On CNN, Peterson called NAACP "a hate group"
SUMMARY: Discussing the Jena Six
controversy, CNN host
Kyra Phillips said,
"Let's talk about the reality of the hate groups that are in that area [Jena, Louisiana] and the reality of a
mind-set that does
exist." In response, conservative commentator Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson asserted:
"I also agree that there are hate groups all around the country. There are
skinheads, KKK, and the NAACP. The NAACP is a hate group as
well."
On the September 26 edition of CNN Newsroom, during a discussion of the events surrounding the Jena Six controversy, host Kyra Phillips said to her guests, CNN contributor Roland Martin and conservative commentator Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, president of the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND): "[L]et's step away from the Jena Six and the criminal justice system, and let's talk about the education. Let's talk about the reality of the people that live" in Jena, Louisiana. Phillips added: "Let's talk about the reality of the hate groups that are in that area and the reality of a mind-set that does exist." In response, Peterson asserted: "I also agree that there are hate groups all around the country. There are skinheads, KKK, and the NAACP. The NAACP is a hate group as well."
As Media Matters for America documented, Peterson and BOND have led a boycott of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), claiming the organization is "a tool of the liberal elite socialist wing of the Democratic Party." And after some members of the Congressional Black Caucus accused the Bush administration of forcing former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to resign, BOND asked the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct to investigate the relationship between Aristide and the Congressional Black Caucus.
In his book Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America (Nelson Current, October 2003), Peterson attacked the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, as well as other black leaders. Peterson is also listed among WorldNetDaily's "cadre of inspiring, knowledgeable speakers." WorldNetDaily describes Peterson as "the most articulate, outspoken critic of the civil-rights establishment in America today."
From the 3 p.m. ET hour of the September 26 edition of CNN Newsroom:
PHILLIPS: Roland, let's step away from the Jena Six and the criminal justice system, and let's talk about the education. Let's talk about the reality of the people that live there. Let's talk about the reality of the hate groups that are in that area and the reality of a mind-set that does exist. We've all seen it experienced and talked individuals on both sides. It's not such an easy issue, as we've been saying, not just a black-and-white issue.
MARTIN: Well, of course not. I mean, Kyra, you've pointed out, as well as other folks that participated, that when you were interviewing whites there, they say, "Look, we get along with the coloreds here in this town." And so that is an issue that is there. We cannot deny it. We're not -- I mean, so let's just not run away from it. Now, the question is whether or not, in this case, was there was equal justice? You have people on both sides. But you also have whites there who said, "You know what? We don't necessarily think they should have been charged with attempted murder, but they should have been charged." I have made that point. I have never said they should get off if they're convicted. But the question is whether you charge juveniles as adults with attempted murder. That was, again, the real primary issue when this story began to blow up and it became national.
PETERSON: I also agree that there are hate groups all around the country. There are skinheads, KKK, the NAACP. The NAACP is a hate group as well.
[laughter]
PETERSON: But the problem is not -- the problem is not the justice system. The problem is that the average black family is out of order. Black men are not marrying black women and helping raise their children and making sure that they're educated. It's about the family and as long as that family --
PHILLIPS: But Reverend Peterson, but don't you think that it's not -- it's not just the black family, but also the white family, too. Don't you agree?
PETERSON: You're right.
PHILLIPS: Because I saw ignorance on both sides.
PETERSON: You're absolutely right. It is happening to the white family as well. But for the last 50 years, you know, the black family has been destroyed. And the government is the daddy of the family, and corrupt black leaders are the head of the folks.
Oh how disgusting. How exactly is the NAACP a "hate group"? Comparing it to the KKK is horrible, and racist. CNN should never allowed this on its network. Why do they not give a voice to the Aryan Nation?
It just never ends, does it? But I'll bet top dollar the NAACP will be investigated more thoroughly than this republican base group.
Snoop, did you notice his name is Bill White? If he teams up with Cofer Black, that'll be awesome!
Cofer Black
No, I take mine with half & half and one sugar.
;-)
I would imagine there's no hard & fast rule that all African-Americans must look kindly upon the NAACP, but a "hate group"??
That seems a pretty severe coming from a Black man, Conservative or not.
I do think they are more Liberal-friendly, but Hate Group? Nah.
But now I know what Mr. T looks like in a suit without his bling.
No, I have to disagree here. The NAACP definitely is a hate group: they hate the way some people have been enslaved, denied property rights, denied voting rights, denied education, economically targeted, discriminated against and exploited, and how other people turn a blind eye to the history of that discrimination and subjugation.
He he!
