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Tea Partier Confronts St. Louis NAACP Over Racist Remarks
- Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:29am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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At a press conference in St. Louis announcing the a new NAACP commissioned report on Tea Party racism, a citizen journalist confronted local leaders about racism he has seen at NAACP events.
That didn’t sit well with the brass in attendance, who denied the allegations and at one point asked everyone to turn their cameras off so they could “talk honestly.” The videographer was eventually kicked out of the event, but not before capturing some damning video:
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Comments (192)
BoilitDown
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 9:01amI hope this video is spread far and wide. It is straight up and irrefutable. It demonstrates the dishonesty of the “Racism in Tea Parties” report.
Report Post »Steve_in_Georgia
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 9:00amThe NAACP is an irrelevant, hypocritical, liberal tool of the Democrat (Socialist) Party. Ben Jealous is a lying, race-baiting, bigoted toady. Like the tea party guy said, two of Russ Carnahan supporters called Kenneth Gladney, victim of a beating by union thugs, terrible things because he was Black and Conservative. The NAACP figureheads at the meeting were clueless and didn’t care. The rampant racism among leftist African Americans goes unnoticed. We have to keep calling them out while simultaneously laughing at them for being the irrelevant jokes they are. The organization is a sham and a scam that does nothing to really help African Americans, except to push the us versus them attitude and entitlements. The NAACP should be singled out, ridiculed, and mocked for its stupidity, lies, hypocrisy, and divisive political agenda.
Report Post »justsaying
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 9:00amHe flat out lied! The arrogance of these people is amazing!
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:59amNAACP is a racist organization by it’s very definition. Secondly, in no way the NAACP is as broadly ‘against’ racism as Mr. Pruett implies in this video, that proof is also on video.
Report Post »EdFulop
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:58amIsn’t the mere fact that the name of their group the National Association for the ADVANCEMENT of COLORED PEOPLE racist? If I had a group that called for the advancement of WHITE people, I’d be called a white supremacist, yes? Equality goes both ways.
Report Post »Bob_R_OathKeeper
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 9:04amI’m a plethora of colors. What would a person be without colored skin? Invisible? The name is as outdated as their ideology.
Report Post »WishWeWereFree
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:56amThis needs to happen a lot more often! If we show up and challenge their hipocrisy then eventually it will stop.
Report Post »I love this!
Sick twisted Freak
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:56amI love this reporter!
Shine your light on them and they run and hide. Keep asking the right questions and they have nothing to do but shut it down.
Report Post »Marcobob69
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 9:39amI agree with you, that is real journalism. Now if only the “other” media outlets would smarten up and find journalists like this, the American people would get the REAL truth instead of the half truths and downright LIES that is reported now. There is only one “Fair and Balanced” media source now, that would be the Fox Cos.
Report Post »time4termlimits
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:54amAnd will ANYONE in the MSM cover this story? Will the women of the VIEW cover this story? Will the White House pressroom, The Huffington Post, cover this story. The NAACP is without a doubt one of the most hypocritical civil rights organizations in the country. In fact, to refer to them as a civil rights organization is laughable. They have taken their organization into the pig pen. Ben Jealous should be proud of those representing his race baiting, two-faced, progressive, hate filled group. When will America stop listening to these imbeciles?
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:52amWhy are they calling for a “repudiation of the racist elements in the Tea Party organization”? Has anyone told them that the Tea Party is a grass roots movement that is not formally organized like the Dems or Repubs? Exactly what are they looking for, large signs saying “All Welcomed”? An engraved invitation? No, wait, I know, they want their leaders to speak at the rallies because that way, it won’t be racist anymore! LOL. What are these people smoking?
Report Post »Will NV
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:52amThe new KKK is now wearing purple shirts and they are called SEIU.
Report Post »Docrow
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:51amTurn the camera off and we’ll have an “honest” discussion? Since when has that ever happened?
Report Post »JN
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:51am“First Amendment man!”
