NAACP resolution condemns racism in tea party

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By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, Associated Press Writer Heather Hollingsworth,

Associated Press Writer – 4 mins ago
KANSAS CITY, Mo. –

Leaders of the country's largest civil rights organization accused tea party activists on Tuesday of tolerating bigotry and approved a resolution condemning racism within the political movement.

The resolution was adopted during the annual convention in Kansas City of
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, spokesman Chris Fleming said. Tea party organizers disputed claims of racism and called on the NAACP to withdraw the resolution.

Debate was mostly closed to the public, but the final version of the resolution "calls on
the tea party and all people of good will to repudiate the racist element and activities within the tea party," said Hilary Shelton, director of the NAACP's Washington bureau.
"I hope it will empower the tea party to actually look at itself and see that there are those who are noticing things that I think most tea partiers don't want," he said.

The final wording of the resolution won't be released until the NAACP's
national board of directors approves it during its meeting in October. But the original called for the NAACP to "educate its membership and the community that this movement is not just about higher taxes and limited government." It said something could evolve "and become more dangerous for that small percentage of people that really think our country has been taken away from them."

"We felt the time had come to stand up and say, 'It's time for the tea party to be responsible members of this democracy and make sure they don't tolerate bigots or bigotry among their members,'" NAACP President Ben Jealous said ahead of the debate.
"We don't have a problem with the tea party's existence. We have an issue with their acceptance and welcoming of white supremacists into their organizations," he said.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_naacp_tea_party

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1. We've been listening to the tea party assholes now for awhile

and I really have to ask: why didn't anyone (with influence) point out the fact that the tea partiers where bigots a long time ago? Are people just now getting eyes to see with, to notice that these people are not only bigots, but full-fledged evil-doers right from the start? They have no conscience at all--they want to drag the country back to before the Civil War, and bring back slavery, not just to the South this time. So there is little wonder in my mind that there is only a very tiny amount of other-than-white people in it.

We can as well say this about some of those who have become involved with the TPs--Sarah Palin, f'instance. Whether she was being vetted for her lack of intelligence, or whether the Family chose her because of such other leanings, we might never know. On the other hand, if we had made note right away, from the TP's inception, of their racism, perhaps we could have staunched their growing, and perhaps saved the country from a lot of trouble.

At this point, it seems more of an afterthought to say, "hey! the TP hasn't got any black people in it!"

There is an incredible amount of pure, visceral hatred in our country that will continue to spread unchecked until someone finally stems it. But until we can get rid of the filthy liars on the right and all their "friends" we will never be able to get past this fear, hate and intolerance.

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2. We did here but the press corpse has pointedly ignored it until now. n/t

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3. the president of the Calif. NAACP spoke the truth.

She said pot should be legalized because of racism. More blacks and Hispanics are arrested, charged, tried and sentenced for pot offenses than their percentage of the population.

I thought that was common wisdom, that the prison industrial complex is making war on the poor, the black and the brown people, but apparently that got some people seriously bent outta shape.

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4. True -- our new shiny prison industry was built on backs of minorities ... via fake Drug War --!!

Notice the echo in here -- where did everyone go?

Last year I thought it was just summertime, but looks like a lot of the strong voices here

for equality and civil rights have moved on?

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5. kick --