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NAACP Tea Party Report Alleges White Supremacist, Nationalist Agenda

A new report endorsed by the NAACP and various leftist groups claims to have linked white nationalist groups to the tea party movement. The report, titled “Tea Party Nationalism,” looks at various nationalist groups’ websites and news articles to claim tea party events provide a forum for extremists “hoping to push these [white] protesters toward a more self-conscious and ideological white supremacy.”

A Kansas City, Mo.,-based group commissioned the report. The Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights, a group funded in part by the liberal Firedoll Foundation looked at a limited number of tea party “factions,” many loosely organized online or at the county-level. In addition, out a movement consisting of millions of Americans, the report singles out five individual self-proclaimed tea partiers — one of whom has been expelled from their local chapter — for having ties to anti-Semitic, militia and white nationalist groups.

Though most recall the origins of the tea party movement based in public outrage over growing government and spending, the NAACP-backed report claims that the movement was racially charged from the start:

[O]n February 19, 2009, a stock analyst for a cable television network, Rick Santelli, let loose a five-minute on-air rant from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Yelling “This is America!” he attacked the home mortgage rescue plan the Obama administration had unveiled the day before. It was “promoting bad behavior,” he argued, by rewarding the “losers” who took on more debt than they could afford. Santelli said that Obama was turning America into Cuba, and called for a capitalist “Chicago Tea Party.”

An unstated racial element colored Santelli’s outrage over the Obama administration’s home mortgage rescue plan. During the years leading up to the housing crisis, banks had disproportionately targeted communities of color for subprime loans. Many of the so-called “losers” Santelli ranted about were black or Latino borrowers who’d been oversold by lenders cashing in on the subprime market. Their situations were worsened by derivatives traders, like Santelli, who packaged and re-packaged those loans until they were unrecognizable and untenable.

The report then goes on to describe how Santelli’s call for limited government intervention in the market “changed character.”  It goes on to deride groups like Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks for their early support for and involvement in tea party organization, and looks at various national tea party “factions.”

To link the tea party movement to a white supremacy agenda, the report looks at a single comment thread on a single white supremacy website:

In preparation for Tea Party protests held on July 4, 2009, national socialists and other white supremacists created a discussion thread on Stormfront.org, the largest and most widely accessed of the many white nationalist websites.216 While highlighting the distinction between themselves and the majority of Tea Partiers who were not self-conscious about their own racism, one person argued, “We need a relevant transitional envelop-pushing flyer for the masses. Take these Tea Party Americans by the hand and help them go from crawling to standing independently and then walking towards racialism.”

Is it surprising that a minute minority of people would try to latch onto a growing movement to increase their own membership?  No.  Does it mean the tea party movement itself is inherently racist?  Not in reality, but yes according to the NAACP-backed report.

NAACP president Benjamin Jealous claims that his organization is “not attacking the tea party” or “calling the tea party racist.” Tea party chapters from across the country have unhesitatingly condemned these kinds of attitudes. But Jealous insists, using the new report as an example, that the movement has not repudiated “the racists in their midst.”

The report dismisses black conservatives who have stood up at tea party rallies across the country to denounce the NAACP’s past claims of racism within the movement, claiming they were putting ideology over race.  Instead, the report claims the movement is “infested” with racists and racist beliefs.

The report also links government handouts and race, claiming that tea party opposition to expanded government welfare programs amounts to racism:

[A]lmost three-quarters of Tea Party supporters (73%), told pollsters that government programs aimed at providing a social safety net for poor people actually encourages them to remain poor. In fact, more than a bit of anecdotal evidence shows hostility and resentment towards the poor and the programs designed to help them. Hence, the signs such as one at an early St. Louis Tea Party that read: “Honk if I am paying your mortgage.” Not every Tea party supporter exhibited such feelings, certainly, but enough of it showed up in opinion polls to give credence to the description of Tea Parties as mean-spirited.

