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bobbyw24
10-25-2010, 12:10 PM
Black-on-black crime remains at epidemic levels and black children continue to suffer in bad schools. Doesn't the organization have better things to worry about?

By JASON L. RILEY

The gulf between the priorities of civil rights leaders and the actual needs of the people they claim to represent has been growing for decades. And the trend continues with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's release of "Tea Party Nationalism."

The NAACP passed a resolution in July condemning "racist elements and activities" in the tea party. Now it has issued a report that accuses the movement of giving a "platform to anti-Semites, racists and bigots."

Jason L. Riley of the editorial board says there are bigger problems for the NAACP to worry about.

The report based its findings in part on tea party members' writings, including "blog posts and tweets," and on observations at tea party rallies. "It would be a mistake to claim that all tea partiers are nativist vigilantes or racists of one stripe or another," write the authors, but "all of the tea party factions have had problems in these areas." How's that for a smear?

Given that the tea party—a diffuse network of local groups with no central leadership—focuses not on race but on limited government, the NAACP's obsession with the movement might seem odd. And given the real challenges facing black Americans today, the fact that the nation's largest civil rights group is devoting time and resources to monitoring Sarah Palin rallies for Confederate flags is also rather sad.

The nation's unemployment rate is 9.6%, but it is 16.1% for blacks and an unconscionable 41% for black teens. Politicians continue to promote minimum-wage hikes that harm the job prospects of younger and less-skilled individuals, a disproportionate number of whom are black. Wal-Mart's attempts to open a store that would bring jobs and low-price goods to a depressed neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y., have been thwarted repeatedly by labor unions. And the NAACP is issuing studies on the tea party movement?

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Ekrub
10-25-2010, 12:25 PM
If the NAACP did their job, and actually advanced colored people.... well, a lot of race-pimps would be out of jobs. (eventually)

Krugerrand
10-25-2010, 12:27 PM
says it all:

It's hard to understand how an organization that says it's devoted to "end[ing] racial disparities" finds the time to rail against tea-party populism until you grasp that the NAACP is, first and foremost, a Democratic Party organ. The NAACP is pretending that the tea party threatens the interests of blacks because the tea party in fact threatens the interests of the Democratic left. The civil rights leadership wants to discredit the movement for political reasons. And unfortunately, this partisan agenda takes priority over the many issues of consequence that confront blacks today.

My $0.02: There is no rational argument to be wagered against those seeking smaller government and an end to the out of control spending. Thus, we see the irrational arguments.

HOLLYWOOD
10-25-2010, 01:42 PM
Why isn't it? NAAAA - National Association for the Advancement of African Americans

Let's get politically corrected NAACP... one of the more racist societies/organizations in America today. Who picks one race or group over another to benefit via AID/MONEY/TAX DOLLARS/ENTITLEMENTS/BENEFITS... Democrats/NAACP.

PS: Shoe on other foot, I want to be called European American.

bobbyw24
10-25-2010, 01:46 PM
Why isn't it? NAAAA - National Association for the Advancement of African Americans

Let's get politically corrected NAACP... one of the more racist societies/organizations in America today. Who picks one race or group over another to venefit via AID/MONEY/TAX DOLLARS/ENTITLEMENTS/BENEFITS... Democrats/NAACP.

PS: Shoe on other foot, I want to be called European American.

Cuz it was founded in 1909 by white folk