Princip, 19 at the time, a member of Young Bosnia and one of a group of assassins organized by the Black Hand. Sheer dumb luck rather than purpose and organization allowed Princip to succeed that day.

No one could have predicted the consequences of such an act, although Europe had been teetering on the brink of conflagration for some time. ArchDuke Ferdinands assassination jsut happened to be the precipitating factor. Hence, the allusion to Barbara Tuchman's brilliant The Guns of August.

America is no less on the brink of something dreadful and there are those who have been working for generations and with a will at destabilizing this nation. Who and to what end, you ask? As I have said, there are those who would rather rule in hell from atop a pile of rubble and corpses than leave us alone to live in peace. These are monsters, killers without conscience.

So here's your picture: I will not fire the first shot - that will come from the monsters on the Machiavellian, Gramscian Left. But I will do my utmost to be the one to fire the last one. These monsters have a goal: millions of us dead and the rest in chains. They've said as much.

As to your assertion that "can win more politically by being non-violent," that preseumes two things: Fisrt, that there is a political solution to be had, and second, that our opponents are rational human beings with rational self-interest based upon a shared set of values to which we may appeal.

I submit that neither case is true. Remember who we're dealing with. Lee Harris concludes his Civilization and Its Enemies with this:

"...we must all struggle to overcome the collective tendency of civilized men and women to forgetfulness. For that, in truth, is the ultimate question facing us today. Can the West overcome the forgetfulness that is the nemesis of every successful civilization? If it can, then there is hope that mankind will be able to move forward to a higher stage of historical development. If it cannot, then the next stage of history will be one that we once hoped never to see again.
I know the answer to that question. The memory of how we got here, how we achieved our freedom and at what cost has been systematically purged from the general consciousness. Not necessarily from ours, but from that of many of our countrymen. Harris' concluding sentence is the price that we will all pay for that forgetfulness...
51 posted on 07/13/2010 10:48:28 AM PDT by Noumenon ("Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed, that he has grown so great?" - Julius Caesar)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 48 | View Replies]

To: maggief

The race-obsessed will always see racism where ever they look. And the DNC is (rightfully) burdened with its historical bad conscience, which means that among Democrats charges of racism sting and sting badly. So they see it everywhere they look, because thats how they see the world, and its an effective weapon among them because again thats how they see the world.

They don’t understand people who aren’t obsessed by race, don’t see the world that way, don’t have a bad conscience on the subject, and really don’t care what color you are one way or the other. Principles, character, philosophy, track record, these things matter to a conservative. The color of the package is of little or no interest, its the content.

If you love what we love you are one of us. Dems will never get that.


52 posted on 07/13/2010 10:50:53 AM PDT by marron
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: maggief

What about resolutions that condemn out of wedlock children, or about ending dropouts? All these stupid resolutions and no work.


53 posted on 07/13/2010 11:13:23 AM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: maggief

The NAACP just takes the cake....they know NOTHING about
COLOR ne ways.....WHITE is the basis of ALL color...
and BLACK is the complete ABSCENCE of color...Just
the 1st basics of ART....


54 posted on 07/13/2010 12:21:15 PM PDT by mag (All men have feet of Clay....))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: maggief

It’s about par for the course. Just watching that organization obey their new masters on the Federal planation.


55 posted on 07/13/2010 3:13:19 PM PDT by cgchief
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-55 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson