NAACP passes resolution blasting Tea Party 'racism'

[01solara]

Which sides would that be? The pro-racism side and the anti-racism side?

Let's start with the leadership of the klan and the new black panthers on one island. Then how about Jesse Jackson and Pat Robertson on another. This could make a great reality show. The only way they ever get off the Island is to solve problems and work together.

 

[MercuryJones]

^ That's funny - you didn't even mention the Black Panthers in your list of "black institutions".

 

[01solara]

^ That's funny - you didn't even mention the Black Panthers in your list of "black institutions".

Instead of picking nits why don't you address the substance of the idea.

 

[BostonPirate]

Instead of picking nits why don't you address the substance of the idea.

heres the problem. I can't find substance in any of your ideas.

 

[MercuryJones]

Instead of picking nits why don't you address the substance of the idea.

Already did.

There are groups that support racism and groups that oppose racism. They aren't just two sides of the same coin.

 

[01solara]

heres the problem. I can't find substance in any of your ideas.

Then you have my sympathy. You want this to be one sided and it just isn't. There is plenty of blame to go around on the part of both races. I know you aren't able to admit that but it is the truth. As long as you approach everything with your obviously biased and closed mind you won't see the substance. I truly feel sorry for you.

 

[BostonPirate]

I have no dof in this pony show. I detest the republican party, but I am a non affiliated voter. I vote on issues. If you want me to consider your ideas, just let me know when your republicans begin supporting civil rights and stop writing anti gay agendas into their platforms.

until then, You are a partisan I have no use for.

 

[MercuryJones]

So you equate Trent Lott making a short sighted comment to an old friend the equivalent of lynch mobs. Strom Thrumond was every bit as reformed if not more so than Robert Byrd.

Of course Lott did praise Thurmond's segregationist era self.

No one that I know of praised Byrd's time in the KKK, and Byrd himself repudiated it.

 

[01solara]

I have no dof in this pony show. I detest the republican party, but I am a non affiliated voter. I vote on issues. If you want me to consider your ideas, just let me know when your republicans begin supporting civil rights and stop writing anti gay agendas into their platforms.

until then, You are a partisan I have no use for.

Why does the Republican party have anything to do with you considering my ideas. I am not the Republican party I am an individual. I agree with Republicans on some issues, strong military, limited government, self determination. I don't agree on others, where I go online and who I sleep with and how is not anyone in governments business. They have no right to monitor such things unless I have done something to merit being investigated. The government should do nothing for us that we can do ourselves. I am against set asides based on race and the current social welfare system as currently structured to be a way to keep people from doing for themselves. This is one of the ways the Democrats see to it they maintain a voter base. They gain power by instituting policies that keep poor people poor and dependent I believe that my success or failure should be my own responsibility. I grew up very poor and have worked my ass off to not be. Lots of people work just as hard and aren't successful but that is the nature of life and no government can change it.

 

[kallipolis]

Talking about race - an alien race, no less. This is just for fun.

A cut and paste from a Republican Party blogger:

Some of you will recall that on July 8, 1947, a little over 60 years ago, witnesses claim that an unidentified flying object (UFO) with five aliens aboard crashed onto a sheep and mule ranch just outside Roswell , New Mexico. This is a well known incident that many say has long been covered up by the U.S. Air Force ...and other federal agencies and organizations.

However, what you may NOT know is that in the month of April 1948, nine months after that historic day, the following people were born:

Albert A. Gore, Jr..
Hillary Rodham
John F. Kerry
William J. Clinton
Howard Dean
Nancy Pelosi
Dianne Feinstein
Charles E. Schumer
Barbara Boxer

See what happens when aliens breed with sheep and jackasses?

I certainly hope this bit of information clears up a lot of things for you. It did for me.

No wonder they support the bill to help illegal aliens!

 

[SaveDarfur]

Talking about race - an alien race, no less. This is just for fun.

A cut and paste from a Republican Party blogger:

Some of you will recall that on July 8, 1947, a little over 60 years ago, witnesses claim that an unidentified flying object (UFO) with five aliens aboard crashed onto a sheep and mule ranch just outside Roswell , New Mexico. This is a well known incident that many say has long been covered up by the U.S. Air Force ...and other federal agencies and organizations.

However, what you may NOT know is that in the month of April 1948, nine months after that historic day, the following people were born:

Albert A. Gore, Jr..
Hillary Rodham
John F. Kerry
William J. Clinton
Howard Dean
Nancy Pelosi
Dianne Feinstein
Charles E. Schumer
Barbara Boxer

See what happens when aliens breed with sheep and jackasses?

I certainly hope this bit of information clears up a lot of things for you. It did for me.

No wonder they support the bill to help illegal aliens!

I'm a Democrat and I just had to lol.

 

[Joshua_me]

^ Those republicans are a real hoot.

Did they laugh out loud at that or just rattle their jewelry ?

 

[Pangelboy]

Lots of people work just as hard and aren't successful but that is the nature of life and no government can change it.

The government can help to alleviate the problem ("the nature of life") instead of leaving the most vulnerable members of society to fend for themselves.

There is plenty of blame to go around on the part of both races.

No there isn't. How does black racism affect the daily lives of white america in the same way white racism does?

