America’s oldest civil rights organization, the NAACP, has passed a resolution condemning what it sees as racism in the Tea Party movement.
The group’s president, 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.”
This is very good news. I will explain in a moment.
And just the other day, after the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers wrote a dumb, angry rant expressing unhappiness because his star player, LeBron James, left the team for Miami, Jesse Jackson said the Cavs boss sees James as nothing more than a “runaway slave.”
This is more good news.
I mean, If the nation’s most prestigious civil rights organization and the nation’s best-known civil rights advocate have time for such silly crap, things must be just swell in black America.
In the old days, civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King were busy with stuff like voting rights and integrating America’s schools and securing the rights of black Americans to eat at lunch counters and stay at decent hotels, just like white folks. You know, important sutff! Now they’re busy comparing a guy who makes hundreds of millions of dollars a “slave” and smearing a movement because of a few bigots in the crowd.
By that standard, the NAACP should condemn itself. During the presidential campaign of 2000, the civil rights organization ran a vile TV ad that linked George W. Bush to a vicious modern day lynching. The ad was about a black man, James Byrd, who was dragged to his death from the back of a pick up truck by three white racists.
In the ad, over black and white footage of a pickup truck dragging a chain, the daughter of the murdered man says, “So when Gov. George W. Bush refused to sign hate crimes legislation, it was like my father was killed all over again.”
Here’s an idea: any organization that runs such filth to make cheap political points has no business lecturing anybody about anything.
The problem is that the NAACP and Jesse Jackson are stuck in the past. Their glory days were the 1960s when they accomplished so much. Instead of worrying about trivial stuff, they should spend every waking minute trying to deal with much more important things, like a black illegitimacy birth rate of 70 percent. If the NAACP and Jesse Jackson could fix that, they’d fix much of what ails black America. But since they don’t have a clue as to how to deal with a real problem of that magnitude, they spend their time on nonsense. And in reality, this is not good news at all.
I think Bernie is both right and wrong. After visiting the NAACP web site (www.naacp.org) I believe they are more focused not on the past, but on a future embracing socialism and left-wing causes. Case in point… Ben Jealous giving Van Jones the NAACP’s 2009 President’s Award!
NAACP… re-read your own pledge and as Bernie said, strive to tackle the real issues facing people of color.
Bernie,
In your last paragraph you state that the NAACP and Jesse Jackson “have no clue”, but in reality they know exactly what is wrong – they just don’t care!
What the NAACP should also focus on is education. If kids in poor neighborhoods had school vouchers so they could get decent educations, they’d have a chance to have better lives.
This is a somewhat bizarre piece to be fair.
In what way?
Whatever gets some people on TV is what makes them tick.
EddieD, Other then insults, do you ever have anything of substance to say?… I didn’t think so!
It’s kinda hard with you.
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JACKSON AND SHARPTON STARTED OUTTO BE (HOPEFULLY) A BATON PASS FROM KING. That didn’t happen. If these two were white nobody would listen to them, and news agencies of most ilks wouldn’t have their rants on their channels. Looks like the NAACP has dropped the baton as well.
Is there any question in anyone’s mind why angry ranting people aren’t taken seriously? I read all of these comments and I still don’t see where any evidence has been shown of any racism in the Tea Party. I would be glad to research it on my own if ANYONE could give a real piece of evidence instead of filth filled rants.
You will grow old and gray waiting for evidence of racism at TEA party protests, because there is none! I am a black woman and have been a supporter of the TEA party movement since the beginning and have been angry with the lap-dog media’s attempts at labeling it racists since the beginning. Honest thoughtful people aren’t falling for this race bating nonsense; I take comfort in that.
I tried my best to understand what Peter is trying to say, but I just couldn’t shove my head that far up my a**!
Ken, Go back to killing Palestinian babies and raping their women. That is what you do best in jerusalem is it not. This is an American blog. You are Israeli. Mind your business!!
