NAACP passes resolution blasting Tea Party 'racism'

[chuck10x]

The Tea Party of today and what was intended when it started are not the same.
The Tea Party was formed because of George Bush.
Remember your Anger of his 8 years?
The Tea Party was the response.
As it is today, The Tea Party has been hijacked by the Republican Party and Sarah Palin.
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[BostonPirate]

The Tea Party of today and what was intended when it started are not the same.
The Tea Party was formed because of George Bush.
Remember your Anger of his 8 years?
The Tea Party was the response.
As it is today, The Tea Party has been hijacked by the Republican Party and Sarah Palin.
http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0h69EazA0M

Where were all of their protests and signs during the bush years?

More than that.... studies show that the teabaggers are almost entirely republican.

so when bush was causing this mess, where were they? I didn't hear a anything about them until freedomworks and fox financed them after Obama won.

all those whacko's that were going to the McCain rallies saying crazy shit with nutzo signs went on to form this thing... the woman that cut a B into her cheek.. the lady that McCain had to take the mike from because she said Obama was a muslim... those people are all the same as far as I can see. the same rhetoric and the same signs.

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and that slogan... take our country back?

it is now painfully obvious who the teabaggers mean when they say "THEY".

 

[Lostlover]

the head of the tea party express posted this letter in response to the NAACP on his blog today

this is absolutely atrocious



this is bordering on insanity

The NAACP was spot on. Bunch of bigoted prejudiced losers these teabaggers are.

If there's anything funny about all this is how these animals spent decades antagonizing black people, including electing a president that started out his campaign at the site where civil rights protesters were killed (Hollow Head Reagan) and a vice president that prefered Nelson Mandela remain in jail because he's a "terrorist" (Dickhead Cheney).


They now have a black president that has been super nice to them and has tried to build racial harmony. He's been much nicer than I would have been if I was president, that's for sure.*

In boxing there's a saying that a fighter is only as good as his last fight. Well if that's true in life, what do you say about the people attending these rallies that are well over the hill?

Seriously, I really want an older people's organization to condemn this shit. Like AARP or some group. Cause contrary to what Kuli said, the teabaggers overwhelmingly old and white. They're not a representative group of anything but a retirement home in Wyoming.*

I want this condemnation because I'm starting to think a good portion of older people really support this shit. And that it isn't just a fringe.

 

[chuck10x]

Where were all of their protests and signs during the bush years?

More than that.... studies show that the teabaggers are almost entirely republican.

so when bush was causing this mess, where were they? I didn't hear a anything about them until freedomworks and fox financed them after Obama won.

all those whacko's that were going to the McCain rallies saying crazy shit with nutzo signs went on to form this thing... the woman that cut a B into her cheek.. the lady that McCain had to take the mike from because she said Obama was a muslim... those people are all the same as far as I can see. the same rhetoric and the same signs.

and that slogan... take our country back?

it is now painfully obvious who the teabaggers mean when they say "THEY".

The Video was from 2007, Pre-Obama.
I remember quite a few protests and signs,- I was even in some of them.
I was against the war, And got hell from a LOT of people telling me to move to France. The majority of Democrats fell hook,line and sinker and now don't remember their support. Tax breaks for the rich- Are you kidding? Repealing Habeus Corpus, etc.,etc.
The Tea Party was a response to what Bush/Cheney and Congress were doing.

Obama was elected in 2008, Then the Republicans highjacked the Tea Party.
The bigger it grew the more Wackos joined in, Until we have what it is today.
I'm not defending them as they are now, Just showing in the video what the intended (original) purpose was.

 

[MercuryJones]

Obama was elected in 2010, Then the Republicans highjacked the Tea Party.
The bigger it grew the more Wackos joined in, Until we have what it is today.
I'm not defending them as they are now, Just showing in the video what the intended (original) purpose was.

Obama was elected in 2008, and took office in 2009.

The "Tea Party" as we know emerged in 08-09, but took off after the election. It was started by Republicans and Libertarians and probably some even more fringe groups, so it couldn't be hijacked by Republicans - it was theirs from the start.

