NAACP passes resolution blasting Tea Party racism...

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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20010498-503544.html

Palin Comes to Tea Party's Defense After NAACP Passes Racism Resolution

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin came to the defense of the Tea Party on Tuesday night, saying that the NAACP was wrong to pass a resolution condemning what it says are racist elements of the conservative movement.

"I am saddened by the NAACP's claim that patriotic Americans who stand up for the United States of America's Constitutional rights are somehow 'racists,'" Palin wrote in a Facebook note. "The charge that Tea Party Americans judge people by the color of their skin is false, appalling, and is a regressive and diversionary tactic to change the subject at hand."

Delegates at the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Kansas City yesterday passed the resolution calling on the Tea Party to expel its racist elements, but the group will reportedly not release the final version of the resolution until its board passes it in October.

Palin, the former Republican vice presidential nominee who is now seen as a leader of the Tea Party movement, quoted conservative icon Ronald Reagan, who called America's past racism "a legacy of evil." She said that with the election of the first black president, the United States has become "a new 'post-racial' society."

"We, as a united people, applauded that sentiment. We were proud of that progress," Palin said. "That's why it is so sad to see that 18 months later, the NAACP is once again using the divisive language of the past to unfairly accuse the Tea Party movement of harboring 'racist elements.'"

She pointed to the candidacy of Tim Scott, an African-American Republican running for Congress in South Carolina, as "a sign of a hopeful, truly post-racial future for our country." In his own statement, Scott called the NAACP's resolution a "grave mistake."

The NAACP, meanwhile, posted pictures on its website of racist signs reportedly from Tea Party rallies.

there always has to be one coon.. who comes out the woodwork and defends these racists...

 

[independentsoundlab]

you know what...

why hasnt the NAACP changed its name? i find it offensive if their still calling people who are NOT white.. colored..

ne way.. fuck a tea party.. those the same crackers that blame the worlds demise on the "coloreds".. if only they opened their eyes and see their bright centuries of work..

 

[And Step]

"I am disinclined to take lectures on racial sensitivity from a group that insists on calling black people, 'Colored,' " Mark Williams, national spokesman of the Tea Party Express, told CNN. "The Tea Party [movement] is about the constitution of this country...[and] ensuring equality for each and every individual human being.

This was straight ether! He has a hell of a point.

Seriously, when is the NAACP going to get with the times and quit using colored? How you gonna flip on the N-word and still used colored.

Out of respect for the NAACP, I feel them, but they need to quit passing resolutions that don't have any weight and get involved with more substantive pro active programs. We dont need anymore reactionary protest. We need to start focusing on internal development rather than external slights. Passing a resolution is not going to stop unemployment, drug trade, single mothers, or poor health.

 

[Swiffness!]

Out of respect for the NAACP, I feel them, but they need to quit passing resolutions that don't have any weight and get involved with more substantive pro active programs. We dont need anymore reactionary protest. We need to start focusing on internal development rather than external slights. Passing a resolution is not going to stop unemployment, drug trade, single mothers, or poor health.

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[waterproof]

i know one thing WE BLACKS better start waking up and take a real hard look around

 

[judahxulu]

People of Color...Colored People...what's the difference, really?

Especially when it's about the mission and all success rates, thereof.

What success rate? What does the NAACP really do? Proof should be in the pudding right?

 

[shootemwon]

The tea party has already peaked. I agree with the NAACP's sentiment, but anyone who is willing to accept reality already knows the tea party is full of racism, and anyone who hasn't admitted this yet never will. This just draws attention to a dying movement.

 

[DarcSkies777]

This was straight ether! He has a hell of a point.

Seriously, when is the NAACP going to get with the times and quit using colored? How you gonna flip on the N-word and still used colored.

Out of respect for the NAACP, I feel them, but they need to quit passing resolutions that don't have any weight and get involved with more substantive pro active programs. We dont need anymore reactionary protest. We need to start focusing on internal development rather than external slights. Passing a resolution is not going to stop unemployment, drug trade, single mothers, or poor health.

Actually it WASNT Ether and he DOESNT have a point. They have had that name since the beginning of time. People say "people of color" all the time. People of color can mean any race actually.

Now as to your last paragraph I agree. But my other problem is....LATE. If youw ere going to go at the Tea Party it should have been done a year ago.

Next they'll be protesting against Hp-Hop music for misogyny

 

[Funky Dr]

i know one thing WE BLACKS better start waking up and take a real hard look around

Maybe that would be a good argument in the Chicago Murder thread, but not in a thread bashing the Tea Party. Fuck them neo nazi ass bandit faggots.

