NAACP: We didn't call tea party 'racist'

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[Sub-Driver]

NAACP: We didn't call tea party 'racist' By: Andy Barr July 15, 2010 09:24 AM EDT

NAACP President Ben Jealous said Thursday that the resolution passed by the group on Wednesday does not call the tea party "racist."

The resolution the NAACP approved Wednesday at its annual conference in Kansas City alleges that the tea party has used racial epithets against President Barack Obama and has verbally and physically abused African-American members of Congress.

A portion of the resolution does indeed characterize the behavior as “racist,” but Jealous said Thursday during an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that the resolution was not intended to condemn the entire movement as such.

“We aren’t saying that the tea party is racist,” Jealous said. “What we’re saying is that with their increasing power comes an increasing responsibility to act responsibly…and to call out when they see those things on those signs.”

Jealous argued that racist groups have embraced the tea party movement and said that what the NAACP would like to see one of the movements leaders – whether it be former House Majority Leader Dick Armey or former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin – denounce those elements of the tea party.

“These sort of KKK type groups saying they like the tea party and want to be a part of it, it would just seem someone would call out and say we don’t want them to be a part of it,” he said.

Asked if he thought members of the tea party are racially insensitive, Jealous responded: “No, not at all.”

[Sub-Driver]

Horse pucky.........

[mathluv]

Sounds like they may have gotten some ‘feedback’.

[BillGunn]

Thats some fancy footwork there!

[STONEWALLS]

...I WANT them to call Tea Party racist...that will just serve to help us get out the vote this Nov.

[RexBeach]

Ben Jealous needs a new name. How about Big Dummy?

[pabianice]

The NAACP’s descent into becoming racist liars will be studied by historians for centuries.

[SJSAMPLE]

“Feets don’t fail me now!”

[roaddog727]

“These sort of KKK type groups.....”

DUde: The KKK was a Democrat organization.......

OR didn’t you know that?

[Thermalseeker]

Thats some fancy footwork there!

Somebody que up Boots Randolph's Yakkity Sax....

[TexasNative2000]

“These sort of KKK type groups saying they like the tea party and want to be a part of it, it would just seem someone would call out and say we don’t want them to be a part of it,” he said.

As soon as the NAACP calls out the New Black Panther Party.

[rawhide]

Everyone with any brains knows what this resolution really said. This is a CYA action by the NAACP!

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Did they actually notice the criticism? Could this be the first sign that the NAACP is waking up and realizing that a big chunk of America views them as a bad joke that has whored out its past glory to shill for the Dems?

[JustaDumbBlonde]

Who knew this was coming? Deny it so you can keep that racist accusation going for a couple more days, without actually accusing.

BTW ... where are those tapes of the rally where the negroes were called names and spat upon? It doesn't exist.

[GonzoGOP]

As disingenuous as this non-denial is I'm surprised to see even that much. I've never seen the race baiters back off so quickly before. Even with things like the Duke Lacrosse case or Tawana Brawley they NAALCP and its fellow travelers always ramp up their accusations rather than backing off of them. Something has changed. I'm not exactly sure what.

[penelopesire]

Blowback and now they are trying to put out the fire with a garden hose.

[Doogle]

"..who ya gonna believe? me, or your own ears and eyes?"

[Altura Ct.]

Blah, blah blah

[Tarpon]

NAACP take a seat next to last years feminists, over there in the corner.

It weird how fast the leftists liars are being outed.

[MrB]

Yeah, we won’t call the NAACP a racist organization,

we’ll just say it has “racist elements” that they should “call out and denounce”.

[reagan_fanatic]

“What we’re saying is that with their increasing power comes an increasing responsibility to act responsibly…"

Why? The NAALCP has never followed that advice.

[MrB]

It’s almost as if they are discovering that their race card has expired.

[MinuteGal]

Der's a whole lot of shuckin', jivin' 'n lyin' goin' on out der!

Leni

[MrB]

And another thing - the REASON to play the race card is that it has always worked in the past to shut up their political opponents. It’s no longer working.

They’ll stop using it when it no longer works.

[TheThinker]

"Ben Jealous" - You can't make this stuff up.

LOL.

And what's with the backpedaling? Never seen that with the NAACP. They must be fearing the fall of the Democrats in the fall and with it, their too powerful influence.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

It was a “botched joke”.

[ilovesarah2012]

Is the Congressional Black Caucus a racist organization?

[Hoffer Rand]

"NAACP President Ben Jealous"

For any doubters out there, there IS a God, and He has a sense of humor. Could there be a more perfect name for the president of the NAACP?? I'm just asking.

[lwd]

Ben Jealous is now “shuckin’ and jivin’”

oops...

