Posted on 01/16/2011 8:06:27 PM PST by maine-iac7
The NAACP accused Maine Gov. Paul LePage of inflaming "racial tension" Friday after the governor turned down a request to attend the group's Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations and subsequently told his critics to "kiss my butt."
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Sounds like he has a pair.
“Inflaming racial tensions”??
LOL at these fools. After the false crybaby claims against the Tea Party?
What a bunch of immature idiots. No wonder after decades of this organization they’re at the bottom of the socio-economic barrell.
Black on the outside, red on the inside.
The NAACP association with the Communist Party of the USA is well documented.
“Much of the information I will present is taken from a book called Biographical Dictionary of the Left which was written by a Francis Gannon and was published by Western Islands back in 1969. If you can still find this book somewhere, I would recommend it.
The NAACP “emerged” in 1909, supposedly to promote equality and rights among the races. Needless to say, it has done neither.
However, the formation of this group was urged by the leading radicals of that day, among whom were Jane Addams and government school “educator” John Dewey. Other radicals were among the first officials in the organization. Among these was Oswald Garrison Villard, grandson of the infamous abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison.
The first president of the NAACP was, strangely enough, a white man, Moorfield Story, a lawyer from Boston. Black radical WEB DuBois, who later joined the Communist Party, was the organization’s first director of publicity and research, as well as editor of the group’s monthly publication The Osiris. This publication gave DuBois an excellent outlet from which to pour forth all manner of racial invective against whites, supposedly in the name of “promoting equality.”
According to the Biographical Dictionary of the Left, “Long tenure in office has also been characteristic of the NAACP’s presidents—all white men: Moorfield Story (1910-1915), Joel Springarn (1915-1940), Arthur Springarn (1940-1966), and since 1966, Kivie Kaplan.” Since the Biographical Dictionary was published in 1969, obviously some things have changed. However, it is interesting to note how long the organization had white presidents, almost as if the radicals didn’t trust the blacks to take the organization in the proper direction (to the left).
WEB DuBois, one black that did hold a prominent position, was no problem because he was already on the left. DuBois was known to have “hailed the Russian Revolution of 1917” and he travelled to the Soviet Union in 1926 and 1936. He especially liked ‘the racial attitudes of the Communists’.”
In 1922 the NAACP started to receive grants from the Garland Fund, a big source of funding of Communist Party projects. Officials of the Garland Fund included Communists William Z. Foster, Benjamin Gitlow, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and Scott Nearing. Other prominent left-wing officials were Roger Baldwin, Sidney Hillman, and Harry F. Ward, the “Red Dean” of religion in America.” The Garland Fund continued to pour money into the NAACP until around 1934. Even when the money stopped, the Communist connections continued.
“In 1938, the NAACP was represented at the World Youth Congress, a Communist enterprise. In the 1940s the NAACP was affiliated with American Youth for a Free World, the American affiliate of the World Federation of Democratic Youth, a Communist clearing house.”
A most literate apologist for the NAACP was the well-known Langston Hughes. Hughes was affiliated with Communist Party projects from the mid-1920s until he passed away in 1967. In fact, in 1962, Hughes wrote a book entitled Fight for Freedom: The Story of the NAACP. In this book he stated the following:
“Attempts to label the NAACP subversive, Communist-influenced, or out and out Communist have continued for a long time.” In light of the evidence available, can anyone with a brain honestly wonder why?
The organization has, from time to time, gone through the sanitized ritual of “opposing Communism” but this has been a self-serving action designed to keep the support of those that are astute enough to see communism as a problem.
In 1946, the NAACP helped the Communist Party in one of its major political projects, the establishment of the Progressive Citizens of America—the basis for Henry Wallace’s Communist-dominated Progressive Party in the 1948 presidential election.
In 1953 the Communist newspaper Daily Worker recommended that Communists and labor unions “give every possible support to any and all campaigns conducted by the NAACP.” One can only wonder if this strategy has changed in the intervening years”.
-The NAACP’s Red Roots By: Al Benson Jr. FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, July 07, 2000
The time for fooling around with RINO’s and marxists who call themselves “Progressives” to hide their marxist agenda (as if that will continue to work forever) is fast coming to a close.
