Williams' ouster drives home NAACP's point
July 19, 2010 8:45 pm ET by Matt McLaughlin
It looks like the NAACP was right about tea party members "who use racist language."
The civil rights group last week passed a resolution that condemned "extremist elements" within the tea party movement and called on the movement's leaders to repudiate the use of racist language in tea party signs and speeches. Right-wing media figures went nuts, claiming they couldn't find any racist tea party signs, and accused the NAACP of playing politics and engaging in "left-wing McCarthyism."
But for the folks who said they couldn't see any racially charged rhetoric coming from tea partiers (despite the numerous examples that already existed), Mark Williams emerged as uncomfortable evidence to the contrary. Williams wrote a July 15 blog post attacking the NAACP as racist for using "colored people" in its name. Williams' post portrayed blacks as lazy and NAACP leader Ben Jealous as supporting the repeal of civil-rights laws so that "massa" would again take care of blacks. Williams' post was so incendiary that he was forced to remove it, and the National Tea Party Federation has since announced that Williams and the Tea Party Express have been expelled from the federation.
Jealous, the NAACP's president and CEO, issued a statement responding to Williams' ouster. From Jealous' statement:
We call on the major leaders of the Tea Party such as Sarah Palin and Dick Armey who have not spoken out to do so.
It is encouraging to know that the Tea Party can act in unison through the Tea Party Federation and take decisive action. We call on the Tea Party to police its events and make it clear that there is no space for racist signs and hate speech.
We look forward to being able to have a civil political discourse with the Tea Party on the serious issues facing all Americans."
SHOCK: Video Suggests Racism At NAACP Event
http://wcbstv.com/topstories/tea.party.naacp.2.1812710.html
Oh...and do you REFUDIATE the racism of Mark Williams and Teabaggers?
This is hardly anything like being kicked out of the democrat party.
Here is an example of the fine conduct of the NAACP and the Obama administration.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrNWw7TGkjo
This from our first "post racial " president. What a fraud.
Oh, and maybe the troll who called President Obama "boy" shouldn't be sounding off on racism, hmmm?
And BTW, I didn't call Obama a "boy" in the sense you are trying to imply, I said we shouldn't have sent a boy to do a man's job, referring to his obvious lack of exective experience . He is simply in over his head.
And one other question, what do you think of Obama's flip flop on health care, last Sept he argued that the mandate to purchase health care was not a tax. Now he is saying it is a tax. Stealth taxation. Another broken promise. But he did pick a nice dog.
Straw man #1. The NAACP resolution never claimed the Tea Party was racist, it called on the leadership to condemn the racist elements within it. Which, by ousting Williams, is exactly what they've done. Similarly, Tom Vilsack, your new girlfriend's boss, dismissed her for those remarks.
"I didn't call him a boy, I just called him a boy." Got it.
What does this have to do with ANYTHING? Why can't you just stay on-topic? Why is it so hard? Drag your dull, meth-reddened eyes to the top of the window you have open. Read (probably while moving your lips) the words at the top. From that, you should be able to discern the topic of this post. I dunno about you, but I don't see anything about health care reform up there, so I'm not answering your dumb leading question, because it has nothing to do with the thread. In the words of our worst president ever, go f--k yourself.
Now look what he says...Jump on forward to today, via NYT, the Obama administration, in preparing to battle in court over the legality of the healthcare mandate, now claims it is part of the governments "power to lay and collect taxes"
He is beginning to look more and more like John Kerry.
I disagree. He's looking more and more like, well umm, yeah this guy:
They can't win using the facts.
A clue, FL . . . hatred is NOT a conservative value. Your seething hatred is the result of watching the entertainers on Fox spew their lies and propaganda 24/7.
Read this . . . you probably won't recognize yourself in it, but believe me, it's YOU. It's not conservatism, FL.
I mean, seriously, what kind of whiny, sniveling coward thinks the USDA is the beginning of the dreaded Whitey Holocaust? Do you just buy all your pants pre-wet or what? Pu$$es.
Let us know if you see one; this one has a white Vice President, Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of Defense, last I checked.
When?
Nope, this has been repeatedly debunked. Sorry, you lose, bye.
Yes, because the Georgia office of the USDA is "at the top". Loser.