In addition, the report makes another inextricable links between opposition to President Obama’s liberal agenda, racism and blind nationalism:

[B]oth anecdotal evidence and poll data point to an irreconcilable gap between the president and Tea Partiers. More is at issue here than a simple disagreement of social policy and legislation. Indeed, a quarter of Tea Party supporters polled on the question admit that they think that the Obama “administration favors black people over whites.” When asked whether or not Barack Obama understood the “needs and problems of people like you,” almost three-fourths of Tea Partiers (73%) said “no.” A similar number (75%) said he did not “share the values most Americans try to live by.”

These numbers indicate racial and cultural differences that morph directly into opposing beliefs about immigration, national identity and a question that haunts this Tea Party movement: Who is an American?

“We have challenged Democratic Party in the same way. We challenged Republicans when they embraced the old Dixiecrats,” Jealous said during a Wednesday morning conference call, defending the NAACP’s endorsement of the report.

The report claims that America’s growing tea party movement is rooted in a sort of nationalism that “does not include all Americans,“ and condemns tea partiers for their ”over-stated veneration” for the U.S. Constitution and defense of American exceptionalism:

The Revolutionary War-era costumes, the yellow “Don’t tread on me” Gadsden flags from the same era, the earnest recitals of the pledge of allegiance, the over-stated veneration of the Constitution, and the defense of “American exceptionalism” in a world turned towards transnational economies and global institutions: all are signs of the over-arching nationalism that helps define the Tea Party movement. (emphases mine)

The report also claims the tea party movement is tied to “birthers,” or individuals who question whether President Obama was born outside the United States.

It is a form of American nationalism, however, that does not include all Americans, and separates itself from those it regards as insufficiently “real Americans.” Consider in this regard, a recent Tea Party Nation Newsletter article entitled, “Real Americans Did Not Sue Arizona.” Or the hand-drawn sign at a Tea Party rally that was obviously earnestly felt. “I am a arrogant American, unlike our President, I am proud of my country, our freedom, our generosity, no apology from me.”

It is the notion that President Barack Obama is not a real natural born American, that he is some other kind of person, that abounds in Tea Party ranks and draws this movement into a pit of no return. …

In the opinion of this reporter, the report’s “evidence” is laughable and its allegations are despicable.  Despite claiming in the report’s introduction that his group knows “the majority of tea party supporters are sincere, principled people of goodwill,” Ben Jealous’ continued attacks on the tea party movement suggest otherwise.

The “links” demonstrated in this latest report show little more than the desperation of one side currently losing a broader ideological battle.

Comments (142)

  • STUBBYK
    Posted on October 20, 2010 at 7:09pm

    Anyone who would like to witness a pure case of reverse racism ought to watch the video. The whole thing was a classic spin job. The writer of the report cited all kinds of different cases of racism but the signs at the rally supported what this country is all about. No socialism, a smaller government and the freedom to live the american dream. The moustache on the president looks like the one drawn on President Bush a few years ago.

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  • 338lapua
    Posted on October 20, 2010 at 7:01pm

    Now that the naacp (purposely not capitalized) has had its tantrum,is it surprising what their conclusion is? We know what WE stand for. We also knew that once we poked the hornets nest, bad things would start buzzing around. That being said, we know what the charges are….we know we aren’t guilty, and I think we just need to carry on with no change. Why change when nothing they say has merit. Now it will be the medias turn to charge into battle with faulty ammo (what else is new).Stand firm.

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    • 338lapua
      Posted on October 20, 2010 at 7:37pm

      Remember, we live absolutely 100% rent free in these peoples heads. I think they are bothered by as many faces of color in the crowd as there currently is. Represents the basic racial makeup of the USA.

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  • CAPE775
    Posted on October 20, 2010 at 6:53pm

    Did soaros fund this group and the report?

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  • momsense
    Posted on October 20, 2010 at 6:52pm

    So the TEA party has ties with White Nationalisit groups–so what? The NAACP and La Razzie has openly championed racist groups of their own. Wanna talk racism—look in the mirror!