Come on Pete, ‘fess up, you’re really Jewish aren’t you? Your English, spelling, and sentence construction are so awful that you lead me to believe that you are very likely a Leftist Israeli Jew living in the States.
שלום אחי
LOL, Ken, but what we do know is that Peter is a hateful bigot with an anger-management problem. However, what’s encouraging is that he’s finally learned how to spell “Israeli.” His grammar, punctuation and capitalization remain weak, but he could be said to be making progress.
Hopefully he’ll soon get help for his anger and hatred. Maybe….
99% chance that Peter is an internet tough guy who couldn’t come close to having the intestinal fortitude needed to say his felch worthy comments to someone in person.
Agree with you 100 percent on that one….
He’s been quiet today. Either he’s been banned, or he’s back at the County Home.
I would disagree. Just another loose one running around, I bet he even has the papers to prove his insanity. Still I feel sorry for people like that.
You need a Prozac.
No doubt you have a lot left over from your last dose.
Never taken the stuff, nor have I had a need to. You, on the other hand are a very angry, bitter individual who exemplfies a person in need of taking prescription drugs for his problems.
Stephen, I have had met many racists in my life & many suffering from mental illness. This guy certainly ranks up with the most vile of the racists & the sickest of the sickest. Some people simply cannot help themself or don’t want to help themself.
Don’t even try to rationalize with some of these kooks. They chatter constantly about racism but gloss over actions from the NBPP. The ignorant call others ignorant, the angry call others angry and the racist call others racist. 21st Century America. My main worry is when the media becomes so connected to an idealology, they filter what the public is entitled to hear. Sounds like the Iron Curtain. For Wil and Peter, I recommend you read de Tocqueville and discover “soft despotism”.
Joe, First of all, african American’s account for over 12 percent of the american population. I make bold to say there is member of any federal or state legislative, executive or mayorial body in which a member of the new or old black panther movement has been elected to. Secondly, any rationale person that looked at the person that spewed all that hate will know he is not all there!! thirdly, Fox has given more credence to a group that nobody (whatever their race except for may be 100 maladjusted people in the entire USA) would pay anything but a curious and fleeting glance at.
Fourthly, why dignify the NAACP with commenting on a looney fring group that was in the past best ignored. If however, they were on the verge of being elected and having more than the 100 (if that) total US membership then I might concur. GET A LIFE!!
” I make bold to say there is no member of any federal or state legilstive , executive or mayoral body in which a member of the new or old black panther movement has been elected to”
i meant to say that no member of the black party has ever been elected to any elective post in America and never will.
You sir, are a moron.
Good day.
Glenn Beck was right Mr Goldberg. Express views, or give information which is at odds with those who are riding on the back of Obama and his administration, and they will come after you.
Peter, {are you related to Helen Thomas?} Having been in Dr King’s 1960′s Civil Rights’ movement, stayed in DC’s ”Tent City,” had a child denied medical treatment because he wasn’t all white {paternal side}, & proudly wear the Star of David, I’ve probably witnessed a bit more descrimination than you. The NAACP is not of the days of Roy Wilkins, Rosa Parks or the innocent child Emmett Till. The Tea Party has nothing to do with bigotry. It wants our nation to adhere to the Constitution & the Declaration of Independence from which it has strayed. Are you unaware Obama brings up the race card {& now the name card} more than anybody? He motivates groups {using his black parent’s race}, that were once true advocates of equality for ALL people, to blindly follow him down a dead end street. The NAACP was never intended to be political. The attempt of this Obama adminstration to divide people is a great shame on the memory of Dr Martin L King who seems to have died in vain. Perhaps, Peter, before you defend any cause for being or not being racist you should- a} look into the group’s history & learn what its primary function was, why it was established, and b} find out why you’re anti-Semitic, what inside you makes you hate Jews. It’s difficult for a bigot to recognize another’s {charges of bigotry}- as appears to be the case with your defending the {New} NAACP.
Just curious–
What religion are you?
Christian!!
