Tea Party

[Jagermeister]

A Tea Party group in Missouri, reacting to the NAACP's plan to take up a resolution branding the conservative movement as "racist," has drafted a resolution of its own condemning the civil rights group for reducing itself to a "bigoted" and "partisan attack dog organization."

The St. Louis Tea Party had an all-hands-on-deck response to the NAACP's plan to denounce the nationwide network of activists at its annual convention across the state in Kansas City. The NAACP as early as Tuesday could take up language to "repudiate the racism of the Tea Parties" and stand against the movement's attempt to "push our country back to the pre-civil rights era."

In a matter of hours, the St. Louis group drafted and fired off to the NAACP a resolution demanding the organization withdraw its "bigoted, false and inflammatory" statement. The missive accused the NAACP of resorting to political tactics and urged the IRS to reconsider whether it can continue to qualify for tax-exempt status.

Tea Party organizers routinely defend themselves against charges of racism, disavowing racially charged signs that appear in their protest crowds and provide fodder for Tea Party critics. The NAACP resolution, first reported by the Kansas City Star, was expected to make reference to an incident in March when Tea Party protesters allegedly hurled racial epithets at black lawmakers on Capitol Hill ahead of a health care vote. Tea Party members afterward challenged that account and no evidence was produced to show any racist attacks.

St. Louis Tea Party organizer Bill Hennessy wrote on the group's website Tuesday that the Tea Party stands for smaller government and fiscal responsibility, and accused the NAACP of abandoning black America.

"When you look at the crime and poverty and family breakdown of the African-American community ... you see a half-century of failure by the NAACP," he wrote. "None of those persistent problems was caused by the Tea Party movement, yet the principles of the Tea Party are exactly what's needed to wind down the multi-generational destruction in the African-American community.

"The NAACP was once a vital weapon in the war against segregation and oppression. All that's left is a bigoted and malicious shell that does far more harm than good for people who need a break," he wrote.

Fellow St. Louis Tea Party organizer Dana Loesch accused the NAACP of morphing into a political organization.

"They no longer prioritize civil rights," she told Fox News.






http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/13/tea-party-preempts-racist-resolution-condemns-bigoted-naacp/

[Jagermeister]

Once again :dafinger: the NAACP.

[PETE'S BROTHER]

and fuck sharpton and jackson!!!

[Jagermeister]

I predict you will see much more of this bullshit as elections draw closer. This administration is in deep shit and they know it.

[hambon4lif]

KILL WHITEY!!::gun:

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[hambon4lif]

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[hambon4lif]

....Did Obama really steal Hillarys bike? And why is this just coming out now?

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[chefcraig]

"I'm sorry I had to fight in the middle of your Black Panther party."

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[hambon4lif]

NAACP vs. the Tea Party: Is This Fight Necessary?
Mary C. Curtis
National Correspondent

If one thing has become lost in politics, it's compromise. Searching for that middle ground where everyone must give up a little to achieve a goal is seen as a sign of surrender. The surest route to glory is a bruising battle to the finish, where no one truly comes out a winner.

Take the dust-up between the NAACP and the Tea Party movement that has Sarah Palin and others joining the fray.

At the NAACP's annual convention in Kansas City, Mo., the group has so far focused on the effects of the BP gulf oil spill on minorities in the region. But the main topic of news is an item on Tuesday's agenda, a vote on a resolution condemning "explicit racist behavior" by supporters of the Tea Party movement. The resolution, first reported in the Kansas City Star, 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."
"We need to realize it's really not about limited government," Anita Russell, head of the Kansas City chapter of the NAACP, told the Star. Brendan Steinhauser, director of campaigns for FreedomWorks, an organizer of Tea Party groups, countered, "Racism is something we're absolutely opposed to."
The resolution cites, among other issues, the Tea Party's opposition to government programs that have helped the progress of minorities and the working class, and the disrespect shown to President Obama at rallies dotted with posters depicting the commander in chief as Hitler and the Joker.

"We see them carry racist signs and whenever it happens, the membership tries to shirk responsibility," NAACP President Ben Jealous said in an interview with ABC News. "If the Tea Party wants to be respected and wants to be part of the mainstream in this country, they have to take responsibility."
On Monday, the St. Louis Tea Party passed a resolution of its own, condemning the NAACP for "hypocritically engaging in the very conduct it purports to oppose," and urging the IRS to reconsider its tax-exempt status of the NAACP, ABC reports.

Sarah Palin commented to Sean Hannity on Fox News, "It's a false accusation that Tea Party Americans are racist. Any good American hates racism. We don't stand for it." Palin also called on President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama to "repudiate" the resolution. That Michelle Obama, who addressed the NAACP convention about her obesity crusade on Monday, has since moved on did not prevent her from getting pulled into the controversy.

