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Harboring Bad Faith

By Jay D. Homnick on 7.16.10 @ 6:06AM

Even if we grant the NAACP having acted in good faith, it is a faith conceived in misconception.

The race-baiting is not always to the Swift Boat, said Ecclesiastes, or words to that effect, but often it is: the NAACP has issued a resolution against “racist elements” within the Tea Party. Most good people are not falling for it this time around, seeing that the emperor not only has no clothes, he is liberally festooned with unsightly warts. Or as we say in Latin, caveat emperor. I would say I’m in a white-hot rage but that might not go over real well either.

We can all agree racism is bad, and if racist elements are periodically on the table that makes for bad chemistry. But are there grounds here to condemn the Tea Party or is this another con by Dems? Clearly the latter.

The Tea Party is not operating as a political party in the sense of seeking office. It functions in the manner of an interest group although it serves national ideals rather than limited interests. Its interactions with the public at large are in the form of communiqués and demonstrations responding to specific issues or events. At no time has such expression by the group referred to race in any way, shape, manner or form. People of color, or whatever the term of art is these days, are invited to participate and do so in about the same percentages which vote for less-government candidates. Indeed a number of black Congressional candidates have declared affiliation with the Tea Party.

Which brings us to the con. The fact is that minority groups tend to vote for big government, largely through a perception that government has been their protector. This fosters a stubborn syllogism in the popular mind. It goes as follows:

a. Individuals oppressed minorities before the Civil Rights Act.

b. That law provided the hinge which opened the door to equality for minorities.

c. Ergo, government stands between minorities and encroaching racism.

It is a small step from there to figure that libertarian rhetoric is probably just a coded appeal to free racism from this restraint. So when an NAACP member sees a group foregathering to handcuff government, he sees a lynch mob coming to handcuff him. Too bad, because nothing could be further from the truth.

RACISM, ANTISEMITISM AND SISTER ISMS unworthy of the suffix are unhealthy growths in a society, sprouting like weeds in the diverse garden of humanity. As long as they are staggered rather than clustered the healthy plants and flowers will prevail. Individuals practicing racism can be effectively curbed by law enforcement. This does not require enhancing state power throughout all arenas of life. Instead that increases the risk of state tyranny.

And when a tyrannical state uses its power to back the sinister demands of the racist, then true danger sparks. Governments practicing racism and anti-Semitism are the real concern. The amount of Jews, blacks, and other minorities who have succumbed to the rancor of autonomous practitioners have been few compared to the millions crushed under the boot of the discriminatory state. The Gestapo and Jim Crow piled up some serious numbers, local schlubs wearing sheets and burning crosses are mostly just an annoyance.

Even if we grant the NAACP having acted in good faith, it is a faith conceived in misconception. We invite the leaders and acolytes of that organization to join us in the 21st century where your fellow citizens are your friends and government is as unreliable as ever. Come and drink tea with us; we have more in common than you know.

About the Author

Jay D. Homnick, commentator and humorist, is a frequent contributor to The American Spectator. He also writes for Human Events. Here he speaks at the Rally for Religious Freedom in Miami on June 8, 2012.

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Robbins Mitchell| 7.16.10 @ 6:59AM

Personally I think Ben Jealous stuck a 'racist element' in his baby mamma, Lia Epperson....who teaches "Critical Race Theory" as her ONLY course at Santa Clara Law School

Eric Cartman| 7.16.10 @ 9:16AM

This is why blacks believe stupid things - they have fallen in love with the race-bating idiot "black leaders". Remember when some "black leader" (like they are a tribe, or something), said that some soft drink in the NY area targeted blacks and gave them AIDS? Or when when some other "black leader" said whites created AIDS to kill blacks? I could go on like this for some time: Drugs are being intentionally shipped into black "hoods" by the government. There are secret funds for whites provided by the government (which, if true, I want mine NOW!). Whites have a secret vaccine for AIDS (that explains Magic Johnson!). The list is an endless travel through Idiotsville.

Giving people like Cornell West doctorates in garbage degrees like "Black Studies" or classes like the above mentioned "Critical Race Theory" is how Liberals address their guilt (And they should feel guilt! Look what their policies have done to blacks!). Isn't there a "Black Woman's Studies" degree somewhere? All these "degrees" do is give legitimacy to people who would have no real skills so they can give speeches about complete drivel and Liberals can clap.

It's refreshing to see people such as Allen West come into the public arena to try to bring sense into the conversation and find real answers to problems, instead of the media hyped phonies . There are some really great conservative voices coming up who are black. Maybe the Liberal screamers are worried these people will overtake them and real solutions will follow that actually help someone. Liberal scumbags!

