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Black Tea Partiers Rebut NAACP

Those are not illegal aliens sir! For shame for shame on you for saying so! They are undocumented democrats.:devil:

I stand corrected :3oops:
 
Racism will only become obsolete once the concept of race itself is recognized for the irrational superstition that it is. People who fight for the advancement of one race over another are only perpetuating the problem.

A noble sentiment.

I would suggest that Racism will cease to be of any importance only when all peoples are treated equally with respect.
For one part of society to grant another part of that society, advantages that are not granted to ALL of society means that hatreds will continue to exist.
 
I am not aware of any political party that doesn't have their share of whackos. But the Tea Party, like the GOP, MUST make a concerted effort to seperate themselves from the fringe elements, the Becksters, the Limbaughnuts, as these people, due to their loud whining, have come to define the right and the truth is, that simply isn't so. It has cost the GOP and conservatives, as a whole, dearly. I do understand, however, why they would be reluctant to chastise this element as it probably makes up 12-20 percent of their voting block. That would be like the democrats standing against their supporters who look upon welfare as an entitlement. Perhaps there should be 3 party's. Democrats, Republicans and outright idiots. The idiots would probably take 12%-20% of the vote and the GOP and the Dems could fight over the other 80%. (Percentage numbers are just speculative on my part.)
 
Black Tea Partiers Rebut NAACP

And my favorite line in the whole piece..........

So the first line of the article demonstrates that these Tea Party members didn't trouble themselves to actually read the NAACP resolution.

Excerpted from “Black tea partiers rebut NAACP” By ANDY BARR, Politico, 7/14/10 1:11 PM EDT
[SIZE="+2"]S[/SIZE]ome African-American tea party candidates are displeased by a resolution that the NAACP approved on Tuesday calling the grass-roots conservative movement “racist.”

If one actually troubles oneself to read the coverage of the NAACP resolution's passage, one quickly realizes that the accusation is not that the Tea Party is “racist” but that it has tolerated racism within its ranks, for which, I would add, there is abundant evidence for.

Excerpted from “NAACP resolution condemns racism in tea party” By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, Associated Press Writer, Yahoo! News, Tue Jul 13, 7:59 pm ET
[SIZE="+2"]L[/SIZE]eaders of the country's largest civil rights organization accused tea party activists on Tuesday of tolerating bigotry and approved a resolution condemning racism within the political movement.

It's a simple declaration that the Tea Party should endorse, that it does not condone or support racism within its own membership or anywhere else for that matter. Period. That there is any controversy about this whatsoever, indicates that some within the Tea Party leadership aren't comfortable with that declaration.
 
Racism will only become obsolete once the concept of race itself is recognized for the irrational superstition that it is. People who fight for the advancement of one race over another are only perpetuating the problem.

I have to say...I think one of the reasons we are starting to see anger is that people are TIRED of the racial bull****. I think a LOT of people...conservative, liberal, republicans, democrats...were HAPPY that Obama was elected. MOST PEOPLE have NO TRUCK with racism and never have. MOST PEOPLE are too busy taking care of our live, families, jobs, to BE racist let alone inclined to be. NONE of us were slaves or slave owners...a LOT of us had ancestors that came over here long after it was over and never had any involvement. And finally...after 150 years of the same tired bull**** I think a LOT of us thought...finally...a black president...now...can we get past all this bull****?

We should have seen the signs of course. We should have seen a tolerance for racial hatred in the church he attended. We should have had our eyes opened when the man accused Bill Clinton...the nation s 'first black president' simply because he pointed out that Obama was more inexperienced and less qualified than his wife. But we just ignored it...he got in office...and...sunofabitch...its the same damn thing. EVERY TIME its conveeeenient. Every time someone disagrees. Every time they need to rally voters these assclowns pull the race card. Everytime. And frankly...I think a lot of people...left and right...black and white...are tired of it.
 
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So the first line of the article demonstrates that these Tea Party members didn't trouble themselves to actually read the NAACP resolution.



If one actually troubles oneself to read the coverage of the NAACP resolution's passage, one quickly realizes that the accusation is not that the Tea Party is “racist” but that it has tolerated racism within its ranks, for which, I would add, there is abundant evidence for.



It's a simple declaration that the Tea Party should endorse, that it does not condone or support racism within its own membership or anywhere else for that matter. Period. That there is any controversy about this whatsoever, indicates that some within the Tea Party leadership aren't comfortable with that declaration.

