NAACP resolution on Tea Party racism put in Democrat context

According to media reports, the NAACP, having welcomed First Lady Michelle Obama to the organization’s national convention, is poised to vote on a resolution about racism on Tuesday.

The resolution, according to ABC News, is “expected to condemn what it calls racist elements in the Tea Party movement.”

I’ve met many Tea Partiers and I’m on mailing lists for a number of these groups. I have never witnessed nor heard any racially charged statements at anything I’ve covered.

I have heard a number of racially charged statements, however, from Democrats and some minority opportunists. At the moment, the race you may target comfortably and say anything about is the white race.

This is permitted because very few people have ever thought about the history of slavery or racism, public schools having failed miserably to frame history in context. Most US schoolchildren probably believe slavery started right here in the USA. Of course it didn’t. We were among the first to end it so early in the history of a country, however.

Just for fun, waltz down memory lane with me and view a few truly racist moments in US government. This timeline is in no particular order, by the way--incidents are pulled from searches here at The US Report:

Jan., 2009: Robert Reich, economic advisor to President Barack Obama, says ‘white male construction workers’ should not expect to benefit from the Stimulus.

Sept., 2008: Then-governor Kathleen Sebelius (Kansas) pumping the crowd for Obama asks, “Have any of you noticed that Barack Obama is part African-American?” Sebelius would move on to grander things as a cabinet appointee, educating the nation on the proper way to sneeze during the seriously overblown Swine Flu 'epidemic.'

Sept., 2008: Fatimah Ali, writing for the Philadelphia Inquirer, (twice) predicts a race war if Obama loses the election. Curiously, neither of Ali’s articles can be found now.

July, 2009: A blogger for a leftwing content mill distorts remarks made by RNC Chair Michael Steele, creating a headline that made Steele appear to be racist. The blogger provided a video that reflected just how stupid that blogger really was because the video contradicted his silly claims. (Did you notice that Michael Steele is African-American?)

October, 2008: Georgia Democrat Rep. John Lewis accuses Sen. John McCain of ‘sowing seeds of hatred’ because of anger at Washington expressed at McCain rallies. Lewis even compared McCain to a known racist.

Jan., 2010: Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) alludes to Obama’s light skin and options for using “negro dialect.” Reid’s membership in the Democrat Party earns him a pass.

March, 2010: Once again the Huffington Post (see Jul, 2009, ‘leftwing content mill’) claims Rep. Lewis (see Oct., 2008, John McCain) and others were spat upon and called names by Tea Party supporters. No one has produced a video to document the claims, and of course, it would be just like Democrat masters of the dark arts to plant someone at such a gathering—that’s actually the reason I think media got so wrapped up in the Tea Party-race baiting propaganda—if Democrats knew there would be a plant there, then they knew a racist act would occur. This is theory on my part and cannot be proved just as the accusations of racism cannot be proved. The difference is I'm honest about it.

Feb., 2009: Attorney General Eric Holder calls us a ‘nation of cowards’ because we don’t talk about racism enough. Holder subsequently refuses to deal firmly with the New Black Panther Party after some members stood in front of precincts in Philadelphia with nightsticks, calling people racist names. That NBPP moment, by the way, was caught on video.

April, 2009: The Congressional Black Caucus heads to Cuba for some schmoozing with Fidel Castro. The result is a diatribe about racism in the US. No mention is made of racism in Cuba. In January, 2009, Havana Times said, “The Cuban cultural journal Temas published studies by the governmental Anthropology Centre in 2006 that showed that on average, the black population has worse housing, receives less money in remittances from abroad and has less access to jobs in emerging economic sectors like tourism, in which blacks represent barely five percent of managers and professionals, than the white population.” Funny thing—in a socialist society isn’t EVERYONE supposed to be the same?

July, 2008: TV One, with a largely black audience, covers the Democrat National Convention but not the Republican National Convention—in keeping with freedom of speech but in reality, a manifestation of fear that black people in their audience might be informed of a different perspective.

Those are just a few instances of race-baiting and race-carding, courtesy of Democrats.

The NAACP expects members to pass the resolution condemning racism in the Tea Party movement. That resolution suggests the Democrat Party, clinging to its oldest tenet, has successfully once again led by way of fiction rather than fact. And incidentally, it’s been that way ever since presidential candidate John F. Kennedy saw the benefit in all those black voters and decided to change his tactics of voting against civil rights legislation. Kennedy helped get Martin Luther King out of jail, so the story goes, and black people followed the Democrats.

The result of the relationship between Democrats and black people can be found in failing public schools, in decimated neighborhoods courtesy of a flawed social engineering policy, in competition for housing in Sect. 8 neighborhoods where foreign workers also seek housing, and manifesting as hatred in the hearts of those like the New Black Panther Party who are completely uninformed about the role of their own race, current and past, in slavery at home and abroad.

The Democrat goal is as old as war—divide and conquer. That so many still fall for it says a lot about human frailty and it says a lot about the complete lack of moral character in many Democrat leaders who will always, given an option, place politics above the welfare of this country.

The NAACP fell for the Democrat race card once again—after all, Democrats need a majority black vote as they build a majority Hispanic vote with neither constituency realizing they are being used for pure political gain that may one day result in civil unrest as a result of urging from members of groups like the NBPP.

