Posted on 01/16/2018 11:18:24 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The left is fond of trying to tie unrelated issues to gender, race, or sexual orientation. A recent example is Trump's description of some countries as "sh*tholes." His comment was considered racist even though everyone knows there are many nations where no one wants to live, or even visit. In this case, scoring the president for even daring to mention some nations are better than others set off a firestorm of false criticism.
So, it shouldn't surprise us that the NAACP has taken two entirely different issues and has twisted logic into a pretzel in order to connect them.
This Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the NAACP wants man-made global warming to be seen as a civil rights issue, arguing King’s vision of a society free of racial injustice can’t be achieved without addressing warming.
“We see climate change as a civil rights issue,” Jacqueline Patterson, head of the NAACP’s environmental and climate justice program, said in an online radio spotfor the Yale Center for Environmental Connection.
Environmental activists have been increasingly framing global warming as a matter of “environmental justice,” since “minority and low-income populations are disproportionately affected by global warming,” Patterson told Yale’s online radio Climate Connections.
Traditionally, such concerns focused on traditional pollutants from factories or vehicles, but the NAACP is expanding it to carbon dioxide, which scientists blame for warming the Earth in recent decades.
The environmental movement has fretted in recent years that it’s not diverse enough, and groups, like 350.org, have tried to draw parallels between global warming and alleged police brutality that sparked riots in Ferguson, Mo., in 2014.
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They forgot gays, transgenders, illegal immigrants, pedophiles and tax increases.
The NAACP’s endorsement is proof that “climate change” is a socialist power-grab/redistributive scam.
You’ve heard of the Renaissance Man? Well, global warming is the Renaissance Crisis. It is all things to all alarmists.
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The 90% of blacks who always vote for democrats and their big government socialist programs need to wake the hell up. They are being used and abused and their social & economic progress held up by their Marxist masters. Socialism does NOT provide economic or social freedom or justice. Just the opposite. Socialism enslaves the people.
Mission Creep.
Lost track of the reason they exist in the first place.
Now they are just a part of the libtard globalist movement.
How many honest working class blacks struggling to recover from the O’conomy lose sleep at night worrying about Global Warming?
“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
— Eric Hoffer
Stupid, unhinged liberals. Go on, hitch your wagon to that, and ride it to oblivion.
I take it that cream only works on African Americans and not any other black people in the world!?
That’s awfully xenophobic!
Correction: You see EVERYTHING as a civil rights issue. Dog shows, can of beans, the latest Roseanne episode, CNN, Lifetime Network, toilet paper.........EVERYTHING!
Yes. Dark skin contributes to global warming as dark colors retain heat. The higher the population of POCs (Peoples of Color), the higher the global temperature.
Sounds great!
You guys go off somewhere and plant trees and turnips, and let the adults run the national discussion.
Yep . . . no “diversity” of thought, or politics
Just FAR LEFT followers of their white plantation masters
What a shame these so-called “civil rights organizations” have become. Easily bought and sold on the political slave trade
The science is settled.
NAACP is a tool of the DNC. If they were to be scrutinized as far as expenses and morality, they’d be closed up in a heartbeat.
Amazing isn't it?!
Welfare is what they want....how is climate a civil rights issue.....seems like the inmates, far from good citizens, are living in the asylum rather building a good life for themselves. Black Americans are being led astray by some very crafty and devious politicians who have cut these malleable citizens out of their history and knowledge of their United States Constitution while making them call themselves African Americans......instead the Black Americans who were born in this country, sadly unaware of their American heritage....they are tearing the nation down for a few politicians who could care less as their plight...made weak rather than strong.
Trying desperately to justify their continued existence..
Now that the nation’s inner cities have become Utopias where love, tolerance and prosperity rule there is nothing left for them to do—oops.
Note to the NAACP; it is no secret that black folks in the USA are exceedingly better off in the USA than any other place on earth.
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