The Tea Party is Not Racist

Mumbles said:
The whole "What about the New Black Panthers" defense is pretty weak. I have no idea why people think the NAACP would accept them, when even the real Black Panthers despise them, especially when Kristen Clarke has already denied the Times' story in her testimony to the USCCR.
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The NAACP case isn't about the organization accepting the Black Panther group. It's about the NAACP criticizing the tea party movement for not doing enough to condemn the idiots that weed into their movement while not doing the same for the black panther intimidation cases. I did bring this up to talk about William's rant, but only to point out that he was probably doing it because of this topic.

Personally, I think Williams was ranting to piss people off. I know that's probably what I'd do if I didn't care how people would respond to me. Obviously that kind of personality is the last thing any group needs. The reprimands against him are well justified.


JoeTheJuggler said:
I don't think the NAACP has turned a blind eye to the Black Panthers. They pointed out that the Black Panthers is a tiny fringe organization with nowhere near the clout and widespread popularity of the Tea Party.
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But as they must be learning very quickly it's often the fringe elements that are used by people to paint the image of the entire group. I've been arguing how stupid that kind of reasoning is for a very long time already
 
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quarky said:
The main thing is this:

"We're mad as hell, and we aren't going to take it anymore!"

Its kind of fun to be mad as hell, and somewhat empowering to feel like we aren't going to take 'it' anymore.

Why get bogged down in the details?

Its a party!
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I know what you mean - he's a racist, she's a racist, we're a racist, wouldn't you like to be a racist too? This whole damn world is a racist. I don't know what else to say. I just ran out of ********. I really don't know any other way to say it other than I just ran out of ********.
If there's anybody out there that can look around this demented slaughterhouse of a world we live in and tell me that man is a noble creature, believe me: That man is full of ********. So I don't have any ******** left. I just ran out of it, you see.
 
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-s...rtiers-jewish-guards-nazi-concentration-camps

CNN this weekend invited a "diversity consultant" on its "Saturday Morning" program that actually likened black Tea Party members to Jews that worked as guards in Nazi concentration camps.
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:rolleyes:

The person who did this is Luke Visconti, owner of Diversity Inc..

And guess what? He gave $1000 to Barack Obama in 2007 and a $1000 to Hillary in 2007. That must mean he's a democrat.

Does Visconti's apparent stupidity (or is it outright racism) make the democrat party as a whole stupid and racist? Just curious.
 
Shalamar said:
Party of Republics?
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Whatever floats your boat. In the singular "Democrat", not "Democratic" is here to stay; same for several "Democrats". Good luck getting "Republic" into the vernacular as a replacement for "Republican".
 
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AlBell said:
Whatever floats your boat. In the singular "Democrat", not "Democratic" is here to stay; same for several "Democrats". Good luck getting "Republic" into the vernacular as a replacement for "Republican".
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I still don't understand why you chose to ignore 150+ years of convention and change the name at this point.
 
MaGZ said:
If you are looking for illiterate voters look to the darker areas of Washington DC
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MaGZ, I think you and I have gotten off on the wrong foot.

I mis-read you as one holding the bigoted, childish, and wrong-headed view that southerners are simple-minded racists, while you seem to have mistaken me for a politician. What we've got here is failure to communicate.

No harm no foul, love means never having to say you're sorry.
 
http://biggovernment.com/abreitbart/2010/07/19/video-proof-the-naacp-awards-racism2010/

We are in possession of a video from in which Shirley Sherrod, USDA Georgia Director of Rural Development, speaks at the NAACP Freedom Fund dinner in Georgia. In her meandering speech to what appears to be an all-black audience, this federally appointed executive bureaucrat lays out in stark detail, that her federal duties are managed through the prism of race and class distinctions.

In the first video, Sherrod describes how she racially discriminates against a white farmer. She describes how she is torn over how much she will choose to help him. And, she admits that she doesn’t do everything she can for him, because he is white. Eventually, her basic humanity informs that this white man is poor and needs help. But she decides that he should get help from “one of his own kind”. She refers him to a white lawyer.

Sherrod’s racist tale is received by the NAACP audience with nodding approval and murmurs of recognition and agreement. Hardly the behavior of the group now holding itself up as the supreme judge of another groups’ racial tolerance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_xCeItxbQY&feature=player_embedded

The second video affirms the real reason there is tension between the Democratic Party and a growing mass of middle Americans — and it’s not because of race.