T1Brit| 7.18.10 @ 4:33PM

That was some very funny ***

thanks Bill

RCV| 7.16.10 @ 11:45AM

You may not believe this, but whites also believe preposterous things: Like Barack Obama wasn't really born in Hawaii, but some place in Kenya, and those birth announcements in Hawaii at the time were all part of some plot to pretend that he's an American so the communists could put him in office! Or how about this one: Obama plans so stage some emergency in October and seize power and call off the November elections!
Or even better, crazy environmentalists somehow engineered the Gulf oil spill so they could stop off-shore drilling and increase federal control.

Conspiracy theorists run rampant throughout all groups, Mr. Cartman, and they're just as nuts.

Eric Cartman| 7.16.10 @ 3:22PM

Nice try, dumbass, but I'm not talking about conspiracy theories, which, although are nutty (like the JFK plot, 911 truthers, etc.) have a tiny possibility of actually happening (it's possible the Mob could shoot JFK. They shoot people - he's a person). And they aren't directed at a specific race of people or skin color (like the Liberals do with Israel on a daily basis now and blacks Liberal aholes do with whites). How do you get a soda to know its inside a black guy and cause AIDS? Or that AIDS was created to kill blacks (and only blacks) in Africa so whites could get Africa (the continent that gave us AIDS, Ebola, 50 foot snakes and cats that can eat a man. Yeah! I wanna move there!).

On top of this, these idiotic beliefs are spouted by supposedly "sane" people (Cynthia McKinny ring a bell?). Anybody can believe conspiracy theories - they are general in nature. Only blacks are targeted by the "black leader" preaching utter nonsense as truth - truths whitey will never tell you. Ya know why? Because it's a "white secret". Like the one where whites have been secretly vaccinated for AIDS. Idiotic, dumbass.

No, dumbass, we are talking about stupid beliefs that have NO possibility of happening. Like there is a mother ship circling above the Erf ready to take Brutha Farrakhan and his followers away!

Oh, and BTW this: "Obama plans so stage some emergency in October and seize power and call off the November elections!" was said about Bush on a daily basis - so what else is new. Putz.

RCV| 7.16.10 @ 5:26PM

Your intellectual discourse is so impressive, Mr. Cartman.

AMENFRO| 7.16.10 @ 5:58PM

Yes sir Mr Cartman peter is quite the idealogue in the shallowest portion of the shoals, bereft of any original thought except to hurl invective of a purely witless nature He Heeeee

Eric Cartman| 7.17.10 @ 9:15AM

Thank you. Its subtleties are generally lost on pompous, self-important windbags such as yourself. So it's refreshing to see you acknowledge my superior fighting style. Then again, I really don't care to sit here and be "intellectual" with a dumbass liberal - no offense. I'd rather be snarky and sarcastic - it makes life so much sweeter and my arguments still valid. This is an online comments board - not a debate club (your wusssy version of a bar fight). There is no point in "intellectual" debate with Liberal aholes, anyhow. I don't want to be your friend or "debate" you. To me, this is a street fight. And as I grew up in Detroit, I know a thing or two about the subject. I would really rather punch you in the brain until you stop wiggling than be "intellectual" with you. Your point about conspiracy theories vs stupid black thought is something to debate? Bullshit! You're a pompous, whiney windbag who can't seem to let the Florida 2000 election go (bugs ya that Bush won, doesn’t it?) , so what's to be "intellectual" about with a punk like you.

AMENFRO! You're an assclown! Two at once!

RCV| 7.17.10 @ 12:31PM

The 2000 election is the furthest thing from my mind, Cartman. I'm still savoring the pleasure of the 2008 election. The only whining I'm hearing is from small- minded little racists like you who can't get over the fact that the American people elected a Black man President. Look, I'm sorry you got beat up as a kid in Detroit but get over it and grow up.

Eric Cartman| 7.17.10 @ 8:19PM

MAN, the lake was nice! Now where was I? Oh, yeah.

The furthest thing from your mind?! That's hilarious - it's all you assholes ever think about! LOL Whenever your ilk are crying about picking on Obama, GW's win in Florida is right there on the tippy-top of your pointy little heads. And now you see the Liberal Ahole Black man ( your words) you elected is driving the election to a win for us in 2010 because he's implementing your policies which Americans hate and its eating away at you! What's going to happen when the Republicans you hate so much take over again? That is what's going to be fun to watch.
Obama is a Chicago punk, much like the Detroit punks that destroyed that city but without the balls. At least in a fight they gave as good as they got, unlike you effeminate Liberals who wouldn't know how to fight. I respect them for that - at least Detroit punks are man enough to face off. I'm guessing the flavor of 08 is turning a little sour for your delicate tummy, isn't it , twerp? It will be fun to hear you pansies bleat in the fall! :-)

RCV| 7.17.10 @ 10:50PM

It's not turning sour at all, Eric-boy. Let's see, we got health care reform passed, and just this week managed to pass some much-need financial re-regulation to correct the excesses that led to the near-collapse of the financial markets under GWB in fall 2007. The stock market has made a remarkable recovery since Obama's election. I'm pleased. What will happen in 2010? The GOP will make the usual gains the party out of power does in an off-year election. Fortunately, thanks to the tea bagger nuts, what would have been sure GOP gains in the Senate in states like Florida, Kentucky, Nevada and others will not end up in their hands, and we will retain control of the Senate, and maybe even the House. And when 2012 rolls around, once again the GOP will find itself split and the infighting will guarantee Obama's re-election. We might even get a progressive majority on the Supreme Court again. But no matter what happens, our glorious Republic will endure despite the alarmist nonsense from you dying quarter.

