NAACP passes resolution condemning racism within tea parties
posted at 7:54 pm on July 13, 2010 by Allahpundit
The text’s not online yet but it sounds like they scaled back the accusation from the entire movement to simply certain unspecified people within it. Which is the safe route, of course. Smearing everyone would go too far even by the standards of some liberals, including The One. (Remember when he distinguished between a “core group” of crank-ish tea partiers and more principled members who have legitimate ideological differences?) Focusing on an unnamed number of racists and then demanding that the rest of the tea party formally denounce them — as though TP leaders, some of them minorities themselves, haven’t done that whenever the media’s chased them down for a quote when working on stories in this vein — is much shrewder politically, as it lets lefties continue to play the “six degrees of Heinrich Himmler” guilt-by-association game whenever some moron with a racist sign pops up at a tea-party rally. Mission accomplished:
Late this afternoon the NAACP passed a resolution calling on all people — including tea party leaders — to condemn racism within the tea party movement.
Passed on the fourth day of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s annual convention in Kansas City, the resolution also urged people to oppose what it said was the tea party’s drive “to push our country back to the pre-civil rights era.”…
Delegates said they wanted to make it clear, however, that the resolution wasn’t indicting the entire tea party movement as racist.
Unless it’s a nod to the Rand Paul kerfuffle over the 1964 Civil Rights Act — which Paul has since repeatedly said he’d have voted for — I’m not sure which tea-party policies that boldfaced bit is aimed at. Maybe spending cuts qualify as racist now too? In any case, Philip Klein of AmSpec was watching the debate over the resolution on the NAACP’s website and managed to jot down a few excerpts from the working draft — before the transmission was suddenly cut. Apparently the process was supposed to be closed to the media but someone forgot to turn off the cameras; thank goodness they managed to shut out the public before someone saw something politically inconvenient. Klein did catch a line from the draft accusing tea partiers of being a “threat to the pursuit of human rights, justice and equality for all,” but no word yet if that made it into the final resolution.
Rather than give you the clip of Chris Matthews interviewing the NAACP’s president tonight on “Hardball,” which was as predictable as you’d expect, here’s the slightly less predictable tete-a-tete this afternoon on Fox between an NAACP chapter head and a leader of the Dallas tea party. Shelton wants to hear denunciations of malign infiltrators, but go read the St. Louis tea party resolution passed this morning. Two can play at that game.
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Race Card now there are two yes or no questions for you.
1. Yes or No
2. Yes or No
CWforFreedom on July 13, 2010 at 10:05 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100713/ap_on_re_us/us_iowa_obama_billboard_3
Iowa tea party condemning socialism within the democrat party.
heh.
ted c on July 13, 2010 at 10:05 PM
Race Card ..hmmm funny you have posted that picture several times…now I know you enjoy it but come on./
CWforFreedom on July 13, 2010 at 10:06 PM
John Lennon is no more a bigot for that song that you are for asking the question so many times to make sure a presumed black man heard (read) your utterance of the so-called n-word.
You posted the link in full for a reason, right? RIGHT?
I bet you have been waiting to scratch that itch for a lifetime. How does it finally feel? Should I act a certain way to enhance that experience for ya? How long until you have to scratch that bigot-itch again?
The Race Card on July 13, 2010 at 10:06 PM
Goodnight all I’m going to play World of Warcraft, where race is everything (except how talented you are) CW Salute!
Bobnormal on July 13, 2010 at 10:06 PM
Bob take care
CWforFreedom on July 13, 2010 at 10:07 PM
I am patiently awaiting the day the African American community in this country wakes up to the realization that they are being used constantly and consistently by groups like the NAACP, who use the “race card” to inflame and incite anger, not ever caring whom they harm, not ever realizing that by the constant attacks on their trumped-up, illegitimate instances of racism, they are greatly diminishing the effects on the American people that true racism should have when it rears its ugly head.