Vysotsky, you're becoming one of my favorite posters here. That was not only witty but truthful.
The feeling is most certainly mutual, Preston -- your posts are always a pleasure.
Vysotsky, you're becoming one of my favorite posters here. That was not only witty but truthful.
V, are you new here? I've read a few of your comments and they're great--I think I would have remembered if I had seen your stuff before...
"I was at a restaurant in London and I couldn't get over how nobody was using a falsetto voice or speaking in strange metaphors. Nobody was saying, 'Bring me another iced tea to stop the unborn chicken voices in my head!'" is definitely your best work to date, in my opinion!
Nah, I've been here for a year or two, but this week I've been posting more than usual. (Probably has something to do with a project from which I'm desperately procrastinating...)
You left out the biggie. The NAACP was founded to stop lynching of all things. Who would hate lynching? The NAACP ruins all the "fun" for some folks.
; )
No one alive today was a slave. They have voting, property, and other rights now. We not only did not turn a blind eye to it we corrected it. The people perpetuating the myth of a separation by race are groups like the NAACP. People that make there living telling people that happen to be the same color as them that they can't make it because of the "white man" while raking in millions and living the good life.
You really do live in your own little world dont you?
Solon,
A blogger on the Huffington Post, he is actually the author of a recent biography about Bill O'reilly said that Bill grew up in the segregated White Ghetto of Levittown, New York and he has never ventured far from there either intellectually, emotionally or geographically. In other words those very narrow experiences born out of his segregated world are the bases that form his opinions. So you've got guys like Bill, Rush, and probably this poster who grew up in a segregated world who have never sought to study the America or the world that exists beyond their own little insulated world of comfort wanting to impose their naiveté and narrow frame of reference on social policy. How can you have a conversation on race or much of anything with these people who show over and over a knowledge deficit of this great big old world we live in. I must admit they are annoying when they’re spouting off on the sidelines, but they are down right dangerous when they are put into positions of power, the Bush administration is evidence of this. Their policies are created from a limited knowledge base of the worlds beyond them.CNN should never allowed this on its network. Why do they not give a voice to the Aryan Nation?- DorisRussell
They're under contract at Fox.
Any organizations that singles out any minority whether for positive or negative gain is a hate group in one way or another.. We are all created equal. There is no White America or Black America, there is only America. Groups that perpetuate a divide between people based on color of skin are racist and immoral.
Yes you have a dream. One where any mention of race is itself some kind of racism. Where you can PRETEND that Kings dream has come true. Wake up and smell reality
The fact that Peterson is given a plateform to speak -- as if he should be taken seriously as a "pundit" -- is a joke in itself. Didn't Max Blumenthal from the Nation exposed Peterson for the fraud he is years ago?
Amen brother!
An informative article. I really need to renew my subscription to The Nation.
I couldnt live without mine
So, do Black Conservative professional liars make as much money as White Conservative professional liars? Just curious.
No, but they make more than female Conservative professional liars so all is well.
Man you guys are right on point. The saddest and most "voting against themselves" Repubs in the world are the representative African Americans and women.
Selling out the brothers and the sisters.
Your saying that if a person of color happens to be a Republican or vote for a Republican they are a sell out?
It is attitudes like that that impede real progress.
"The NAACP is a hate group as well."
Who knew...? I'll bet if we burned some crosses on their lawns or lynched a few of them they wouldn't be so hateful. Ever since they stopped fearing the white man they've been nothing but trouble. <sarcasm>
Obviously the NAACP is not a hate group, that is just a ridiculous inflammatory retort. What they are is a liberal advocacy group where conservatives are not necessarily afforded the same treatment.
"What they are is a liberal advocacy group..."
Tommy, I wouldn't even put the NAACP in the liberal/conservative dichotomy for the purpose of defining them. I regard them more as a special interest group that advances the interests of its constituency and which traditionally aligns itself with the Democratic Party for pragmatic reasons. Not trying to quibble with semantics...just food for thought.
And don't forget that this so called liberal group, had as its national president recently a hard care conservative republican.
