Yeah....shame on these Tea Party Patriots I saw in DC on 9/12/09:
Posted on 07/12/2010 5:32:37 AM PDT by kristinn
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will propose a resolution this week condemning racism within the tea party movement.
The resolution, scheduled for a vote as early as Tuesday by delegates attending the annual NAACP convention in Kansas City, calls upon “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.”
NAACP leaders said the resolution was necessary to make people aware of what they believe is a racist element within the tea party movement.
SNIP
Among the charges lodged against the tea party in the resolution:
•Tea party supporters have engaged in “explicitly racist behavior” and “displayed signs and posters intended to degrade people of color generally and President Barack Obama specifically.”
•Tea party activists have used racial epithets, have verbally and physically abused black members of Congress and others, and have been charged with threatening public officials.
Tea party supporters also have a distorted view of race relations, the resolution says, citing poll data that found that 25 percent believe that the Obama administration’s policies favor blacks over whites, and 52 percent believe that “too much” has been made of the problems facing black people, compared with 28 percent of the general population.
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
Matthew 7:3 applies :"Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?"
I say let the Black Klan (NAACP) rant all they want. Their race-baiting has run its course and people are no longer buying into this race-mongering approach to senseless political gain.
Is he related to Pap-Shamir Shabazz?
You got it! bttt
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha . . . . . . . . .
Just when you think these ignorant fools can't make themselves look any dumber, they manage to prove you wrong!!!
There isn't a single fact that associates racism with the Tea Party movement other than the DBM tossing it in as an aside and some Dem operatives conducting racist operations in an attempt to discredit the Tea Party.
With ignorance like this on display everyday in America, who needs television??
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Alinsky provides a collection of rules to guide the process. But he emphasizes these rules must be translated into real-life tactics that are fluid and responsive to the situation at hand.
* Rule 1: Power is not only what you have, but what an opponent thinks you have. If your organization is small, hide your numbers in the dark and raise a din that will make everyone think you have many more people than you do.
* Rule 2: Never go outside the experience of your people. The result is confusion, fear, and retreat.
* Rule 3: Whenever possible, go outside the experience of an opponent. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.
* Rule 4: Make opponents live up to their own book of rules. “You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.”
* Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.
* Rule 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy. “If your people aren’t having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic.”
* Rule 7: A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag. Commitment may become ritualistic as people turn to other issues.
* Rule 8: Keep the pressure on. Use different tactics and actions and use all events of the period for your purpose. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this that will cause the opposition to react to your advantage.”
* Rule 9: The threat is more terrifying than the thing itself. When Alinsky leaked word that large numbers of poor people were going to tie up the washrooms of O’Hare Airport, Chicago city authorities quickly agreed to act on a longstanding commitment to a ghetto organization. They imagined the mayhem as thousands of passengers poured off airplanes to discover every washroom occupied. Then they imagined the international embarrassment and the damage to the city’s reputation.
* Rule 10: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. Avoid being trapped by an opponent or an interviewer who says, “Okay, what would you do?”
* Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.
According to Alinsky, the main job of the organizer is to bait an opponent into reacting. “The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.”[2]
Alinsky codified and wrote a clear set of rules[3] for community organizing. His rules for radicals are now used as key tactics to learn in the training of new community organizers.
In a separate chapter he suggests that the perennial question, "Does the end justify the means?" is meaningless as it stands: the real and only question regarding the ethics of means and ends is, and always has been, "Does this particular end justify this particular means?"
Alinsky continues by stating several rules of the ethics of means and ends:
* The judgment of the ethics of means is dependent upon the political position of those sitting in judgment. * In war, the end justifies almost any means. * Judgment must be made in the context of the times in which the action occurred and not from any other chronological vantage point. * Concern with ethics increases with the number of means available and vice versa. * The less important the end to be desired, the more one can afford to engage in ethical evaluations of means. * Generally, success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics. * The morality of a means depends upon whether the means is being employed at a time of imminent defeat or imminent victory. * Any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical. * You do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral garments. * Goals must be phrased in general terms like "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," "Of the Common Welfare," "Pursuit of Happiness," or "Bread and Peace."
These rules of the ethics of means and ends are only one chapter of his book, totally distinct from his "clear set of rules for community organizing."
Beck is right — the Progressives NEED a race riot/provocation to justify persecution of the Tea Parties. NAALCP is jumping on the bandwagon trying to guarantee it as well. How much better are they than the New Black Panther Klan?
Our first mistake was not picking our own cotton.
Godwin’s law needs to be expanded to include charges of racism.
Is this for real? I swear it reads like satire.
I guess it really is too much to ask that people have facts to support their positions.
The NAACP is the most racist organization in America.
It’s sole purpose to to perpetuate racism.
Yeah....shame on these Tea Party Patriots I saw in DC on 9/12/09:
OH NAACP!!!! you are so last year. No one cares what you think anymore, rofl.
>they were around when MLK was. I don’t think he denounced them. In fact, I think he worked with them.
Yes, for all the mythology that surrounds MLK Jr, he wasn’t nearly as saintly or pure as his martyred figure is made out to be. While he did say:
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. “
And let’s all be honest it is truly a brilliant quote. It certainly yanks any moral ground away from his opposition. However he also said such things as:
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. “
Which basically means blow more money on worthless welfare systems since it is morally right. It doesn’t matter that they are inefficient, unconstitutional, and have adverse unintended consequences.
and of course the really telling example:
“It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society. “
Which is about as pure of a form of “blame Whitey” as we’ll ever see.
From what I’ve read in the past he was fully in favor of Affirmative Action and quotas. This is, of course, is direct contradiction of his “I have a drea” speech cited above, but let’s remember, he was an activist (and allegedly a plagiarist, and aldulterist as well) which means they get to play whatever side of their words they wish to when they wish to.
I’m not going to say he was a bad man. He did much good work, and in many ways served a noble cause. However he was by no means perfect or even had perfect goals.
It's interesting to note, also, that one of the main arguments for their resolution was shown to be false; that of the hurling racial epithets and spitting on black Congressmen. I'm sure continuing to spread that lie will help them with their fundraising with white liberals who are still feeling guilt, despite their having voted for Obama.
As for the posters that denigrate Obama, that has NOTHING to do with his race, since he's half-white anyway, but EVERYTHING to do with his political ideology.
This notion of the Tea Partiers wanting to 'take the Country back to the pre-civil rights era', is a canard, too. We want to take the Country back to a time when the government wasn't taking an inordinately large percentage of our incomes to give to folks who are capable of work, but never had intentions of engaging in that process, when government didn't micromanage our daily lives in order to fulfill some ideologue's idea of the 'perfect world', and when religious faith wasn't hounded out of the public square. NONE of these ideas has anything to do with race, simply with the notion that our government has over-reached, and needs to be reduced.
Call Senator Byrd's(D) office, I hear he had a few left over.
When does all this end?
Will the same idiot-ridden racists and bigots within the NAACP consider doing a like resolution decrying the racist elelments of/in the New Black Panthers? Thought not. =.=
There goes NAACP again, telling people they shouldn’t think for themselves.
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