Therein is an issue completely ignored by media--black vs. Hispanic bias and vice versa. Everyone knows it's there, but we really are a nation of "cowards" when that subject crops up. Media carefully sidesteps this issue even as children are shot in the street.

Obama was supposed to be the great hope that brought our country together. It appears the opposite has occurred, largely due to his own Party's manipulation of political messaging for nothing more than political gain. Ironically, we can lay the current state of social divisiveness firmly at the feet of the Democrat Party from its inception to present day.--Commentary by Kay B. Day

Comments

[Montana]

The Tea Bag Party are just “haters not debaters” or as others have dubbed them “screamers not dreamers”, with their failed attempts at stopping Healthcare reform, they say they respect the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence but they do not mind passing laws, through weak Governors (no one voted for this crazy) who only cares about getting elected Governor, on the backs of undocumented workers, that will not pass Constitution muster.

Brewer signed into law;
1. S.B. 1070,
2. No permit conceal weapons law,
3. The famous Birthers law,
4. Banning Ethnic studies law,
5. Banning human-animal hybrid (aren’t most GOPers crossed with the Reptilian race?)
or are they just giving Laurence Gonzales, some great promotion material for his new book “Lucy”.

6. Could she be behind the Mural in Prescott, Arizona, ordered to be whiten,
7. On deck to pass, no citizenship to babies born to undocumented workers,

8. If she can read she should look up Arizona’s House Bill 2779 from two years ago (which was un-constitution and failed when legally challenged),
9. The boycotted Martin Luther King Day, what idiots don’t want another holiday? Yes, you guessed it Arizona.

Well Arizona, you can boycott new holidays and keep passing crazy laws and the rest of us will continue to challenged them in a court of law and continue to add cities to our Boycott of your state.

I real cannot believe anything that comes out of Brewer’s mouth, in an interview she first said her father had died in Germany fighting the Nazi in World War II (war ended 1945) but of course we find out the truth that father was never in Germany and died in California in 1955. But we are suppose to believe everything else she says, right! No one voted for you for Governor, yet you keep listening to the tiny brains of the crazies and signing into law everything that comes into their feeble minds, it only make you look dumb, stupid or racist, or maybe all three.

As for the Tea Bag Party, their phony patriotism is sickening; they are just racists going by another name. We all know you are just itching to put a sheet on their head? Let’s face it the Republicans had eight years to deal with health care, immigration, energy (remember Cheney’s secret meetings with oil companies where loosening regulation and oversight were sealed), climate change and financial oversight and governance and they failed. It appears that the Republican Party is only good at starting wars (two in eight years, with fat contracts to friends of Cheney/Bush) but not at winning wars as seen by the continuing line of body bags that keep coming home. The Republicans party will continue turned inward to their old fashion obstructionist party (and their Confederacy appreciation roots) because they continue to allow a small portions (but very loud portion) of their party of “birthers, baggers and blowhards” to rule their party. I will admit that this fringe is very good at playing “Follow the Leader” by listening to their dullard leaders, Beck, Hedgecock, Hannity, O’Reilly, Rush, Savage, Sarah Bailin, Orly Taitz, Victoria Jackson, Michele Bachmann and the rest of the Blowhards and acting as ill programmed robots (they have already acted against doctors that perform abortions). Yee Haw!

[Kay B. Day]

Montana, your rant is misplaced. The Tea Party hasn't tanked the country. These people have a right to freedom of expression, have committed no crimes and have held the most peaceful protests among all protester groups.

I can tell you're a very dedicated Democrat. Otherwise you wouldn't overlook your own Party's history of racism, your own Party's current racism, Democrats' history of tanking medical care (by erecting Ponzi schemes like Medicare and Medicaid instead of encouraging the free market to render such care), by completely tanking immigration (check out who was in charge of Congress under the Reagan amnesty).

And for 9/11, you can thank Mr. Clinton. Because he appeased and cajoled rather than doing something about a group that had declared war on the US on a TV show for cryin' out loud.

You seem to be very dedicated to that Axelrod turfing method, though. Bet you like to play on lots of message boards.

I'm a Republican. I state my name publicly. And for you to suggest we are "itching to put a sheet" on anyone's head comes very close to delusion.

Because the big sheet wearer, a well-known Klansman, was none other than high ranking Dem Sen. Robert Byrd.

And the worst case of racial hatred I've seen lately stems from the New Black Panther Party member's directive to "kill white babies."

Finally, if you made it this far, be a real man (or woman or whatever). When you assail a political party, have the guts to put your name on what you write. Yee Haw right back at you and a gold star for being so miserably uninformed.

[T.A. Jennings]

"The Republicans party will continue turned inward to their old fashion obstructionist party (and their Confederacy appreciation roots)"

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it a Republican President and Republican congress that waged war against the Confederacy?

Don't you hate it when the facts get in the way?

[Kay B. Day, Editor]

Todd, I have an official troll. Guess it's a badget of honor of sorts.

Yes, it was a Republican president now that I think about what you say. And had it not been for a GOP prez, who knows when Civil Rights would have come (recall JFK voted against it in the Senate). Here's a great article about a great Republican president: Eisenhower on Civil Rights.

Thanks, Todd.