He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
–1 John 2:9,10
may be you should direct it a Bernie Bigotberg. As usual, you cannot take what you can so graciously give. If you use anti-black stereo types you will get anti semitic ones back at you. An eye for an eye right.
Secondly, no where in my writing did I defend or oppose anything to do with the NAACP (i don’t know where you got the “new” from). I took exception to Bernie Bigot purporting to tell a black organisation what it should focus on. May be you would be happy if I said AIPAC should focus on preventing massive investment fraud such as the Goldberg’s instead of trying to selll america to Isreal.
I was referring to Madoff type fraud!
Wow! Talk about a racist and a bigot…and a bad speller.
CCNY, it is called coming down to your level.
It’s CCNV, not CCNY. What has your panties in a wad anyway? No one said you had to come to this forum.
CCNY, what has got your panties in a wad. None of my comments were directed at you. Take your false modesty elsewhere!!
Please keep calling others bigots, Peter. It’s the last stand for desperate hacks with no substance to back themselves up.
You lost the argument before anyone started dignifying your tripe.
Joe the Idiot, You obviously have little intelligence. I was making no argument. I was giving Bernie BIGOTberg a piece of his own medicine!!
You, sir, need to take a deep breath. You might be the most bigoted person posting here.
Most people here are anti-blacks. I will wear a bigoted mask to hit you in your most sacred place. Tell Bernie Bigotberg to get plastic surgery before going on TV.
Peter,
We love our country and despise the route it is being taken by the liberal, socialist Obama and his ilk. Most people here are anti-bigot, anti-racist and anti-dumbass. You, Peter, are a bigot, a racist, and a dumbass. Get off the computer and get a life.
You must really think a lot of yourself to call everyone here anti-black and bigoted. Are you black? It would make a lot of sense.
CCNY, stop lieing!! you are a bigot. A jewish Bigot at that!! I have observed your writings. You fool nobody. Your purported anti racism only extends to the protection of Jews against anti- semitism. I never had such a negative view of of the people on this site until i read the filth written by people of jewish descent on Bigotberg’s piece on Helena Thomas about palestinians. Taken together with this decidedly anti black filth and the agreeable comments by the jewish bigot society that are Bernie Bigotberg’s followers on this site. It proved to me that you guys are a bunch of hypocritical, spineless, rascist people hiding behind a facade of Piety.
You come across as a mental retard. Seriously, you’re not making a bit of sense. What day is it in your little world?
‘Dick’, you are one sick puppy.
The NAACP is no more about blacks achieving equality than NOW is about defending women. These organizations, all of them, have been co-opted by opportunists, ideologues and social revolutionaries. You see, every legitimate problem in society becomes a cause that gains support, and the cause grows into an institution. These institutions have some success, do some good, and then opportunists seize control of the institution and turn it into a racket. This is what you’ve seen in the big Unions, including the UMW my father belonged to. And it’s what you’re looking at in today’s NAACP–– Government approved (and funded) racketeering. Allied to them are the Race Hustlers who have made lucrative careers of using race to shake down institutions––making them offers they can’t refuse. For the good of blacks in America the NAACP is not only of no good—it is harmful. But, it is not useless. It’s still a cash cow for the hi-jackers, Jacobin revolutionaries, and collectivist ideologues who have seized control and use it to increase their personal power and their real favorite color in their bank accounts: green.
I’d have more respect for NOW if they referred to themselves as NOLWTHM. The National Organization of Lesbian Women That Hate Men. At least they’d be being honest.
that’s funny. good one.
You can’t be serious. Tell me you’re joking. If you’re not you’re an idiot.
Eddie, he is serious. He is also a racist.
Bernie, you forgot to mention that Bush put those losers that dragged the black guy to death in the chair.
Exactly! Those losers got the ultimate punishment but that didn’t stop the NAACP from race bating by using a man’s tragic death. The NAACP has just officially announced, by way of this latest resolution, that they are irrelevant!