What, the pattern where, rather than staying on topic, you point to something completely unrelated and act as though that means you "win"?
Ha ha! Because, you see, the troll has taken a common slogan used by supporters of Barack Obama and changed it so that it refers to a monetary transaction! That would be so wonderful and original and witty if I hadn't seen a bumper sticker that said the exact same thing!
...God, you're lame.
Whenever there is a racial component to an issue with this President,he is called racist by somebody..usually white conservatives.This incident has nothing to do with the President but you, like Fox News and the usual right wing attack dogs make it ALL about race.
If a White President had sided with White Cops against Dr Gates,I am sure you would be defending him if anyone called him racist.If a white president proposed the same agenda, would use of the word reparations be made to describe something benefitting more white people than black!!?
The use of Acorn and TNBPP have been used the same way,paint the Black President as a radical black racist.Forget any facts to show a connection,he's black..that's enough!If you use the standards that you have already stated then GW Bush is racist for pursuing virtually no minority civil rights cases and pushing "reverse " discrimination cases as a top priority.If you worked with or were a member of an organization that had members who also belonged to the KKK,you'd be associated as closely as some of the guilt by asscociation attacks on the President(ie Bill Ayers!!)
Did Rev Wright( who served in a segregated Marine Corp) say anything as incendiary about the government as Teaparty leaders, and right wing talk radio do every day!He certainly never talked of sedition or revolution,never talked about guns!He only pointed out that some of Amrica's activities were not in keeping with scriptures or constitution and were causing some countries to hate us and attack us(Chickens cominghome to roost).For that he was blasted non stop.Glenn Beck and Rush limbaugh speak of the government so derisvely and seditiosly,they seem treasonous,but make millions of dollars doing that!!!!
It is quite clear that white criticism of the government is fine but any thing other than glowing praise from a minority is somehow racist or unpatriotic!!The President says we will use diplomacy as a better 1st option in International relations and he is called an unpatriotic apologist!!!Rush Limbaugh calls the democratically elected Presidential administration a "Regime" and many patriotic conservative voters cheer him on!!!That's an insult to all Americans!
http://mw4.m-w.com/dictionary/repudiate
And BTW, what is a moran?
As for what a moran is, I guess you'd forgotten that old photo of you was still floating around:
I'm surprised you didn't know all this; they did a feature on it in the Paris Business Review.
God, I love you. (Or is it "I love your"?)
Yes, you did use the word properly. That's not the point Soze was trying to make. It was a reference to your Saintly Sarah the Twit's recent twitter, butchering another multisyllabic word.
She forgot the first commandment of wingnuttery. Stick to 2 syllables unless referring to a well know talking point for example:
a bor tion
homer sex u al
So cial ist
In tell i gent De sign
Got it. Just so I'm on the same page.
And yes, the USDA woman IS obscure. Had you heard of her before she gave you this massive persecution boner that you're so feverishly flogging? Didn't think so.
No, when the left makes a potentially racist statement, we hold them accountable for it, and this whole hullabaloo about this woman in GA that nobody has ever heard of, has resigned her position after her statement. That's called, accountability.
So you are defending Tea Party racism by pointing out something that has happened on the left side of the aisle? I just want to be clear at what you're defending here, because I'm pretty sure I've seen nobody on here defend what the NBPP did at the polling place, nor what some low level flunky in the AG department said.
You are the rich paranoid dweebs who graduated from the high school debate team free buffet committee to the college level political free buffet committee to the local and state government free buffet committee, and on to a Washington career. American life has always been just a social buffet for you and the dumb 'workers' are depending on you to help them. How dare you?
You are the self righteous, smug and Marie Antoinette styled racists who believe that you know who deserves social justice and where to throw the tax payers money.
Come November, bye bye. And good riddance. Unless of course the election is halted by a construed crisis. I end with a quote from Bob Dylan's "Infidels" album; "I can see the day coming when your own garden will be against the law!" Yes, Dylan. Think harder, idiots.
The Republicant Party offers nothing. Keep the focus on Dick Armey's TeaBaggers/Republicant Party.
The voters of USA will not accept behavior from the TeaBaggers/Republicant Party.
Ema Nymton
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