NAACP To Offer Resolution Condemning Racist Elements Of Tea Party Movement

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is prepared to offer a resolution that condemns racism the group believes to be coming from the Tea Party movement, the Kansas City Star reports.

The measure -- which is expected to receive a vote this week by NAACP delegates at the organization's annual convention in Kansas City, Mo. -- requests "all people of good will to repudiate the racism of the Tea Parties, and to stand in opposition to its drive to push our country back to the pre-civil rights era."

Anita Russell, who heads the Kansas City NAACP local chapter, indicated to the Star that she's "pretty certain" the resolution will be approved.

Tea Party conservatives have struggled to combat charges of racism. A Washington Post-ABC News poll released back in May suggested that 28 percent of Americans see racial prejudice as an underlying element of the movement.

Brendan Steinhauser, who serves as director of campaigns for the conservative coordinating group FreedomWorks, told the K.C. Star: "I just don't see racism in the tea party movement." He added, "Racism is something we're absolutely opposed to."

Comments

[NOV42008]

11:14 AM on 07/20/2010

When my daughter was called the N-word at school, the superintendant said he didn't think it was rac.ist. I now know she is a more logical thinker than those who are trying to teach her, and when your children grades come home, you should question the school: "Why do you think your student answer was wrong"? You might be surprised. One teacher stated my daughter didn't get credit for an assignment because....wait for the this answer: "She didn't ask for the credit".

[jpcapone]

03:26 PM on 07/14/2010

i dont have any issues of race but why do people act like no one is racist? like if you are a racist american (they do exist my white friends tell me) what party are you more likely to be a part of? with that being said does anyone deny that racist signs are being held by children at tea bag rallys? cause it does happen http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/12/naacp-to-offer-resolution_n_642834.html

[JohnBryansFontaine]

12:06 PM on 07/14/2010

The racist, Hitler = Obama Iowa Billboard ( recently taken down ) bolsters the NAACP's accusation of racist elements within the Tea Party.

[treadway123]

10:11 AM on 07/14/2010

Good! Arizona just added fuel to the fire, an some other states with illigal immigration bills are out of control. In Utah some one got the name of 1,300 Hispanic families who they though was illegals accross utah an printed their address, names, kids names, births an when new births take place an SS #'s. The problem is most are Legal Hispanic's an it could cause crimes against Hispanics in Utah now! See what this has lead to! The Tea Partiers/Sarah Palin/Republicans/Arizona has caused a fire storm of Racism accross the United States an it is spreading an will get worse. In Fremont Nebr. a White man attacked an shoved a Hispanic Women in a Grocery store an yelled racial slurs at her, an now our kids in Nebr. has picked up the racial chant! The Republicans/Tea Partiers used this for a Political foot ball an now it's endangering Americans all Accross the United States! I hope their is some way to stop this anger, hate an racial profileing in it's track!

[RogerKlotz]

11:11 PM on 07/13/2010

I cant remember.. Did the NAACP condemn Robert Byrd?

[LetsGoSteve]

12:29 AM on 07/17/2010

No they were fooled by the D after his name.

[RevBookburn]

09:36 PM on 07/13/2010

Good! Condemn those racists and don't let them lie further and deny it!

[bkrider9]

08:16 PM on 07/13/2010

And for the racist tro//s still here, you might want to try your luck over at the other thread:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/13/naacp-resolution-condemni_n_644302.html

I'm out.

[bkrider9]

08:08 PM on 07/13/2010

OK folks, as usual we're getting to the end of the life of the thread and here come all the racist tro//s. As I always say, racism is a lost cause, so you might as well give it up now.

And hey, if you get this angry about the NAACP, which really isn't that powerful an organization, what does that say about the future of white supremacy? Not so rosy.

[spideymn]

08:14 PM on 07/13/2010

I love it how all the closet racists come out to deny that racism exists. It's like someone walking right in front of you and denying that they're even there :-/ Hey I gotta joke, what do you get if you put 32 racists in a room?

[RogerKlotz]

11:11 PM on 07/13/2010

In other words, if you dont agree with liberal politics then youre a r acis t right?

[1will]

06:45 PM on 07/13/2010

It's great to see that an organization that was formed solely to help Black people has a sense of humor about racism.
Wait a minute....they're serious?
You have to dig the irony.

[bkrider9]

06:48 PM on 07/13/2010

You have to read the history of African Americans, of the practice of government-sanctioned racism, and then you will see the irony of your post.

[Benjack]

08:01 PM on 07/13/2010

BK, get over it and yourself already-geeez

[Clairyanne]

04:32 PM on 07/13/2010

BLACK ACTIVISTS CONDEMN NAACP RESOLUTION AGAINST TEA PARTY MOVEMENT
quote:
"Washington, DC – As the NAACP plans to use their group's prestige to bash the tea party movement, members of the Project 21 black leadership network are urging delegates at the NAACP's national convention not to turn the NAACP into a pawn for progressive political bosses."
"If a few random signs of President Obama looking like the Joker is indeed racist, then where was the NAACP when conservative blacks are depicted as lawn jockeys, Oreos and Uncle Toms?"
http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21PR-NAACP_071210.html

[buddiecat2]

04:40 PM on 07/13/2010

The baggers hate Blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, Middle Easterners, Native Americans, First Peoples of Alaska, and Asians. All of whom make up this Great Country. Basically, the baggers hate America.

[mrsblaylock]

04:59 PM on 07/13/2010

You left out women as well.

[Clairyanne]

07:13 PM on 07/13/2010

You left out gays, lithuanians, babies and leprechauns.