Eric Cartman| 7.18.10 @ 1:15AM

Keep telling yourself that - maybe it will help your therapy. Then again, maybe not, as your socialist health care "reform" is dismantled bit by bit and your great economy keeps chugging along like it is. Ya know, you shouldn't do drugs or self-adjust your meds. You boy is gone in 2012 and your socialism will be scrapped - just like Jimma Cater's was.

John | 7.18.10 @ 6:30AM

Vouchers have proven to be an effective answer to the " education system" .. so why are Democrats against it?
http://voices.washingtonpost.c....._last.html
Informed, educated voters will make good choices?

Alan Brooks| 7.16.10 @ 8:16PM

I completely disagree. In America you have to fight about everything and blacks have to fight just like everyone, which is why far leftists are such chumps: after 145 years the Civil War's wounds haven't healed-- but far leftists think we'll have peace in America? not in their lifetimes.
You are saying you can fight, but blacks cannot... you fool no one. Blacks aren't stupid, even if their publik skools are worse that white publik skools. You want to mess with blacks yet you don't want them to mess with you; but they wont go for it anymore-- the jig is up. Now, Obama may be the last black president, but blacks are going to be just as aggressive as whites in the future so they can claw their way up as far as they can.

Want peace of mind? go to church, you wont find it anywhere else.

Fenestra| 7.16.10 @ 7:34AM

These morons think niggardly is a racial slur, and Black Holes refers to African American women.

The NAACP has become a collection of Bozos.

AMENFRO| 7.16.10 @ 6:03PM

Inspite of nearly limitless resources they live palatially in the COLONIAL tradition. Enriched social circles plantation infrastructure leaving the natives to the wilds of their peripheral Urban Jungles. Damn isn't that what they claim we disrupted???

Alan Brooks| 7.16.10 @ 8:21PM

It is unfair. Whites are really saying they can grab the brass rings, but blacks have to be humbler.
And, please, no chirpy-talk, no one wants to hear such blarney anymore.
Except Gingrich. Newt turned out to be the all-time Chump. the sucker of suckers. And he is "thinking of running for president."
Yeah, right. Dream on.

martin j smith| 7.16.10 @ 7:55AM

Its about the narritive and those who oppose the Left agenda must be more aware of that fact. The notion that anyone disagreeing with Obama is a racist is among the largest poltiical hoaxes played on the American people. To some extent the Republican party is guilty not of racism, bu8t for allowing and tolerating the Democrats to play the race card for far too long. I sense ( and I hope that I am correct here ) that the vast majority of Americans see thru this canard now. Hopefully not too late. They see the damage that BHO and the Democrat Left has done in such areas as: Health care,energy,immigration,jobs,financial matters you name it and foreign policy and national defence as well. This is about day 86 or is it 87 in the Gulf with possible end in site. We hope. Obama and his administration along with BP bear responsibility and this is klnown. so, " racism" is recognized by more and more people as a desperate ploy. About those who don't see this:
They are the radical left base, SEIU and other Unions who are benefitting from Obama's agenda, and the"gimmeez of all stripes" who want the Brooklyn Bridge Free of Charge. These are people who must be overturned by the mmajority and by recognizing the methods of the Left seeing thru the Fog is crucial to this victory.

Alan Brooks| 7.16.10 @ 8:25PM

sure, blacks are racist, but no more than whites, and they are at the very bottom-- as a guy said the other day, Mexicans are lording it over blacks in LA.
Well of COURSE they are-- who is surprised about that?

Don Carlson| 7.16.10 @ 7:59AM

Actually, what the NAACP needs now is some of those pointy hats and colorful robes to go along with what has been for a long time their fundamentally racist attitude toward their fellow citizens. Among the many times their attitude has been manifested is the moment the organization sought to lynch the Duke University lacrosse team. And I suppose this recent resolution is such a moment, also.

It is a racist presumption to think I believe Mr. Obama a fool because he is of half-African origin. The leadership of the NAACP is not so stupid as Obama, but they are very nigh as racist as he is. I say to hell with them both. Let the NAACP find comfort in the arms of the leftists who own their party and laughingly take them for granted.

Alan Brooks| 7.16.10 @ 8:30PM

The meek will inherit Heaven, not the Earth.
They're just pulling every string they can-- blacks have to be as pushy as Italians were generations ago.