Why should THAT bother you? Hell, the Attorney General, democrats, even the president all railed against an entire state and called them racists without so much as reading the thing. They voted for health care without reading it. And you are worried about some "Tea Party" article? Damn dude...talk about having 'bigger fish to fry"...
 
Just to muddy the waters a bit....

Think Progress Issues Fake Racist Pics To NAACP
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.

As a professional Photoshop artist of over ten years, I found these fakes not hard to spot.

Upon close inspection you can see the digital artifacts around the letters on the signs in question. Clearly the resolution of the signs don’t match the smoother, higher resolution of the jpeg’s background. The other pictures on the site are equally suspect.

http://www.black-and-right.com/2010/07/15/think-progress-issues-fake-racist-pics-to-naacp/

This shouldn't surprise anyone, but it will.
 
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MOST PEOPLE have NO TRUCK with racism and never have. MOST PEOPLE are too busy taking care of our live, families, jobs, to BE racist let alone inclined to be.

Hell, if I was racist I couldn't take care of my life or my family. Just because I'm white doesn't mean my family is-- and I'm sure as Hell not going to put some stranger over my family because of the color of his skin.
 
So the first line of the article demonstrates that these Tea Party members didn't trouble themselves to actually read the NAACP resolution.



If one actually troubles oneself to read the coverage of the NAACP resolution's passage, one quickly realizes that the accusation is not that the Tea Party is “racist” but that it has tolerated racism within its ranks, for which, I would add, there is abundant evidence for.



It's a simple declaration that the Tea Party should endorse, that it does not condone or support racism within its own membership or anywhere else for that matter. Period. That there is any controversy about this whatsoever, indicates that some within the Tea Party leadership aren't comfortable with that declaration.

Oh, they read it alright. I listened to Diane Rehm's show on the Tea Party on Monday before the resolution was even passed. The Tea Party | The Diane Rehm Show from WAMU and NPR They woman from the Tea Party was asked by a listener why the Tea Party did not act against spending during Bush's term. The listener stated this might it sound like they were only against spending when the Democratic Party was in charge. Instead of answering the question, the organzer changed the response to be about people who are saying that the Tea Party movement is racist. (and also avoiding some admission that the Tea Party is just the right wing of the GOP )No one is saying that the entire movement is racist. (Stupid and ignorant maybe, but not racist.) The Tea Party knows that. By changing the charge, they hide the racist element of some of their members.

Why muddy the NAACP's statement?


Racists vote like everyone else. By not repudiating some of the racist demonstrators, they are saying "come on in." "We want you with us." Yes, the Tea Party is courting the racist vote. If they were to say racism is wrong and we do not support any members who would make racist posters or statements, those people would disappear. By not simply stating that racism is wrong, the Tea Party is saying loud and clear that they want the racists with them.
 
I'm getting so tired of this. It just goes on and on, day in day out, about the tea party being racist. Where ??? Show me!! I don't consider Obama being compared to Hitler (as distasteful as it is) as racist. Bush is white and no one called that racist. Being called a socialist or even communist is not racist. The closest I've seen is that witch doctor sign, but since that was protesting Obamacare, I don't think it was THAT horrible.
What really gets me are the lies that keep being repeated over and over. GRRRRRRR..... if I hear one more time about the N word being yelled 15 times and congressman being spat on with absolutely no proof, I'm going to scream. $100,000 reward has been offered for proof of this. Hec, if I recall, I think Brietbart offered the Congressman the money to a charity if he'd take a polygraph that it happened. Then, I think it was that Ben Jelous guy who said on Fox that people carried around signs saying linch the N........but never said where or had proof.
I really do think those repeating these lies should be able to be sued some how, some way.
This NAACP thing makes me absolutely ill. They will not condemn the New black panthers for voter intimidation (I think they are the ones who first suggested the charges be dropped) or the NBP who calls for the killing of crackers and their babies and says he hates all white people. Where's the outrage there? Yet they want tea partiers to condemn racism that doesn't exist and if it happens I'm sure they will swiftly be told to leave or get rid of the signs.
All I've heard and seen on TV from Black tea partiers is wonderful things about how they are treated. One lady saying "This is my Family! They love me" Things you'll NEVER see in the MSM. The tea party is the least racist group of people there is, and anyone out of line I'm sure would be condemned. We don't need the NAACP telling us we should when nothing has happened. The billboard came down because tea partiers thought it gave them a bad name. We'll take care of those things. We don't need lectures that are only given to make those uninformed think there IS racism. If we say yes we will condemn it, it sounds like it exists.
Racism did happen by SEIU against a black conservative. Where's MSM on this??? Egg throwing at the tea party express happened too, but no MSM.
They have to make things up to try and enrage blacks enough to get out and vote in Nov. and get everyone whose not already a member to be afraid to join because we are racists. Whatever color you are, please come join. I promise you'll be welcomed with open arms as long as you think we need to turn this train around.
This crap just really scares me. How do we get the truth out to those who don't watch Fox or listen to talk radio?
 
