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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.”
The NAACP accusing conservatives of racism. How is this news, exactly?
Via Memeorandum.
“We take no issue with the Tea Party movement. We believe in freedom of assembly and people raising their voices in a democracy,” the NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous said in a written statement announcing the unanimous vote. “What we take issue with is the Tea Party’s continued tolerance for bigotry and bigoted statements.”
But:
Tea Party organizers routinely defend themselves against charges of racism, disavowing racially charged signs that appear in their protest crowds and provide fodder for Tea Party critics.
Also:
The nearby St. Louis Tea Party had an all-hands-on-deck response to the NAACP’s plan. The group has drafted a resolution of its own condemning the civil rights group for reducing itself to a “bigoted” and “partisan attack dog organization.”
Indeed. I take no issue with the NAACP as an organization. What I take issue with is the NAACP’s continued intolerance for the concept of free markets and private property.
Black Activists Condemn NAACP Resolution Against Tea Party Movement
“As a frequent speaker at tea party rallies around the country, I can assure the NAACP that the tea party movement’s concerns are about President Obama’s policies and not his race,” said Project 21 fellow Deneen Borelli. “I’m deeply concerned that the NAACP is being used as a political tool to do the dirty work of the progressive movement. Instead of criticizing tea parties, the NAACP would be better served denouncing the racist comments made by a member of the New Black Panther Party and their voter intimidation outside a Philadelphia polling place in the last presidential election.”
I’m sure NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous is “deeply concerned” that Ms. Borelli is “being used as a political tool” to “do the dirty work” of The Man.
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