Tea Party: 1 ... NAACP: 0
As I noted here, the news two days ago was that the NAACP had issued a resolution denouncing the Tea Party as racist.
Now the NAACP is backing down. Politico's Andy Barr writes:
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.
The NAACP's initial resolution declared the tea party contained "racist elements." Now the chastened NAACP president Ben Jealous notes, “We aren’t saying that the tea party is racist.”
Speaking yesterday at the NAACP's annual convention, the Reverend Jesse Jackson also downplayed the NAACP's flap, going so far as to agree with Sarah Palin!
Palin writes that the NAACP's "charge that Tea Party Americans judge people by the color of their skin...is a regressive and diversionary tactic to change the subject at hand."
Here's Jackson:
We will not be diverted or otherwise distracted by any other message except putting America back to work.
Tea Party: 1.
NAACP: 0.
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Jun '10
Re: Tea Party: 1 ... NAACP: 0
The NAACP can find the official national leadership of the Tea Party movement right next door to the official national leadership of the Wilderness Hermit community...in Fantasyland.
Jul '10
Re: Tea Party: 1 ... NAACP: 0
I reckon the NAACP decided it was best to put away "racism" until October. Even they must fear the batteries are getting low on that all-purpose rhetorical device.
Jun '10
Re: Tea Party: 1 ... NAACP: 0
The only Americans Jackson has ever put back to work are his family members who have benefited from the extortion-tactic rewarding of beer distributorships and other lucrative goodies.
May '10
Re: Tea Party: 1 ... NAACP: 0
This boilerplate stuff from the NAACP is tiresome. I'm sure the NAACP isn't including Wisconsin's Secretary of State candidate and African-American pastor David King, who's been speaking at Tea Parties all over the state. See here if you're so inclined: http://bit.ly/1AcE0Z He's refreshing.
May '10
Re: Tea Party: 1 ... NAACP: 0
I enjoy the paper-thin backpedaling the NAACP has chosen to employ: "Obviously we weren't saying all tea partiers are racist, it's just that the racists are the only tea partiers we saw fit to mention." Oh, well now that you put it like that...
It's reassuring, too, to witness a point where Jesse Jackson is so transparently wrong that even he realizes it!