I'm getting so tired of this. It just goes on and on, day in day out, about the tea party being racist.


NAACP President Ben Jealous said Thursday that the resolution passed by the group on Wednesday does not call the tea party "racist."

The resolution the NAACP approved Wednesday at its annual conference in Kansas City, Mo., alleges that the tea party has used racial epithets against President Barack Obama and has verbally and physically abused African-American members of Congress.


A portion of the resolution does indeed characterize the behavior as “racist,” but Jealous said Thursday during an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that the resolution was not intended to condemn the entire movement as such.



Read more: NAACP: Never called tea party 'racist' - Andy Barr - POLITICO.com

There. Better. Now the Tea Party (Aka GOP right) people can say they would be totally against any racist elements in their group. They are, aren't they? Aren't they? Aren't they?
 
I'm delighted to hear this. I was afraid the Tea Party would back up and fold under pressure from a special interest group, but it sounds like maybe they'll hold their ground against ridiculous public and political pressure. Kudos for them.:)
 
I'm getting so tired of this. It just goes on and on, day in day out, about the tea party being racist. Where ??? Show me!!

They can't show you, which is why they keep whining and crying. They live under the delusion that if you keep repeating something often enough, that it will be true. I'm frankly tired of all the crybaby crap.
 
I'm delighted to hear this. I was afraid the Tea Party would back up and fold under pressure from a special interest group, but it sounds like maybe they'll hold their ground against ridiculous public and political pressure. Kudos for them.:)

Certainly, the Tea Party has every right to be the party with the big tent and let racists know that they will never be condemned in their organization.
 
Racists vote like everyone else. By not repudiating some of the racist demonstrators, they are saying "come on in." "We want you with us." Yes, the Tea Party is courting the racist vote. If they were to say racism is wrong and we do not support any members who would make racist posters or statements, those people would disappear. By not simply stating that racism is wrong, the Tea Party is saying loud and clear that they want the racists with them.

I call BS. If every single political ideology group and party wants to renouce racism, fine. Racism is one of those things that may be wrong, but it's not illegal, and excluding racists from one group is no different from excluding them from another group. When Democrats and Republics start denying racists their right to participate, come and we'll talk again.
 
Oh, I rather think Democrats and Republicans have crossed over that Rubicon and condemned racism as wrong. The NAACP is just pointing to the all too well known cases over the past year and saying Tea Party, you too must cross over to this side of truth and justice.
 
Oh, I rather think Democrats and Republicans have crossed over that Rubicon and condemned racism as wrong. The NAACP is just pointing to the all too well known cases over the past year and saying Tea Party, you too must cross over to this side of truth and justice.

The NAACP needs to clean their own house before it starts trying to tell anyone what they need to do. And if people can't figure out that racism is wrong, without being told, and its being condemned by a political party, then they're pretty stupid. This is all a bunch of race-baiting and crybaby behavior.
 
I call BS. If every single political ideology group and party wants to renouce racism, fine. Racism is one of those things that may be wrong, but it's not illegal, and excluding racists from one group is no different from excluding them from another group. When Democrats and Republics start denying racists their right to participate, come and we'll talk again.