[Altura Ct.]

Jealous argued that racist groups have embraced the tea party movement and said that what the NAACP would like to see one of the movements leaders– denounce those elements of the tea party.

Yeah, like the Black Panthers, Rev Wright & Black Liberation Theology, Farrakhan, J. Jackson, Big Al, Eric Holder and a list a mile long...Oh wait

[KarlInOhio]

“These sort of KKK type groups saying they like the tea party and want to be a part of it, it would just seem someone would call out and say we don’t want them to be a part of it,” he said.

The Klan was formed as the terrorist wing of the Democrat party. Yes, I chose those words very carefully. They were formed to use fear and violence (i.e. terror) to keep the newly freed blacks from voting Republican and to keep the Republican party from gaining a foothold in the South so the Democrats would be in charge once the states were allowed back in the Union.

[TSgt]

It’s almost as if they are discovering that their race card has expired.

I nominate this for the FR quote of the day!

Their "proclamation" landed with a thud, it was perceived as meaningless, because it was.

[firebrand]

“If there are not violent elements in the tea party then why are we getting death threats?”

Logic for Dummies.

[Hoffer Rand]

You beat me by a minute.15

[Siena Dreaming]

Times are a'changing.

For decades The NAACP has been proud to call anyone and everyone racist.

Now they are backtracking from using the label against their greatest current foe? My, my.

(Thank you Fox news.)

[Niteranger68]

Your request for a backtrack has been DENIED!

[roaddog727]

“Is the Congressional Black Caucus a racist organization?”

By it’s very nature, yes.

White folks can not be members.
Oriental folks can not be members.
Native Americans can not be members.
etc.

If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck and swims like a duck, by my book - it’s a duck.

[muawiyah]

One does imagine that Jesse Jackson Jr. passed the word that it's quite true ~ his own videos didn't show any of that.

Remember, Lewis and that crowd are getting OLDE. JJJ is going to be around a while longer. He doesn't need this albatros around his neck ~ people'll be asking him to show his videos for decades.

Actually, we should all make a point to advise any who ask that JJJ has his own set of videos and they show nothing of the kind.

[KarlInOhio]

Oh, and one last shot at him before he's forgotten,

Senator Klansman Byrd was not a supporter of the Tea Party.

(I'll miss him for no other reason that the chance to hold him up as a bad example in both race relations and rampant spending).

[lwd]

I suppose I should have known another freeper would have posted something similar already... (re my #28)

[dusttoyou]

Dim black street husslers like nobama and masser jealous (how apropos) be gooit et stepin back n shuckin n jivin. "You gots it all wrong, lets me splain it to ya betta".

Looks like nobama and his buddies won't stand up for anything they spout off about, IE. NASA mooselimbs, GOP gonna whoop someass come Nov., Cracker Tea Parties.`No different than the carjacking black punks that suddenly decided carjacking wasn't a good idea after all dim crackers started armin up, their black culture mentality is to lord it over and bully those they see as weaker, but in the end its their hide that is most important to THEM.

[Psalm 144]

Sounds like they may have gotten some ‘feedback’.

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Yep. Paper tigers. Or panthers.

[Zarro]

Irony Alert: “What we’re saying is that with their increasing power comes an increasing responsibility to act responsibly…”

Hmmmmm

[SMARTY]

“NAACP: We didn’t call tea party ‘racist’ “

Huuuhhh..????

[FrankR]

Rules of the game: Once you actually play the Race Card, it cannot be returned to the deck, and the player cannot recuse himself from the game.

[Past Your Eyes]

How about Ben Foolish or Still Stupid.

[CodeToad]

Don’t piss on our legs and tell us it is raining.

[GonzoGOP]

One does imagine that Jesse Jackson Jr. passed the word that it's quite true

JJJr is damaged goods. He is on the Blago tapes big time and is the only major politician to offer hard cash rather than favors. Which makes him very popular with Blago and not so much with Federal Prosecutors. JJJr very much needs to stay under the radar for a while if he is to survive.

[Bluebeard16]

“Ben Jealous” - You can’t make this stuff up.

A girl I worked with once had a boyfriend named B Ware. No first name just the letter B.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Still one of my favorites is when they finally do back off, there's always a couple off big mouth lib morons who either didn't get the message or didn't care that they changed direction. They stick with their original histrionics because it's a better fit for them. Rosie O’Donnell is good at that.

[M Kehoe]

The resolution the NAACP approved Wednesday at its annual conference in Kansas City alleges that the tea party has used racial epithets against President Barack Obama and has verbally and physically abused African-American members of Congress.

I didn't know that Brietbart paid out that $100K.

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