Tea Party unfairly accused

This is just a letter do the editor, but I feel that the defense of the tea party is a good one. The tea party has come under attack by the NAACP, anyone who questions Obama is labeled a racist. If you question Obama and happen to be a tea party member you are a member of the ku klux klan. I thought the left was the party of tolerance...

The NAACP was a good organization for helping African Americans for a long time, but it is now a political arm of the Democratic Party and the administration. There are those who say that the NAACP is being too liberal, but to accuse the tea party of being racist without any evidence to show is shameful, slanderous and downright callous.

Instead of getting on the New Black Panther Army for being racist and using strong-arm tactics to prevent people from voting, they would rather attack a movement that is needed to take back our nation from a corrupt and power-mad party and president.

I would like to mention that one senator compared the tea party movement to the Ku Klux Klan. That is downright shameful and slanderous.

One final point: It’s that the people are sick of being told what to do, how to act, what to eat and what to say and drink.

Amen brother! Hopefully people were listening to you. This person does a good job pointing out all the ironies surrounding this whole NAACP/tea party thing. Hopefully the people can see through the ironies as well

Anything you can do I can do better!

This is really becoming a he said she said thing between the tea party and the NAACP. Video footage is coming out of an USDA official talking to the NAACP saying:

"He had to come to me for help. What he didn't know while he was taking all that time trying to show me he was superior to me was I was trying to decide just how much help I was going to give him," she said. "I was struggling with the fact that so many black people have lost their farmland and here I was faced with having to help a white person save their land -- so I didn't give him the full force of what I could do. I did enough."

Two points come to mind on this one. First off, this video was taken on the heels of the NAACP vs Tea Party story. Mrs. Sherrod should have realized the irony of her situation, reverse discrimination, and kept her mouth quite (though I am glad this video came out, now we conservatives can label all liberals as racist...).

Secondly she was an official for the United states government. It's not like she was some president of a local chapter of the NAACP, she had a high profile job in the government. I wonder of Mrs. Sherrod was their by appointment of the President.

Regardless the racist rhetoric needs to stop from both sides. I am glad to see that steps were taken to correct both instances; Mrs Sherrod resigned and TPE was expelled from the federation. Both parties need to act more civilly towards each other.

Tea Party Leader Disgraces Movement

For a whole week there has been debate concerning whether or not the tea party was racist. The whole controversy started with the NAACP condemning the movement as being bigoted. I along with several other bloggers and leaders of the movement defended the movement against these charges. And while the tea party as a whole is not racist, I will call a spade when I see a spade.

I am actually very disappointed in Mark Williams, one of the prominent leaders of the tea party express. Williams wrote a "letter" from "Precious Ben Jealous, Tom's Nephew, NAACP head colored person." The letter continues:

“We Coloreds have taken a vote and decided that we don’t cotton to that whole emancipation thing. Freedom means having to work for real, think for ourselves, and take consequences along with the rewards. That is just far too much to ask of us Colored people and we demand that it stop!

I had great respect for the tea party express, and admired their zeal for getting the word out concerning the tea party movement. I remember those nights leading up to tea party rallies in DC, when the tea party express would stop in cities and hold mini rallies. That was great. So when I see stuff like this my heart stops for a beat.

What were you thinking Mark Williams? What good could possible come from writing a letter like that, except to prove that there are indeed racist elements within the tea party? Unfortunately I think that expelling your organization from the national tea party federation was the correct thing to do.

The NAACP has Alzheimers

One of the leaders of the largest civil rights groups in New York, was on Hannity last night. Meyers came out and condemned the NAACP:

MICHAEL MEYERS, NY CIVIL RIGHTS COALITION:The NAACP is a 101-year-old organization. It is showing signs of Alzheimer's. It is a kind of brain death. Anybody white who disagrees to the NAACP is a racist. Anybody black who disagrees with NAACP is pilloried with racial calumny. They're Uncle Tom or they are a Negro.

This is a sign of brain death because this is — and the irony of it all is that the NAACP is accusing the Tea Party of wanting to push America to the past, pre-Civil Rights era. That's exactly where the NAACP is stuck, in the past! It does not see, it does not recognize the significant racial progress in this nation.

Stuck in the past. Yes I think I agree with that comment. The NAACP recognizes that they are no longer a relevant organization, so they are grabbing at straws now. What is next? Naming this guy man of the year?

Unfounded and Unfair

The NAACP CEO Ben Jealous made some statements about the tea party after the infamous passage of tea party condemnation:

“We take no issue with the Tea Party. We believe in freedom of assembly and people raising their voices in a democracy,” NAACP President and CEO Ben Jealous said in a statement.

“We take issue with the Tea Party’s continued tolerance for bigotry and bigoted statements. The time has come for them to accept the responsibility that comes with influence and make clear there is no space for racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in their movement,” Jealous added.

This just seems so self serving to me. The NAACP is basing these accusations on a supposed epithet thrown at a black congressman during a march, and a few comments by Rand Paul taken out of context. You are not doing this because of bigotry NAACP, you are doing this because you want to be relevant. You have served little to no purpose lately and so this is your attempt at becoming relevant. Just remember you sow what you reap.

Tim Scott defends the Tea Party

Tim Scott, Republican candidate for Congress from South Carolina came out to condemn the NAACP's condemnation of the Tea Party as racist. Said Scott:

I believe that the NAACP is making a grave mistake in stereotyping a diverse group of Americans who care deeply about their country and who contribute their time, energy and resources to make a difference.”

Indeed isn't it ironic that an institution that was founded on the principle advancing the cause of a minority group has grown to the point where they are persecuting the new minority group? I'm just sayin.

Anyway I applaud Scott for doing what he has done. Go Scott!