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Virginia NAACP Slams Jim Webb

By on 7.28.10 @ 1:10PM

The executive director of the Virginia NAACP did not like Sen. Jim Webb’s (D-VA) Wall Street Journal op-ed questioning the need for exclusively race-based affirmative action. (Titled “Diversity and the Myth of White Privilege,” it acknowledges a debt to the descendants of slaves but innocently points out that not all whites are very privileged.)

King Salim Khalfani of the NAACP’s Virginia Conference asked Webb in a letter if he was “pandering to the divisive, conservative, Tea Bagger types whose votes you will need in 2012” and told the Virginia senator that he and Rand Paul are “kith and kin.” Though Webb is greeted as a “fellow member of the NAACP,” Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Bill O’Reilly were also thrown into the mix to keep Webb company.

As I said yesterday, this probably is indeed about 2012. But it could nevertheless get interesting.

View all comments (33) |

Alan Brooks| 7.28.10 @ 1:57PM

Khalfani is, overall, correct on the Tea Party, IMO they are not conservatives, they are rightwing demagogues.
WFB is-- or was-- an example of a conservative; Pat Buchanan is an example of a rightwing demagogue, although he is conservative in the sense of being an ultra-conservative.
If you deliberately confuse terms such as rightwing with conservative, or socialist with social democrat, most everyone will see through it. People are not more educated today, true; but they are less gullible, they can more readily sense when the wool is being pulled over their eyes.

Grzmlyk| 7.28.10 @ 3:01PM

The tea parties are primarily made up of the ordinary people who pay for all the graft and corruption and usurpation in the name of "fairness" that YOU, in your preening vanity and foolhardiness, think is good for this country - whether the people footing the bill like it or not.

These are the Americans who make this country work, which is perhaps why you don't recognize them.

It is you true believers, crooks, fools and pawns, who seek an ever larger leviathan in an unsustainable march toward oblivian in the name of self-flattery or theft of ignorance of how the world really works or just plain greed - who are the ideologues.

What you're mistaking for right wingism is a collective reflexive action to get you assholes off our our throats so we can breathe.

Justin| 7.28.10 @ 4:08PM

"These are the Americans who make this country work, which is perhaps why you don't recognize them. "

...Artistry!

Alan Brooks| 7.28.10 @ 5:36PM

"These are the Americans who make this country work"

It appeared to work when Reagan was president, yet such is longer the case. And you tell the well-off people in your family who get helped by the state, not me.
Call granny up now and explain the siruation.

Alan Brooks| 7.28.10 @ 5:56PM

"These are the Americans who make this country work"

First you say this country doesn't work anymore, and then you say the above? which is it?
Not merely the Bushes, but the entire GOP had responsibility since '89-- and somehow they screwed it up. Okay, in '88 the GOP had no way of knowing what exactly what would happen, but after '89 there was no excuse whatsoever.
What I'm starting to think is you people have invested so much in the GOP that you are afraid to admit that the GOP is a BAD INVESTMENT;
you backed losers but are too ashamed to admit it.

Burns Matkin| 7.29.10 @ 3:04AM

Since 1990 the GOP is just progressive light. Nobody is defending the GOP of the past few years.
Notice what they are doing to people like Bennett in Utah. On the other hand are you suggesting that the new crop of progressives in power right now are doing good things? Is lying to get the Healthcare bill passed O.K. with you? The old GOP were eventually going to destroy America slowly and painfully, but the new Hope And Change bunch are destroying it in months. Welcome to socialized hell.

KevinG| 7.29.10 @ 6:18PM

Most excellent response!

ncatty| 7.28.10 @ 3:03PM

So far the tea party is a genuine grass roots movement of the people as in We The People. They cannot be characterized as "demagogues." If any one person tries to claim ownership of the movement, their positions can be examined and labeled. In the meantime, I find it inspiring that ordinary citizens can petition for redress, you know, like in the Constitutuion.

Grzmlyk| 7.28.10 @ 3:20PM

After the execrable Kagan is confirmed (Gee, Lindsey, you're such an obedient lapdog), we will be one SCOTUS judge away from the Constitution has being declared unconstitutional.