Do any of you care anymore when the label “racist” is applied to a group or an individual? I don’t, don’t even care to dig into the facts of each accusation, as I have become numb to the label, numb to the hypocrisy of groups like the NAACP, numb to their cries for concern, but concern for only certain people. I just don’t care anymore, and that is the legacy the NAACP and all the other “victim” promoters in the black community have bestowed on me. How’s that “great uniter” label working for you, Obama?
oldoldbabs on July 13, 2010 at 10:08 PM
just a plain response would be welcomed. I’m a bit bored of the guilt by association meme.
disillusioned on July 13, 2010 at 10:10 PM
Projecting again. You are the one who gets a kick out of posting that picture you posted tonight. Too much .
Yes because you would not answer—and that teaparty guy is no more a racist than john lennon for his sign. You really are a child.
CWforFreedom on July 13, 2010 at 10:10 PM
How far the mighty have fallen. The NAACP, once a powerful advocate for human rights, has degenerated into little more than a lynch mob with see-through tapestry, spreading a Big Lie on the magnitude of that of a Joesph Goebbels.
Tav on July 13, 2010 at 10:10 PM
Which photo? The one of Dale “niggar” Robertson on the teaparty.org homepage, above the fold?
The Race Card on July 13, 2010 at 10:11 PM
See Aesop’s Fables, “The Little Boy Who Cried ‘Wolf!’”
Wethal on July 13, 2010 at 10:11 PM
Last one, CW thanks, see ya soon,
Race Card now there are two yes or no questions for you.
1. Yes or No
2. Yes or No
CWforFreedom on July 13, 2010 at 10:05 PM
And Bobnormal
GoodNight ALL! even you Race card
Bobnormal on July 13, 2010 at 10:12 PM
RaceCard how about that you act as oldoldbabs’ anesthesiologist . Maybe you can charge her a fee. /
CWforFreedom on July 13, 2010 at 10:12 PM
Race Card you’re immature games are truly tiring. You and I both know you are dishonest and play the race card in a way that you should abhor-if you were honest.
CWforFreedom on July 13, 2010 at 10:14 PM
Just saw a black man on Hannity who said the NAACP was an old organization now suffering from alzheimers…says it all for me. NAACP organization is truly irrelevant due to its own foolishness. May it rest in peace.
jakev on July 13, 2010 at 10:15 PM
You’re officially on record making an obvious racist-attack and that’s your justification? Not getting a response justifies your posting a racial slur in full view?
Here’s what was going on. About five of my comments got blackholed probably because of the slur I copied and pasted from yours when trying to respond. Likely, your typed slur got my replies to you tanked.
SOOOO, let’s try this again. Why did you post an obvious racial slur in plain view on HotAir.com? Are you trying to tell me that there was no ill-intent?
I have no choice but to accept your answer. Please make it good and not some bullshite this time.
The Race Card on July 13, 2010 at 10:17 PM
The Race Card is a weapon under which weak minds are servilely crouched and can be fired with the greatest of ease by even the most reason and integrity challenged, and in fact, was designed especially for use by them. It is void of justice. It is void of liberty. It needs no footing in fairness, nor in rationality. It is, in plain and clear fact, similar to a lynching.
Tav on July 13, 2010 at 10:18 PM
Looks like the far Lefts first attempts at trying to Alinsky The Tea Party movement through ridicule (eg: LSM teabagger comments) have failed, so they have moved on the old standby of trying nuke their opposition with charges of Racism. Who better to do it than one of the most identifiable African American civil rights groups the NAACP? The problem is that the Racism epithet no longer packs quite the same punch as it once did due to over use, and if anything the NAACP by pursuing this course of action has revealed that they are having trouble keeping people on the political plantation so to speak. So by objectifying the Tea Party movement as Racist they are hoping to scare people back into the fold and stop them from jumping the fence. In a way it is very Orwellian and reminds me of the sheep in Animal farm who at the prompting of the ruling pigs constantly bleat “Four legs good, Two legs bad” as a means of drowning out dissenting opinions from any of the other animals on the farm during meetings.