[bkrider9]

05:33 PM on 07/13/2010

Project 21 is not a group of "black activists". Black activists is an old term going back to the 1950s and 1960s referring to blacks who were advocate for civil rights. Project 21 does not advocate for civil rights but for conservative ideals that contradict civil rights.

[Clairyanne]

07:06 PM on 07/13/2010

Black activists wrote the press release, not me. I think they'd know better than you.
Just because a group doesn't conform to your expectations doesn't make it right to marginalize and discredit them! What's with this notion that everyone think alike?! Can't you just respect those with differing opinions? It's called "tolerance".

[Blufftonian]

04:13 PM on 07/13/2010

I'll pay attention to the NAACP when they condemn the NBPP.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JunrpGf5QRc&feature=player_embedded

[bkrider9]

04:26 PM on 07/13/2010

I'm sure the NAACP will put that matter at the top of their agenda as they are desirous of having your personal attention.

[Blufftonian]

05:00 PM on 07/13/2010

Good. I have a lot of ideas I'd be happy to share with them. :-)

[spideymn]

08:09 PM on 07/13/2010

As long as radical white supremacists groups exist and thrive, not to mention see an increase in applicants in the wake of Obama's election, unless you're a racist too cowardly to admit it, you should have no objections to the NBPP. Last I checked their activity has no where near match that of white supremacist groups.

[bkrider9]

08:11 PM on 07/13/2010

Fanned for a previous comment that I can't find now, toward the top of the thread.

Very well said.

[RogerKlotz]

11:17 PM on 07/13/2010

No theres nothing wrong with advocating for the d eath of 'crkkkr babies'... Nothing at all!

[GordonNYC]

03:34 PM on 07/13/2010

I noticed some very tolerant individual here flags comments as abusive if they don't agree with it. That's an abuse of the abuse flag button einstein, try replying or do you think you'll sound too smart.

[MaeS]

10:08 AM on 07/15/2010

I don't know who you are or what your politics might be, but it made me giggle that *this* post was flagged.

[Yvonne Weston]

03:33 PM on 07/13/2010

Why are sooo....may "Right Wing" people on this thread. Baggers "YAP" all day long for the past year and a half without any opposition.. The NAACP said "one" thing and here comes the hate patrol trying to discredit them.

[Yvonne Weston]

03:29 PM on 07/13/2010

It's about time!!

[jan1760]

03:19 PM on 07/13/2010

This are the same group of people that thought a "black hole" was a racist epithet. This are the people who still live in the 1950's-1960's. I am brown and I do not like Obama because of his policies not his skin, I truly believe people should be judged by the "content of their character" not their skin. No special treatment for anybody, equal opportunity and requirements for all. The soft tyranny of lower expectations has hurt not helped the Hispanic and African American communities. How many years of "affirmative action" and the graduation rates remain dismal with 60% or more infant in the African American community being born to single parents. The NAACP is as racist as the Tea Party, have you ever heard some of the speeches that come out of their meetings?. Let's be honest for once, racist is over used and abused in this country and I will not be intimidated from criticizing a black man or woman out of fear of been called racist. If that is the risk so be it.

[bkrider9]

04:13 PM on 07/13/2010

The term "racist" is not overused or abused in the United States.

Most European Americans, fortunately, are now rejecting racism, but there is a large minority of whites who are politically and economically powerful still practicing racism openly or covertly, consciously or not.

Michael Richards, Mel Gibson, Rand Paul, Ron Paul, the governors of Mississippi and Virginia, and various other prominent people, have spoken openly or in coded language in favor of racist ideals.

After over 3 centuries of race-based slavery and Jim Crow laws, and after no concerted effort to redress those wrongs, it would be unreasonable to think that legacy simply disappeared as if it never happened.

What scares European Americans is the fact that people of color, despite all obstacles, are rising both nationally and globally. When European Americans embrace that rise they will begin to heal themselves from this terrible illness.

[Clairyanne]

04:18 PM on 07/13/2010

A "large minority"?

[NHPat]

07:50 PM on 07/13/2010

Heal thyself bikerboy - you clearly need it more than those you accuse of racism.

[buddiecat2]

04:32 PM on 07/13/2010

You hate Obama's policies? I am curious as to what you thought of Bush's policies; you know, the tax break for the uber rich, 2 wars, spying on Americans, calling people who spoke against him as unAmerican, plunging our economy into the depths of hell, etc.

[James Everett]

04:50 PM on 07/13/2010

It appears the Obama policies are the same Bush policies. Still in two wars, bailed out the wealthy elite on Wall Street, Still spying on Americans etc, He is carrying out the Bush policies who carried out the Clinton policies who carried out the Bush policies and on and on, Nothing much changes except the middle class gets screwed and we all lose a little more Liberty everyday, and all you can do is get behind one of the two corporately owned parties and point at someone on the other side as the blame for all that ails you. You re to foolish to see the folly of using the party,s as a check and balance system, to foolish to see the coup d'état that occurred and how the Union was destroyed and replaced with a corporate controlled Federal Tyranny.

[James Everett]

04:55 PM on 07/13/2010

Here is the delusion that you live under,
Niccola Machiavelli,.
"...[A]llow them [the conquered] to live under their own laws, taking tribute of them, and creating within the country a government composed of a few who will keep it friendly to you.... A city used to liberty can be more easily held by means of its citizens than in any other way....
"...[T]hey must at least retain the semblance of the old forms; so that it may seem to the people that there has been no change in the institutions, even though in fact they are entirely different from the old ones. For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often even more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.... [The conqueror should] not wish that the people... should have occasion to regret the loss of any of their old customs...."
Todays Empire is Not the Founders government, it is an impostor. OPEN YOUR EYES,THE EMPIRE HAS NO CLOTHES !!!!!!