Report Post »Awesome
Marylou7
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:49amFinally some honest reporting. The gentleman didn’t know racism was happening at a NAACP event yet he was standing right there on the stage. Oh those double standards. Truth doesn’t lie.
Report Post »Bob_R_OathKeeper
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:48amRacist SOB’s. Their name is racist and so are their beliefs. Just imagine what was said after he got kicked out. They are no different than the KKK, other than pigment.
Report Post »Will NV
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:48am93% of blacks are racist bigots.
Report Post »93% of blacks voted for Obama because he is 1/2 black.
bghandlcw
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 9:17amOvergeneralizations get us no where. Now you sound like NAACP members.
Report Post »Rogue
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 11:33am76.4% of all statistics are made up.
Report Post »danieljersey
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 12:13pmUmm, you realize that nearly the same percentage of blacks who voted for Obama also voted for Clinton AND Gore right? If Obama had been a Repub and still won that high of a percentage from the black community then an argument could be made it was based on race. But seeing as how blacks have voted Dem 90%+ in recent Presidential elections for white men your use of statistics show you have not done your research and are merely repeating what you read online like so many bread dead posters.
Report Post »STUBBYK
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:48amLIARS, BIGOTS and DOWNRIGHT RACISTS. And it’s on video. Repudiate that.
Report Post »MarkBL
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:46amThe NAACP is an unnecessary organization
Report Post »BoilitDown
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 9:09amMARKBL: The NAACP’s leadership has made it irrelevant. That is why they need to encourage the racial divide. The more racism (real or fabricated) the larger their base. If they keep up the racism within the leadership they can spread it around.
Report Post »The real mission of the original NAACP is still valid. The people running it now are not.
Star Spangled
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 9:56amI agree ! I think we should do away with any organization who selects one race of people to “advance” .
Report Post »It causes more divisions at a time when we all need to come togather .
Tightie Rightie
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 10:20amDon’t want to sound like a conspiracy nutcase but I have to wonder who pulls the strings of the NAACP leadershship?
Report Post »just me
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:45amHypocrisy at work. Hypocrisy at its best.
Report Post »snowleopard3200
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:54amHypocrisy at work definitly…
At its best? I would say it ties with the daily hypocrisy of the White House and the Progressives.
Radicals are radicals when they use hate and lies against the truth.
Report Post »Easyrunner
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:45amI always like to assume that people are honest but to see video of him at the event and then hear him deny any knowledge of it happening… Unbelievable!!
Report Post »jacquecustard
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:45amWelcome to Obamaland.
Report Post »Marcobob69
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:44amTruly unbelievable. And the Tea Party is racist? I love it when the guy said he hadn’t seen it, and they show him standing six feet away listening intently! The loony-left in action!!! “Please turn off your cameras so we can have an honest discussion”! And the guy shot back “does that mean you weren’t telling the truth?” CLASSIC! Is the NAACP funded by the Soros group? Just thinking out loud……..!!!
Report Post »Bob_R_OathKeeper
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:54amKudos to that reporter for having the courage to ask hard questions also.
Report Post »White Devil
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 12:07pmYes, I loved every second of that brave young man standing up to the racist liars. Do they still not know that they have been and are still being recorded. Do they not know what they sound like? I can’t even imagine if I was holding a press conference and said “ lets turn off the cameras so we can talk honestly ”??? are you kidding? He has no problem with that. The thing is, they are not used to being challenged. I say, More challenging is needed until they realize that we will NOT go into the night quietly or be bullied by them ever again.
Report Post »DanStlMo
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:43amSunlight is the best disinfectant.
Report Post »snowleopard3200
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:51amAgreed!
Let Gods light shine upon the darkness and burn away the falsehoods to show the truth.
Report Post »TrueGrit
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 2:14pmYou need much more than Sunlight…
you need a laser LightSaber to clean up this mess.
Wolverine.