You don't make too many remarks about Italian behavior, do you? no, because you want your car to start in the morning.

ncatty| 7.16.10 @ 9:01AM

It used to be the case that a mere accusation of racism forced the accused to present evidence that he/her/it was not. Those days are over, as the author states. Now, a mere accusation, without evidence, can be and should be dismissed without further discussion.

Alan Brooks| 7.16.10 @ 8:35PM

Yes, it is sort of like ancient Rome isn't it?
Or the Tower of Babel-- an overheated ethnic stewpot; tasteless beyond belief. Trash culture, trash skools.
And you can't blame blacks and latinos for all of it.

George True| 7.16.10 @ 10:51PM

Everyone who has an IQ of at least room temperature knows that there is no real racism anymore in America. Sure, if you look under enough rocks, you could find a vestige of it here and there. But the real purpose of pulling the race card is to stop the conversation. When the left cannot refute your position because your facts and evidence are incontrovertible, they will cry raaacist so they are not exposed as supporting an unsupportable position.

The attempt to smear the tea party as racist (as preposterous a claim as any I have witnessed in a lifetime of hearing preposterous notions) is merely this same conversation stopping technique writ large. The left has no interest in having any meaningful or substantive dialogue on any issue because their positions have no basis on fact or in truth and they would be exposed as such.

The tea party says government is too big, taxes are too high, and we have an unaccountable ruling class in Washington that is spending us into financial oblivion. Anyone in America who has half a brain and has been paying attention knows that these things are quite obviously true. The left knows they cannot meet the tea party in the arena of ideas and come away with a win or even a draw. And they are terrified that the self-evident truths the tea party is exposing will spread to at least some of the 52% who voted for the left the last time around. So to prevent this, the left must STOP THE CONVERSATION, which they are attempting to do by crying racist. But because anyone of even marginal intelligence can see that protesting overtaxation has nothing whasoever to do with r

George True| 7.16.10 @ 10:56PM

...nothing whatsoever to do with racism, their strategy is not working. Nobody who is not a devotee of the left believes such an infantile slander.

As far as the NAACP is concerned, they have nothing to do with advancing the condition of blacks anymore. They are nothing anymore except a leftist group with a hard left agenda. They ARE the left. They just happen to be black also.

Alan Brooks| 7.18.10 @ 1:12AM

Don't know if 'racism' still exists in America economically, but identity politics sure does.
"As David Hume recognized, `when men are once enlisted on opposite sides they contract an affection to the persons with whom they are united and an animosity against their antagonists: And these passions they often transmit to their posterity.' Modern psychological studies confirm that when individuals acquire a group identity, they will act with more solidarity as a group against other groups than individual calculation warrants. By bonding together in numbers, such factions can better control hierarchies, like the state, and thus no longer have to rely on exchange as the primary method to increase their resources. The same bonding mechanisms that facilitate spontaneous order also make political factions more intractable and divisive. "
--John McGinnis

Alan Brooks| 7.18.10 @ 1:18AM

...frankly, I think humans are so incompatible (divided by from each other their animalistic appetites) that racism is just one factor among many. We make a big deal out of racism for... well, re-read what McGinnis wrote in ID politics.

Alan Brooks| 7.18.10 @ 1:20AM

PPS

'Ethnic' is more accurate than 'race'. And that isn't nitpicking.

Jack Olson| 7.16.10 @ 9:12AM

Once again the biggest loser in the debate is the MSM. Today's Houston fishwrap presents an editorial by E.J. Dionne praising the NAACP for its dubious accusation of racism against the Tea Party. And that accusation is based on what? A few people carrying signs and a highly questionable claim that Tea Party members used racial slurs; meanwhile, neither the NAACP or Dionne has noticed the actions of the New Black Panther Party, whose racial bigotry has been videotaped and broadcast. MSM's continually point to inaccurate, incomplete or downright fraudulent news reporting on the internet, but the alternative they persist in offering is equally inaccurate, incomplete, or downright fraudulent. Bye-bye, MSM, and good riddance to bad rubbish.

Albert| 7.16.10 @ 11:24AM

Blacks CAN'T be racist, remember? Blacks are VICTIMS of racism and victims can not be perpetrators. Or, that's the line being sold and apparently bought by far too many people. Otherwise normally intelligent people I know actually subscribe to this idiocy and truly believe the Tea Party to be a racist conspiracy intended to take away the "rightfully earned" welfare checks dropped like leaflets into the ghettos of America. The Democrats have destroyed Black families, destroyed public schools, fomented crime and violence in the manner of Caesar and Clodius, and robbed the People of their money in order to make themselves rich, pampered, and admired. And it has worked. How else could Nancy Pelosi make a living? If Americans truly understood the nature of the Democrat Party and it's simple, selfish, even greedy, motives, the Democrat Party would cease to exist. But that won't happen. CBS, NBC, ABC and CNN will see to that.

