The NAACP Cries Racism

Almost from the moment Barack Obama declared he would run for president in 2007, our enraptured media elite has been accusing anyone who would stand in Obama's way with racism. The question was never whether Obama was ready to govern the country, but whether the country was ready for the historic awesomeness of Obama.

Pity the NAACP. We now have a black president, and they must convince (racist) America that there still exists the need for a national association to advance "colored people" in our society. How to do it? Identify and condemn as "racists" anyone or any group opposed to Obama.

Apparently, you cannot sincerely oppose a crushing tax burden, a useless "stimulus" bill, ObamaCare or any other element of his socialist agenda without being tagged as a bigot.

In case there was any doubt that the NAACP was carrying water for the White House political machine, Michelle Obama appeared before the NAACP convention and insisted there was still persistent racism in America, and the group's founders would "urge us to increase our intensity" -- to fight for President Obama.

Now the NAACP has found its mojo. It is slandering the tea party as "racist." In an article on CNN.com headlined "Why we passed our Tea Party resolution," NAACP chief Benjamin Jealous smeared the entire movement: "The avowed racist David Duke notes that thousands of Tea Party activists have urged him to run for president. When the Tea Party marches by, Duke thinks it's his fiesta." Since when did the NAACP -- or anyone else, for that matter -- give a hoot what Duke thinks of anything?

On its own website, the NAACP continues to rehash all those unproven allegations that "respected members of the Congressional Black Caucus reported that racial epithets were hurled at them as they passed by a Washington, DC health care protest." But let's stop calling them "unproven allegations." Let's call them what they are: lies. There is no video evidence that this ever occurred, but the NAACP doesn't care about the evidence in its kangaroo court. They even repeated that "Representative Emanuel Cleaver was spat upon during the incident." In the real world, Cleaver quickly walked away from his own story when video footage proved it wasn't true.

The NAACP's video recounting the "racism" of the tea party had plenty of objectionable signs suggesting Obama was a fascist and "It's 1939 Germany all over again." Someone needs to research the meaning of the word "racism." It gets better. The NAACP-endorsed video of purportedly racist signs even includes two shots of Confederate flags and "hateful" messages like "We Need a Christian President" and the sitcom catch phrase "What You Talking About, Willis?" A poster imposing Obama's face with a Mr. T Mohawk hairdo next to the words "Gimme Yo Change" may be odd, but it's not racist. It sure sounds like there weren't many racist signs at tea party rallies if that's all they could muster.

The bigger problem for the NAACP is that it has its very own racists. Andrew Breitbart's Big Government website revealed video of a NAACP banquet where U.S. Department of Agriculture appointee Shirley Sherrod talked about how she didn't want to help a white farmer because he should be helped by "his own kind." The contempt in her voice, in her face, and in the audience's laughter is unmistakable.

So where are all those news outlets that dutifully covered the NAACP's attacks on the tea party now? The network evening news and morning news shows avoided this racist video entirely on the first day.

Nevertheless, the cable news networks picked it up, and within hours, Sherrod had resigned from the Agriculture Department. Sherrod was clearly furious that her racist remarks were exposed. CNN analyst Roland Martin asserted that Sherrod had to go because with a political appointment, remarks like this ruin the perception that Sherrod would be fair in distributing government help. Sherrod screamed right back at him that he was "clearly from a different world" than the deeply racist world she lived in.

The bottom line is not only that Sherrod needed to go, but that the TV elite must stop ignoring this and stop pretending that black racism and discriminatory attitudes do not exist. If Obama's election was supposed to heal our race relations, then the media should put this controversy back on his desk and press him to address it.

There’s some disturbing and seemingly bi-polar stuff in the Sherrod source video that’s now posted at the NAACP. The overall message Mrs. Sherrod gets across about overcoming racism is very well done. But I want to put that to the side after acknowledging it. This was the NAACP’s “Freedom Fund Banquet” [freedom in what context?] and notice what things were discussed and what was revealed at certain minute markers:

1:44 - 2:14 Jobs at the USDA...anyone ever heard of losing their job at the federal government? [Strive to find federal governments jobs...even those jobs in agencies that might be off-putting because of their category/naming...make a career in government]

6:13 - 7:05 story of Sheriff “Gator” Johnson..Corrupt government official who had his deputies stop out-of-towners and cite them for things to raise revenue and line their pockets. [message: don’t trust the government]

14:25 - 14:43 mother became first black elected official and has served her county’s board of education for 34 years. [again, strive for public service and the make it a career, Y’all]

17:19 - 17:48 this is a portion of the ‘White Farmer’ story that’s now become infamous...deciding how much help to give not giving full attention or “force” of what she could do. [now, it is fair to note that this story did not involve incidents at a government agency; instead this happened at a non-for-profit organization. However, this does reveal the nature of the attitudes that a great many [certainly not all] people have who gravitate toward public service. Many people who gravitate toward public service see themselves as having the power to dispense other people’s money based on whatever criteria that they personally hold near and dear. Again, strive toward public service jobs but what does this say about corruption?]

21:02 [after obvious edit] - 21:25 It’s about poor versus those that have..so, serve in government to try and correct the economic injustices [steeped in Marxist language about haves and have not, class struggles, at best you can say is that it’s no longer about racism, but now this leads to something every bit a sinister]

21:28 - 24:13 The history lesson of indentured servitude and what led to racial divisions. [there is a wealth of information here in this short portion of this recording. Mrs. Sherrod doesn’t seem to notice that it was government laws — not wealthy people — which caused the problems that she speaks of. Then she makes the penultimate acknowledgement while failing to realize where the blame needs to be properly placed when she talks about the need to stay in power. Also, the fact that she brings up racism being perpetuated through divisive politics is lost on everybody including herself considering the venue of this speech]

25:49 - 27:00 Mrs. Sherrod laments that racial divisions still exist and wishes that there were more whites in the audience [this reveals a fundamental ignorance by Mrs. Sherrod: if what she is lamenting about didn’t exist any longer, would the venue for her speech at an NAACP event be happening in the first place. Would any white non-politicians be welcome there? Would any white non-Marxists be welcomed there? Would Booker Taliaferro Washington even be welcomed there if he were still alive? Now answer this: if it’s all about keeping power, why in the hell would the leadership of the NAACP want the black/white divide to really go away?]

29:50 - 30:31 $80 million and not one dime is from the agency she used to work in is going to businesses with black ownership. [don’t know what to add for commentary on this one other than, as a minarchist, why is any money going to anyone for starting a business. Sink or swim!]

30:39 - 32:10 discussion of government programs where young people can intern in government jobs while in college and then nab that government job after school. [Why promote the government jobs when you just spent time suggesting, wrongfully in my opinion, that people should take government money to RUN an agricultural business of their own? Schizophrenia, I’m guessing]

The story of the White Farmer is an interesting one. Guy’s farm was going into foreclosure. Mrs. Sherrod laments that the farmers attorney was not representing the farmer well [and this is likely very true] even though the farmer was paying for the legal services. The attorney’s advice was to put the farm on the market. I have to ask at this point: who wasn’t getting paid while the farmer stopped making mortgage payments? That’s right; use government when you can in order to get bailed out. I have no idea if the White Farmer was upside down on the farm or not but obviously the idea of muting market signals by protecting people from dumb decisions that ordinarily would cause losses has been well ingrained in society for quite some time.

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