Hellrider on July 13, 2010 at 10:18 PM
:ding ding ding:
The Race Card on July 13, 2010 at 10:19 PM
The NAACP, helping the color-blind see.
fogw on July 13, 2010 at 10:20 PM
. Please make it good and not some bullshite this time.
The Race Card on July 13, 2010 at 10:17 PM
You are insane. You again prove my point. You see a racial attack where there isn’t one. If you are serious then you must admit that John Lennon was a racist who racially attacked people and in fact anyone who did not denounce him or bought his music was and is complicit.
Again you probably hated it when in school they used scientific names for body parts.
CWforFreedom on July 13, 2010 at 10:23 PM
You’ve been looking for an excuse all your life. Now you have it. Go embrace bigotry. NAACP didn’t change you. If they did, you’re an idiot to let such an organization control your behaviors.
Blaming double-standards and/or liberals for future GOP bigots is hilarious. I’m glad that so many here have gone on record already admitting to doing exactly that.
Respond to bigotry with good information. That’s it. There’s nothing else that can be done. People who respond to it with violence were violent to begin with. People who respond with their own bigotry were bigots from the start.
The Race Card on July 13, 2010 at 10:24 PM
It’s the Tea-n-Crackers Party now I guess.
Edouard on July 13, 2010 at 10:24 PM
The LST website pretty much sums up Dale Robertson. At the time of the posting, Dale had photoshopped his “N” word for Freedom, or something similar to that effect. Dale has been a thorn in the HTPPS and even tried to extort them for money when he went out and purchased all the DBA’s to the effect of the tea party name. He missed one. Houston Tea Party Society. Btw: Please give up on Race Card. He’s looking for some HuffPo or Dear Leader talking points.
It’s kinda like shooting fish in a barrel when the troll posted a link but didn’t read it. LOL! ;)
Southern Tragedu on July 13, 2010 at 10:25 PM
Wow projectionist extraordinaire. Congrats to you. You must be a mind reader too. /
CWforFreedom on July 13, 2010 at 10:25 PM
Bahahahahaha!! This, from a group with “Colored People” in it’s name. Didn’t the NAACP also pass a resolution today opposing the closure of failing public schools? How exactly does this “advance” school children?? Guess the teachers and teacher’s unions will be happy..
TN Mom on July 13, 2010 at 10:26 PM
The NAACP is certainly not aging gracefully. In 50 years going from a Bo Derek to a Helen Thomas.
Tav on July 13, 2010 at 10:27 PM
EFFING COWARD!
At least be able to acknowledge the offensive nature of what you did. Send the comment link to AP. See what he thinks. I’ll take AP’s word.
Let me know when you send him the link. Until then….
The Race Card on July 13, 2010 at 10:27 PM
We only disagree on the time span — 100 years.
The Race Card on July 13, 2010 at 10:27 PM
FIFY ….seriously you have a mental impairment. Seek help.
CWforFreedom on July 13, 2010 at 10:27 PM
Already done. Thanks. You calling me a coward with your responses and your little internet warrior act. Now that is something to behold.
CWforFreedom on July 13, 2010 at 10:29 PM
How can you be so critical of NAACP while you’re standing there defending them? You want a cape or something? We don’t need another her…
The Race Card on July 13, 2010 at 10:30 PM
That was easy.
The Race Card on July 13, 2010 at 10:31 PM
Hiding slurs in links is cowardly. Say what you mean, windtalker.
The Race Card on July 13, 2010 at 10:32 PM
These folks think that there are black women forced into performing intergalactic tricks for measly interstellar cab fare throughout the universe. And the honkies call them black hos and mock them with graduation cards thinly disquised. Now they are political whores probably promised something special like starting up a Muslim outreach program if their smear is valuable.
BL@KBIRD on July 13, 2010 at 10:33 PM
He is actually quite gifted, in a sense, as he can feel racism under even forty mattresses, maybe even four hundred. He is a indeed a Royal Princess.