Jealous on Monday challenged Kentucky GOP Senate candidate and Tea Party supporter Rand Paul to a debate on civil rights. Paul has criticized the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as overreaching.
Does the NAACP have the right to weigh in on a social and political movement that's flexing its muscle in elections across the country? Of course. While some suggest the group should concentrate on the ills facing urban neighborhoods, the NAACP -- founded in 1909 by whites and blacks in response to the horror of lynching -- has always had the capacity to act on more than one thing in its pursuit of justice for all.
But should it get bogged down in what will quickly become a back-and-forth fight? It is surely a distraction for the Tea Party, which is often pulled from its small-government, low-tax message while it battles charges of racism. For their part, movement leaders should not be surprised. Every time the charge is raised, their "Who us, racists?" response looks a mite disingenuous.
No group should be judged by the actions of a fringe few holding signs that cross the line. But there is a reason so few minorities attend gatherings such as the Tea Party national meeting in Nashville earlier this year. In conversations there, I asked what observers are supposed to think when former Congressman Tom Tancredo is cheered for his comments that voters who "could not spell the word 'vote' or say it in English" were responsible for putting a "committed Socialist ideologue" in the White House, or when Joseph Farah, editor of the conservative Web site, WorldNetDaily, is applauded for his questions about Obama's U.S. citizenship.
A larger percentage of Tea Party members than the general public believe the administration's policies favor blacks over whites, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll. And the reaction to a disputed incident – when members of Congress were jeered during the debate over health care -- could have been handled differently. A simple statement disavowing any name-calling and racist chants would have gone down a lot better than insisting civil rights icon John Lewis is a liar.
But every charge by the NAACP will be answered by denials and statements by black Tea Party members, such as the Bishop E. W. Jackson, president of STAND (Staying True to America's National Destiny) or Rev. C.L. Bryant, a former president of NAACP's Garland, Texas, chapter, who is now a Tea Party activist.
You can forget about that common ground, over a broken economy, a government -- big or small -- that works and justice for "real Americans" (you know, the ones who live on farms as well as inner-city apartments)?
Better to argue over a resolution that won't change one mind.

[Hardrock69]

I agree the NAACP is not quite as necessary as it used to be, as 'civil rights' are now THE LAW for EVERYONE in America.
But I don't think they are completely unnecessary.

We still need to have a crack team of serious-looking African-Americans to stand behind important African-American speech-makers.

Look at any speech by say Rev. Jesse Jackson, or Al Sharpton, or whoever.

There are always a bunch of African-American individuals standing around behind them glowering at everyone as if to say "YEAH! WHAT HE SAID!" I cannot recall the last time I saw a black political or public figure stand behind a podium making a speech without a crowd of henchmen hanging around behind him/her in the background. I am sure once in awhile, an American of African descent will be allowed to stand behind a podium solo while making a speech, but it always seems they have their "Black Speech Support Network" standing around in the background for all the speeches that get broadcast on TV.

Do these people get paid to do this? Is it something that you can get a college degree in?

"What are you majoring in?"

"I am pursuing my doctorate in 'Speech Background Acting.'"


"Uhhh....right."

[jhale667]

I too think the NAACP is barely relevant these days, but in this case they're RIGHT. The TeaBagged, by not denouncing the racist asshats in their "movement" are CONDONING it. Their silence is complicity, and that's bullshit.

Of course, Palin had to open her idiotic mouth on the subject too...

Southern Strategist Sarah Palin Denies the Southern Strategy

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/southern-strategist-sarah_b_646554.html?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=071510&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BlogEntry

During her honeymoon speech at the Republican National Convention in 2008, Sarah Palin echoed a jab at Barack Obama that had been lurking around in Republican circles for most of that year. Earlier at the convention, Rudy Giuliani famously brought it up through his gigantically-toothy grin and childish giggling. But it was Sarah Palin who would get most of the credit for it.

I'm referring here to the emphasis on President Obama's service as an urban community organizer. Clearly, this was a Southern Strategy-style racial dog whistle -- a way of underscoring the president's ethnicity, his race and his association with scary inner-city black people.

It's worth mentioning again the Lee Atwater quote regarding the functional language of the Southern Strategy. Suffice to say, Atwater made it perfectly clear that Republican political tactics included (and still do) exploiting race -- winning white votes by demonizing blacks. And the way to play this game in the modern age was to use code language. Dog whistles, because overt racial language would too easily "back fire."