Alan Brooks| 7.16.10 @ 8:40PM

The Tea Party is naive, not racist; as far leftists think we can know justice without virtue, the tea Party thinks we can know virtue without justice.
We will never know justice or virtue; 'society' (if society exists) merely pursues virtue and justice, it doesn't attain such. Even if all poverty and racism were ended, there are enough bad memes-- some are VERY bad memes-- to last hundreds of years.

Tim*| 7.16.10 @ 10:17PM

Ah Grasshopper !

But can we know what a really good cigar is without a match.

Go Now !

Curtis Rasmussen| 7.17.10 @ 5:30PM

Alan Brooks/Nate (or Nate's ass licker) is a two-faced lying opportunist and all around prevaricator. When the NAACP called the tea party racist this was his response:

Alan Brooks| 7.13.10 @ 2:56PM

The NAACP is correct on this point, yet another reason I am going to vote for Obama in '12.
However Reverend Wright and thousands of other blacks are also racist........

And WTF with the nonsense tacked on at the end of alot of his comments? Is this supposed to make Alan look like an intellectual?

Petronius| 7.16.10 @ 10:50AM

The goons who beat up Mr. Gladney may have white skin, but their brains are red and their hearts black.

Radegunda| 7.16.10 @ 3:28PM

Who said they had white skin? As I recall, (at least) one of those goons was black--and many black people (along with many white people) are really, really set off at the sight of a black man who's left the plantation.

Alan Brooks| 7.16.10 @ 8:43PM

White trash doesn't like uppity whites, does he?

Tim*| 7.16.10 @ 10:21PM

Apparently ,Uppity Trash like you do.

So somebody does.

That's Sweet .

George True| 7.16.10 @ 11:01PM

Kenneth Gladney had to be given a beating because he went off the leftist plantation while black. Can't have that.

Oldefarte| 7.16.10 @ 11:58AM

It's not that government protects them from racists, but rather that government provides social/welfare benefits to them [and if government was downsized, same benefits would be reduced/eliminated]. Also, as their previous advertisements stated, A MIND IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE, or as Forrest Gump once stated, STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES!!!!!

c. j. acworth| 7.16.10 @ 6:08PM

I think the line "A mind is a terrible thing to waste." is from the United Negro College Fund, not the NAACP. As to your point that minorities don"t look to the government for protection, but a handout, I would only temper that observation with the fact that it was a series of misguided government welfare policies that taught them to sit in government-built housing and take the handout in the first place. Thomas Sowell among others has done good work on exposing how the Liberal War on Poverty actually made dependence worse. But that is what government under Libs is all about, isn"t it? Find a problem, then spend the next 20 years and trillions of dollars making it worse, while increasing the power and reach of Our Betters in D.C.

Alan Brooks| 7.16.10 @ 8:51PM

Social progress is over, get used to it. You people are the victims of Gingrich-chirp.
I know what it is like, I fell for "conservative futurism"; just as some of you fell for "campassionate conservatism",
It is all to fill susceptible minds, they figure: 'we have to fill their minds with something, so let's fill it with "compassionate conservatism." '

Tim*| 7.16.10 @ 10:27PM

So that's why Obama is tryin' African Socialist NeoColonialism.

Ah ! We Get It .

Like Daddy , Like Sonny .

PolishKnight| 7.16.10 @ 12:10PM

I see where the author is going with an attempt to logically interpret the NAACP's association of the "government" with "civil rights" and therefore libertarianism with racism, but that hypothesis quickly crumbles under examination.

For starters, the NAACP and other black "civil rights" leaders (civil rights when non-whites benefit, of course) are always claiming government conspiracies. This is not that far off from the typical leftist who spends half their time claiming that they need a big powerful government to free them from the tyranny of the free market and at the same time gripe about "corporate welfare" and croneyism. They get angry when I illustrate that their position is totally devoid of logic.

Non-white leftist friends admit to me that they don't see any real racism against them. On the contrary, they confide in me that they play the race card regularly as a "get out of jail" ticket or to seek entitlements and that whites are the ones whose guilt or leftist agenda enables this. They tend to be MORE racist against OTHER non-white ethnic groups. Check out the battles between Hispanics and Blacks in Los Angeles...

"Racism" is bad, of course, but that's a simplistic PC position similar to saying that "nationalities" are bad since nations have gone to war and caused loss of life. "Race" or ethnic identity, is what binds many communities together. Jews define themselves not by religion, but by their maternal line. Can you imagine a Chinatown without a single person of ethnic Chinese descent?

Indeed, Americans travel internationally to experience cultures that have a shared ethnic identity and traditions. This is realized by the hyphenated identity groups: African-American, Asian-American, etc. If these cultures are "racist" and therefore bad, why are their strong identities valued? Shouldn't they all intermarry and just blend into surbubia?

Alan Brooks| 7.16.10 @ 8:53PM

"Check out the battles between Hispanics and Blacks in Los Angeles..."