 

[chuck10x]

Sorry mistype MercuryJones,
Fixed it.

No the Tea Party "as we know it now" did not exist.

It started as an independent Libertarian movement in 2007.
The Anniversary of the original Boston Tea Party.

The Tea Party today (2010) is mainly a conservative Republican movement by sore losers who lost the White House.

 

[JB3]

The NAACP was spot on. Bunch of bigoted prejudiced losers these teabaggers are.

If there's anything funny about all this is how these animals spent decades antagonizing black people, including electing a president that started out his campaign at the site where civil rights protesters were killed (Hollow Head Reagan) and a vice president that prefered Nelson Mandela remain in jail because he's a "terrorist" (Dickhead Cheney).


They now have a black president that has been super nice to them and has tried to build racial harmony. He's been much nicer than I would have been if I was president, that's for sure.*

Build racial harmony? Surely you can't be serious. You're talking about a president that actively attempted to use his race as the means to attack his opponents:

"So nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face, so what they're going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know, he's not patriotic enough. He's got a funny name. You know, he doesn't look like all those other Presidents on those dollar bills, you know. He's risky. That's essentially the argument they're making."

A man that was trying to achieve racial harmony would have NEVER said anything remotely close to that quote. Race is not a wedge to divide people. Barack Obama thought it was apparently appropriate to use it as such during the campaign.

 

[vulgar_newcomer]

God.

How fortunate many of us are to live in countries where racism is not an issue.

Wake up Alice this ain't wonderland!

How absurd to believe this. Do you really get out much? Not being sarcastic however even on a basic level people everywhere have expressed prejudices in the most simple of talk.
I never knew what a "Pakki" was when a British tourist and his Scottish wife were talking to be years ago. Quickly I learned. Commonly tourist from Britain talk ill of Pakki's. It was later I discovered the flick My Beautiful Launderette
The first time I traveled to Ontario I wasn't in Toronto 2 hours before a couple guys expressed their love for the people of Quebec. They were not unique of that opinion I learned within the first week.

Where is your Shanghai-La?

 

[maxpowr9]

The "tea party" as it is now, has been hijacked by fringe republicans. It used to be a very libertarian movement (back in 2008 ) but it isn't anymore. It was something I would have supported but now it is just full of raging idiots who for the most part, want to revert back to life in the 1950s.

As for the NAACP being 'racist', they themselves are literally a racist organization. Racism like any form of discrimination is a double-edged sword. While it is important to embrace our differences (as it is what makes us unique), judging people based on said differences only tears us apart even further. Both parties (the NAACP and the tea party) are racist and you would have to be blind to not realize that.

 

[BostonPirate]

the naacp has fought racism for longer than we have been alive.

you are uninformed and misled.

 

[White Eagle]

I designated this one as an Ontopic thread to keep the flame levels down.

heres the story and the statement....



based on my prior comments in threads here it is clear that I tend to agree with the naacp. I want to clearly state that the picture in my avatar is me, a white man, and my family has a murky history in regards to slavery. This may overshadow my opinions in that I have a strog desire to right what I think was a wrong my forefathers engaged in... so I have disclosed my personal impetus for having interest in this topic.

that being said....

I have been an activist and I know that if someone brings a sign to the rally that is not kosher, the organizers ask them to get rid of it.... sometimes just the people in the crowd castigate the people carrying the signs enough to get them to realize they are out of sync with the rest of the group.

I don;t see that happening here with these teabagger protesters... If anything, the pictures of the crown around the signs show an agreeing atmosphere.

It also can't be lost that there is a certain lingo... take our country back...

well take it back from whom? Bacchman calls it a gangster regime and the crowd roars.... all this language packed with inuendo, and a membership virtually devoid of anyone not white makes it clear to me that the people who said they would never vote for a black man based solely on his race have found their political home.

it is not that they are being overtaxed. the american tax burden is lower than it has been in sixty years, so that is a trumped up lie. If they could decide whther they thought he was either a fascist or a socialist, it would help me think they had a real political agenda... but all i see is alot of angry white people yelling about that black president, calling him anything that comes to mind.

please guys....

be respectfull here and speak to the article not each other. This is a hot potato and we don't need to hack each other apart to say how we feel about it.

thanks in advance!

