tea party
The Debate About the Tea Party and Racism
Newsweek – NAACP President Ben Jealous looks at the modern Tea Party movement and sees the shadow of the White Citizens’ Council, that gentile breed of southerners, rife with respectability, that served as the white-glove wing of the Ku Klux Klan. The council cynically practiced “this sort of hide-the-ball-beneath-the-sheet behavior … when they used to [...]
The NAACP is off base
Dr. Ada M. Fisher – In my October 18, 2008 column the problem was addressed that if Obama doesn’t win then what? That changed after the November 2008 election noting the deal is done and Obama has not stemmed the reservations of American citizens, now what? Though Republicans may have been perceived as less than [...]
Black tea partiers rebut NAACP
Politico – Some African-American tea party candidates are displeased by a resolution that the NAACP approved on Tuesday calling the grass-roots conservative movement “racist.” “I have not experienced the charges of racism that the NAACP is touting,” Vernon Parker, an African-American tea party congressional candidate in Arizona, told POLITICO. Parker, former mayor of Paradise Valley, [...]
As NAACP aims to stay in national debate, charge of tea party racism draws fire
Washington Post – One thing is clear as the NAACP gathers this week for its 101st annual meeting: The civil rights organization is intent on being seen as still relevant. Even former Alaska governor Sarah Palin sent out a Twitter message and posted a statement on her Facebook page, helping to make the NAACP convention [...]
NAACP Delegates Vote to Repudiate Racist Elements Within Tea Party
Today, NAACP delegates passed a resolution to condemn extremist elements within the Tea Party, calling on Tea Party leaders to reputiate those in their ranks who use racist language in their signs and speeches. The resolution came after a year of high-profile media coverage of attendees of Tea Party marches using vial, antagonistic racial slurs [...]
