People who cry Racists at imaginary foes are truly mentally ill.
Posted on 07/14/2010 5:24:08 PM PDT by Kaslin
Good for the NAACP. We need an honest conversation about the role of race and racism in the Tea Party. Thanks to a resolution passed this week at the venerable organization's national convention, we'll get it.
The minute you say there are racist elements in the Tea Party — reflected in signs at rallies, billboards, and speeches from some of its major figures — the pushback goes from cries of persecution to charges that those who are criticizing divisiveness are themselves the dividers.
So let's dispense with the obvious: Most of the opposition to President Obama comes from people who are against his policies, not his race. The Tea Party is motivated primarily by right-wing ideology, not by racism.
But guess what? Nothing the NAACP is saying contradicts this. Its contention is that there are clearly racist strains in the Tea Party and that the movement's leaders and the politicians who profit from its activism should denounce them plainly and unequivocally.
Here's what Ben Jealous, the NAACP's president and CEO, asked of the Tea Party: "Expel the bigots and racists in your ranks or take the responsibility for them and their actions. We will no longer allow you to hide like cowards."
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Dionne should be ashamed of himself.
“Here’s what Ben Jealous, the NAACP’s president and CEO, asked of the Tea Party: “Expel the bigots and racists in your ranks or take the responsibility for them and their actions.”
Can I assume they’ll be doing likewise with King Shabaaz? Actually, if someone like Shabaaz began with the ‘we gotta kill’ rhetoric at a Tea Party, someone, like me, would beat the dog snot out of them.
Hey Dionne state one example of racism by the tea party. I bet you cannot do it. However I state plenty of racism by the brothers.
Ben Jealous sounds like he’s Still Jealous. These Tea Party upstarts have existed for what, two years, and already they have more credibility than the NAACP. That is Just Not Fair.
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Or they kill the cracker babies, every last iota of the cracker babies.
Well, they try anyway.
The typical Big Lie. The Tea Party isn’t hiding at all, it’s out there in plain sight.
Hey, Mr Jealous, why don’t you expel the racists and bigots in your organization? I don’t hear any whites spouting racist crap, but I sure hear you folks spouting it all the time!!!!
“Expel the bigots and racists in your ranks or take the responsibility for them and their actions. We will no longer allow you to hide like cowards.”
I completely agree. It’s high time the NAACP be exposed for the bigotry they represent.
96% of African-Americans voted for Barack Obama. That is prima facie evidence of racism: human beings don’t normally agree on anything 96%. You couldn’t get 96% of Phish concert attendees to vote in favor marijuana legalization...
I’m not hiding.
Oh... And Up Yours E.J.!
E.J. Dionne, Jr.
His most recent book is “Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith & Politics After the Religious Right” (2008). He is also author of “Stand Up Fight Back: Republican Toughs, Democratic Wimps, and the Politics of Revenge” (2004), and “They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate The Next Political Era” (1996).
Those who yell the loudest are the ones who are guilty of the very things that they are complaining about.
People who cry Racists at imaginary foes are truly mentally ill.
Exactly, and also like another Freeper said yesterday in another thread the Liberals crying Race is like a Hooker crying Rape
Black on the outside, red on the inside.
The NAACP association with the Communist Party of the USA is well documented.
“Much of the information I will present is taken from a book called Biographical Dictionary of the Left which was written by a Francis Gannon and was published by Western Islands back in 1969. If you can still find this book somewhere, I would recommend it.
The NAACP “emerged” in 1909, supposedly to promote equality and rights among the races. Needless to say, it has done neither.
However, the formation of this group was urged by the leading radicals of that day, among whom were Jane Addams and government school “educator” John Dewey. Other radicals were among the first officials in the organization. Among these was Oswald Garrison Villard, grandson of the infamous abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison.
The first president of the NAACP was, strangely enough, a white man, Moorfield Story, a lawyer from Boston. Black radical WEB DuBois, who later joined the Communist Party, was the organization’s first director of publicity and research, as well as editor of the group’s monthly publication The Osiris. This publication gave DuBois an excellent outlet from which to pour forth all manner of racial invective against whites, supposedly in the name of “promoting equality.”
According to the Biographical Dictionary of the Left, “Long tenure in office has also been characteristic of the NAACP’s presidents—all white men: Moorfield Story (1910-1915), Joel Springarn (1915-1940), Arthur Springarn (1940-1966), and since 1966, Kivie Kaplan.” Since the Biographical Dictionary was published in 1969, obviously some things have changed. However, it is interesting to note how long the organization had white presidents, almost as if the radicals didn’t trust the blacks to take the organization in the proper direction (to the left).
WEB DuBois, one black that did hold a prominent position, was no problem because he was already on the left. DuBois was known to have “hailed the Russian Revolution of 1917” and he travelled to the Soviet Union in 1926 and 1936. He especially liked ‘the racial attitudes of the Communists’.”
In 1922 the NAACP started to receive grants from the Garland Fund, a big source of funding of Communist Party projects. Officials of the Garland Fund included Communists William Z. Foster, Benjamin Gitlow, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and Scott Nearing. Other prominent left-wing officials were Roger Baldwin, Sidney Hillman, and Harry F. Ward, the “Red Dean” of religion in America.” The Garland Fund continued to pour money into the NAACP until around 1934. Even when the money stopped, the Communist connections continued.
“In 1938, the NAACP was represented at the World Youth Congress, a Communist enterprise. In the 1940s the NAACP was affiliated with American Youth for a Free World, the American affiliate of the World Federation of Democratic Youth, a Communist clearing house.”
A most literate apologist for the NAACP was the well-known Langston Hughes. Hughes was affiliated with Communist Party projects from the mid-1920s until he passed away in 1967. In fact, in 1962, Hughes wrote a book entitled Fight for Freedom: The Story of the NAACP. In this book he stated the following:
“Attempts to label the NAACP subversive, Communist-influenced, or out and out Communist have continued for a long time.” In light of the evidence available, can anyone with a brain honestly wonder why?
The organization has, from time to time, gone through the sanitized ritual of “opposing Communism” but this has been a self-serving action designed to keep the support of those that are astute enough to see communism as a problem.
In 1946, the NAACP helped the Communist Party in one of its major political projects, the establishment of the Progressive Citizens of America—the basis for Henry Wallace’s Communist-dominated Progressive Party in the 1948 presidential election.
In 1953 the Communist newspaper Daily Worker recommended that Communists and labor unions “give every possible support to any and all campaigns conducted by the NAACP.” One can only wonder if this strategy has changed in the intervening years”.
-The NAACP’s Red Roots By: Al Benson Jr. FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, July 07, 2000
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Exactly right. Psychiatrists call it projection and this is an excellent example both by EJD and the NAA(L)CP!
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