The State is All! Obama is the State! Long Live Obama! May His Superior Intelligence and Unequalled Beneficence Guide Us for The Next Thousand Years!

Alan Brooks| 7.28.10 @ 5:59PM

"We The People."

That is necessary fiction from the Enlightenment; as Thatcher said, there is no society, there is no 'We'.

D. Singh| 7.29.10 @ 4:45AM

"I think we've been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it's the government's job to cope with it. 'I have a problem, I'll get a grant.' 'I'm homeless, the government must house me.' They're casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It's our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations. There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation."

Prime minister Margaret Thatcher, talking to Women's Own magazine, October 31 1987

Edward Wagner| 7.28.10 @ 9:47PM

The real difference between William F. Buckely and Patrick Buchanan is that one is dead and so safe and the other is alive and so still threatening.
I rather wish WFB had lived to see the Tea Party movement. I think it would have delighted him. And Buchanan (who, as far as I know, has never been to a Tea Party event) lost the mass following of a demagogue when he walked out of the mainstream of conservatism.

What causes the Tea-Party to earn epithets from the likes of Alan Brooks is that it threatens to peramanently change the composition of the government. But if I were Brooks I wouldn't be so confident that the American people are "less gullible" than that since the Tea-Party regularly polls better than either party.

WL| 7.28.10 @ 2:38PM

Mr. Brooks,
What would make you brand all tea-partiers right wing demogogues? Why would you invoke Mr. Buckley at all? Why would you even comment on anything but the matter at hand? Obviously, you are rather impressed with yourself, but I doubt you know much about the heart of "conservatism." Do a little reading and see what Mr. Buckley thought about Goldwater's campaign. Even though he supported the same things Goldwater supported, he didn't feel that the movement was READY to run for the Presidency. He felt that for precisely the same reason that the Tea-Party movement is not ready. It must have it's growing pains and refine itself. If you were REALLY as smart as you think you are, you would realize that all REAL movements start out with a strain of "ultra."

I'm sure Buckley reluctantly supported Goldwater and helped preserve the continuity that resulted in Reagan...Instead of labeling his movement as extremist or ultra or demogogue....AS YOU WOULD HAVE.

WL| 7.28.10 @ 3:16PM

Just in case it isn't clear. I support the tea-party movement. I do however believe that there will be some extremely strong headwinds for it to succeed and some brilliant leaders to guide it. All of the "sleeping giant" "take the country back" waving flags talk and activity is great, BUT it loses steam FAST. Hopefully, the movement will continue to coordinate, organize, and polish it's image and positions. That, while seeming to be "ruling class" territory...IS NECESSARY, as the headwinds, mobs, and treasonous poisons try to defeat it.

Good luck...Tea Party...I am almost afraid that you are the last chance we have...

Grzmlyk| 7.28.10 @ 3:50PM

Two words: Critical Mass.

If this tyranny goes on unchecked, even vainglorious fops like Alan Brooks will join - when all of their money is confiscated, their way of life is threatened and their daily lives proscribed and micromanaged to the point where even they, the thick, dumb, mooing herd, will realize, "hey, this line I'm standing in. . . doesn't it lead to the slaughterhouse?"

When people like Alan, and the thousands of Ruling Class lapdogs exactly like him, realize they are about to be hoist on their own petards, they will realize that the price of vanity is too high even for them, and they, too, will join the Tea Party movement.

But that is a best-case scenario. The more likely evenutality is complete collapse and a new way of governance that looks more like Goldman's Lord of the Flies than Tocqueville's Democracy in America.

Obama thinks we deserve to have our faces rubbed in the excrement of third-world squalor - and by god, he's going to deliver it, even as he and Michelle fete themselves nightly, showered by flattering courtiers with opulent gifts and tributes produced on the backs of the serfs - who, once upon a time, were dismissed as "teabaggers."

Grzmlyk| 7.28.10 @ 3:51PM

I meant "Golding's Lord of the Flies."

