Tea Party Is Dealt The Race Card

IBD Editorials ^ | July 14, 2010 | Investors Business Daily staff

[Kaslin]

Racial Politics: The NAACP, in crafting a resolution condemning racism in the Tea Party movement, seems to have forgotten those Black Panthers with clubs intimidating voters and wanting to kill white people.

The "angry mobs" that reshaped the 2010 political landscape are angry white racist mobs, at least according to a resolution proposed by the NAACP at its annual convention this week in Kansas City, Mo.

The resolution calls on "all people of good will to repudiate the racism of the Tea Parties, and to stand in opposition to its drive to push our country back to the pre-civil rights era," said Anita Russell, head of the Kansas City chapter of the NAACP. "We need to realize it's really not about limited government." We suppose "tax cuts" is also code for racism.

The resolution comes after the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd, former grand kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan, was honored for his service to the nation that included leading the filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act, supported in greater percentages by Republicans in the House and Senate.

It also comes as the Civil Rights Commission tries to unravel why the Obama administration refuses to prosecute members of the New Black Panther Party who in 2008 stood outside a Philadelphia polling place, dressed in paramilitary garb, one brandishing a nightstick, and saying things like, "You are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker!"

One of the Black Panthers involved, King Samir Shabazz, can be seen in a 2009 National Geographic documentary interview saying: "You want freedom? You're gonna have to kill some crackers! You're gonna have to kill some of their babies." Or at least those racists who opposed ObamaCare.

[BookaT]

Here is a video about one of the many times the NAACP was not there for the black people:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipGLGUgEhBA

[South40]

I'm a Tea Party supporter and I am black.

Oops!

[Tzimisce]

[HighlyOpinionated]

Ridicule, Saul Alinsky thought of it, we use it.

[sig226]

Somebody should tell Allen West that he's not welcome at any more tea parties.

This guy, too:

[Kaslin]

That about sums it up

[volunbeer]

When logic fails and you are losing the argument always pull out the race card.

This has to be one of the first chapters of the progressive playbook.

Too many people on the left have too much invested in the power they gain from racial politics and understanding that our President spent his formative and adult years with these people it is simply logical that rather than “transcending racial politics” he is reverting back to his comfort zone. The race card is used to shift blame and responsibility for the failures of the dealer.

Sad.

[reefdiver]

Relax, We knew this would be a hot summer with a lot of mud slinging. November will be here, things will change.

[mtnjimmi]

the NAACP is just setting the stage for a possible election of someone other than the current Prez. their more concerned about spin than facts.

Taxed
enough
Already

what color is not?

[SkyDancer]

[edcoil]

Don’t pick it up.

[datura]

How ironic is it that an all black “organization” considers an all-inclusive political group to be racist???

Just like Obozo, the NAACP is black first, then probably muslim, then Americans last.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Any criticism of the Obama plan is called racist, they have no proof, they just intend to scream and shout knowing the charges will stick.

[FrankR]

When anyone on the left deals the race card, it is time to relax, for we have won.

They are out of substantive argument and debate; their policies are all failures and they know the reckless way they are governing is unsustainable and will not be tolerated.

The whooping and hollering is planned intimidation and terroist crap, designed to scare Americans into staying home...but if Americans were not exceptionally brave, we would have "stayed home" in England hundreds of years ago.

This on-premise terrorism will not stand. This not Europe and we will not look the other way when our freedoms are threatened...from foreign, or domestic.

There is no reason to be afraid, they are vastly outnumbered...here is just the TEA Party gathering from Searchlight, not D.C.:


We are NOT alone, and there is not reason to shudder because of one goon in a beret with a couple of bodyguards.

There has already been numerous attempts to discredit the TEA party movement, and a couple of MAD Hatters tried to take it down...and don't let me forget that stalwart organization, the "Coffee party" (more like a "coffee klatch' with their 15 members).

So, we'll be waiting for you in DC.

[bwc2221]

Anyone believe this wasn’t instigated by the White House?

[hampdenkid]

with 94% of negroes supporting Barack Obama, what difference does it make what the NAACP says? There is nothing any conservative could — or should — do in any way, shape, or form to impact on Obama’s negro support. So, forget about it.

[RWB Patriot]

Far from epitomizing MLK’s dream, Obama is just making it easier to see the double standard applied to race.

[hal ogen]

LIBs/DIMs...moonbat asshats all. You are outnumbered by normal people and good American citizens. The TEA party has your number. All of you. See you in November, you has been freaks.

[patriciaruth]

Some of these people are ignorant, some are simply evil and some are both.