 

[Funky Dr]

People of Color...Colored People...what's the difference, really?

Especially when it's about the mission and all success rates, thereof.

I joined in late 08 and I feel awkward saying the entire thing.

 

[And Step]

A man once told me, this was a tool of the devil...back when I used to gripe about the NAACP acronym. He even had a joke too, he said that they keep it the same, just to see who all is going to focus on that, or focus on solutions to problems and remedies to challenges of Inequality. Oh yey, he sure did. Changed my thinking, too.

Especially, when he concluded by telling, me something similar to,

"I mean...hey...Washington Redskins didn't change their name. And it hasn't stopped them from looking like super bowl contenders, this year. And Aboriginals, don't argue that fact either...same for CLE Indians, ATL Braves success, according to revenues..."

Peace

I hear you brother

I am a member but the perpetual reactionary stance that is built into the NAACP(National, local branches have more autonomy) limits the effectiveness. If you perceive yourself as colored that is a second class designation that will always have you acting like a slave instead of free men. That is why the NAACP is underwritten by white corporate philanthropy because they see themselves as dependent on the benevolence of white men.

You want to challenge inequality? A wise man once told me you can't beg to be equal you have to work to be equal. Reacting and petitioning iis not the way to become equal. We have to focus on self and community development to do that. if we actually controlled the institutions and influence asserting segments of our communities we would not worry about racism. Seriously, if we ran our schools, businesses, police departments, hospitals, and anything else would we have to worry about racism?

I think not. I am not saying the NAACP is not valuable, they just need to redirect their focus and actions to be in accord with the time. What worked in the 60's is not really needed for this time we live in.

 

[And Step]

Actually it WASNT Ether and he DOESNT have a point. They have had that name since the beginning of time. People say "people of color" all the time. People of color can mean any race actually.

Now as to your last paragraph I agree. But my other problem is....LATE. If youw ere going to go at the Tea Party it should have been done a year ago.

Next they'll be protesting against Hp-Hop music for misogyny

Try telling that to my grandfather. Colored was a very derogatory term in the past. And we did not identify ourselves as colored. The whole issue was the term Colored was a term that white people designated for us. That is why in the 60's and 70's Black people started using self defining terms instead of white pasted labels. They called us ******, colored,etc. We started using terms like Black. You change the language you change the perception. When we started doing that, we started to unify amongst each other not only here but abroad. Because we had a term and a struggle that we could all identify with. Black Power, Black News with Tony Brown, Black Student Union, Black Panthers. This put fear in them because we were beginning to connect and language was a big part of that.

The NAACP is not fine with it. That is why the they dont even say the name, they just use the acronym, because they are embarrassed themselves. Terms like Colored, Negro, Darkie, etc.. are from an era past that people like to forget.

Real talk, Dark, If a white man came up to your son and identified him as a colored boy, would you be fine with that?

Move your pocket square up just a little then you'll be freshly dipped and clipped.

 

[anthony7q]

I joined in late 08 and I feel awkward saying the entire thing.

And there isn't any racists in the Democratic or Republican Party? The one thing I like about the Tea Party is that they are doing their best to stop the war machine that is the United States by using basic common sense- You can't keep spending more than you earn and expect to survive. The US have no business in Iraq and Afghanistan. The super rich want to be in Iraq and Afghanistan to profit. The super rich control most of the banks and is using that leverage to put orgnaizations like NAACP up against the Tea Party. Their game is to pit Black vs White and everybody's falling for it.

 

[And Step]

I joined in late 08 and I feel awkward saying the entire thing.

They feel funny saying it, also. That is why the don't say it. They just use the acronym.

How you gonna use a name you ashamed of?

 

[musicology1985]

I hear you brother

I am a member but the perpetual reactionary stance that is built into the NAACP(National, local branches have more autonomy) limits the effectiveness. If you perceive yourself as colored that is a second class designation that will always have you acting like a slave instead of free men. That is why the NAACP is underwritten by white corporate philanthropy because they see themselves as dependent on the benevolence of white men.

You want to challenge inequality? A wise man once told me you can't beg to be equal you have to work to be equal. Reacting and petitioning iis not the way to become equal. We have to focus on self and community development to do that. if we actually controlled the institutions and influence asserting segments of our communities we would not worry about racism. Seriously, if we ran our schools, businesses, police departments, hospitals, and anything else would we have to worry about racism?

I think not. I am not saying the NAACP is not valuable, they just need to redirect their focus and actions to be in accord with the time. What worked in the 60's is not really needed for this time we live in.

truth....................................