The NAACP which has transformed from a civil rights group to a propaganda arm of the Democratic Party and social-justice politics, supports a new America that relies less on individualism, entrepreneurialism and American grit, but instead giddily embraces, the un-American notion of unaccountability and government dependence. Shirley Sherrod, a federal appointee who oversees over a billion dollars of federal funds, nearly begs black men and women into taking government jobs at USDA — because they won’t get fired.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zXDNlWESD0&feature=player_embedded

This is why the Democratic Party is scared. This is why the NAACP is scared.
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Wow! Talk about a double standard.

Any comments? Any skepticism about the NAACP or Obama administration?
 
GrouchoMarxist said:
MaGZ, I think you and I have gotten off on the wrong foot.

I mis-read you as one holding the bigoted, childish, and wrong-headed view that southerners are simple-minded racists, while you seem to have mistaken me for a politician. What we've got here is failure to communicate.

No harm no foul, love means never having to say you're sorry.
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More like MaGZ holds onto the hope that they are racist so he wont feel alone. MaGZ doesn't see racist, or indeed Nazi, as bad words.
 
Ladewig said:
I still don't understand why you chose to ignore 150+ years of convention and change the name at this point.
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Should such convention actually exist, I wouldn't ignore it. It doesn't. A voter is a Democrat: not a Democratic; a Republican: not a Republic; or votes for some third party.
 
I like how when conservatives are not busy outing themselves as racist with moronic "satire", they spend their time editing secret videos they took to prove liberals are racist.
 
This Shirley Sherrod story is getting more and more interesting.

First, this link has a photo of Shirley and her boss, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, who gave a speech at a Farmer's Conference. It quotes Vilsack regarding how the USDA views civil rights:

http://www.noyes.org/noyesnews409

He said he chose to make his first speech outside Washington at the conference because he wanted to send a message that USDA is serious about civil rights.
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Now the immediating resignation of Sherrod (I presume she was *asked* to resign) is a good sign that Vilsack is serious about that. But, there still are a few questions that need answers.

I see (http://www.federationsoutherncoop.com/press/pr2009/sept2409.htm ) that Sherrod was appointed by the Obama administration (by Vilsack) in July 2009. She was the first black in Georgia to hold the post. Don't know who recommended her, but perhaps she just came to the attention of Vilsack as a result of his interest in a form of reparations to black farmers, one of whom was Shirley Sherrod.

In February, the Washington Post (http://rantburg.com/index.php?HC=3&D=2010-02-22&SO= ) reported that

The Obama administration announced a $1.25 billion settlement Thursday to resolve charges by thousands of black farmers who say that for decades the Agriculture Department discriminated against them in loan programs.

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Vilsack and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. took a personal interest in striking a deal with the black farmers, whose leaders have appeared regularly in the halls of Congress and in the White House.
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Here's where she comes into that story ...

http://www.ruraldevelopment.org/shirleydirector.html

RDLN Graduate and Board Vice Chair Shirley Sherrod was appointed Georgia Director for Rural Development by Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack on July 25. Only days earlier, she learned that New Communities, a group she founded with her husband and other families (see below) has won a thirteen million dollar settlement in the minority farmers law suit Pigford vs Vilsack.
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Now you would think that someone who supposedly was a victim of racist government policies would try to avoid instituting racist government policies once she herself was in power. But no, it appears she was more interested in payback. Which makes one wonder how pervasive this reverse racism attitude is in her USDA Rural Development department? Surely her staff had sensed what appear to be her strongly held feelings about that?

And given the fact that she and her organization were in effect suing Vilsack and the USDA right before she was hired, I find it odd that they'd hire her for a top position. You would think that Vilsack would want to be careful not to bring someone with the attitude she expressed in those videos into his organization. Did she really manage to hide such feelings from him and his staff? Maybe this needs to be investigated further, along with the DOJ?

And one more thing I found:

In October 2009 (http://www.flaginc.org/topics/news/index.php#20091026a ) Shirley Sherrod received an award by an organization called FLAG. In their bio of her it says "Shirley Sherrod, who recently was named USDA Rural Development Georgia State Director, has dedicated her life to social justice." There's that code-word again, folks. :D
 
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