NAACP Release on Tea Party “Racism” Relies on Unsubstantiated Accusations
Over at the Kansas City Star, Derek Donovan posts the entire NAACP press release on its resolution condemning “racism within the tea party”:
The resolution condemns the bigoted elements within the Tea Party and asks for them to be repudiated. The NAACP delegates presented this resolution for debate and passage after a year of vitriolic Tea Party demonstrations during which participants used racial slurs and images. In March, members of the Congressional Black Caucus were accosted by Tea Party demonstrators and called racial epithets. Civil rights icon John Lewis was spit on, while Congressman Emanuel Cleaver was called the “N” word and openly gay Congressman Barney Frank was called an ugly anti-gay slur.
(H/t: Gateway Pundit)
Seems they based their entire resolution on a jaundiced view of the Tea Parties. By their method of argument, if fringe elements of a large movement use hateful rhetoric, that rhetoric can be used to criticize the movement.
First, what the resolution is asking to be done (not sure who they’re asking given the use of the passive) has already been done. Tea Party leaders have repudiated the handful of racist slurs at image, heart and seen at a handful of Tea Party (yet described in a plethora of media reports, blog posts and opinion columns).
Second, look at the actual “facts” cited by the organization. Despite a $100,000 prize for video evidence of such activity, no one has stepped forward to provide the video and claim the money. As Deroy Murdock explains:
If such comments actually were uttered, the NAACP and its leftist allies would have played them over and over and over and over and over and over and over to embarrass and humiliate Republicans, conservatives and the allegedly racist tea party movement. In fact, no one has stepped forward to collect Andrew Breitbart’s $100,000 prize for any documentary proof that these supposed race bombs ever were dropped on their targets.
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Why should we care abut what the Negroes Attacking All Conservative People (NAACP) have to say on the matter? Their resolution shows them to be partisan tools (and I use that word in all its meenings).
Comment by Rhymes With Right — July 14, 2010 @ 7:20 pm - July 14, 2010
I like that! I’ll have to use it sometime.
Comment by Bobbie — July 14, 2010 @ 7:54 pm - July 14, 2010
Which? My new rendering for the NAACP? Or the tool reference?
Comment by Rhymes With Right — July 14, 2010 @ 7:59 pm - July 14, 2010
The NAACP is irrelevant since it has become an active arm of the Democrat Party; in this case, Obama is desperate to drum up the black vote for November’s coming Democrat electoral collapse. The problem for Obama is the people see him for who he really is & they reject his Marxist bullying tactics & policies. Obama continues to shrink in the spotlight as Cousin Pookie is wee-wee’d up.
Comment by Sebastian Shaw — July 14, 2010 @ 8:52 pm - July 14, 2010
Seems like someone is running scared. Scared people do desperate things. NAACP has out lived it’s usefulness. This is an embarrassment.
Comment by TnnsNE1 — July 15, 2010 @ 12:50 pm - July 15, 2010
Where’s gillie to defend the NAACP?
Comment by The_Livewire — July 16, 2010 @ 8:02 am - July 16, 2010
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