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  • LadyIzShy
    Posted on October 20, 2010 at 6:50pm

    seriously does ANYONE believe this? basic values of civility? when has there EVER been VIOLENCE at the tea party? when is there racist? oh please these poepel are blowing smoke. they must be in CA

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  • coryf076
    Posted on October 20, 2010 at 6:50pm

    I love how these left wing groups like the naacp claim they are open minded, tolerant, and diverse….but if you don’t see the world through their very narrow-minded, intolerant, one sided view point, then you are a racist, bigoted, sexist, homophobic, islamaphobic, tea bagging, hate monger. Just the name naacp screams intolerance and exclusion.

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  • momsense
    Posted on October 20, 2010 at 6:49pm

    May have been tempted to vote for some not so TEA Party Candidates, but now I’m in the TEA Party all the way!

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  • tarpon
    Posted on October 20, 2010 at 6:49pm

    I wonder doesn’t 95% support from blacks for Obama make them black nationalist? Oh wait, isn’t that what Rev Wright preached in his church of hate as BLT??? hmmm I think I have discovered the roots of Black Liberation Theology.

    HAs anybody ever asked the BLTers what they are being liberated from?

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    • coryf076
      Posted on October 20, 2010 at 6:55pm

      I thought they were being liberated from the white devil, and the kkk of amerikkka….or somethig like that. I think it’s catching on (sarcasm)…

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  • catllers
    Posted on October 20, 2010 at 6:47pm

    TEA= taxed enough already!!!

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  • Sledgehammer
    Posted on October 20, 2010 at 6:46pm

    I was at the rally, and I saw a great many people, of all color (my belief is that there is only one race, the human race) so stick that in your report and smoke it!

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  • teahugger
    Posted on October 20, 2010 at 6:46pm

    As a person who attends TEA party rallies, I have bigger concerns than the color of anyone’s skin. Race has nothing to do with national debt, encroaching government or the trashing of our Constitution. We’ve got much bigger fish to fry. This is obviously a created distraction attempting to keep voters from focusing on the issues. FAIL!

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  • Devil Dog 7175
    Posted on October 20, 2010 at 6:43pm

    Take a look at that bunch… Jealous, Sharpton Jackson… Not to mention their support for the New black panthers among others… Holder, and yes dare I say it… Obulls*** and Moochelle …. nope not a racist bone between em! I‘ve said it befor and I’ll say it again, If these clowns dont keep the black population stirred up,(at least the non thinking ones) THEY are out of work!

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  • revo2012
    Posted on October 20, 2010 at 6:31pm

    Anything too “white” must certainly be racist. The NAACP lost their relevance a long time ago through constantly undermining their own agenda…through baseless claims of racism. Sharpton and the Obamacrats have the most to gain through socialism…who has the most to lose…the white middle class. When we stand up, we are called racists…

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  • ripama
    Posted on October 20, 2010 at 6:30pm

    I don’t think people participate in the tea party movement for the sole purpose of expressing hatred and bigotry Most, in fact the overwhelming majority, participate out of patriotism…they see their country in distress and have found a way to save it.

    The NAACP has a simple plan. Make some accusations, sit back and see who responds. If no one responds to their accusations, they’ll get more frustrated and submit new charges. If any of the national organizations DO respond, the NAACP will tie them up with new charges anyway so they an control the “dialog”.

    I say ignore the NAACP’s accusations and continue on business as usual.