Ignoring the idiocy of your last sentence, are you disputing Bernie’s factual statement regarding the number of black children born to un-wed mothers?
I will not even dignify that bigot that happens to be Jewish (who just 3 weeks ago was crying anti-semitism by virtue of a statement from an 80 year old lady directed at Isrealis) by even discussing this crap!!
Peter, I see that A) You still don’t know how to spell Israelis; B) That you’re not going to discuss “this crap,” which leads me to C) We won’t be hearing from you again. (One can only hope….)
Liberalism is a mental disorder, we have living proof by postings on this blog. It is also curable.
Yet you feel it necessary to post and discuss this crap.
Stephen bigotshields, I am not discussing the merits or otherwise of his argument. Bigotberg does not deserve that. I am simply making sure he does not get away with his hypocrisy. In Bigotberg’s dictionary, bigotry is good so long as it does not go anywhere (vaguely or not ) near anti semitism. He obviously thinks jews are better than everyone else!!
I’ve finally figured it out. You don’t know the meaning of the word bigot. Do yourself a favor a purchase a dictionary, it will save you from repeatedly making an ass of yourself.
I heard the NAACP advocated the pardon of the New Black Panthers.
It just makes me apathetic to a cause I was 100% behind before.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a one of a kind.
A good, fresh start for the NAACP would be to get rid of the “C” in their acronym.
Hey Bernie, Listening to comic Chris Rock doing stand-up, looking out over his audience, into all those white faces, and saying, “Ain’t no white man here willing to trade places with me.” Long pause. “And I’m rich!” Who’ll trade places with the Negro? Not me and not you either!
’nuff said!
Where are the supposed racist remarks of the TEA Party, Wil? I know you could use the cash being offered. Bring forth the evidence! Unless of course you don’t have any, which wouldn’t surprise anyone.
Today:
“Iowa billboard linking Obama, Hitler removed”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_iowa_obama_billboard
Should’ve replaced Hitler and Lenin pics with Nancy “Dogface” Pelosi and Harry “Pinky” Reid.
A Hitler/Stalin comparison (that the person responsible came to agree wasn’t appropriate) is your example? You posted nothing that shows the TEA Party is racist, Wil.
Once again: quit being a lying, cowardly moron and PROVE IT.
Comparing a black guy to two white guys is racist?
It’s not racist, Stephen. But those who are losing this battle (because Liberal/Progressive policies don’t work) need to muddle the issue by injecting race! Every president throughout history has had photos and pictures altered in protest. Some of us may find it offensive, but it isn’t racist! We don’t even have to go back too far in history to find examples. Bush’s picture was always altered with Hitler mustaches, Marxist symbols, devils horns and the Joker. But now all of a sudden, when it is done to this president they cry race!
I will tell you who the real racists are; those who claim that this activity is racist. Why, you may ask? Because if most people can accept it happening to any and all other previous presidents, but cry about it now because we have a black president, is fostering the belief that we must “handle” black people and black presidents differently than we do white people and white presidents. They believe that black people cannot deal with the same kinds of responsibility and/or criticisms as white people so we have to have a different set of rules for them. That’s insulting!!
And this stupid posts refers to what exactly in Bernie’s column?
A “Negro”????
NAACP crap does not bother me. However when race-baiting becomes an official White House policy – it is alarming. Let’s remember that President Obama officially invited the young, the women, the blacks and the Latinos in his coalition of power. President Obama left the rest of the governed uninvited.
This is institutional race-baiting.
Add the “going for ice-cream scare”, “acted stupidly”, bashing Arizona without even reading the bill – you have a pattern of race-baiting in the White House. NAACP is so much below the level of the POTUS.
The NAACP needs to deal with the Black Panther “wing” of its organization.
You’re right! The “wing” is the” jihadist arm” of the NAACP. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has become the The National Association for the Advancement of the Liberal Agenda.
I mean what options do they have when Oprah is the richest woman in the world and a Black man is president?
