Comments about ‘NAACP resolution calls tea party activists racist’

The rally cry of the truly desperate to use the racism card. Same could be said (with greater accuracy) of the NAACP and people like Jessee Jackson who are some of the last groups that keep incorrectly using words like racism and slavery to continue to divide our great country instead of steer us towards greater unity.

I don't get it. The NAACP really undermines its credibility amoung serious black voters by making really dumb and groundless statements like this. I have to believe that the Tea Party is opening the eyes of voters all across this country about the horrible leadership in the White House and out of deserpation fringe groups like this have offically plunged over the edge now and are striking out wildly trying anything to turn voters attention away from the economy, the gulf spill, the immigration suit against Arizona and all the other Obama embarasements.

Let’s face it. The negative rhetoric of the tea partiers does attract a percentage of extremists and white supremacists. What’s sad is that there are a few like these who show up on these message boards.

The tea partiers are going to have to root out their worst element, or be dragged down with them in failure.

Re:Terry

"The rally cry of the truly desperate to use the racism card."

Ignoring that racism exists and is widespread is wrong. To suggest that the very people who lived through the Civil Rights movements and violated the civil rights of black Americans a mere 30 to 40 years ago are no longer racists and that it's better if blacks shut up about racism and be good boys and girls. is wrong.

Those who want to shove racism, slavery and even segregation under the rug are wrong to do so and it convinces people that everything is good. Do you really believe that its a coincidence that a black President's citizenship is questioned and millions show up at health reform protests under a black President when those same people were no where to be found when the Clinton's came close.

But racism doesn't exist anymore. It was only our parents and their grandparents that owned slaves and supported segregation. Let's just give racism respectability by couching it in the issues of the day. If the Tea Party isn't racist why didn't they form themselves when Clinton was doing the same as Obama

If anyone is racist its the NAACP. The tea party organization does not discriminate by race, only citizenship. Tired of hearing racism being exploited and abused to further a cause that has long since died and groundless.

"A group called the St. Louis Tea Party issued its own resolution Tuesday calling on the NAACP to withdraw the proposal."

The NAACP has a duty and obligation to condemn racism and to denounce it and will continue to denounce it and urge others to do the same.

It's a responsibility that I hope they would take very seriously. The resolution doesn't claim the Tea Party is racist instead it highlights a fact which is that the Tea Party attracts racists and bigots and that the Tea Party is not doing enough to denounce and repudiate the racists and to make them feel unwelcome in the Tea Party.

Why would anyone in their right mind instead of doing as the NAACP asks to repudiate racism and denouncing it unequivocally would instead pass a resolution urging the NAACP to not condemn racism and instead to withdraw its request that the Tea Party simply denounce racism.

Is that really a difficult request?

I would think that the easiest way to respond to the NAACP resolution regardless of whether they have racist members or not is to simply repudiate racism. But they don't what does that say about them

Look at the signs carried at tea party rallies. It is a movement based on racism, fear and ignorance, and they are being exploited by cynical power mongers who care little for them. Why defend the Republicans who gave us the recession and the serious problems we are now facing? Why scream at Obama when he delivered a tax cut and does more for their cause than the GOP will ever do? Why defend the large corporate interests who prosper when the rest of us suffer and pay for their incompetence. The whole tea party movement is screwed up and those people are puppets.

Dana, let me guess, you voted for Obama and you think everything is great. Am I right?

'If anyone is racist its the NAACP.' - 4:09 a.m.

Thanks for supporting the article 2 cents.

If it walks like a racist...

and acts like a racist...

The Tea Party groups are open and non-racial. However, everything about the NAACP is racial. No one gets into this group unless they are of Black/Negro ancestry.

When the first Tea Party groups convened, someone noticed something - everyone in attendance was white. To a group like that, already pledged as anti-government, it must have taken about two minutes for racism to show up, and it hasn't left the Tea Party since.

Mark B logic, someone noticed everyone in his home was the same race. two minutes later racism has shown up and it remains in his home and his family since. Mark B. logic, notice everyone at the NAACP convention is african american, supporting african americans, it only took him two minutes to notice racism show up and it hasn't left since. And esquire questioning or protesting policy is not racist. But generalizing and projecting non-supported claims is a little bit bigoted.