"Yes, the Tea Party is Racist!"
Posted on 07/13/2010 11:47:22 AM PDT by maggief
A spokesman for a group of tea party activists on Tuesday said that they are taking offense to a resolution the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is set to approve condemning the grassroots movement as “racist.”
“For the NAACP to accuse the tea parties of racism is insulting to the great patriots who have participated in this movement, and sadly shows just how out of touch that group is with the American people,” Tea Party Express spokesman Levi Russell told POLITICO.
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In response, Russell said the resolution fails to recognize minorities’ contributions to the grassroots movement and attacked the NAACP for lobbing charges of racism without evidence to back them.
“Some of the most compelling leaders of this movement are of many different races, men and women such as William and Selena Owens, Lloyd Marcus, Kevin Jackson and others,” Russell said.
“The racism accusation by the likes of the NAACP has been proven false time and again. Earlier this year, Democrats smeared tea party activists by claiming members of the Black Caucus were spit on and called the n-word as they paraded through a crowd of tea partiers,” he added. “Their blatant lie was proven false by overwhelming evidence from multiple video cameras that recorded the event.”
Russell contended the NAACP is guilty of overstepping its bounds and of acting juvenile.
“As the tea party movement has gained political momentum, groups or individuals still playing the race card look like a foolish embarrassment to their own party,” he said. “It’s time for the NAACP to grow up and stop hiding behind hypocritical race-baiting politics.”
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NAACP needs to get its head out of the sand, or they are obsolete.
Psychological projection or projection bias (including Freudian Projection) is the unconscious act of denial of a person’s own attributes, thoughts, and emotions, which are then ascribed to the outside world, such as to the weather, the government, a tool, or to other people. Thus, it involves imagining or projecting that others have those feelings.
About time a group stands up with some balls...quite refreshing, to hear some idiot lib group spout something stupid, and the conservative group utterly smack down the charge..
I know what you mean. I would prefer that they respond more directly with "Are you calling William and Selena Owens, Lloyd Marcus, Kevin Jackson (etc) racist?" or "Are you calling me a racist?" It puts them on the spot and makes it harder for them to make their stupid blanket statements while deflating their rhetoric at the same time.
Yes, it is easy to see how the Obama Junta movement makes weak people who join them feel like they amount to something, LOL!
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