An NAACP spokesman said the exact words of the tea-party resolution were not available Wednesday evening, and might not be available until October, when the NAACP board meets to consider ratifying the language
This is why they do not have the exact words of the tea-party resolution and why they need to ratify the language. Here is a 30 second clip of the NAACP President Ben Jealous speaking at their annual convention prior to their vote condemning the TEA party as racist:
Here comes the genetic descendent of the WHITE CITIZENS COUNCIL. Birthed from its coffin? Carrying signs and slogans like lynch Barack Hussein Obama and lynch Eric Holder. With hopes and dreams of tearing our nation apart at the very moment it needs to be put back together.
The White Citizens' Council was an American white supremacist organization formed in 1954 and was well known for its opposition to racial integration. It's more like YOU are intent on tearing this nation apart with your inflamatory racial speeches to stir up the emotions of your congregation. What you have FAILED to realize is that this kind of broad brushed stereotyping of our movement WILL BACKFIRE upon you. You will reap as you have sown.
By the way Mr. Jealous, did you know, were you AWARE of the FACT that there was a staunch Obama supporter that actually set-up a website recruiting other Obama supporters to INFILTRATE our T.E.A. party rallies across the nation and encouraged them to carry OBSCENE SIGNS and shout out vulgar statements about President Obama to portray our T.E.A. party movement negatively. DID YOU KNOW THAT SIR? It would behoove you and your organization to get all of the facts first before PUBLICLY MAKING FALSE ACCUSATIONS. I posted this information a few months back. I will look for it and come back and post the link.
UPDATE: I went back and found the post I made about the obsessed Obama supporter who created a special website to undermine the T.E.A. party. Dated 04/15/2010: 'Crash The Tea Party' Founder Has Been EXPOSED! This Guy And The Rest Of The Crashers Are Fine Examples Of Obama Supporters! They Plan To Show Up With Deplorable Signs To Portray Us The Way The MEDIA Has Stereotyped Us! Please click HERE to be directed to this post!
By the way Mr. Jealous, did you know, were you AWARE of the FACT that there was a staunch Obama supporter that actually set-up a website recruiting other Obama supporters to INFILTRATE our T.E.A. party rallies across the nation and encouraged them to carry OBSCENE SIGNS and shout out vulgar statements about President Obama to portray our T.E.A. party movement negatively. DID YOU KNOW THAT SIR? It would behoove you and your organization to get all of the facts first before PUBLICLY MAKING FALSE ACCUSATIONS. I posted this information a few months back. I will look for it and come back and post the link.
UPDATE: I went back and found the post I made about the obsessed Obama supporter who created a special website to undermine the T.E.A. party. Dated 04/15/2010: 'Crash The Tea Party' Founder Has Been EXPOSED! This Guy And The Rest Of The Crashers Are Fine Examples Of Obama Supporters! They Plan To Show Up With Deplorable Signs To Portray Us The Way The MEDIA Has Stereotyped Us! Please click HERE to be directed to this post!
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The Kansas City Star
written by Dave Helling
Wednesday Julu 14, 2010 10:54pm
Two prominent African-American leaders on Wednesday downplayed criticism of the tea-party movement after conservatives nationwide took aim at an NAACP resolution alleging “elements” of tea-party racism.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson told reporters in Kansas City that the focus on the tea party was a “diversion” from more important issues, while NAACP President Ben Jealous said the resolution was just a small part of a bigger agenda and blamed the media for focusing too much on the tea party.
“I give a 42-page speech. Half a page is focused on the tea party,” Jealous said. “We need the media to pay attention to the issues that are most important to this country” such as jobs, education and crime.
Conservatives reacted angrily after learning of the resolution, approved by delegates at the NAACP’s national convention this week in Kansas City.
“The charge that Tea Party Americans judge people by the color of their skin is false, appalling, and is a regressive and diversionary tactic to change the subject at hand,” former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin said in a statement on a Facebook page.
Columnist Cynthia Tucker, who is black, called the resolution “inappropriate, narrow-minded and divisive,” while Timothy Johnson of the Frederick Douglass Foundation said “the NAACP no longer speaks for the average African-American … the Tea Party movement has nothing to do with race.”
An NAACP spokesman said the exact words of the tea-party resolution were not available Wednesday evening, and might not be available until October, when the NAACP board meets to consider ratifying the language.
But spokesman Chris Fleming said: “We’re not condemning the tea party at all…. We’re condemning some racist elements within the movement.”
The Rev. Al Sharpton of the National Action Network said tea partiers emphasized states’ rights, which he said would lead to more discrimination against minorities. But he said the civil rights community should respond to the tea-party movement with its own activities and marches. “I’m not mad at the tea party for rallying,” Sharpton said. “I’m mad that we’re not rallying .…We’ve given them center stage.”
Sharpton and others at a news conference urged supporters to participate in a march in Washington in October. And they said they would organize protests around a march in August by conservative talk show host Glenn Beck.
Beck’s march is meant in part to commemorate the August 1963 March on Washington involving the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
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