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  • cheezwhiz
    Posted on October 20, 2010 at 6:27pm

    The Revolutionary War-era costumes, the yellow “Don’t tread on me” Gadsden flags from the same era, the earnest recitals of the pledge of allegiance, the over-stated veneration of the Constitution, and the defense of “American exceptionalism” in a world turned towards transnational economies and global institutions: all are signs of the over-arching nationalism that helps define the Tea Party movement.
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    So according to NAACP, African – Americans SHOULD :
    NOT be proud of the revolutionary war,
    NOT venerate our Constitution
    WELCOME someone treading on them,
    NEVER recite the Pledge of Allegiance,
    NEVER believe in American exceptionalism,
    HELP economies of other nations rather their own……
    If people don’t want to be called racists by NAACP, the above actions are mandatory, says the NAACP

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on October 20, 2010 at 6:44pm

      Sounds even better when channeling Jeff Foxworthy :

      If you recite the Pledge of Allegiance while being proud of American exceptionalism,
      you might be a racist.

      If you venerate our Constitution and want no one to tread on you,
      you might be a racist…….

      Thanx for your transparency NAACP

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  • wingedwolf
    Posted on October 20, 2010 at 6:25pm

    Ahhh, the tired old race card. Ho hum.

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    • mintyfresh
      Posted on October 20, 2010 at 7:05pm

      yes, so unimportant to ensure equality for all and end bigotry which is so pervasive. ho, hum.

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    • wifezilla
      Posted on October 20, 2010 at 7:11pm

      I am considering dying myself purple so they can’t assume everything I say is racists just because I am white.

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    • Thirteenth Paladin
      Posted on October 20, 2010 at 7:50pm

      @Minty,
      Yes, it’s boring. This is no different than Pelosi claiming to have saved jobs, and claiming that spending trillions will get us out of debt. Racists calling someone else racist truely is laughable and isn’t worth the time or effort to listen. Only fools pay attention to fools. We can tell that you paid attention to these fools.

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    • Mary M. Tebbe
      Posted on October 20, 2010 at 8:43pm

      wingedwolf: If whites are called bigots – what do they call blacks who hate whites? Just askin’.

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  • Sledgehammer
    Posted on October 20, 2010 at 6:24pm

    Every group will have it fringe elements, including the NAACP. Yes the Tea Party has it’s share, we are weeding them out, asking them to take their support and leave. If a smaller less threatening government is what they consider racisism, well then they’re just stuck on stupid.

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  • TMGallagher
    Posted on October 20, 2010 at 6:21pm

    Quite frankly, WHO CARES WHAT THEY SAY OR WHAT THEY THINK? We know the truth about who we are and don’t need to convince them or anybody else. With each passing day they become more and more desperate and more and more of a joke! Their lies are more than transparent.

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  • ConservativeFeminist
    Posted on October 20, 2010 at 6:21pm

    The NAACP website has a mission statement that includes “Social Justice” – knowing that it’s easy to see why the NAACP Socialists would target pro-Constitution groups such as the Tea Party before an election.

    I understand it, but it still makes me very sad given the NAACP was once an honorable institution.

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  • janddjohnson
    Posted on October 20, 2010 at 6:14pm

    These people are so see through. At the very end of the video, he says something in effect of Tancredo against immigrants. Isn’t it just something that he left out “Illegal immigrants”. These people are so full of fear and hate. Have the NAACP ever denounced the New Black Panthers? and if not why didn’t she ask Ben Jealous about that?

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    • untameable-kate
      Posted on October 20, 2010 at 7:14pm

      It would just about kill them to say illegal. Funny they can go all day calling us racist but won’t call an illegal border crosser by his true discription.

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    • BlackMan
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 10:59am

      As the Self Appointed Leader of the NAABP – National Asscoiation for the Advancement of Black People. I denounce all racist behavior in the NAACP as the Racist Progressive, Liberal, Anti-Semitic organization that it is. Not to say that the NAACP is racist, but that it has Racist Progressive, Liberal, Anti-Semitic elements in it, that it has failed to properly denounce!

      http://www.teapartyofwmi.org/profile/EJCARTER

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  • Ellie
    Posted on October 20, 2010 at 6:14pm

    My main question with the NAACP is how are they _NOT_ a racist organization since they are only out for the advancement of “colored” people.