But who wins? Hispanics do. Perhaps Black Power is almost nothing compared to Hispanic Power.

Tim*| 7.16.10 @ 10:34PM

Aaaand check out the battles between Jews And Chinese.
The fighting for academic superiority is just vicious .

Ohhh , The Humanity !

Louis Jenkins| 7.16.10 @ 1:21PM

Racism. That's the word that the NAACP used. The complete diatribe that these people formulated over issues that Al Sharpton said " I saw on TV" referring to signs carried by Tea Party enthusiasts this AM on a Fox news spot. I haven't seen any of the signs. Possibly plants. Since when can anyone rely on what they see on TV? No, the NAACP has taken an issue thought to be the soft underbelly of the Tea Party, and tried to drive the stake home. Only it ain't working this time. Drive on Tea Party, November is in sight.

Alan Brooks| 7.16.10 @ 8:56PM

November? you said the same thing in November of '94, but it all faded away.

Tim*| 7.16.10 @ 10:39PM

Like Smart Soldiers , We Tea Party Rebels ain't fighting The Last War , Sport .

Louis Jenkins| 7.18.10 @ 3:23PM

I don't think this time it will fade away. Certainly not as fast as it did in '94. At least not for a generation, maybe more. Think on it dude, and get back with me sometime.

Still Bill| 7.16.10 @ 1:56PM

Since I’m not afflicted with the mental disorder of political correctness, let me give you my views on the tiresome charges of racism leveled at the Tea Party movement. Has any black person come forward and claimed he or she was turned away from a Tea Party rally? No. So let me explain why so few blacks attend Tea Party functions. For the last fifty years or so, blacks have overwhelmingly voted for Democratic Party candidates. I’ve never understood the attraction blacks have for the Democratic Party. It has historically been the party of racism, either pitting whites against blacks during the Jim Crow era, or pitting blacks against whites now whenever it suits their purposes. And for at least the last fifty years, Democrats have controlled public school education through the teachers’ unions, and these government warehouses have turned out generation after generation of semi-literate students, including a sizeable percentage of semi-literate black students. By the way, the Obama children are not included in this group because they attend private school. I used to believe these horrendous results were the product of unintended consequences, of good intentions gone wrong, but now I firmly believe after fifty years of the same old failed policies that Democrats really want the public schools to turn out dummies, black, white, and everybody else, because dumb people tend to be dependent people, and dependent people tend to vote for Democrats. So whether the Democratic candidate is a charismatic figure like John Kennedy, or a stiff like Al Gore doesn’t matter; blacks give (AND I MEAN GIVE) between 85 to 95 percent of their votes to the Democrat. Speaking about stiffs, I am convinced if the Democrats nominated “Bernie” from the movie “Weekend at Bernie’s” as their presidential candidate, Bernie would get 90 percent of the black vote. These are the same 90 percent NAACP-type, in-the-bag, Democrat plantation cotton pickers who brand as Uncle Toms any independent thinking black person who doesn’t want to jump into the same ward-of-the-state trick bag that they have jumped into. If you doubt me, recall how the NAACP responded when white-boy liberals used every kind of demeaning racial slur and caricature they could think of when describing or depicting Condoleezza Rice, a woman whose many accomplishments were gained through her own hard work, not through marriage like the keynote speaker at the NAACP convention, or through racial preferences like the in-over-his-head narcissist she is married to. The NAACP responded to these white-boy insults by shuffling their feet, stuttering a lot, and mumbling inanities like: “We is authentic black people because we is Democrats.” If you want to see a room full of assorted bigots, racists, Uncle Toms, and Aunt Jemimas, just attend an NAACP convention.

TopHall| 7.16.10 @ 4:12PM

You nailed it. The Democrat Party is the largest racist organization in America, with the subset of NAACP blacks as the SECOND largest racist organization in this country. Democrats spent 150 years displaying overt racism (slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, voting against the Voting and Civil Rights Acts). Once conservatives and Republicans defeated them in open combat, they instantly converted to the covert racism of the "liberal plantation" of subpar education (read: indoctrination), the destruction of the family via welfare, and Affirmative Action ("you folks are just too stupid and lazy to work hard and meet the standards, so we helpful liberals will handicap you even further"). This amazing propaganda campaign turned a virulent, unrepentant monster like Robert Byrd into an NAACP hero. It is horribel, yet fascinating, to watch Democrats' efforts to maintain their master/slave relationship with blacks they have intentionally destroyed mentally.

Alan Brooks| 7.16.10 @ 9:05PM

Yes, but that is because whites in general (YES, most whites) want to be above blacks. Who is it you know wants to move down the totem pole?
As conservatives/rightists you have to accept hierarchical 'society'; accept it that most everyone is clawing their way up to the East Side, to a de-luxe apartment in the sky--
they all want a piece of the pie. Why should blacks be any different?