-Democratic Party 2008 Platform
We believe in the essential American ideal that we are not constrained by the circumstances of birth but can make of our lives what we will. Unfortunately, for too many, that ideal is not a reality. We have more work to do. Democrats will fight to end discrimination based on race, sex, ethnicity, national origin, language, religion.
Democratic Party Platforms: 2008 Democratic Party Platform
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-Republican Party 2008 Platform
We consider discrimination based on sex, race, age, religion, creed, disability, or national origin to be immoral, and we will strongly enforce anti-discrimination statutes. We ask all to join us in rejecting the forces of hatred and bigotry and in denouncing all who practice or promote racism, anti-Semitism, ethnic prejudice, or religious intolerance.
http://www.gop.com/2008Platform/Values.htm

-Boston's Tea Party Organizers
At Tea Party Patriots we will continue to condemn the fringe elements of the movement and any expression of racism or bigotry. We sincerely hope that the Obama While House, the NAACP, and the liberal left will follow our lead and do the same in their own ranks. Opinion: On being labeled as 'racist' - Jenny Beth Martin and Mark Meckler - POLITICO.com
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-Tea Party Protesters in Washington during health care vote
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The problem we have here is that there are questions regarding who and what the Tea Party people really believe and represent. They claim to be a movement with no leaders so naturally people can do their own thing including act in a racist manner. What document has the Tea Party produced that states their beliefs in governing. For all I know, they may be for electing a king. In Kentucky, Rand Paul, a claimed tea party candidate has stated that he would have actually supported discrimination. Rand Paul Still Defending Racial Discrimination

PS-Racism by itself is not against the law, but Racist Acts such as discriminating on hiring voting and hate crimes based upon race are against the law. So should I call a BS on your BS?
 
I am not aware of any political party that doesn't have their share of whackos. But the Tea Party, like the GOP, MUST make a concerted effort to seperate themselves from the fringe elements, the Becksters, the Limbaughnuts, as these people, due to their loud whining, have come to define the right and the truth is, that simply isn't so. It has cost the GOP and conservatives, as a whole, dearly. I do understand, however, why they would be reluctant to chastise this element as it probably makes up 12-20 percent of their voting block. That would be like the democrats standing against their supporters who look upon welfare as an entitlement. Perhaps there should be 3 party's. Democrats, Republicans and outright idiots. The idiots would probably take 12%-20% of the vote and the GOP and the Dems could fight over the other 80%. (Percentage numbers are just speculative on my part.)

Yeah, that's utter bull****. It's the Democrats and the leftist whackos that continue to attempt to define the tea party, conservatives and republicans based on the actions of a few. I see you're marching proudly in line with the rest of the leftist sheep. It doesn't matter how loudly or often these fringe elements are denounced, the intellectually lazy and dishonest like you will continue to try to pretend they represent everyone on the right.
 
-Democratic Party 2008 Platform
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-Republican Party 2008 Platform


-Boston's Tea Party Organizers
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-Tea Party Protesters in Washington during health care vote
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The problem we have here is that there are questions regarding who and what the Tea Party people really believe and represent. They claim to be a movement with no leaders so naturally people can do their own thing including act in a racist manner. What document has the Tea Party produced that states their beliefs in governing. For all I know, they may be for electing a king. In Kentucky, Rand Paul, a claimed tea party candidate has stated that he would have actually supported discrimination. Rand Paul Still Defending Racial Discrimination

PS-Racism by itself is not against the law, but Racist Acts such as discriminating on hiring voting and hate crimes based upon race are against the law. So should I call a BS on your BS?

Oh brother..


Tim-
 
NAACP President Ben Jealous said Thursday that the resolution passed by the group on Wednesday does not call the tea party "racist."

The resolution the NAACP approved Wednesday at its annual conference in Kansas City, Mo., alleges that the tea party has used racial epithets against President Barack Obama and has verbally and physically abused African-American members of Congress.


A portion of the resolution does indeed characterize the behavior as “racist,” but Jealous said Thursday during an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that the resolution was not intended to condemn the entire movement as such.



Read more: NAACP: Never called tea party 'racist' - Andy Barr - POLITICO.com

There. Better. Now the Tea Party (Aka GOP right) people can say they would be totally against any racist elements in their group. They are, aren't they? Aren't they? Aren't they?