Its a blessed thing that the degenerate slick son of a bitch ROMNEY from a family of cowards is going to try for the GOP nomination because it will once and for all propel a candidate (as yet undetermined) to stop pulling punches and declare WAR ON SOCIALISM.
The candidate must name names, vow to destroy the members of the “Congressional Progressive Caucus” and excoriate geographic areas such as San Francisco and other socialist strongholds as “US AGAINST THEM”
The effin party is over, time to smack down these CPUSA stooges and fellow travelers, put PR mens heads on pikes, and put the fear of God and the sword in the hearts of the ENEMY WITHIN
Though not legally adopted - he was, after all, 17 - he is obviously considered part of the family and thought of as a son. No need for him to comment any further.
They are gasping for air - people have had it and aren’t intimidated anymore...
Truth sometimes leaks out slowly, but like the small drip in the dike - sooner or later it breaks wide open.
They just say anything that comes into their small heads. I am surprised there are any brains at all.
Think maybe LePage is sick and tired of those racists keeping racism alive with these “festivities”?
I don’t celebrate either. All tomorrow means to me is that I get the day off, can sleep in a bit late, and relax all day.
I’d rather get Jefferson Davis’s birthday off.
Actually, the leftists are coming up with some interesting ideas about his education costs, who paid them, in state, out of state, immigration, legal, illegal. They seem to want to study all the ramifications of this guy. The upshot of all this is that it makes LePage look good. Spent money, helped this kid out, it’s a good thing LePage did. The media is not really going to want to examine a story that overall makes LePage look good.
LePage is definitely a good one, one to watch. Hasn’t yet done anything to piss off conservatives, as Christie has.
He's a quintessential Tea Partier Conservative who, like Palin, Christie, West, etc., are honest, know what's right and decent and say it like it is, rather than playing politics and they are self-made people, secure in their beliefs...know our Constitution and love this country.
The twisters of truth are in for a rude awakening.
LePage is “inflaming racial tension” between white Mainers and the 12 black Mainers?
All the more reason LePage is NOT a bigot. Besides, he likes golf, just as the pretend president does!LOL.
His comments refer to NAACP. Those 12 black guys in Maine probably aren’t NAACP members.
LePage publicly previously referred to him as his son. I assumed adoption, since he is not married to a black chick, as far as I know.
I was factually wrong about that according to what you have found, but it doesn’t matter much from the leftist point of view, LePage is even MORE unbiggoted! LOL.
Next the left will have his “son” deported BECAUSE he lives under the roof of a Republican instead of a leftist. Seriously. Watch it happen.
We do not want any Uncle Tom blacks coming illegally into this country!!!!/s
Picking potatoes in the '70s was just as hard. I've done it.
The fact that he has this relationship with this Jamaican insolates him from accusations of racism, LePage thinks. It doesn’t exactly, but the story overall paints LePage in a good light. He helped this kid out, LePage is a good guy.
The New York Times was wrong too. You’re not the only person to assume that when LePage referred to the Jamaican as his son, that LePage adopted him. I will guess that the Jamaican won’t be deported.
I’m a LePage supporter, voted for him in the Primary, etc., but he seems to have a touch of the whole “think is what I say it is” condition. Isn’t “son” something definable? I mean, LePage is calling the Jamaican his son. Does that make the Jamaican his son? I’m not saying that LePage can’t say “my son”, because when he says that, he’s pointing to a specific person. And should we be calling him LePage’s son? What should we call him?
It’s related tangentially to the transsexuals thing, where we are being asked to call men women, because they’re calling themselves that. (it’s an issue in Maine) If I think of Sarah Palin as my wife, does that make Sarah Palin my wife? Does it help my case if I tell everyone that Sarah Palin is my wife? Or does the fact that Sarah Palin is not my wife cancel out my protestations to the contrary? Should I call the newspaper and complain that they’re refusing to refer to Sarah Palin as my wife or referencing me in any way?
I mean, do we really have to humor their delusions? LePage isn’t asking us to call the Jamaican his son though, and that’s the difference. People should be allowed to think anything they want, but we shouldn’t have to agree with it.
I think the same. Lepage befrtended the teen while in Jamaica and gave him a hand up.And the NAACP is all bent up about that? They really look bad.
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