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The NAACP today is scheduled to vote on a resolution that would condemn the Tea Party movement as racist.
An NAACP spokesman told me that the office would not release the text of the resolution until after it has been adopted, but details of the proposal emerged in the Kansas City Star.
According to the report in the Star, the resolution charges:
•Tea party supporters have engaged in “explicitly racist behavior” and “displayed signs and posters intended to degrade people of color generally and President Barack Obama specifically.”
•Tea party activists have used racial epithets, have verbally and physically abused black members of Congress and others, and have been charged with threatening public officials.
Tea party supporters also have a distorted view of race relations, the resolution says, citing poll data that found that 25 percent believe that the Obama administration’s policies favor blacks over whites, and 52 percent believe that “too much” has been made of the problems facing black people, compared with 28 percent of the general population.
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Penny Russell| 7.13.10 @ 2:55PM
Sounds like slander to me...and what about the non-white tea party members, wonder how they feel about the possibility of being labelled 'racist'. Hope the less stupid members of the NAACP prevent this resolution from labelling them, in turn, useful idiots.
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-- so I am no longer optimistic save for science.
Progress is as far as I know only material. Humans are, when you go by their behavior and not what they say, incompatible creatures.
Curtis Rasmussen| 7.13.10 @ 3:08PM
Race pandering at its worst. People are highly critical of the marxist Obama and his nanny-state government policies. To silence dissent yet again, the liberal race-baiters pull out the old and tattered race card.
I think I'll go join the local chapter of the tea party just like many patriots have already done.
Alan Brooks is is useful idiot. I have yet to see a systematic racist policy regarding Obama. If there's proof, then show it or shut up.
Missy| 7.13.10 @ 4:28PM
Idiot, yes; but useful? Not so much.
Richard| 7.13.10 @ 5:01PM
Hear, Hear, I concur with your comment of him being a useless idiot, It took him so long to say nothing at all....
JmsA| 7.13.10 @ 5:47PM
Hey Alan, I hear that Andrew Breitbart has offered $100,000.00 to anyone who can furnish any legitimate audio or video evidence of racism directed by Tea Party members toward African-American congress members. Guess what? No one has yet claimed the money. Care to guess why that is? The desperation on your side is truly beginning to show.
Alan Brooks| 7.13.10 @ 9:15PM
You are the gullible ones; Obama will be re-elected for the same reason Clinton was re-elected in '96:
clueless GOP thinking.
The token Steele is exhibit A.
What WERE they thinking??
Nobama| 7.14.10 @ 12:58AM
Obama's a true believer unlike the old horndog Clinton.
There'a damn good chance Obamster won't be re-elected in '12.
Poor widdle Alan, the fool's vote will be a throw away vote.
Alan Brooks| 7.14.10 @ 7:52PM
You are right about my backing of losers; I supported Ford in '76 but he lost to Jimmuh.
Tim*| 7.13.10 @ 3:36PM
Say that to our Black Tea Party Members faces, you pathetic negative attention craver .
The Race Hustlers at The NAACP are Playing The Race Card once again for The Midterm Election Ramp Up
We ,Tea Party Rebels don't allow The NAACP to " Define " Us .
The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates .
We Can See November From Our Houses .
http://biggovernment.com/bpark.....ts-condemn
Alan Brooks| 7.13.10 @ 9:23PM
What could be more attention craving & exhibitionistic than the Tea Partiers conning themselves they are Paul Reveres reading Common Sense in Philadelphia? back then people bled and died, they were not armchair fighters.
No cell phones at Lexington and Concord, no insurance signature at the ER in Philly-- a John Hancock then really was John Hancock. Oh you brave old revolutionaries hiding in the computer room with the gun in the garage.
Stan Redmond| 7.13.10 @ 3:38PM
"Obama administration’s policies favor blacks over whites"
WELL DUH!!! Free Obama money! Black Panther lawsuit dropped. Lawsuit against Arizona enforcing immigration.
I look forward to the NAACP calling me a racist. Like the great sign says, "it doesn't matter what my sign says you'll still call me racist." It is an honor to be called a racist by such a corrupt group of liberal thugs.
Al Adab| 7.13.10 @ 3:59PM
We can agree with Brooks on one point, they are racist who view their world and all issues through the prism of race. Left and Right, although few on the Conservative side qualify. Remember that MLK "...content of their character" thing?
Bob Miller| 7.13.10 @ 4:18PM
Who will have the guts to publicize the racism of today's NAACP, which had been bought and paid for by the party that most subjugates African-Americans?
Missy| 7.13.10 @ 4:31PM
The St. Louis Tea Party organizers have already sent a letter to the NAACP condemning them for THEIR bigotry and failed social policies for African Americans. Excellent job, folks!
Pete| 7.13.10 @ 4:36PM
Oh no! A pack of serial liars whose very existence depends on stoking racial anomosity are condemning people who are fighting to keep America free. What ever shall we do?
Did anyone else see that lazy-eyed race pimp Jesse Jackson on TV talking about the Cleveland Cavs statement concerning LeBron's departure? He said the Cavs' owner was treating LeBron like a "runaway slave." You can't make this stuff up. That people like Jackson can make a living like this tells you all you need to know about white liberal guilt.
Crooz8er| 7.13.10 @ 9:23PM
Did runaway slaves sign $110,100,000 contracts with their new plantations?
Alan Brooks| 7.13.10 @ 9:26PM
"A pack of serial liars whose very existence depends on stoking racial anomosity are condemning people who are fighting to keep America free."
You are admitting America is still free over a year after the bailouts? how optimistic and progressive of you.
Pete| 7.13.10 @ 4:39PM
animosity...was kind of ranting there...
Penny Russell| 7.13.10 @ 4:44PM
Perfectly understandable, dear chap, perfectly understandable....
Deborah D | 7.13.10 @ 4:53PM
A sad day when those who are supposed to want all judged by their character rather than their color, judge members of a group of Americans who are only worried about the future of the country for all children -- black, white, or whatever -- Americans!!
This is a sad day for the NAACP. I've lost all respect for this organization. I hope for all blacks to have a good life in this country -- I don't wish bad things on anyone, regardless of color. Normal Americans don't look at things through the prism of race. Those who do need to look within and to ask themselves -- why?
A proud Tea Party member -- who wants freedom for all, and that includes economic freedom.
SoCon| 7.13.10 @ 8:34PM
You got it, Deborah! I'm all in!!
Crooz8er| 7.13.10 @ 9:24PM
You're just losing respect now?
SoCon| 7.14.10 @ 1:03AM
I don't have any respect for the bigoted leaders of the NAACP, but I wish the best for all of the regular folks in America, regardless of color.
Crooz8er| 7.13.10 @ 9:25PM
Folks, the fact is blacks in this country are probably THE single most racist race in existence today.
SoCon| 7.14.10 @ 1:04AM
Not all, Crooz8er; some of the nicest people I've ever known are Black folks.
Alan Brooks| 7.14.10 @ 7:58PM
"Folks, the fact is blacks in this country are probably THE single most racist race in existence today."
Croozer8er is more forthright than most of you. And Old Texican, too: he admitted he wants me to be in Hell merely for planning to vote for Obama. But just you watch: Tex'll accuse me of being ingratiating-- he is a contrarian's contrarian.
Certified Public Accountant | 7.15.10 @ 2:13PM
They hadn't made this obvious for decades