NAACP should be relegated to the Trash Heap of History

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The NAACP has approved a resolution condemning what it calls "racist elements" within the Tea Party. The vote has sparked a war of words between the two groups, and NAACP leaders hope the move will help fire up its membership with midterm elections approaching.

The fray began when NAACP President Benjamin Jealous issued a challenge to the Tea Party:

"You must expel the bigots and racists in your ranks or take full responsibility for all of their actions."

Delegates at the convention unanimously approved a resolution echoing Jealous' words Tuesday night. It said that while the group believed in freedom of assembly and people raising their voices in democracy, the Tea Party should repudiate bigoted statements, images and any racist leaders.

"I don't recall the NAACP speaking out when George Bush was portrayed as Curious George or as The Joker," said Mark Williams, a national spokesman for the Tea Party Express.

"I don't recall the NAACP ever standing up and saying we need to civilize discourse when Republicans were in the White House," Williams added.

A number of Tea Party leaders say they don't tolerate racist displays.

Williams contends that it's actually the NAACP that's being bigoted.

"You're dealing with people who are professional race-baiters, who make a very good living off this kind of thing. They make more money off of race than any slave trader ever. It's time groups like the NAACP went to the trash heap of history where they belong with all the other vile racist groups that emerged in our history," Williams said.

Charges of racism against the Tea Party flared after African-American congressmen said they were heckled, spat at and were assailed with racial slurs by Tea Party supporters during a demonstration at the U.S. Capitol.

People in the Tea Party movement have been holding rallies for more than a year now calling for limited government and protesting the Obama administration.

"We've been leaving the president hanging," said Jamal Simmons, a Washington, D.C.-based Democratic strategist. "The president's been out there pushing these real solid policies: health care, jobs, stimulus, education reform. Those of us who consider ourselves to be his allies haven't been doing our part in being out there and pushing hard enough against his opponents. Explaining why we're for what the president is doing while they're saying what they're against."

Polls show that black Americans still overwhelmingly support the president with approval ratings of about 90 percent. But many in 2008 were considered Obama voters who don't regularly show up to vote. So the resolution is part of a strategy to motivate potential voters to come out and vote in November.

And so is an upcoming march in Washington that NAACP's Jealous rallied the troops for as the organization gets ready for the midterm elections.

"The NAACP along with its allies and partners will show America that a solid majority of this nation is ready, willing and able to fight back to ensure that all the change we voted for is made a reality for all of our children," Jealous said.

Madeline Taylor of Memphis, Tenn., said she's glad Jealous decided to take on the Tea Party. She's not perturbed that a Tea Party activist accused the NAACP of being racist.

"We're always accused of being racist when we stand up and speak for ourselves," Taylor said.

The Tea Party resolution will go to the NAACP's national board of directors for a full vote in the fall.

AT LAST! RAHOWA IS UPON US!

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NAACP Resolution: Colored People change minds about emancipation

Astonishing.

In every one of the dozens of interviews that I have done regarding the anti-Tea Party resolution passed by the NAACP I have brought up the absurdity of a group that calls blacks "Colored People" hurling charges of racism. Whats more, each interviewer has defended that phrase and expressed surprise that I would consider that phrase to be racist!

Apparently Colored People are an entirely new race of people and one to which the title applies. Here NAACP President Precious Ben Jealous explains to President Abraham Lincoln the reasons for the resolution in this newly discovered letter :

Dear Mr. Lincoln

We Colored People have taken a vote and decided that we don't cotton to that whole emancipation thing. Freedom means having to work for real, think for ourselves, and take consequences along with the rewards. That is just far too much to ask of us Colored People and we demand that it stop!

In fact we held a big meeting and took a vote in Kansas City this week. We voted to condemn a political revival of that old abolitionist spirit called the 'tea party movement'.

The tea party position to "end the bailouts" for example is just silly. Bailouts are just big money welfare and isn't that what we want all Coloreds to strive for? What kind of racist would want to end big money welfare? What they need to do is start handing the bail outs directly to us coloreds! Of course, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is the only responsible party that should be granted the right to disperse the funds.

And the ridiculous idea of "reduce[ing] the size and intrusiveness of government." What kind of massa would ever not want to control my life? As Coloreds we must have somebody care for us otherwise we would be on our own, have to think for ourselves and make decisions!

