Think Progress Issues Fake Racist Pics To NAACP

Bob Parks: Black& Right ^ | 7/15/10 | Bob Parks

[bocopar]

In yet another display of disrespect to black people, Think Progress has apparently provided fake pictures of Tea Party 'racism' to the NAACP.

In the PR Newswire story 'CAIR Backs NAACP Resolution on Tea Party Racism', a link is provided to the NAACP website story of their resolution against the Tea Party. That story contains many jpegs of Tea Party participants holding signs with racist verbiage. One problem: the pictures are fakes.

[JayNorth]

I was chuckling at the NAACP website misspelling of the word “vile” in their press release. Or am I being racist by pointing that out?

[The_Reader_David]

Following in the footsteps of the Danish imams who sent fake Mohammed cartoons to majority-Muslim countries.

[bocopar]

The argument that they are fake is not very persuasive. An explanation doesn't need to be a lecture and a whole lot of words weren't necessary.

[ltc8k6]

You need a pretty good explanation if you are going to accuse people of manufacturing such images, imo.

Well, that’s the way I was raised, anyway.

[MamaTexan]

The only one that’s racist is the one that that stupid kid is holding, the “monkey see, monkey do”

I'm sorry, but calling the monkey sign racist is ridiculous, since there are a lot of people who equate 'monkey see monkey do' with a lack of intelligence or direction.

Anyone who thinks it has anything to do with race in exceptionally thin-skinned, IMHO.