At the time, Atwater suggested the exploitation of issues like tax cuts or states rights with the implication that the Republican Party supported the preservation of white dominance. (Not surprisingly, tax cuts and states rights dominate the 2010 political discourse.) And the demagoguing of issues like welfare, affirmative action or Medicaid would underscore, to predisposed white voters, the fallacious notion of lazy black freeloaders horking white jobs and white tax dollars and not contributing anything to society other than crime.

And there was Sarah Palin in her prime time debut mocking the president's early career as a community organizer -- the implication being that the president was a product of black culture and not "real Americans." Combine this with the ongoing emphasis on the president's "spread the wealth around" remark to Joe the Plummer -- the Republicans very obviously playing the "welfare queen" dog whistle here. And we all remember how Sarah Palin went "rogue" and fueled the Obama-is-a-secret-Muslim-terrorist myth (part of early Birther lore) by repeatedly telling her rabid white audiences that the president "palled around with terrorists."

Sarah Palin is and was a Southern Strategist.

So it's with considerable hilarity that I read her latest Facebook remarks in which she insisted there isn't a racial component to the various tea party groups.

"I am saddened by the NAACP's claim that patriotic Americans who stand up for the United States of America's Constitutional rights are somehow 'racists,'" Palin wrote in a Facebook note.

"Constitutional" shouldn't be capitalized, but I nitpick Palin's Facebook ghost writer.

Nevertheless, the NAACP was specifically referencing the obviously racist elements of the tea party, whether it's the tea party's use of Southern Strategy dog whistles to rally white support, or the very overt displays of racism, beginning with the screechy Curious George-wielding freaks outside the Palin rallies during the campaign, or the Birthers, whose whole thing is about race, or the (often misspelled) signs at tea party rallies with the president Photoshopped to look like a witch doctor.

The NAACP, with its resolution this week, wasn't even going as far as I am here in suggesting the tea party is built upon Southern Strategy politics. The members were merely requesting that the tea party denounce the racially-motivated characters within its ranks. I don't think that's such a big deal. But Sarah Palin evidently believes that the people who shouted racial epithets at Congressman Lewis are "patriotic Americans" and "somehow" not racists, when, in fact, they clearly are. These are the people the NAACP asked to be denounced. Why would Sarah Palin have a problem with that?

She also wrote, "...it is foreign to us to consider condemning or condoning anyone's actions based on race or gender." And yet she appears to be both condemning the NAACP's resolution, while condoning, by silence, the racially-motivated aspects of the tea party and, by proxy, the Republicans. Weird.

Maybe it's because those people are her people. As I've mentioned here, those lines of angry white people outside of her rallies expressing inchoate rage at the Democratic -- and possibly "Muslim" -- candidate were more or less unique to her campaign events. They're her base. These are the people with whom she's communicating when she talks about "palling around terrorists" or "spreading the wealth around." She's communicating with Americans who are predisposed to believing that poor black people have an unfair economic advantage over whites. Somehow. I'd still like to know how that works.

Just today, CNN analyst and, perhaps, the king of all wingnuts, Erick Erickson wrote an extended blog entry about how the Republicans should exploit this bogus Fox News Channel meme about the New Black Panthers. Erickson wrote that the ads should be the new Willie Horton ads. Put another way, Erick Erickson wants to reboot Willie Horton for an all new generation.

Doesn't Erickson know? Is he really this stupid? Or, more appropriately, does he believe his readers are this stupid? The Willie Horton ad was a high water mark for Southern Strategy -- for racially exploitative GOP politics. Atwater himself apologized on his death bed for using racial tactics like Willie Horton to divide voters by race. And Erickson wants to give it another whirl while insisting there isn't a racial component to the Republican Party.

Erickson wrapped by mixing some actual honesty with some lying and some denial:

The Democrats will scream racism. Let them. Republicans are not going to pick up significant black support anyway. But here's the thing: everyone but the Democrats will understand this is not racism. This isn't even about race. This is about the judgment of an administration that would rather prosecute Arizona for doing what the feds won't do than prosecuting violent thugs who would deny you and me the right to vote while killing our kids.

Once again, the preemptive "Who...? Me?" denial from a Republican who intends to exploit race, and even admits to the advantages of doing so. "Republicans are not going to pick up significant black support anyway," he wrote. Another red flag indicating the Southern Strategy in process. The GOP won't get black support, the strategy goes, so they might as well paint blacks and Mexicans as criminals and baby-killers in order to shore up the frothing, angry, scared, xenophobic white vote.

