The Courage of the NAACP
I saw the headline, but didn't believe it. Surely an organization as old and venerated as the NAACP wouldn't go out on so dangerous a limb. Sure, it had fought against lynchings, forced segregation, voter suppression and intimidation, police abuse, fire hoses, dogs, tear gas, rubber bullets, real bullets, billy clubs, baseball bats, tire irons, governors, corrupt politicians, corrupt judges, Plessey v. Ferguson, burning crosses, burning churches, the KKK, the back of the bus, and much, much more. Overcoming all of these obstacles, with faith in Dr. King's dream that one day people would be judged by their character rather than their race, the old organization marched on.
Tomorrow, so says ABC News, the NAACP will confront the next Goliath. And what, you ask, is this dragon that stirs the old organization's taste for battle? Having faced hooligans bearing batons before, do they now seek out the paramilitary thugs who intimidated voters on election day in 2008? Poppycock! Your sights are set too low. Well then, you may ask, are they going to fight for the reinstitution of Washington DC's educational voucher program, which enabled low income families to attend high performing schools like the one the President's children attend? Horse squeeze! That's not a crisis worthy of this revered old bag of bones' attention. Ah, you say, they are finally rising up in defense of Arizona's attempt to protect its citizens, which include African Americans, from the insidious effects of illegal immigration. Wrong again, nescient innocent that you are!
This bunch is ready for a real fight. A fight against insurmountable evil. That's right. They're going after the Tea Party. True enough, poll after poll has shown that the Tea Party movement, composed of all races and income levels, harbors no institutional racial animosity. Not one bit of evidence has been produced to prove charges that racial epithets were spoken or yelled to Congressmen at the health care protests, but the NAACP can't let little things like facts get in the way of this courageous resolution they will pass on Tuesday at their Kansas City convention.
Besides, ABC reports that "Supporters of the Tea Party Movement have frequently faced charges of racism." The accusation becomes proof, right? Then again, Barack Obama has faced charges of economic coherence, but that doesn't make it true, does it?
Apparently, the NAACP is taking a cue from our Attorney General. Shortly after his appointment, Eric Holder surveyed the land about him and announced that on matters of race, America had become a, "Nation of Cowards." He speaks with some authority on the subject since he can't bring himself to prosecute the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation, and dares not allow the words "radical Islam" to escape his trembling lips.
But fight they will, against old ladies, moms, and veterans who endanger this great country with calls for constitutional governance. What courage! What fortitude! What selflessness! What say we nominate Eric Holder and the NAACP for the Neville Chamberlain Profile In Courage Award?
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May '10
Re: The Courage of the NAACP
David, Appears that today's NAACP is only a sub-division of our Socialist-in-Chief B-ego. Don't believe they or B-ego give a rats behind about the children of DC. B-ego threw the children overboard for the vote of the teacher's union. Guess he forgot that for every one teacher there are multiple parents of the children he flushed down his ego's toilet.
Jul '10
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This is a ghost, a wisp of ectoplasm in dementia taking the name of a great organization representing people too American to tolerate second class status. Now the doddering veteran of the great crusade drools and curses his tea cup.
May '10
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Same war, latest battle. The overlords told the plantation workers that nothing else has worked yet, let's double-down on the race card, so they all salute and march off the cliff together. The media will breathlessly report "racism" as fact because it matches their own narrative as well.
Nothing new under the sun.
Kenneth Gladney, you are the new face of all TEA television commercials; tell your story about the SEIU thugs who beat you up for selling T-shirts at the peaceful rally.
May '10
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If the NAACP ever had credibility, it was before my lifetime.
Jun '10
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The underlying intent/spirit of the Framers (what tea partiers are trying to revive) was about 98% noble. There's a common misunderstanding about that 3/5 clause, but it's the slave-owning states that wanted it (1/1).
"My new circumstances compelled me to re-think the whole subject [of the US Constitution,] and to study, with some care. . . . By such a course of thought and reading, I was conducted to the conclusion that the Constitution of the United States . . . not only contained no guarantees in favor of slavery, but, on the contrary, was in its letter and spirit an anti-slavery instrument." [Frederick Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass," (New York: Collier Books, reprint 1893 of an 1888 original), p. 705.]
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Don't miss David Freddoso today at the Examiner:
May '10
Re: The Courage of the NAACP
Liberals love to tell you (at least since Viet Nam) that war is won in "the hearts and minds" of your enemy. Well, in the war against racism, they are losing that battle big time.
All of their tactics have grown old and tired and reached the point of diminishing returns years ago. Where once they had allies, these kinds of tactics have produced weariness and new opposition.
It's no longer a movement, it's an industry where thousands (especially at the top) make a very comfortable living, complete with media guest shots.
And the holy grail still remains reparations. But I would like to take the leadership of the NCAA and the Urban League on a personal tour of Arlington National Cemetery. Ask the dead, the generations lost, and those left behind who were raised poorer and without fathers, if they think we didn't do enough to assuage the sin of slavery. America has probably offered up more blood and money in the cause of freedom than any nation in the history of the world.