That's a great description. The Democratic Party official stances on the issues that is important to the NAACP accounts for the predisposition to support Democratic candidates. The NAACP's founding father W.E.B Dubois offered a dueling philosophy and stances to the ones espoused by Booker T. Washington, and all on their own African Americans gravitated to the NAACP's proactive antidiscrimination policies. Booker T. Washington the grandfather of these AA conservative mouthpieces lost the ideological battle in the AA community because his philosophy of accepting second class citizenship while you prove to Whites that you are worthy of more and that then Whites would accept you was unappealing to them . The NAACP isn't the devil and it is still respected by the vast majority of people in the AA community. These educated conservatives have enjoyed the benefit (access to opportunity) of the years of hard work by the NAACP on behalf of the AA community and then they do this. Now they don’t have to agree with the NAACP’s policy but attacking the NAACP like this is why most AAs don’t take these kind of people seriously, a bunch of ingrates. I know I’m thankful for the work of the NAACP and all civil rights organizations and activists because they opened up a world that I wouldn’t have had access to. If Booker T.’s philosophy had prevailed Peterson would be wearing a chef’s hat and posing for Uncle Ben’s rice still waiting for his worthiness to be approved by the people he works for now.
CORRECTION: issues that are important to the NAACP
Lynn, that was an excellent post! There's nothing for me to add because it was so pitch-perfect.
Preston these guys really irk me.
I know how you feel, Lynn. I try to bite my tongue about these fools because like my good pal Pearl, me venting about them would run up my blood pressure. What pisses me off is how networks continue inviting this idiot on their programs when he has NEVER offered anything intelligent.
Lynn,
You call them "conservative mouthpieces", ingrates and put "educated" in italics. Yet I was corrected when I maintained that the NAACP was a liberal advocacy group that treated conservatives differently.
PETERSON is in a class all by himself and he deserves to be treated differently. It's one thing to disagree with the NAACP, talk about it and say why you believe their in error; BUT he launched a completely unsubstantiated smear on a historic respected organization that improved the world on behalf of his Black ass, well I have no respect for a person like that. I put the words “educated” in quotes because an educated man should would able to articulate a debate in a civil fashion. These conservative mouthpieces would get an F in debate class.
Peterson's response to the NAACP who did the work that paved the way to win for him the freedom to be able to denigrate them, is very much like Clarence Thomas, who climbed the Affirmative Action ladder all the way to the Supreme Court, then pulled it up after him, lest anyone else be able to use it.
Two shining examples of conservative hypocrisy, whose whole existence is only so whites can put a black face on their bigotry to attempt to justify it to others.
Sorry, Tommy, but I have to agree here. I'm not a fan of Sowell, Thomas, Keyes, [Armstrong] Williams, etc., but even they aren't as hateful and cartoonish as Peterson. In fact, I put Peterson in the same class as Coulter. Peterson deserves to be degraded and even more. I criticize the NAACP often, but to equate them with the KKK deserves no respect. Peterson is often on Fox News since he's good friends with Sean Hannity, but to be invited on CNN as if he's a reliable pundit is quite laughable.
Preston/Lynn,
I don't know anything about this Peterson character, but considering he does use Coulter-type slurs in calling the NAACP a "hate group", he gets no respect from me.
It's a shame that these cable networks feel like they have to get these extreme slur-hurling pundits on in order to jazz up their ratings, or get a little controversy going - instead of having honest discussions with people who don't have to insult to inform.
Yeah but Tommy you're just looking for attention.
They did good in the past. But their part is done and their sole purpose has become to continue to make themselves exist. (i.e. MONEY) If the black community is going to advance any further individual members and families need to wake up and shake of the shackles (myths) that they do not have the same opportunities. The NAACP just perpetuates the ideal that blacks are not equal when they are.
YOU perpetuate the MYTH that all racism dissapeared in a puff of smoke with the Civil Rights act. The race fairies made all the bad racism go away. Hopefully some day you will not be so hostile to reality. Perhaps you may come to live on THIS planet.
They should not align themselves with any political party. As a non-profit they cannot be partisan if they wish to remain one.
Damn right the NAACP is a hate group! So is AARP! And AFSCME! And SETI! They're a hate group as well!
They're all hate groups!
Interesting, a Google search for ""Jesse Lee Peterson" screw loose" returns about 451 results. Not that it means anything, except some of them are actually about the said race baiter, not just coincidence. I'm just saying, may not amount to anything, you decide.
Paterson knows a lot about the Nazis and the KKK. He tried to join.
I can just hear Peterson now defending slavery as a good thing because it brought his ancestors from uncivilized Africa to the CIVILIZED USA and of couse, SEGREGATION was good because it brought NEGROES together and it was all good until those NCAAers or whatever those Communist-funded AGITATORS did to undo the benevolent work people like Bull Connor did...
If there ever is a defintion of "Uncle Tom" or "house <N word>, " this Peterson is it.