Remarkably, and despite volumes of documented evidence, including a candid admission by the chairman of the RNC, we constantly hear Sarah Palin, and many other Republicans for that matter, claiming that the Southern Strategy doesn't exist as a central component of the party. The far-right (and not-so-far-right) totally denies the existence of the Southern Strategy in the face of cold, hard historical fact while also embracing its tactics and language. You'll see the denial throughout the comments below this post, I'm sure (along with accusations that I'm somehow a racist against white people even though I'm, you know, white). This is a faction of Americans whose entire strategic foundation, say nothing of its ideological foundation, is based upon deliberate ignorance of empirical reality, so it's no wonder.

Palin and Erickson might not be racists, but it's always a good idea to question with great scrutiny the character of anyone who profits from deliberate ignorance and, likewise, anyone who would freely exploits racial hatred for political gain. Unfortunately, these two units are doing pretty well for themselves by engaging in both.

[thome]

Dear Clueless YOU ALL SUKK,

It is impossible to form any kind of a group without FIRST wanting to seperate yourself from whatever it is you want to form your own personal group even proactively .

HEY LOOK MAH I GOT BIG LUG NUTZ IN MY EARS!!! I am a individual seperate from the rest of the unclear non-knowers of STUFF!!!

Sorry son your only singularity is your retarded self. Once you seek to define yourself you become a racist.

MARRIAGE IS RACIST!!!!

You have to first admit your are something in order to become something.

RACISM IS A MIS-USED WORD!!!

MY RACISM ALLOWS ME TO CONFIRM YOUR RACISM!!!

Words are for assholes.

[BITEYOASS]

I love how the Teabaggers keep squawking out *BAWK* I'M NOT A RACIST! I'M NOT A RACIST! *BAWK* after they get called out on their bullshit. And then they bring up something that is miniscule or unrelated to their rascist bullshit and scream like a bratty girl going "BUT SO-AND-SO GETS TO SPOUT RACIST BULLSHIT. WHY CAN'T I? WAHHHHHHH!"

http://duanegraham.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/dale-robertson.jpg

http://www.bobcesca.com/images/tp_Racist_signs.jpg

[Nickdfresh]

The Teabaggers are not a monolithic movement, if fact they are quite the opposite. I don't think any one leader can control them all and be responsible for everyones' placard nor opinion within the "movement," which in many ways is about as cohesive as a bowel movement...

[Nickdfresh]

Tea Party Express refuses to rebuke spokesman Mark Williams

updated 7/18/2010 2:42:10 PM ET


WASHINGTON — The Tea Party political movement saw a major split over the weekend, with the National Tea Party Federation expelling a member group after its spokesman wrote an online post satirizing a fictional letter from what he called "Colored People" to President Abraham Lincoln.

On its website, the federation stated it had given the Tea Party Express, through direct contact with one of its leaders, a deadline to rebuke and remove spokesman Mark Williams.

"That leader's response was clear: they have no intention of taking the action we required for their group to continue as a member of the National Tea Party Federation," the federation stated.

Therefore, effective immediately the National Tea Party Federation is expelling Tea Party Express from the ranks of our membership."

Federation spokesman David Webb, interviewed Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation," called the blog post "clearly offensive."

Williams, who said his letter was satirical, started it like this: "Dear Mr. Lincoln, We Coloreds have taken a vote and decided that we don't cotton to that whole emancipation thing. Freedom means having to work for real, think for ourselves, and take consequences along with the rewards. That is just far too much to ask of us Colored People and we demand that it stop!"

"Bailouts are just big money welfare and isn't that what we want all Coloreds to strive for?" he added. "What kind of racist would want to end big money welfare? What they need to do is start handing the bail outs directly to us Coloreds!"

A conservative talk radio host, Williams later removed the post as criticism grew.

Williams' post was a reply to a resolution by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) earlier this month that called on Tea Party leaders to "repudiate the racist element and activities" within the political movement.

Immediately after the resolution, Williams said it was unfortunate that the NAACP had chosen to "profiteer off race-baiting and fear mongering" when it could be doing so much to help the black community.

He also questioned the motives of African-American leaders, suggesting they were taking advantage of the publicity the resolution generated.

"I'm not surprised they are jumping into the fray here because the NAACP just tapped a Gulf oil well full of cash contributions that will arrive from this resolution," Williams said. "And I know Al (Sharpton) and Jesse (Jackson, Jr.) want their piece of it. The slave traders of the 16th century should have been as good at exploiting Africans as these people are, because it's just disgusting."

On its website, the Tea Party Express does not say how many supporters it has, but on Facebook it has 600 followers.

The federation says 61 groups are members, and that it has "affiliate relationships" with 21 other groups.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38299783/ns/politics

The Associated Press contributed to this report.