I'm not arguing that racism towards white people is better than racism towards blacks, or occurs less or more frequently, only that because of the fact that white people are the majority (which provides them with many benefits and protections) they are more likely to be insulated from the negative effects (whatever those may be) of racism towards whites.

The same is not true for African-Americans or most "coloreds" in America.


Re: to OP

I'm glad the NAACP called out the Tea Party leadership on the racism that exists throughout the Tea Party ranks. I just can't wait until the party fades away and dies it's inevitable death.

Maybe then we'll be able to have legitimate political discourse and criticism concerning the Obama administration.

 

[NickCole]

At a NAACP event, a USDA official explains her attitude about helping white farmers. Nobody in the audience seems offended or shocked or even slightly surprised. In fact they appear to approve.





Ms Sherrod resigned from USDA after this video surfaced yesterday, and she now says her comments are being misconstrued. (They why resign?) But no matter what else is true, she says what we hear her saying on the video and the NAACP event audience demonstrates no objection to what she's saying.

This is a black woman speaking to a black audience about black prejudice against whites. Understandable? I think so. But clearly it is there.

 

[palemale]

At a NAACP event, a USDA official explains her attitude about helping white farmers. Nobody in the audience seems offended or shocked or even slightly surprised. In fact they appear to approve.





Ms Sherrod resigned from USDA after this video surfaced yesterday, and she now says her comments are being misconstrued. (They why resign?) But no matter what else is true, she says what we hear her saying on the video and the NAACP event audience demonstrates no objection to what she's saying.

This is a black woman speaking to a black audience about black prejudice against whites. Understandable? I think so. But clearly it is there.

She clearly should not be in the position she resigned from. Even though she felt the man was being disrespectful to her, she was obligated to do whatever she had to do to help him.

I don't think one can extrapolate anything more than that from the clip because it is incomplete. I'm not sure what you expected the audience to do. Throw things at her? Shout her down? We don't know what happened when she finished her speech. Perhaps no one applauded when she finished. Perhaps she was challenged by audience members in a Q&A session after the speech. She may have said things after the speech that put her earlier comments in a different context than appears to be here. We don't know because it is a portion of the full event.

In any event, she should have been forced to resign or be fired. She had no excuse for not doing everything she could to help unless the man was crazy or belligerent and she had to do the minimum amount of effort to get him out of her office. And if that was the case, it was wrong of her to imply to a public audience that her decision was based on his race instead of a legitimate reason.

 

[BostonPirate]

palemale... that is a reedited fox clip. what in the world are you doing using that clip? they are notorious for editing things dishonestly to mislead people.

are you sure that she wasn't making a point about facing her own racism in a speech? where is the entire speech and what did she say her conclusions were?

 

[NickCole]

palemale... that is a reedited fox clip. what in the world are you doing using that clip? they are notorious for editing things dishonestly to mislead people.

are you sure that she wasn't making a point about facing her own racism in a speech? where is the entire speech and what did she say her conclusions were?

And that's typical of BP's responses. Just as palemale's response of excuses is typical of his.

The NAACP, however, released a statement after Sherrod resigned that demonstrates integrity. This is part of it (for the full statement click on the link). Emphasis added by me.

...

We concur with US Agriculture Secretary Vilsack in accepting the resignation of Shirley Sherrod for her remarks at a local NAACP Freedom Fund banquet.

Racism is about the abuse of power. Sherrod had it in her position at USDA.

According to her remarks, she mistreated a white farmer in need of assistance because of his race.

We are appalled by her actions, just as we are with abuses of power against farmers of color and female farmers.

Her actions were shameful. While she went on to explain in the story that she ultimately realized her mistake, as well as the common predicament of working people of all races, she gave no indication she had attempted to right the wrong she had done to this man.

The reaction from many in the audience is disturbing. We will be looking into the behavior of NAACP representatives at this local event and take any appropriate action. ...

http://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/07/20/naacp-statement-on-resignation-of-shirley-sherrod/

Who knows what action they will or will not take but at least they publicly acknowledge what's distrubing that's clearly evident in that video.

 

[MercuryJones]

are you sure that she wasn't making a point about facing her own racism in a speech? where is the entire speech and what did she say her conclusions were?

You mean like this? (http://www.ajc.com/news/resigned-usda-official-says-574027.html)

But Tuesday morning, Sherrod said what online viewers weren't told in reports posted throughout the day Monday was that the tale she told at the banquet happened 24 years ago -- before she got the USDA job -- when she worked with the Georgia field office for the Federation of Southern Cooperative/Land Assistance Fund.

Sherrod said the short video clip excluded the breadth of the story about how she eventually worked with the man over a two-year period to help ward off foreclosure of his farm, and how she eventually became friends with him and his wife.

"And I went on to work with many more white farmers," she said. "The story helped me realize that race is not the issue, it's about the people who have and the people who don't. When I speak to groups, I try to speak about getting beyond the issue of race."

 

[BostonPirate]

thanks mercury! that makes my point people here, white racists with black fear, will time and time again edit videos to suit their needs, and then people that have similar fears of race, repeat these using them as validation, unwittingly spreading the racism as well as the fear.

 

[Jack Springer]

Why did the woman so quickly resign then. Doesn't make sense.