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N.A.A.C.P. Challenges Tea Party on Racism
One of the nation’s largest and oldest civil rights groups passed a resolution Tuesday calling for Tea Party groups to weed “racist elements” out of their ranks.
I’d like to challenge the NAACP to weed out it’s OWN racists! If they did, however, there would no longer be an NAACP.
Benjamin Todd Jealous, the president of the N.A.A.C.P., said the resolution was not an attempt to label the entire Tea Party movement as racist. But he said the groups needed to do more to distance themselves from known hate groups that actively encourage their members to join the Tea Party.
As many Tea Parties as I have attended, I have NEVER seen, or heard, ANYTHING that would, or could, be construed as ‘racist’! EVER! I don’t know what event THEY have been attending, but it sure wasn’t a Tea Party. Perhaps they confused some of their OWN events with us?
“To this point, we have avoided calling them out and demanding them to be responsible,” Mr. Jealous said. “Now we’re saying that with increased public attention, increased power, comes the responsibility to act responsibly.”
Matthew 7 3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.
“People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.”
“To this point, we have avoided calling them out and demanding them to be responsible,” Mr. Jealous said. “Now we’re saying that with increased public attention, increased power, comes the responsibility to act responsibly.”
I’m real bloomin’ tired of the ‘victim mentality’. People want to be treated with respect, they have to earn it. This bunch lost all credibility a LONG time ago.
The St. Louis Tea Party Coalition issued its own resolution against the N.A.A.C.P., accusing the civil rights body of acting as a “partisan political attack dog” and calling on the Internal Revenue Service to review the group’s tax-exempt status.
For a group to claim non partisanship, and to be a civil rights organization, I would think those same folks would advocate for the ‘civil rights’ of ALL people, not just a certain group, or individual. The NAACP is NOT that group.
St. Louis Tea Party Resolution:
The Tea Party movement has been beset with allegations of racism since black members of Congress preparing to vote on health care legislation accused protesters of hurling racial epithets, and in one instance, spitting on a congressman.
This has been disproven time and time again, yet the NY Slimes continues to spew the lies. Big shocker, eh?
The Tea Party’s principles are simple and clear:
- Smaller federal government
- Lower taxes
- Fiscal responsibility
- National security
- Federalism
Those are precisely the tools to lift all Americans out of poverty. They’ve worked every time they’ve been tried. In America, we just haven’t tried them in awhile, due in large part to the NAACP’s advancement of socialism. (source)
Where’s the racism in these principles? Oh, because Tea Partiers expect people to actually earn what they get, instead of sucking the life out of someone else’s achievements, is THAT the racism that the NAACP sees? If so, they better change their name, remove any reference to ‘advancement’.
