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Washington (CNN) – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has passed a resolution that condemns what it feels is rampant racism in the Tea Party movement. Members passed the measure on Tuesday at the NAACP's 101st annual convention being held in Kansas City, Mo.
Tea Party activists have swiftly denounced the action as unfounded and unfair.
The resolution pits the nation's oldest civil rights organization, with a storied history of wins on behalf of racial justice, against a grassroots conservative movement that has won some recent political races and is flexing its muscle in Republican circles.
"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."
Leaders of the conservative movement reacted to the NAACP action with swift and angry derision.
"I am disinclined to take lectures on racial sensitivity from a group that insists on calling black people, 'colored,'" Mark Williams, national spokesman of the Tea Party Express, told CNN. "The Tea Party [movement] is about the constitution of this country...[and] ensuring equality for each and every individual human being."
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a Tea Party favorite, said the charge from the NAACP is "false, appalling, and is a regressive and diversionary tactic to change the subject at hand."
"To be unjustly accused of association with what Reagan so aptly called that 'legacy of evil' is a traumatizing experience, and one of which the honest, freedom-loving patriots of the Tea Party movement are truly undeserving," she wrote in a posting on her Facebook page Tuesday night.
Source: CNN
Kevin Eason is a freelance editorial cartoonist and illustrator from New Jersey. His brand of satire covers news events in politics, entertainment, sports and much more.
Source: CNN
Kevin Eason is a freelance editorial cartoonist and illustrator from New Jersey. His brand of satire covers news events in politics, entertainment, sports and much more.
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By: Bernie30338 on 7/14/2010 3:15PM
I am a young black woman and I am sooo fed up with our race always accusing everyone else of racism,hatred, etc. when we are our own worst enemy. We have created a lot of poverty situations, one-parent homes, joblessness among our race by our own hand. Why do black orgs. not address this????
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By: H.B. on 7/14/2010 3:35PM
Addressing those problems would require them to admit that blacks are responsible for living up to the low expectations and stereotypes that society has come to accept from them.
Anyone who calls blacks out on their shortcomings is either a white racist or a black promoter of stereotypes.
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By: 1pbm on 7/14/2010 8:32PM
Twisted.
"Always?"
Sigh,.. only a racist white or a disillusioned naieve, ignorant child would speak absolutes about an entire people.
If YOU ARE a Bw,.. I'm ashamed at how stupid you sound.
(I can't believe it - "Always???")
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By: black conservative on 7/15/2010 4:18AM
bernie,what you said is so true.
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By: black man on 7/14/2010 5:05PM
Democrats amaze me!Your boy Kevin Eason portrays the Tea Party as racist kkk members which is noway true!I have been to five of them and there are people from all races there,every party.But Kevin you talk kkk, the democratic party just burried Senator Robert Byrd a major Klansman recruiter for years,also said he would never fight in a war next to a black man, and VOTED AGAINST THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT IN THE 1960`s the man was 47yrs. old when he did that.By the way, that was a fine Funeral the Dems gave Byrd,i love the part where Obama and Clinton said he was a Great man.Gotta Love it......
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By: alie on 7/14/2010 5:35PM
America when are you going to embrace african americans? you embrassed every other race but us, for over 400 years we have had our arms outstretched towards you but you refuse to embrace us why?
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By: Cecil on 7/16/2010 4:46AM
Is that what you were doing? We thought you were asking for a hand-out.
Our bad! Now look where the handouts have gotten you. Slaves to the system. Life is too good on welfare to give it up and get a job, so you're stuck in a quagmire of poverty and hopelessness generation after generation.
All the other races made it on their own without affirmative action and welfare. They come over here and WORK. They live in overcrowded houses and open laundromats or burrito shops and SAVE. Eventually their kids go to college and WORK and SAVE even more. Hell, they even speak proper English after a single generation. That's something I can embrace.
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By: black man on 7/15/2010 4:23AM
alie, tell me you`re just kidding??
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By: Steve on 7/14/2010 6:19PM
Can someone please point me to a bigoted or racist statement that the Tea Party has made?
I can find many that the NAACP has made, but so far not much from the Tea Party.
Is this like the violence that the Tea Partiers have supposedly committed? Even though no one has proof and most accusations have proven to be outright lies. Heck, there is way more evidence of violence against the Tea Party.
Opponents of the Tea Party are really starting to look like nothing more than dishonest fools.
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By: Rose on 7/14/2010 9:06PM
I hope the naacp denegrades the black panther. new racism is
just as bad as old racism.
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