LOL, Merchant. “Jihadist arm,” indeed. Well said!
No, Mark ‘psycho speak,’ indeed!
MerchantofVenom NEVER was put on time out by Bernie. You WERE put on time out by Bernie. So YOU have to answer for “psycho speak,” Wil. Merchantof Venom DOESN’T have to answer for “psycho speak.” Facts are facts, Will. Case closed.
As I understand it the name TEA in Tea Party means “taxed enough already”. Nothing hateful or racist about that. Where are the examples of the Tea Party bigotry? Has the NAACP posted examples on their website? Has any other group posted examples of the so called bigots in action?
America is waiting, still no proof.
And it gets even better. This is recent release by the NAACP.
NAACP: Arresting Blacks for using drugs is a violation of their civil rights?
The NAACP can’t figure out why there is a disproportionate number of Blacks and Latinos in prison as compared to Whites. The only conclusion they could come up with is their civil rights were violated?
Out of thousands in prison… Every one of them had their civil rights violated?
That’s a little hard to swallow.
Look for the ACLU to jump in with the NAACP. The next time Marcus Jones gets arrested for car jacking the argument will be…. This is a violation of his civil rights… he’s done this his whole life…it’s all he knows how to do.
Alice Huffman President of CA NAACP
(sounds like she’s been taking something a little stronger then aspirin herself)
http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2010/07/09/tsr.snow.naacp.marijuana.flap.cnn
At the start of the 1990s, the U.S. had more Black men (between the ages of 20 and 29) under the control of the nation’s criminal justice system than the total number in college.
Maybe it’s time to look at the facts and take responsibility for one’s own actions.
7 out of 10 Black women have a child out of wedlock. Somehow the ACLU and the NAACP will try to convince you it’s the White man’s fault.
You know…Their civil rights were violated.
About equal justice? Are you saying that white offenders, for the same crime are given the same sentences as the blacks; in our country? If so, you are bonkers!
Still waiting for the racist TEA Part remarks, signs, etc., Wil.
America is a real racist country and needs the NAACP so one day maybe a black person could be president of the United States. Oh, that’s already happened? Maybe these folks should find another line of work.
Andy, Get over it already, remember Obama is also white!
G’day Bernie,
Good to hear you. What I would really like the NAACP to address is how the democratic policies of entitlements has rendered many “colored people” AND whites enslaved to a future of poverty, hopelessness and well, enslavery (to the government). Same, incidentally, is true of the social security entitlements. Sure–I’d like to get the money I paid in with interest back but understanding the noose that is ever present w government dependence–I’d rather work until I drop dead, happily.
The NAACP will just call you a racist and a bigot Bernie, case closed. The real and ongoing problems like out wedlock children, drug abuse, violence endemic and epidemic in the American Black Community the NAACP will blame on White racism and bigotry, case closed.
Of course this failure by the Black Community and the NAACP to take responsibility for itself will do nothing to improve the conditions of Afro Americans but that has not mattered to most Liberal or Black organizations for some time now, all that matters to them is their high salaries and prominent positions.
How many times have you heard low-income people are being discriminated against because they don’t have the ‘things’ that most Americans have? How many federal ‘perks’ do these low-income people receive (welfare, Medicaid, daycare, food stamps, rent assistance, free cell phones, etc.)? How many times do you see new/renovated housing created in the low-income sections of cities? And, how many times do you see those new/renovated low-income buildings completely destroyed by those low-income tenants? I say, “You can’t polish a turd”.
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The NAACP, now, is the single most useless organization in the United States of America. Every single one of the chatter boxes should look themselves in the mirror and repeat all of the regurgitated propoganda they spew. The very name itself implies segregation. I would really love it if someone could show me the racist comments that the TEA Part Patriots have either said or endorsed. I keep hearing alot of chatter from the left about racism, misinformation and lies, but I never hear any examples that amount to anything. Let it be known that I am not affiliated with the TEA Party Patriots and I actually find some of their own propoganda to be annoying.