No doubt he would have thought of Rosa Parks as a Russian agent as well...
you make it sound so fantastical. Go to Frontpage magazine where this is the in-house philosophy. Former slaves have a higher standard of living than some blacks in Africa...so slavery wasn't that bad after all....BARF. This cultic mind twisting stuff is so incideous
That's very true. Horowitz has been pushing this type of argument for years now. In fact, this argument was one of the reasons why slave masters felt justified in bringing captive blacks over to America, because they felt it was morally right to "rescue" those dark savages and bring them to a civilized country.
I would have to agree with Rev. Peterson's comments. The NAACP is most definitely a hate group. And BTW, blacks are more racist than whites.
wow, that in its self was extremely racist. how ironic.
"blacks are more racist than whites"? Got any data to back that up or are you just generalizing here. Do you even know any black people personally?
My guess is that he does know some black people, but more importantly, they know him. When he spouts crap like that, he probably experiences quite a bit of hate from them.
And from every other educated person on the planet. Who knew Earth was a hate group? In fact, "EARTH" is an anagram of "HATER!"
Makes one think...
Come on Open; just open a history book for God sake. We raided Europe and gathered up White people by the thousands and hauled them to America in chains and proceeded to enforce the most brutal slavery system known to man and after those do gooder Blacks from up North made us free our White people we decided to use lynching, beating and torturing mainly of young White men (because they’re really really bad) who got out of line or did things that generally pissed us off, and yeah we also enacted a strict system of rules and customs to keep Whites confined to certain neighborhoods, and we made sure the only jobs available to Whites were low paying and of a nature where they performed services for us. Now that those instigating uppity Whites and their bleeding heart elitist Black supporters won’t let us get away with blatant discrimination we have had to resort to those subtle inequitable practices that are only revealed by statistics. Now the descendants of those same do gooders are questioning why we are charging higher rates for mortgages and automobiles for White people who have comparable or better credit ratings than some Blacks. Those trouble makers are now actually doing stories on the continued pattern of Blacks moving out of neighborhoods when White folks move in them. They also seem not to understand why we stop young White guys driving in our all Black neighborhoods for questioning and they act like they don’t know that White guys are usually up to no good and they have to be carefully monitored. The bastards have also revealed that we apply harsher sentencing for young White men who commit crimes comparable to ones committed by young Black men and I’ve heard talk that people are speculating that we do that because we feel White men warrant harsher punishment because somehow they’re just more dangerous than Black men. Now are examples enough to support the very honest assessment the guy that is copying the real BUSHLIES sign on because I could come up with some more evidence to support his assertion that Blacks are way more racist than Whites.
Why does everything about black people go back to slavery? Get over it! NO ONE ALIVE TODAY WAS A SLAVE! The United States has done nothing but apologize and try to make up for it. We admitted we weren't perfect and changed. My gosh if this were an argument with my girlfriend we would have had makeup sex by now.
How about I TAKE your home, all your property and your DIGNITY. Then when your children complain their inheritence was stolen I tell THEM to get over it. Your simpleminded view of this issue shows how easily manipulated some people are. I notice you pretended that slavery was the only point Lynn made. Do you think being pulled over just because you are black, known as DWB doesnt happen anymore? You really know NOTHING about this issue do you?
How? Provide examples at the highest levels of education, government and in the workplace.
Also, please provide examples (based on reason, not gut reaction) as to why the NAACP is a hate group.
Thank you!
Wow those may be two of the dumbest statements I have ever read. You do know you are a racist dont you?
This guy and Armstrong Williams have a lot in common,Its evedent to me that they haven't had that expiereince yet of being pulled over while DWB or being eyeballed when you walk into a store to purchase something.
But they will get their awakening one day and I doubt if they will be able to handle it.
Rev. Peterson
And this guy has a following????....should he be reminded that 50 yrs ago he would not have been invited on ANY television show to speak & that.....oh, what's the use in trying to explain something to a pinhead like that....it makes me sick that some black folk have lost their way....lumping skinheads & the NAACP in the same hate group barrel.
50?
Tray maybe 35 years ago he wouldn't have been invited to be on a TV show sitting next to a white guy, at least where I live in NC. But I digress.
I had this unbelievable surreal experience when I was growing up. I grew up in rural Maine (well, what part of Maine isn't rural really). When I was going into my freshman year of high school, the KKK came to town. Yes, THE KKK. Bear in mind, there are literally no miniorities in my hometown of any sort. If you looked up the mere definition of "lilly white" you'd see a picture of my hometown and well, most of my homestate for that matter. They marched through town in their sheets. They held a rally at a local high school. And I must say, at that time, I was never more proud of my hometown than at that point in time, and this experience opened my eyes to the reality of racism in a way I never expected. Most of the folks in my hometown came out of the woodwork to boo, and hiss at them all as they walked around town. The townspeople were openly hostile towards the KKK when they took questions at the local high school, but we never become violent. A group of holocaust survivors came from out of town and protested. I think the entire black population of the state of Maine (which isn't too many honestly) came into town and protested. The NAACP came from out of state to protest.
