Thursday, August 05, 2010



NAACP says Tea Partiers are not racist -- except when they are

A very reluctant and qualified backdown from the aptly named Ben Jealous:
"NAACP President Ben Jealous said Thursday that the resolution passed by the group on Wednesday does not call the tea party "racist."

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

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

“We aren’t saying that the tea party is racist,” Jealous said. “What we’re saying is that with their increasing power comes an increasing responsibility to act responsibly ... and to call out when they see those things on those signs.”

Jealous argued that racist groups have embraced the tea party movement and said that what the NAACP would like to see is one of the movement's leaders — whether it be former House Majority Leader Dick Armey or former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin — denounce those elements of the tea party.

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First you have to find "those elements". Can Mr Jealous tell us where to look? There have been accusations of racial slurs coming from Tea Partiers but none of them have been proven.

And if such slurs were uttered, they were probably uttered by "plants", in the usual Leftist way. There is a long history of blacks and Leftists themselves creating racist graffiti etc. and trying to pin the blame for them onto conservatives.

The Tea Partiers have been exceedingly careful not to do or say anything racist because they know how the Left would pounce if they did anything like that. You would never hear the end of it.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

The best defense is a good offense.

BUT,

Then again, it didn't work for Japan in WW-II

bogsidebunny

Anonymous said...

Regarding Mrs. Obummer's vacation trip to Spain.

"She is on a four-day visit and will be staying at the five-star Villa Padierna, rated as one of the world's top 30 hotels, (with 40 friends). The party has reserved 60 rooms."

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/
article-1300240/Michelle-Obama-jets-Marbella-5-star-holiday-daughter-Sasha.html#ixzz0veSZ9vUL

And it's all on your dime, fools!

Bobby said...

I remember when people used to complain about Bush vacationing on Crawford, TX. Yet those vacations costs us nothing other than putting gas on Air Force One.

Anonymous said...

Why did Mrs O go away during Mr O's birthday (last of his 40s), not only away or abroad but to another continent? Is divorce in the air?

Anonymous said...

Monica Lewinski II? Or in this case, Shuwanda Brown? Then again, when "they" have this much power and wealth, they always go for the "white meat".

Bobby said...

"Why did Mrs O go away during Mr O's birthday (last of his 40s), not only away or abroad but to another continent? Is divorce in the air?"

---Wouldn't that be great? America's First Divorced President, oh the pride.

Anonymous said...

The NAACP is itself racist because it digs for racism where none exists.