Tav on July 13, 2010 at 10:35 PM
Alzheimers was my second thought when I saw the NAACP presser calling a Hallmark card “racist”. My first thought was the LA chapter of NAACP needs to educate themselves on the solar system. LOL!
TN Mom on July 13, 2010 at 10:35 PM
George Clinton called. He wants his album cover back.
The Race Card on July 13, 2010 at 10:36 PM
Surly you know how I hate it when you start doing that again. It makes me feel like all our sessions have been for not.
Sigmund on July 13, 2010 at 10:39 PM
Know what? The TEA Party would probably condemn racism as well – both within its own ranks and those of the NAACP.
Woody
woodcdi on July 13, 2010 at 10:39 PM
.
This never gets old….
BigWyo on July 13, 2010 at 10:41 PM
I’m guessing I won’t get a response to the previously queried question. oh well.
do you listen to hip hop/rap music and/or pay attention to the lyrics
disillusioned on July 13, 2010 at 10:42 PM
I’m back, you think AP isn’t watching? you are seriously deluded, must be the lazy Moderators over at the Huff Post,
Yours Truly, Bob
Bobnormal on July 13, 2010 at 10:43 PM
I believe I have more respect for the Black Panthers than I do anymore for the NAACP. At least the Black Panthers don’t seem to claim to be what they are not.
Tav on July 13, 2010 at 10:43 PM
I believe I have more respect for the Black Panthers than I do anymore for the NAACP. At least the Black Panthers don’t seem to claim to be what they are not.
Tav on July 13, 2010 at 10:43 PM
+1000
Bobnormal on July 13, 2010 at 10:45 PM
The Tea Party is the actual victim; oppressed by the media, oppressed by the president, oppressed by the majority-controlled congress, and now by the NAACP who has chapters in every city of the country.
TN Mom on July 13, 2010 at 10:48 PM
Nothing like a good pile on lynching.
Tav on July 13, 2010 at 10:50 PM
Black Hole….Black Ho’?? Yeah…that was special.
I think Hallmark caved on that one…
BigWyo on July 13, 2010 at 10:50 PM
This George Clinton or the Hippity Hop dude?
BL@KBIRD on July 13, 2010 at 10:52 PM
Oh puhleeze. The term “Uncle Tom” should be a badge of honor — that’s the message the NAACP should’ve been pushing if they want to be relevant and part of the solution.
Bet you 10-1 Malik Shezzbop would be on Geraldo/Fox, calling MLK an “Uncle Tom” or “House Boy” for the “I have a Dream” speech if that was delivered these days, instead of back in the 60s. You can also bet that Rev Jeremiad Wright would be likewise screeching like a Flavor Flav from his roost in Chicago.
AH_C on July 13, 2010 at 10:53 PM
OK, so there are racists that attend Tea Party rallies, and the NAACP are full time racists that invite uber racists to speak an cal Black Tea Part members, Uncle Tom’s.
What’s next?
Hening on July 13, 2010 at 10:53 PM
OldEnglish on July 13, 2010 at 11:11 PM
What a bunch of clowns the NAACP is. Defenders of the Black Panthers who despise America. How do I know they despise America? Because the Black Panthers have been filmed praising BinLaden.
Dennis D on July 13, 2010 at 11:23 PM
You Mean ,Al Green, Bob Marley, the Temptations,”retha Franklin,Jimi, Maybe Lionel Richie is that good enough for your racist A&&!
Bobnormal on July 13, 2010 at 11:37 PM
That’s IT! I’m wearing my “ENOUGH” red, white and blue Tea Party bracelet tomorrow.
