Is the NAACP demanding that it not be taken seriously?
The civil rights group passed a resolution condemning “bigotry within” the limited-government/constitutionalist Tea Party movement, as if there is any large group without idiots — and, in this case, inconsequential ones at that.
Four percent of Democrats — and 3 percent of Republicans — according to a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll, would refuse to vote for a black presidential candidate whose views mirror their own. That comes out to almost 3 million Democratic bigots. How does that compare with the number of presumed bigots within the Tea Party?
Julian Bond, NAACP chairman from 1998 until 2010, routinely called the entire Republican Party racist and fascist — and got away with it. These outrageous attacks — not unlike the waving of Bush/Hitler signs at anti-Bush rallies — provoked no indignation from those now hyperventilating over the Tea Party’s alleged “racist elements.”
My book about the declining significance of racism in America, “What’s Race Got to Do with It?” describes Bond’s vulgar attacks against President George W. Bush: “(Bush) has selected nominees from the Taliban wing of American politics, appeased the wretched appetites of the extreme right wing, and chosen Cabinet officials whose devotion to the Confederacy is nearly canine in its uncritical affection.” OK, this was before 9/11.
But in December 2001, three months after the terrorist attacks, Bond savaged Attorney General John Ashcroft: “He knows something about the Taliban, coming from, as he does, from that wing of American politics.” And in June 2004, at a Take Back America conference, Bond said, “(Republicans) draw their most rabid supporters from the Taliban wing of American politics.” And speaking at historically black Fayetteville State University in North Carolina, Bond said, “The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side.”
Is it not racist to brand the entire GOP racist because an “insufficient” number of blacks chose to join it?
Despite America’s obvious progress toward the Rev. Martin Luther King’s vision of a colorblind society, Bond chose fighting racism as the NAACP’s No. 1 priority: “We want (the NAACP) to be a social justice organization. … Our mission is to fight racial discrimination and provide social justice. … We deal with the beast itself. … It is popular to say that we are in a post-civil rights period, but we don’t believe that.”
By “the beast,” Bond meant anti-black racism.
So, does Mr. Bond believe that "content of character" has no standing in society?
May I suggest a different approach –
Americans need to be able to hold elected officials to the campaign promises they make by contract that states that to break more than 2 major promises means they lose the office they were elected to (we can make exceptions for new situations that require emergency action) . Part 2 follows.
Part 2
While many of us realized just what a fraud Comrade Obama was & is – the man got into office, the votes he received are questionable but he's in, & he's in despite his refusal to prove he's a natural born American citizen or an American citizen at all.
80% of Jews in America voted for Comrade Obama, 50% of those who voted for him would not do so again. One wonders why so many voted for him to begin with – but the answer seems to be because he had Rahm & Axelrod at his side – dumb reasoning!
Now the majority of voters are realizing what those of us who do not lean left knew to begin with – & they have buyer's remorse. There's no easy way out without a contract signed in advance by all candidates as suggested above. Part 3 follows.
Nahhhh….the reason they voted for him and others on the left : They are Democrats. Liberals would vote for a log if it ran as a Democrat. They would vote for a donkey if it ran as a Democrat. End of story.
Part 3 of 3
We have another serious problem with elected officials that needs attention: that's of socialists, marxists, communists and progressives holding office. You can not subscribe to these forms of communism and keep your oath to uphold 'the republic for which we stand'
Demonstrations of an aligence to a form of goverment other than our republic must be ban people from holding public office, working for our government in any position and working in positions where the goal is to subvert our republic.
Think about it.
Booker T. Washington perfectly described the Democratic party (and the NAACP) in the last quote. He knew what was going on just as my many black conservative friends know that the Democrats are no friends of minorities.
WRT crying "racist", one would think one could cry "wolf" only so many times; but one would be wrong.
American blacks tend to be tribalists with race baiters as their leaders, so anyone that goes against the tribe is an Uncle Tom. David had it right years ago with "Hating Whitey" and that is what the NAACP is all about.
when will americans take back our country. let us say not to illegals;let us say no to the miss use of the race card; let us make american english our language to unite our country.
WRT crying "racist", one would think one could cry "wolf" only so many times; but one would be wrong. Demonstrations of an aligence traumdeutung to a form of goverment other than our republic must be ban people from holding public office, working for our government in any position and working in positions where the goal is to subvert our republic.