Tim*| 7.16.10 @ 10:50PM

Ah ! Norman Lear Television Philosophy .

Deep !

However , many are clawin' their way down .

Believer| 7.17.10 @ 7:15PM

Alan Brooks- Alan in all my considerably long life I have never met anyone who wanted to be "above Blacks", You get this idea from the entertainment industry that pushes Black sit coms. And as for getting their piece of the Pie, the only way that works for any race is Education. As long as there are differant races they will probably try and stay with their own kind, thats not racism thats natual.

Petronius| 7.19.10 @ 11:29AM

They don't want to Earn it. They Take what I have earned. If the day comes when blacks decide to become adults, ditch their Affirmative Action crutch, learn the difference between rights and priveledge, and compete heads up with everyone else, we welcome the challenge.

TopHall| 7.19.10 @ 11:35AM

You are being ridiculous, Alan. If you said LIBERAL WHITES want to be above blacks you would be 100% correct. Liberals are racists through and through, and prove it every day in word and deed. And NAACP-type blacks don't want to claw at anything - they demand a "de-luxe apartment" merely for being black. Let them earn it, I will applaud. Let them demand it, and I will fight those racists to the end.

John II| 7.16.10 @ 3:14PM

Re: the "stubborn syllogism" alluded to by Mr. Homnick:

a. Individuals oppressed minorities before the Civil Rights Act.

b. That law provided the hinge which opened the door to equality for minorities.

c. Ergo, government stands between minorities and encroaching racism.

The syllogism is not only stubborn, it's formally illogical--what the logicians call the fallacy of the four-term argument. Or is it five terms in this case?

In any event, I think your sullied syllogism accurately reflects the quality of thought underlying the political hustlers and personal losers who, like the EverReady rabbit, just keep going on and on and on with their tired scam . . .

Alan Brooks| 7.16.10 @ 9:15PM

All true, however blacks have to get THEIRS,
or them and their kind,
just like everyone else.

You take conservatism/rightism, too seriously; it's all a big crap shoot. you might have a longer life, you might have an opulent life, but not a decent life. You con yourselves into thinking you;ll get the right people into office, but you wont-- not many at least. You think maybe the general morality can improved enough so that your children and grandchildren will live in a virtuous world, but they wont. Not by any conventional standards they wont.

Tim*| 7.16.10 @ 10:54PM

Yeah , be like Alan here .
He's satisfied with bitchin' all the way through his less than mediocre hitch on earth .

John II| 7.17.10 @ 12:51AM

Yes--Alan's been sounding like the EverReady bunny too. On the other hand, when John Derbyshire was having dinner with the estimable James Buckley, the former's atheism was shaken by Buckley's matter-of-fact response to the inquiry "Things look bad for the U.S.A, don't they?" Buckley shrugged and answered, "Without divine intervention, I see no way out."

Becky| 7.17.10 @ 1:44PM

I am of the mind come one and come all, we should all be walking the freedom road together or we will not have a road to follow. It is time for all people, regardless of race, to fight for this country. As for the NAACP, I surely want to believe the members of this organization want peace and prosperity just like everyone else. Stand together America, and do not let adversity divide us, let it make us stronger. Why can't everyone see what these people in Washington are doing? Divide, conquer and destroy. I only know they seem never to have enough power. We must do as Dr. King did, with Godly guidance and peace, show our unity to save our nation. All the Washington Senators, Representatives insisting on their way or not at all, disregarding what is best for the country, must be voted out. There is no place for radicals in our government. The 1960's radicals have infiltrated and have too much control under Obama. We must replace them with elected American patriots who are willing to save this country from Socialism, or worse. Just as we have all heard before, if America falls there will be no place to go. I promise you, you will not like Socialism, our freedoms will all be gone. Now they want our BMI, (body mass index) to be mandatory in our medical records. Why? Not allow us to eat certain foods and deserts. Why? Then, we see where Obama and family enjoy their vacation in Maine, and "take time out" for ICE CREAM. Oh, don't worry, they will continue to enjoy it, we just won't get any. NAACP, just may want to get on board so we can all be of the same mind. Only way now. We are going to be told what types of food we can eat. In AMERICA? Would you have ever thought you would see this happen? Please let us not argue about small differences...freedom for all of us is at stake.

RCV| 7.17.10 @ 4:33PM

The drama queens on this site border on the absurd. Becky, if you want to eat an ice cream cone, trot on down to Baskin-Robbins or Ben & Jerry's -God bless those liberal capitalists-and scarf up all you want. You live in a free, prosperous nation. Thank God for that, take a deep breath, and count your blessings.

Tim*| 7.18.10 @ 10:55AM

Notice the Obama's are eatin' their chocolate ice cream in Maine and Not down on The Gulf Coast .

RCV| 7.18.10 @ 10:32PM

It looked beautiful up there!