    Note that they were NEVER the NAECP – National Association for Equality of “Colored” people and as such they have always been, and still are, a total joke.

    Click on my name for some cool new anti-progressivism designs.

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  • Exrepublisheep
    Posted on October 20, 2010 at 6:07pm

    The Tea party may just be the third party I’ve hoped for for so long. They just have to be more vigilant and excise poisonous people/groups quicker.

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    • Firelight
      Posted on October 20, 2010 at 6:56pm

      It is impossible by defintion for a bigot to be part of this movement —Love of America. All of America. Go to a Tea Party and open your eyes. Get some enlightinmentned at a party near you.

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  • kb1200cc
    Posted on October 20, 2010 at 5:49pm

    All of this would be perhaps a tiny bit interesting if the NAACP were in any way relevant. Since the vast majority of the country is NOT racially motivated. (unlike race baiters at the NAACP). Sniffing the tea parties butt they think somehow theylle revive race hate that they thrive on and somehow regain relevance. Get a real job guys.

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    • starman70
      Posted on October 20, 2010 at 7:12pm

      The NAACP at one time was an outstanding and honorable organization fighting for the reghts of black Americans. Now it has deteriorated, and its funding has dried up. This accusation is driven by despairation. They hope to stir up contributions by using this tactic. Fortunately, and to their credit, enlightened, thinking and patriotic black Americans see right through this ploy. Americans of all races, colors and creeds are disgusted by the tax and spend liberal establishment. Working Americans are tired of being taxed to death by the government.

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on October 20, 2010 at 5:49pm

    our computer screwed up after going on their filthy website. ugg. seriously, beware the NAACP.

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    • snowleopard3200
      Posted on October 20, 2010 at 5:59pm

      Bummer, you have my sympathies.

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    • what4
      Posted on October 20, 2010 at 6:31pm

      Thats what happens when dealing with racist orginazations like NAACP & LaRaza…nothing good ever comes from them!

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    • A1955Rosie
      Posted on October 20, 2010 at 6:49pm

      Naacp/aclu/unions all started out good but only to entice, like crac. Bottom line is they can say whatever they want. In the “hood” black/white/latino…we know the truth of our neighbors and snigger at this stuff. We know we’re their pawns and we realized they all were just playing us like **** fights. We got past that (cept a few) and we’re moving on to stand shoulder to shoulder to fight worse enemies, “financial slavery, hidden history,” and we’re steadily marching forward, gaining in numbers, economic class and races because we’re all RED WHITE AND BLUE.

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  • Taquoshi
    Posted on October 20, 2010 at 5:43pm

    The report dismisses black conservatives who have stood up at tea party rallies across the country to denounce the NAACP’s past claims of racism within the movement, claiming they were putting ideology over race.

    Okay, so now their cards are totally on the table. Ideology is secondary to race. That means it‘s not the contents of one’s character that matters, but the color of one’s skin.

    What an insult to “their” leader, Dr. Martin Luther King. Is that whirring sound I hear Dr. King spinning in his grave?

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    • snowleopard3200
      Posted on October 20, 2010 at 5:59pm

      Indeed their cards are on the table; this is the end game and the players are all in.

      The wagers is for the future of our great country and as they have the losing hand, they are trying to make a final, desperate bluff while failing miserably. When the lame duck session comes into play we need to be depending on the hand of the Almighty to protect and guide us from the threats that will come from without and within.

      The storm is nearly here, we can surivive and then prosper for we are America the greatest country on the earth!!!

      Let us all call upon the Almighty for his guidance and protection, and to lead us into a greater freedom that we are meant to become.

      http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm (mix art)

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on October 20, 2010 at 6:31pm

      I guess they have forgotten about the Black Panthers. They used to have relevancy in the fight for equal rights and non-discrimination but now they are just a pathetic puppet for the left. I would bet Soros has them on his payroll and bank rolled this so-called study. So they found a few bad eggs in a carton of millions; they have bad eggs in their organization too. At least the Tea Party gets rid of theirs while the NAACP defends theirs. They need to clean house and get a new administration that will send them in a direction that will benefit the people it is meant to help and protect.