Can you tell me if the NAACP has ever passed a resolution against any other group for something that was "alleged" to have happened? There is no proof that any congressman had racials slurs directed at him or was spat upon. There is no proof that any tea partier did such a thing. Again, if you didn't read above, there is a 100,000 dollar reward to anyone who can prove it happened. I've seen 4 different camera angles of the "alleged " incident. Nothing happened. Brietbart offered the congressman 100,000 dollar for a charity if he would take a polygraph stating that it did happen. I think the congressman has since retracted his statement yet the media keeps repeating the same lie over and over. The N word was not being shouted. Not once and not 15 times as was stated. The only thing being shouted was KILL THE BILL KILL THE BILL. And no one hocked a loogey at anyone.
I don't care if the resolution wasn't meant to condemn the entire tea party. There is no proof any of it should be condemned. The whole resolution was brought about to make the Tea Party out to be racist.
It'd be like the Boy Scouts of American going on national television and demanding the Girl Scouts condemn all their members who said the Boy Scouts had cooties. The girl scouts don't know anyone who said that. It never happened. Do they say OK, we condemn them or no we don't condemn them because it didn't happen or we will condemn it when it happens. No matter what, the seed is planted that maybe the girl scouts think the boy scouts have cooties.
Another thing, why didn't the NAACP make a resolution to get SEIU to condemn it's members who beat up a black conservative? Oh, I know, because that black man was just an Uncle Tom, House Negro, or a traitor to his race. Besides, they are democrats.
 
Can you tell me if the NAACP has ever passed a resolution against any other group for something that was "alleged" to have happened? There is no proof that any congressman had racials slurs directed at him or was spat upon. There is no proof that any tea partier did such a thing. Again, if you didn't read above, there is a 100,000 dollar reward to anyone who can prove it happened. I've seen 4 different camera angles of the "alleged " incident. Nothing happened. Brietbart offered the congressman 100,000 dollar for a charity if he would take a polygraph stating that it did happen. I think the congressman has since retracted his statement yet the media keeps repeating the same lie over and over. The N word was not being shouted. Not once and not 15 times as was stated. The only thing being shouted was KILL THE BILL KILL THE BILL. And no one hocked a loogey at anyone.
I don't care if the resolution wasn't meant to condemn the entire tea party. There is no proof any of it should be condemned. The whole resolution was brought about to make the Tea Party out to be racist.
It'd be like the Boy Scouts of American going on national television and demanding the Girl Scouts condemn all their members who said the Boy Scouts had cooties. The girl scouts don't know anyone who said that. It never happened. Do they say OK, we condemn them or no we don't condemn them because it didn't happen or we will condemn it when it happens. No matter what, the seed is planted that maybe the girl scouts think the boy scouts have cooties.
Another thing, why didn't the NAACP make a resolution to get SEIU to condemn it's members who beat up a black conservative? Oh, I know, because that black man was just an Uncle Tom, House Negro, or a traitor to his race. Besides, they are democrats.

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Can you tell me if the NAACP has ever passed a resolution against any other group for something that was "alleged" to have happened? There is no proof that any congressman had racials slurs directed at him or was spat upon. There is no proof that any tea partier did such a thing. Again, if you didn't read above, there is a 100,000 dollar reward to anyone who can prove it happened. I've seen 4 different camera angles of the "alleged " incident. Nothing happened. Brietbart offered the congressman 100,000 dollar for a charity if he would take a polygraph stating that it did happen. I think the congressman has since retracted his statement yet the media keeps repeating the same lie over and over. The N word was not being shouted. Not once and not 15 times as was stated. The only thing being shouted was KILL THE BILL KILL THE BILL. And no one hocked a loogey at anyone.
I don't care if the resolution wasn't meant to condemn the entire tea party. There is no proof any of it should be condemned. The whole resolution was brought about to make the Tea Party out to be racist.
It'd be like the Boy Scouts of American going on national television and demanding the Girl Scouts condemn all their members who said the Boy Scouts had cooties. The girl scouts don't know anyone who said that. It never happened. Do they say OK, we condemn them or no we don't condemn them because it didn't happen or we will condemn it when it happens. No matter what, the seed is planted that maybe the girl scouts think the boy scouts have cooties.
Another thing, why didn't the NAACP make a resolution to get SEIU to condemn it's members who beat up a black conservative? Oh, I know, because that black man was just an Uncle Tom, House Negro, or a traitor to his race. Besides, they are democrats.


As long as you can basically project what you think people are doing, you can push anything into your own belief system. Jealous says that the Tea Party movement is not racist. You say he is saying that the Tea Party movement is racist. The press reported people yelling nigger and faggot. You say that nobody ever said that because there is no proof and that you know they were only saying kill the bill.

If you fear that people will believe that the Tea Party movement is racist, the easiest way they can rebuke this is repeating the same thing the Tea Party people in Boston did. Say that they reject racism, period. Much like the GOP and Democratic Parties have done in their own platforms. People who are defensive about doing that may be more worried about losing members who do not want to reject racist acts.
 
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