Charles Stevens| 7.17.10 @ 9:08PM

"Even if..." ?????
This is cultural Marxism. It is the Hegelian dialectic, and Conservatives should be smart enough by this time to recongize it, and never respond directly to it.

The Democrats and the NAACP have been thoroughly taken over by progressives. Progressives are the enemy. Recognize it accordingly, and fight it effectively. Go on the offense, do not ever again react defensively.

Obama is a statist.
Obama is a redistributionist.
Obama is an arrogant liar, and a budding tyrant.
Progressives are reptiles, and Obama is the Lizard King.

Geaald Stephens| 7.18.10 @ 4:30AM

DIRTY SECRET…I’M A RACIST

And you can take it to the bank! Being in the closet all these years was stifling. I awoke on the 4th of July and decided that hiding being a racist was counterproductive and destructive. I further concluded that refraining from pronouncing I am a racist was in itself a violation of my human rights and that of my constitutional right of free speech.

I fiercely detest blacks like B. Obama, Eric Holder, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton. They are race pimps who make a living off the backs of ‘their ‘so identified people. Obama’s folks have already caught on to the rotten economic conditions unleashed in their lives and on their communities by ‘The Black One’, crushing unemployment numbers, home foreclosures, ever increasing numbers of their young failing to receive an education and a wholesale distribution of destructive racist indoctrination. The ‘man’ can not go more than a week without personally or through one of his hacks blame his failures on some concocted racist activity by those who are suggested to only be interested in destroying the first black president. ‘He ain’t no commie, just a hustler.’

Scarcely a week goes by without Eric Holder sticking his finger in ‘whitey’s eye, gonna sue Arizona, gonna screw New York City with the brutal costs and danger of high profile terrorist trial, gonna issue(d) orders to the Justice Department that NO prosecutions of blacks alleged to have violated election law like the BP boys club in Philadelphia, gonna suppress freedom of information requests from all comers including the press, gonna let illegal aliens run rampant throughout the country, gonna show whitey whose ‘boss man’ now. U.S. Constitution? “Listen here boy, it ain’t nutttin ta do with us. We didn’t sign for it!”

Then there is the sub-class of blacks that are a relatively new species of maggots whipping up the ‘racist this, racist that” storyline as a business. Just as a pimp profits from the fear and intimidation fostered in his ‘workers’, and the resultant control so too have the Sharpton(s) and Jackson(s) climbed on the backs of the black citizen. . Jackson is a bit more sophisticated than Al in that he developed an extortion scheme targeting deep pocket corporations to comply with demands or be picketed. Criminals are criminals black or white.

My County Kerry Irish grandmother always said, “Nipper (little one), never tell a lie.’ So, not only am I a racist but also an anti-radicoIslamist, and blatantly anti political pimping-progressives.

P.S. Appropriate push back to TEA PARTY is RACIST: The NAACP and fellow travelers are COMMUNISTS !

RCV| 7.18.10 @ 10:33PM

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FTM| 7.18.10 @ 11:53PM

Racism can be useful, remember the "Blazing Saddles" motif? If I were black or yellow or tan or olive or whatever other color, tint or hue under the sun, I'd be looking for a way to use that aspect of my being to capitalize on uneducated, half-wit rednecks. Remember, it's against the law for stupid people to have money. If you have a preconcieved notion that I'm inferior to you because of some external aspect of my being then before you know it I'm going to use your preconception against you. A sort of exestiential Judo if you will.

Kind of like the oil spill in the gulf, there's a fortune floating around on the gulf with oil at seventy some odd dollars a barrel just waiting for somebody to come vacuum it up. Same with racism. Racism is a stupid mindset to adopt. Racists have money, more or less, however much money that stupid trailer trash, cross burning rednecks have. The objective is to determine a method by which you can seperate the racist from his money as conveniently as possible in as short a time as possible.

The secret to building wealth is to remember the laws of nature, fire burns, water is wet and stupid people will literally go out and find something to blow what pitifully little money that they have on. Remember pet rocks? Remember mood rings? (The pet rock guy is my hero, imagine selling a @*&^ rock for $7.00 when you can go out and pick one up off of the @*&^ road for free and the stores can't keep the @*&^ things on the shelf.) I'm going to start selling anti-AfroAsianJew-Boy shampoo at Klan meetings. Anybody want in?

Petronius| 7.19.10 @ 11:54AM

OK
Let's gather in that crude in the ocean and freeze dry it, add resin and other binders, slap it into molds, and make Obamabuddha busts for liberal clowns to worship as he is god and their god is government.

REB| 7.20.10 @ 12:02AM

I figure any group started by a bunch of marxist white people supposedly to help the black people cant possibly have had a good intention in their existence,It sorta follows that in order to keep the $$$$ flowing into the coffers they have to prop up the dead corpse of racism in the corner and beat on it publicly every so often...problem is its beginning to really smell bad and to fall apart.

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