Oink on July 13, 2010 at 11:37 PM
God, I could go on all night
Bobnormal on July 13, 2010 at 11:39 PM
Just got off the Phone with a Friend who just Laughed at this Thread, We are musicians, and we could give a shit less about color, maybe we should all take a hint from musicians and
Leave it Alone1
Bobnormal on July 13, 2010 at 11:42 PM
The tea in the bags or canister is black but in the cup it’s usually tan. Same thing if it’s Oolong…. plus now some scientists claim green tea has more antioxidants. That cracker Thomas Lipton was obviously up to something sneaky. Probably some sort of Sino-Anglo secret pact to keep the hyphenated-Americans down… and that Karl Rove who created Katrina (and made School-bus Ray Nagin’s incompetence so glaring) he’s probably in on it too.
viking01 on July 13, 2010 at 11:44 PM
Just polled 12 musicians I know, ALL of them say Of course I’d have black guy in my band, if they are good,
Screw you RACE CARD,
Bobnormal on July 13, 2010 at 11:49 PM
I have no idea how the “Tea Party” could push back progress to the state before the “Civil Rights Movement” when it’s pretty clear the NAACP still lives in that era already.
J_Crater on July 14, 2010 at 12:14 AM
Ding – ding – ding! Lefties learned long ago that it requires less work to be victims than to be achievers, and they have managed to convince the NAACP of that, too.
drunyan8315 on July 14, 2010 at 12:43 AM
Now that HotAir has joined the news blackout on reporting on the continuing oil disaster in the Gulf, including the installation of a new cap, the new moratorium, and the spread of the oil westward toward Texas, I was glad to find MSNBC is now the reporting leader.
Thank God for traditional reporting:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38200524/ns/disaster_in_the_gulf/
cane_loader on July 14, 2010 at 2:04 AM
I don’t recall the country being this racially divided under President Bush. Must be an Obama change thing.
scotash on July 14, 2010 at 2:27 AM
Well, we’ve been outed! I guess I might as well wear my white robe to the next Tea Party rally…or my Robert Byrd T-shirt…decisions, decisions.
Dr. ZhivBlago on July 14, 2010 at 2:53 AM
What other racial-slurs do you think should be worn as a badge of honor? Do you have kids? Do you encourage them to call people by that honorable name?
You ever been called “Uncle Tom?” I have, more times than you can theorize about. You don’t have to explain it to me since it is part of my personal life-experience. I do appreciate you imagining what it might be like.
As an adult it’s easy to modulate one’s feelings and convert the insult into a badge of honor. Growing up, however, “Uncle Tom” was unavoidably harsh in that it was relatively-unique. It wasn’t common like digs about acne, being chubby or dorky. It was one that singled you out for your best efforts and ridiculed you therefore.
Anything else you think I should know about responding to racist-slurs?
The Race Card on July 14, 2010 at 3:11 AM
The NAACP will soon have as much credibility as Lyndon Larouche.
AshleyTKing on July 14, 2010 at 3:32 AM
lol +100
Slowburn on July 14, 2010 at 3:37 AM
Emperor Hussein Obama and his handmaidens are doing their best to move his Gulf Oil Disaster down George Orwell’s memory hole as fast as possible.
Tav on July 14, 2010 at 3:47 AM
So perhaps now we have your fountain head.
Tav on July 14, 2010 at 3:57 AM
It’s the new Don’t ask, don’t tell.
Tav on July 14, 2010 at 3:59 AM
Yes, grow up.
Stop worrying about what others may think, and examine how you feel about you.
We all have our cross to bear.
OldEnglish on July 14, 2010 at 4:06 AM
“…then they fight you. Then you win.”
hoosiermama on July 14, 2010 at 8:03 AM
What’s funny about this ongoing argument is that the ignorant racist troll is perfectly happy to be allowed to lay around on the porch at the liberal plantation while his masters laugh at his foolish antics because it amuses them. No dignity or self-respect; just the fantasy that he actually belongs as part of the ruling class because he’s allowed to hang with them. An honest look at the history of the Democratic Party would disabuse him of that mental mirage, but don’t ever count on his ability to look honestly at that history. He’s content with the lies and prefers to wallow in his victimhood, forever oppressed by “white America”, his left fist raised defiantly and his right hand outstretched waiting for his crumbs. He can never be a man because he has no idea what that means.
Extrafishy on July 14, 2010 at 8:09 AM
Good morning.