 

[independentsoundlab]

People of Color...Colored People...what's the difference, really?

Especially when it's about the mission and all success rates, thereof.

I guess you were born a few days ago.. the word Colored can carry more hate than calling somebody a ******, wetback, spic, kike.. etc..

 

[And Step]

I think I would be inclined to agree, except for the fact that I am a card-carrying member. And when living in AZ, the Mexicans had no problem with the name when they showed up needing help.

Especially once in 2007, during a race-riot at a High School in Tolleson, AZ;

a Hispanic woman who I was dating, went with me to speak to that high-school one afternoon. And her standing there with me...it woke up the Hispanics & Blacks who were fighting each other.

They actually starting cheering/hollering the name "NAACP" at us, as they headed for the exit/shaking our hands. None of them had a problem with the name, because importance of the issue took center stage.

That's why i love the name/acronym. Because it's like a 'weed-out mechanism' if you will. You know, to see who is about the issues who is about solutions who is about solving problems...versus focusing on an acronym.

Nah Bro, can't let you slide with that one. I am a member too. But I have a voice that should be heard.

What is the problem? And if you think petitioning and protesting is going to solve the problems we face, then why haven't they been solved yet? Since we have been doing it for 60-70 years. I am not saying that those things are not neccesary, but they should not be primary. Our focus should be on us. Self improvement is the basis for community development.

The Mexicans would have shouted KKK, if the Klan would have helped them. That doesn't mean that the method or program is viable or effective. How about the NAACP use it's influence to galvanize resources and our professional class to help alleviate the problems internally. No more boycotting White companies and banks. Build your own and steer your people towards them. No more civil lawsuits where you catch Banks like Wells Fargo using discriminatory practices, but when they cut the check to your organization and promise to sponsor some booths at your annual convention you mysteriously get quiet and drop the lawsuit.

That is poverty pimpin. Not saying the local branches do this. Some local branches are very progressive and do wonderful things. But c'mon man.

 

[And Step]

I here you but this above, is all I can really speak to, BigTymer, the local branches putting in work and those non-Blacks having no problem with the name nor acronym when they come seeking help.

As far as those other elements, all I can see is how since NAACP has gone the longest realizing that Blacks will not be allowed to have their own, anything, as long as powerful Whites dictate this Nation. Then it becomes about having no choice but ensure that those resources/businesses we are 'confined to' in this society, honors Title 7 of 1964 and The C.R.A. of 1964.

You might really dislike this what I'll say here, but it's factual;

At the end of the day, it's not our country.

We got conquered, and brought here. We lost.

And it shows everytime we try to establish something...whether a political Movement an Economical Movement or socio-economic Movement; they shoot us down, they annihilate us. Whether it be Black Panther, Malcolm X, or Dr. King or any upscale-area of America where Blacks congregate exclusively------------racists aren't allowing us to rally behind anything here, anymore.

So the NAACP seem to be ahead of the pack, in realizing that, and have said that they will focus on making racists subside their ILLEGAL tactics around America. I have no problem with that.

We only lost, if we accept that.

And your assertion that we can not have and racist will not allow us I say is not the case. The point is we don't allow it because we refuse to work towards it. We are lazy. And some of us want a job because it is easier and safer.

You mentioned Malcolm X. My peoples was in the NOI at that time. They had supermarkets, tens of thousands of acres of farmland, factories, Over 40 plus independent schools, restaurants, The NOI was the largest importer of fresh fish in the country. They developed international trade with Peruvian and Turkish Governments. They even had their own bank. And this was done with mostly unskilled people. And they did this with government interference and opposition from the Mainstream. And it wasn't those outside who caused it to dissipate, but it was those internally, when a change in leadership came, who wanted to go back to the accommodating and inclusion route and dismantle what was built.

That is a cop out. The Mormons did it. As much as people make fun of them, they established an independent reality and they were persecuted and ran out of New York, Illinois, and Missouri.

If your contention is that we will not get our just due because of racism, why continue to beg for crumbs and sentence our children to another generation of bullshit? Your accepting inferiority and second class citizenship. Fuck that. Carve your own reality, as much as you say white racist will stop you, I beg to differ. I do business with white people all the time. They like money. Money will override their personal feelings.

Not saying you personally, but the truth is most of our organizations who do that are not really interested in black independence because it is too profitable to keep pushing the woe is me approach. Seriously, how we gonna cry racism from the corporate world and our organization is underwritten by the same people? I was born at night, but it wasn't last night.