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    • jzs
      Posted on October 20, 2010 at 6:33pm

      The latest TP slander. The Washington Post is in Soros’ pocket:
      http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/19/AR2010101906085.html

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    • Oh, God!
      Posted on October 20, 2010 at 6:34pm

      @ TAQUOSHI: My thoughts exactly. My first thought was: “So race takes precedence over ideology? Isn’t that racist in itself” Also, how they spin that people are racist who believe in the Declaration, Constitution and you happen to fly a Gasden flag is beyond me.

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    • goldmankc
      Posted on October 20, 2010 at 7:14pm

      some of these people are mere racebaiters. without racebaiting they would never get heard, i also see this as a way to try scaring people of color away from the tea party. sad and disgusting. racism will never go away at this rate.

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    • DirectlyUnPCman
      Posted on October 20, 2010 at 7:24pm

      When black organizations begin to rigerously police their own haters within their own ranks, maybe I’ll listen. But as it stands, if you dont agree with the black agenda, you are a racist. Just turn that around – If you are against the white agenda, guess what you are?

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    • Stuck_in_CA
      Posted on October 20, 2010 at 8:06pm

      Hummm. Do you think both Mr. Jealous & obummer hate the white half of their linage?

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    • 82dAirborne
      Posted on October 20, 2010 at 8:09pm

      Aren’t the NAACP and the “new” Black Panther Party working together?? Isn’t the new Black Panther Party a radical hate group? Do they not fight for black supremecy?? It is difficult for me to understand why whites are the only people who can be racist. Oh I remember now…… ANY group of people can be racist! But in this PC world you don’t dare say it out loud. Political Correctness will destroy this country if things don’t change and change quickly.

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    • FIRED UP FREE MAN !
      Posted on October 20, 2010 at 9:03pm

      Mr. SOROS is an international criminal. Any government official taking money from this monster or those he supports should be brought up on treason charges. Anybody who takes money from this monster has sold his soul and our government to HELL ! GOD BLESS AMERICA AND THE LIGHT OF DAY! For only TRUTH and the light of day is what this country DESERVES. Democrats seemed to have been infected by this DEADLY parasite and his minions. This country will NOT rest until SOROS is in prison orange and handcuffs standing in front of a military tribunal in Guantomino Bay, Cuba

      If you have any complaints about Mr. SOROS here are the names and addresses, maybe you can send them a line.

      Tides Foundation Info:
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    • FIRED UP FREE MAN !
      Posted on October 20, 2010 at 9:10pm

      Mr. SOROS is an international criminal. Any government official taking money from this monster or those he supports should be brought up on treason charges. Anybody who takes money from this monster has sold his soul and our government to HELL ! GOD BLESS AMERICA AND THE LIGHT OF DAY! For only TRUTH and the light of day is what this country DESERVES. Democrats seemed to have been infected by this DEADLY parasite and his minions. This country will NOT rest until SOROS is in prison orange and handcuffs standing in front of a military tribunal in Guantomino Bay, Cuba

      If you have any complaints about Mr. SOROS here are the names and addresses, maybe you can send them a line.

      Tides Foundation Info:
      National Office
      Physical Address: 1014 Torney Ave. San Francisco, CA 94129-1755
      P.O. Box 29198*
      San Francisco, CA 94129-0198
      415-561-6400
      415-561-6401 Fax
      info(at)tides.org
      New York Office
      Tides New York
      55 Exchange Place, Suite 402
      New York, NY 10005-3304
      212-509-1049
      212-509-1059 Fax
      nyinfo(at)tides.org
      Center for American Progress Information:
      1333 H Street Northwest
      Washington D.C., District of Columbia 20005
      Phone: 202-682-1611
      Fax: 202-682-1867

      Mailing Address
      Democracy Alliance
      P.O. Box 18607
      Washington, DC 20036
      Media Matters Information:
      455 Massachusetts Ave. NW
      Suite 600
      Washington, DC 20001
      (202) 756-4100

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    • poverty.sucks
      Posted on October 20, 2010 at 9:52pm

      NAACP fails to seek the truth and fabricates facts inorder to force their agenda.

      Genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum.
      -Earl Charles Spencer

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    • chazman
      Posted on October 20, 2010 at 10:56pm

      Nice hat … babe.

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    • 5
      Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:08pm

      BULL CRAP! If you don‘t like the ’Tea Party’ you are the Racist.
      Look at the “NAACCP-BLACKPEOPLE << – - – - -Racist"

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    • Loyal1
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 1:27am

      And here I thought this was about freedom. Nothing says close like the hand that’s in your pocket. I feel better already.

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    • antimaher
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 1:42am

      NAACP can rant and rave all they like but that doesn’t change the fact that the TEA party is a grass roots movement of disgruntled employers that are going to fire a lot of their undesirable employees because they are not doing the job their employers hired them to do. Their arrogance is an insult to the intelligence of their employers and they justifiably deserve to be fired. Just as there are supreme a## holes that have co-opted black issues there are supreme a## holes that are trying to co-opt the TEA party. The difference is the TEA party doesn’t pay any attention to their crap and are not defined by racists. The race card has been burned forever. The vast majority of whites are not racists and will not be intimidated any longer by the accusation. In this country today only ones attitude and the choices they make determine ones opportunity. I suggest it would be a good decision to be prepared to take advantage of when opportunity knocks and if you don’t succeed, try try again but don’t ever think someone owes you anything. We are all equal in that respect.

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    • spikebu
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 2:59am

      This is so twisted. The dumb Yahoos have delivered a report on themselves! Don’t they know we have slipped our bonds and escaped? Are they so self involved they don‘t know we’re no longer gagged, blindfolded, and hog-tied in the basement? I think they are. They must buy into their own reporting (89,000 at 8-28). They believe we are the minority. They can say we are the minority as loud as they want from all of their tv staions. It doesn’t change their numbers. We are still the MAJORITY. Let’s shine the light of truth on them. Expose their racism. Every opportunity, blast them with the light.

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    • Arc
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 4:24am

      BRAVO TAQUOSHI!!!!! Hit the nail on the head. The only time the NAACP adheres to Dr King’s teaching is when it suits their current agenda. However, to hear them state that no other race can quote or use Dr Kings wisdom weighs heavy on their actions that are contrary to wisdom.

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    • rebel
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 7:14am

      “tea party needs to be policed”

      yeah that sounds like a great idea. can we police your organization too?

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    • BlackMan
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 10:39am

      I used to be a member of the NAACP when i thought that their advancement meant those of us, who love Liberty and Freedom. the NAACP, is a WHORE! (politcaly speaking) they get their funding from Dems who choose to use them to continue to subjegate Blacks. They have no idea that the democrat party has changed since 1964, and it is no more true that Republicans hate Blacks, any more than Democrats love Us. They recieve money from Dems and power from Dems and publicity from Dems so that they can raise money. Can they point to ONE Republican, they are aligned with? One???? perhaps Colin Powell, but I never heard them telling General Powell he should run, when so many Republicans were telling him to. NO, they only have support for Dems. So many of these Dems have no Black Agenda at all. It is purely hatred for Republicans, because they get no cash from us!

      I do think, it may be time to get more aggressive toward recruiting Blacks into the GOP because more and more of us, are coming out of the political daze we have been in.

      But the NAACP is becoming less and less relevant. But if they can scream “R A C I S M” and get out the Black Vote, in 2010 against the tide, they know they will get more money in 2012

      http://www.teapartyofwmi.org/profile/EJCARTER

      ‘Nuff Said

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