How can the Tea Party create an effective counter attack that can be used not only in the press but on the street? I like the idea of finally fighting back against accusations of racism, but believe it would be stronger if it is uniform.
Darksean on July 14, 2010 at 8:39 AM
Hey.
Wait a minute. Why doesn’t someone ask Mrs. Obama if she agrees with the resolution? She needs to go on the record as to whether she thinks the Tea Party is racist or not, since she was at the meeting at which the resolution condemning the racism was passed.
She needs to do that or also throw the NAABP under the bus.
Doodad Pro on July 14, 2010 at 8:47 AM
This was a very good thread until the Race Card critter successfully got a few of you to engage in his/her terms.
Keemo on July 14, 2010 at 9:56 AM
The teaparty movement isn’t a racial issue, other than several liberal policies actually serve to support an ongoing return to the welfare state.
That’s just not going to happen in today’s economic enviornoment.
AnninCA on July 14, 2010 at 10:25 AM
The answer is to ban racial signs and take the heat for banning free speech.
It’s a trade-off.
AnninCA on July 14, 2010 at 10:27 AM
The conservative messasge will, in fact, hurt more minorities than others. That’s just the fact. The programs supported by liberals are those that support minorities.
It’s always the case that when the economy downturns, those programs dry up. That’s not when they need to dry up, naturally. They are needed more than ever.
However, I don’t see the conservatives acknowledging this.
AnninCA on July 14, 2010 at 10:29 AM
Holy crap you are a pernicious tool. What unmitigated gall to throw out such ignorance as a trolling bomb. You are the fool that Proverbs talks about.
Inanemergencydial on July 14, 2010 at 10:38 AM
Some other fake teapary stories are trying to emerge like the billboard with Hitler and Obama on it. The teaParty wouldnt do that. Its funny the libs are so identifiable in their tactics. The deliniation is like good vs bad and we feel it in our heart. Libs dont have that feeling.
johnnyU on July 14, 2010 at 11:00 AM
Do you were a sign that says “I am stupid”, because basically that is what is stated each time you post.
Yesterday it was lies you were caught in, now you decide to go the “conservatives have no heart” route…a political tool that was first used in the “great society”….so tell me, how are the liberal agenda doing for minorities? How is the agenda giving them jobs? How are the being educated? How are the stabilizing the families.
You are a bigoted idiot…your brain cells have been destroyed by too much smoking and too many Krispy Kremes.
right2bright on July 14, 2010 at 11:51 AM
You are such a liar…you have seen the links (posted yesterday to your idiotic posts) showing that it was fringe groups and anti-tea party groups who bring those signs…so fools like you can point to them and say they are part of the movement…when you know they are not.
Please stop spreading your lies…you should be banned for your continual lies and distortions.
right2bright on July 14, 2010 at 11:54 AM
No, colored people dwell, wallow, bath, in racist slurs…it’s the colored peoples shield, they need it to survive, whether it exists or not, they will create a “slur” out of nothing to deflect how little their own leaders are doing to improve the plight that their policies have created.
right2bright on July 14, 2010 at 11:58 AM
I think this sums it up…
NAACP membership: based on the color of your skin, ignoring the content of your character
TEA Party membership: based on the content of your character, regardless of the color of your skin
Which organization is a racist piece of crap?
dominigan on July 14, 2010 at 12:46 PM
Could you please explain for us how programs can “support minorities” why sapping their will to succeed on their own and thus remain a slave to
Master’sGovernment’s will?Why do you consider soft slavery acceptable, and even something to be lauded and promoted? Personally, I find it detestable…
dominigan on July 14, 2010 at 12:53 PM
err.. “while” sapping their will
dominigan on July 14, 2010 at 12:53 PM
If dropping the F bomb on people didn’t get her banned, simply telling lies won’t do it.
Extrafishy on July 14, 2010 at 1:11 PM
I’ll be holding my breath untill the NAACP passes a resolution condemning the racism within in the NAACP.
Scrappy on July 14, 2010 at 2:30 PM
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