Well, I guess the Tea Party movement is racist. I’ve been going back and forth on this question for a few months, but now the world’s foremost authority on racism, the NAACP, is considering a resolution “decrying the racist elements in the tea-party movement.” That’s a harsh indictment of the Tea Party. What are the racist elements, you ask?
Among the charges lodged against the tea party in the resolution:
- Tea party supporters have engaged in “explicitly racist behavior” and “displayed signs and posters intended to degrade people of color generally and President Barack Obama specifically.”
- Tea party activists have used racial epithets, have verbally and physically abused black members of Congress and others, and have been charged with threatening public officials.
- Tea party supporters also have a distorted view of race relations, the resolution says, citing poll data that found that 25 percent believe that the Obama administration’s policies favor blacks over whites, and 52 percent believe that “too much” has been made of the problems facing black people, compared with 28 percent of the general population.
Let’s start with the first point: signs that degrade President Obama. Unless you believe President Obama is the first President to ever be degraded that argument doesn’t hold water. Simply being opposed to Obama is equal to racism? I mean, really?
The second point… No one in the Tea Party movement has been charged with threatening public officials. As far as verbal abuse is concerned, the only thing we have to go on is the word of lying Congressmen who failed to produce any video or audio evidence in a crowd of thousands. You can’t wink in a crowd these days and not get filmed by eight different people.
The last point is the weakest (and that’s saying something). African-Americans are supposed to be outraged over some random poll that says the Obama administration favors blacks over whites? How many people in the NAACP believe that the Bush administration favored whites over blacks? I don’t even need the answer to that question and I simply don’t care.
The real question is this: What does the NAACP hope to accomplish wasting its time on such nonsense? Why does the NAACP keep supporting a national party that’s not helping blacks, and is, in fact, hampering blacks by trying their best to make selected minorities dependents and wards of the state. Idiotic resolutions do nothing to help people and only marginalize the organization.
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