Alan Brooks| 7.28.10 @ 6:42PM

"he and Michelle fete themselves nightly, showered by flattering courtiers with opulent gifts and tributes produced on the backs of the serfs"

Goes to show the Obamas are not utopian marxists who take the canard of classless society seriously.
Good for them, they are winners-- not chumps.

Alan Brooks| 7.28.10 @ 6:07PM

"If you were REALLY as smart as you think you are"

I'm not, but have been around a long time-- if smart were the same as experienced, you would go to nursing homes to find sages.
But this is what I find disturbing: "Good luck...Tea Party...I am almost afraid that you are the last chance we have"

You pretend to be confident, but deep down you lack confidence in your movement, if tea party is your movement, and it is not merely that you "support it".
You "supported" the Bushes, didn't you? unless you voted libertarian.

dac| 7.28.10 @ 3:23PM

WL, you aren't allowed to criticize Mr. Brooks. He's better than you. He and his ideological fellow travelers (you can call them socialists, or communists, or fascists--the latter term being the most historically accurate for anyone who supports Il Duce Negro's agenda) are the only ones who can define terms, decide whether or not you and your family are allowed to make a living, or whether you need to be "re-educated", or whether you're a racist (definitely need re-education in that case). King Khalidi Latifah Africa or whatever the hell his name is, cannot be a racist, because his intentions are pure, and black folks can't be racists, due to years of us whiteys oppressing them. The fact that your parents, like mine, may have come to this country long after any vestige of official discrimination had ceased to exist--no matter. Khalidi and Mr. Brooks have decided you're racist if you disagree with their policies and ideology, and that's that. Now, if you or I were to form an organization called the National Association for the Advancement of European-Descended People, we would certainly be branded racists. But Mr. Brooks, the NAACP race-hustlers, etc. who owe their very existence to racism and depend upon its perpetration--they're not racists. I hope you understand now.
Keep babbling, Mr. Brooks, we're arming ourselves in many ways and on many different levels. There are more of us than there are of you, whether or not we're affiliated with any branch or root of a "Tea Party" (another term that only Mr. Brooks gets to define, apparently).

Alan Brooks| 7.28.10 @ 6:15PM

"Il Duce Negro's"

You shouldn't give your game away so soon, dac.

"we're arming ourselves in many ways and on many different levels."

You think I don't know you are arming yourselves?: I'm not smart, yet I'm not retarded. My main question is, why is it whites can be secretly as racist as they want to be, but blacks can't be racist in secret or in the open without being accused of being uppity, ungrateful?

dac| 7.29.10 @ 8:40AM

Brooks, are you really calling me a racist because I refer to our president as a black fascist? He is, undisputably, both. Are you too stupid to have understood the reference to Il Duce? Read any non-Marxist history book about Mussolini's rise to power in 1920s Italy, and then tell me exactly what distinguishes Il Duce's ideology from Il Duce Negro's. Trust me, I'd despise this president just as much if he were white, blue, brown, or polka-dotted.
Blacks and white can be and are equally racist, but overly racist whiteys are ostracized, fired, prosecuted, jailed, etc. with the full support of this rotting society's self-styled elites, such as yourself. Overtly racist blacks are coddled, worshipped as leaders, and elected to high office, including the U.S. presidency. So, yes, if you don't quite get that, you're either retarded, or you're willfully ignorant. I think it's the latter, as you're clearly auditioning for a role as chief re-education camp guard, if and when Il Duce Negro fully implements his ideology. Problem is, you're not useful enough, I doubt you've ever done a day's worth of honest work in your life, you're likely a limp-wristed, physically-unable-to-perform weakling, and thus you'll be shot in the back of the head first.
Did you happen to read the news stories about the lenient sentence handed out to Comrade Duch, one of Pol Pot's executioner/torturers? You really think you'll be buddies with guys like that? Good luck. I prefer to prepare to defend myself against people like that, and people like you who defend them.

matthew s harrison| 7.28.10 @ 3:56PM

I am sorry, but I cannot under any circumstance take seriously those who are "leadership" in the black community with muslim names, especially those who's first name is King. I also find it especially disingenuous for these NAACP types to continue to disparage the Tea party by calling us Tea Baggers. The fact that these basic and crass dirtbags continue to use a disgusting sexual innuendo to describe us, just solidifies and makes definitive their lack of tact, class, and intellect.
Hey King Dumb Dumb-it is Tea Partiers.....The Tea Baggers seem to be your pals in DC who are all suffering from HIV AIDS from their promiscuous lifestyle, which undoubtedly includes tea-bagging!