My whole point in this diatribe is this. After seeing an actual hate group in motion and going through their activities, to even put the NAACP into the same sentence with actual hate groups is disgraceful at best, and downright crazy for the most part. This gentlemen seems to forget that if it weren't for "hate groups" such as the NAACP, he wouldn't be where he is today. I've seen hate groups up close and personal and I've seen members of the NAACP up close and person on many different occasions, and the 2 are not even close. I hope that the NAACP keeps doing the good work that they have been doing for years now, and continue the good fight.
An interesting side note regarding race, the relevancy of the NAACP, hate groups, righteous anger and NC..
This morning, our local talk news station reported that in North Carolina, black households make 40% less than white households. They make less than hispanic households, and are either just above or just below the average income of native american households. The average income for a black household in North Carolina is around $29,000.
One of the representatives of the NC chapter of the NAACP attributed this rise in unemployment rate (almost double the state average) and the drop in income on illegal immigration - a potentially valid point - but this dances around the whole issue of institutionalized racism in the South. It's not a genetic lottery here - whites didn't somehow turn out genetically superior to blacks, hispanics and native americans. Hispanics make less because immigrant and illegal immigrant households are being included in the survey, and black and native american households are dealing with centuries of institutionalized racism leaning on them as they try to climb the ladder.
The NAACP knows this, I'm sure, but I feel that people like Peterson, O'Rielly, Limbaugh, and the rest of the GOP hacks who use derision and utter lies to distort and misrepresent fact are responsible for silencing groups like the NAACP on important issues like this. If there were a state largely run by blacks, with companies mostly owned by blacks, with whites earning 40% of the black household dollar, the current rash of conservatives wouldn't have any problem crying discrimination, racism, bigotry, and demanding change to help the poor white man, but when these things are politely pointed out by groups that do not share the pro-white agenda, they're accused of promoting hatred, race-baiting, lying, or being lazy.
This is truly inexcuseable, and I hope the local chapter of the NAACP takes this opportunity to address all reasons for this disparity in wages instead of just stepping on the next group down on the totem pole - hispanic immigrants.
Respectfully,Your local fat white chick.
BLR -
I fail to understand how the "Right Wingers" you've sited are able to silence the NAACP. They are free to comment and by doing so are helping point out their contrasting views. Could the NAACP and popular beliefs held by many on the Left stand a little critical comment? Sure! And forums like this should welcome comments by those coming from the Right side. Would it hurt to listen to the "other side" long enough to know what some of the Conservative black people hold as criticism of their own culture? Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams are often cited as leaders of prominence - often making comments critical of their own African American leaders. Read their columns. You might understand where some of the Black Leadership have failed to lead.
Rev. Jesse lumped the NAACP with the type of hate group that would serve to maintain the "slavery label" and the "disadvantaged label" -almost as if they would hate to cast off the labels and look around and find that this is'nt 1890 - not 1910 where the history is the most violent and damaging to all racial elements involved. He is outspoken. Do look into his comments a little deeper. He has been all about self-empowerment and for the establishment of better role models for the "Black Family".
If you're a white racist, what's there not to like in a black person who hates black people. Hate sells, especially on right wing radio.
But for the sake of full disclosure. I hate haters and I hate hate-groups. Somewhere down the line I wonder if that will make me a lover of something or if hate has no redeeming qualities no matter where directed.
Doris,
When a person has the letters REV. in front of his/her name he is pretty much given a free pass and national platform by the main stream media to say any damned thing they can think of no matter how ignorant, racist, sexist or homophobic it may be.
If you thing Rev. Peterson's comments about the NAACP are bad you should hear some of his hateful homophobic rants on World Net Daily. He's a real darling to the rabid racist homophobes on that fundamentalist wing-nut site.
Weird comment, but when that black guy from Syrcause University called Juan Williams a "happy negro" on CNN, which went UNCHALLENGED no one over here was offended--why is that? Because the left is only against racism when it comes from conservatives--left wing racism is fine with them.
Rev. Peterson gets trotted out whenever someone conservative wants to "prove" that they aren't racist, because 9 times out of 10, Peterson will tow the party/neocon line, and then the neocons get the added bonus of Peterson trotting out propaganda/garbage that even they can't get away with, such as the outlandish claim that the NAACP is (of all things) a "hate group", comparable to the KKK.