B. Pirate

That statement about being overtaxed is what I don't understand about the tea party. The people in the gatherings appear to be middle or lower class. Why are they shouting being overtaxed. It doesn't look like any rich men in the group. Of course they would have appointed someone to protest for them.

 

[Lostlover]

That statement about being overtaxed is what I don't understand about the tea party. The people in the gatherings appear to be middle or lower class. Why are they shouting being overtaxed. It doesn't look like any rich men in the group. Of course they would have appointed someone to protest for them.

And since a non-partisan group, PolitiFact, has cleared President Obama's statement about giving a tax cut to 95% of employed Americans as a fact, the question is what really bothers the Tea Baggers?

It ain't taxes. You and I both know that.

 

[chuck10x]

Heres a video of the Tea Party on July 28,2007 speaking out about taxes.
This is how it started before the "Fringe element" and Republicans took it over.
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[BostonPirate]

not inclines to watch, because it is something that no longer exists.

Why would an organisation protest taxes when they are at a historic low?

reagan even taxed the rich more than we do now.

 

[Joshua_me]

The Tea Partiers, at least the one's with half a brain, realize overt racism is unacceptable. Nevertheless, whether they will admit it or not, calls to "take our country back" imply one thing. Take it back for white people.

^ That's exactly correct.

 

[Kojimon]

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[Apollo]

I am fascinated reading about this kind of stuff; particularly how many posters view the issue solely through their own narrowly focused lens.

It baffles the rest of the world that many in the US are still so unabashedly racist; that somehow there is still no reconciliation with the idea that having founded a vast portion of their economy at one time through the sale, forced transportation and enslavement of free people, there should be no consequences of that action.

While it is not surprising that after a century following the abolition of slavery of systemic and institutionalized racism in large portions of the 'freest nation on earth', there are millions of people who can't get past the problems of an integrated society, do Americans not also realize that this ongoing argument amongst themselves often undermines their moral credibility in the eyes of other nations and people?

Time to accept that there are still tens of millions of Americans, including their political leaders, who believe that anyone of a different colour or ethnicity are inferior to the European races. Time to realize that a century of systemic racism has led to unfortunate consequences.

Time to realize that a nation as great as the US must move beyond this racist past and not keep trying to institutionalize and enshrine it in ideology again.

Because if America can't do this, it will surely eventually collapse again in disarray.

It is sad to some of us that this even is a thread on CE+P and that it has generated some of the intensely partisan responses it has. We have Laika spinning this like an old pro, immediately going for ad hominum attacks against the leader of the NAACP, deflecting the issue of this story by trotting out his new hobby horse and we have some lamenting that this would never be happening if Hillary had won....you all get the drift.

Is this really the stuff of substance that occupies Americans?

A lot of us think the country and its people are better than this.

You know, funny thing. I posted a thread a while ago about the race problem in Europe, which by all accounts, seems worse than in America.

One must wonder if you should turn the mirror back to your own collection of countries? But back to topic.

 

[SaveDarfur]

The Tea Party is so extremely racist it's not even funny. -.- If they don't want to come off that way, they did something wrong.

They disgust me, but then again it pits Republican against Republican.

 

[JB3]

^ That's exactly correct.

No it isn't.

 

[HenryReardon]

the head of the tea party express posted this letter in response to the NAACP on his blog today

this is absolutely atrocious



this is bordering on insanity

If you are unable to see the humor implicit in that little piece of satire, then it is fair to say that the twin diseases of liberalism and political correctness have robbed you of perspective and sucked all of the humor out of your soul.

It is actually a very clever piece when you analyze the words carefully and avoid knee-jerk reactions.. The author has used the incendiary word 'colored' as a metaphor for the dumb masses who voted Obama into office, a great many of whom have abdicated all personal responsibility for themselves and want the government to take care of them. If you don't believe that, then you should take a look at all those pre- and post-election interviews with Obama supporters who thought he was going to fill their gas tanks and make their car payments for them.