Alan Brooks| 7.28.10 @ 6:26PM

What about all the blacks who dies for their country in wars and by working health-destroying jobs, such as coal mining?
Were they all Republicans? Look, you think I am your enemy, but the skepticism derives from being tricked by my liberal parents, and the resulting resolution to not be fooled again by anyone-- which definitely includes the GOP.
Doesn't the Bible say "Let no man deceive you"? The Bible doesn't say, "Let no man deceive you, save for Republicans."

matthew s harrison| 7.28.10 @ 4:01PM

Mr. Brooks-there is seemingly no longer such thing as a "social democrat". While wool-pullers themselves (you included) continue to deny their dyed-in-the-blue socialist beliefs, we (the more educated as you call us) are stunned by your lack of ability to admit just what you are.
As some of the other adept and astute respondents herein have said-you and yours will be undoubtedly surprised that day when you have stolen all you can from us, and there is no more-and you are being led to that long 6 foot deep trench that will come with Mr. Soetoro's beliefs, desires, and his 60's era bomb-throwing advisors who want to kill those who are no longer of use to the "cause". Ohhhhhhh the irony of guys like you who will be the first to go when barry starts putting rounds behind the ears of detractors and kicks them into that trench, or throws them in the ovens!

Alan Brooks| 7.28.10 @ 6:30PM

Matt,
quote In the ovens unquote?? you are the rightwing paranoid, not I.

ncatty| 7.28.10 @ 4:06PM

King Khalfani calles the Tea Party "divisive" (yep), "conservative (yep) and "teabaggers" (a slur Mr. Khalfani). 2 out of three ain't bad, however. He is more accurate than Joe Klein.

Occam's Tool| 7.28.10 @ 5:18PM

Well, Mr. Webb deserves his tsouris. Jerk ran as a Democrat as opposed to a Republican which, given the fact that he was Sec of the navy under Reagan, he should have done.

Nate| 7.28.10 @ 5:52PM

More race-baiting.

There is room for thoughtful debate about the aims and goals of affirmative action, including debate about how long such programs should stay in effect. Personally, with the Republicans running their candidate for governor in S. Carolina (N Hailey) and a black man in the White House, we're getting near a point where we need to take stock. Clearly American society is transcending the awful legacy of racism.

But the fantasy in reactionary propaganda outlets like this one and like Fox News that somehow the black community is seething with racism and "hatred for white people" is itself virulently racist.

All the racist needs to do is foment the idea that blacks and whites cannot live together in harmony; he does not have to win the argument; obviously, he doesn't even need to present a legitimate argument. He simply needs to arouse the passions and anxieties of whites on the issue of race, and he's already won the day.

DRed| 7.29.10 @ 2:48PM

I agree with most of what you're saying, but the NAACP is doing nothing but race baiting as well in this situation. God forbid anyone in this country ever has a sober conversation about race. I applaud Jim Webb for having the courage to try.

Alan Brooks| 7.28.10 @ 6:34PM

When you examine actual behavior and not what we say, you'll see that we cannot live in harmony, Nate,
which is why we need emollient.

Joe Hamilton| 7.28.10 @ 11:39PM

The NAACP is more racist than the KKK

Guardian| 7.29.10 @ 8:36PM

The NAACP has always been racist. They and Democrats use the term racist so often that I would take it as a badge of honor to be called a racist.

Guardian| 7.29.10 @ 8:39PM

Mr. Brooks, why do you think only black people have and hold those jobs? What makes their labors etc any more important than those of the white man?

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