The racist tea parties also demand that the government "stop the out of control spending." Again, they directly target Colored People. That means we Colored People would have to compete for jobs like everybody else and that is just not right.

Perhaps the most racist point of all in the tea parties is their demand that government "stop raising our taxes." That is outrageous! How will we Colored People ever get a wide screen TV in every room if non-coloreds get to keep what they earn? Totally racist! The tea party expects coloreds to be productive members of society?

Mr. Lincoln, you were the greatest racist ever. We had a great gig. Three squares, room and board, all our decisions made by the massa in the house. Please repeal the 13th and 14th Amendments and let us get back to where we belong.

Sincerely

Precious Ben Jealous, Tom's Nephew National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Head Colored Person


How ya doing, buddy?

Brady, do you ever have an opinion that isn't "This crazy group of people is arguing with this other crazy group of people. I've picked a side so the other side is just WRONG."

NAACP and Tea Party? Like they aren't two extreme cases, both of which are pretty much wholly corrupted by crazy. If you really believe the tea party is about not raising taxes, maybe you should read up on how many of them actually know what the taxes are at under a given president. Straw men everywhere, Brady.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Man, are you not siding with the NAACP over a guy who signed a fake letter as Head Colored Person?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

You have to remember that Deni is Canadian, and as such his knowledge of Colored People lies somewhere in the area between "rumor" and "urban legend".

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

We have a basketball team, we know what they look like.

Also, Brady, you pretty much proved my point here. I'm not saying it's one or the other. I believe the NAACP is right about the tea party. I also believe the NAACP is overzealous, often, though not necessarily in this case.

My criticism is of you and your black or white mentality (pun not really intended but I'll take credit) on issues. Just because one person is stupid doesn't mean we have to give his slightly less stupid friend a hat and make him king of all reason.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I guess he never read this growing up.


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Originally Posted by Denicalis

My criticism is of you and your black or white mentality (pun not really intended but I'll take credit) on issues. Just because one person is stupid doesn't mean we have to give his slightly less stupid friend a hat and make him king of all reason.

Oh gee I guess you're right. Maybe there is some kind of middle ground to be taken on occupying settlers, systemic racism, and tea party crackers.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

You're right, brady. Your anti-israel propaganda is so much less crass and insulting than voice of reason's idiotic pro-israel propaganda. Every story has someone who is right and someone who is wrong. There's no way both Israel and Palestine could be handling things poorly.

You'll never hear me defend the Tea Party or any organisation that wants an idiot like Sarah Palin in the white house, so I agree with you on this one. However, doesn't change the fact that you happen to be a mirror image of everything you seem to hate.

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Originally Posted by Bradylama

Oh gee I guess you're right. Maybe there is some kind of middle ground to be taken on occupying settlers, systemic racism, and tea party crackers.

All the melodramatic language in the world doesn't disguise the fact that demonizing the opposition is counterproductive to achieving real progress.

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I don't have to demonize Israeli settlers, they do a good enough job of making themselves look like monsters.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

What with their huge noses and their demon horns

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man Israeli settlers routinely harass and murder Palestinians under the armed protection of the IDF, this isn't some kind of PLO propaganda mill this is documented fact

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This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

It's kind of Brady's Pet Issue yeah

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Extremists or not, the NAACP has a shitton more cred than Teabaggers. Picking a fight with the NAACP isn't like taking a shot at the Black Panthers. They're going to lose a lot of ground on their goal of legitimacy after this.

Originally Posted by Mark Williams

You're dealing with people who are professional race-baiters, who make a very good living off this kind of thing. They make more money off of race than any slave trader ever.

Oh my goddddddd

I was speaking idiomatically.

I'M SORRY OKAY!? YOU PROVOKED ME IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT! I'M SETTLING THIS THREAD!

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

*fires rockets randomly in Brady's general direction, killing off several innocent passers-by and demolishing a school while not actually doing anything to discourage Brady's aggression*

FELIPE NO

*bulldozes Pangalin's posts, bides time, wrings hands*

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You guys are such fags

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You guys are such fags

- Head Colored Person

There's nowhere I can't reach.