Report Post »Bluefish49
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:40amLook at the smug bastartds at aroud 1:14….and how come the white guy doesn’t speak?
Report Post »hempstead1944
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:37amLiars and bigots in black face…..
Report Post »ME
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 9:34amThe end where it shows him right there when it was said he was not aware of the comments was the best!! :) The real racist are the NAACP Should be the NAACB advancement of there Check Book They care about there ideology and its advancement.
Report Post »chazman
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 10:28amHey HEMPSTEAD, they are light years away from being ‘BLACK!‘ They are racist’!
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 11:53amI posted this on another page hoping that someone from the black leadership in this country will read it…
I have been on the frontlines of anti-descrimination in this great nation for over 30 years. I have been helping to further the cause of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. since the very first time I heard his “I have a dream” speech. I have spent my entire adult life living Dr. Kings words to not “judge a person by their color but their content of character”. I have done everything within my power to help cast-off racism into an ever shrinking pool of ignorant swimmers. I have done my part.
NO MORE!
Over the past couple of days I have mentioned, here on this blog, that I no longer care what people of color think of me. Why is that you may ask? Simply because I am sick and tired of being USED, and I am sick and tired of being accused of something I am not.
I am a white man and I no longer care what minorities think of me.
The blame of my newly found non-caring is due to the direct actions of the leadership on the political left in this country. They should be ashamed of themselves, but they seem to relish in their new-found hatred.
Dear Dr. King, I am so, so sorry.
Report Post »NC
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:36amand Mr. Pruett can’t even get the name of the organization correct. He refers to the NAACP as the NACP.
I certainly don‘t think it’s a language barrier, as I do speak “suthern”
NC (does not speak ebonics)
Report Post »Bob_R_OathKeeper
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:49amYeah, I kept noticing that too, idiots.
Report Post »snowleopard3200
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:50amThe Tea Party calls out the racists movements within their own party; yet then the NAACP choses to ignore the truth and slander, twist the truth, lie, and spew their racial bigotry…
All of their documentation has been written by Socialists and Progressives; they use falsified photos and other such lies, making racial insults against a beating victim they should have supported and when challenged to call out people of their own ranks – to be documented on the camera for the record then we have the NAACP rep’s want the cameras turned off and demand to have the matter dealt with off the record – they are afraid the truth shall be found out.
These matters are on the record for all of America to see; they deny and distort the facts – when asked a question the one states “This is what I am talking about!”
“We will have this discussion but it is over.”
Typical way Progressives handle everything – start speaking the truth and they do not know how to handle it save with charges of bigotry, and racism.
http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm (mix art)
john seven eighteen
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:51amWelcome to the NAACP, where truth is what we say it is!
Report Post »Ga. Tea Party
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:55amI think if we will keep this up it will take the racist stick out of their hands and will free up this nation to do what needs to be done and that is to throw off the PC chains that go with it. Thanks
Report Post »snowleopard3200
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:59amI just thought of something – these gentlemen denying the facts of NAACP racism and distortions is remenicent of Baghdad BoB statement…
“There is no American Tanks in Baghdad!!!”
At the same time an American tank commander is less than a mile or so away, at one point in the video I am sure there IS an American Abrams tank in the background rolling by while Bob is saying there are none!!!
Report Post »CultureWarriors
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 9:17amThe only racists I see in this equation are the ones that belong to an organization that promotes one race over another. The NAACP is a racist organization period. The facts are that the Tea Party contains much less radical members than the Democrat party. It is a political mistake to demonize the silent majority. Nov 2, 2010 is just the beginning!
These are not racist people …
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ3OxZhXKQ0
wildjoker5
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 9:21amWhen O’Rieley generalized Muslims as the people who killed “us”, there is a good point about minorities being scared that if you start generalizing entire groups like Muslims as being terrorists, you can start generalizing the black communities by the way people act in Compton. Although I totally agree and know that all Muslims are NOT terrorist, and all terrorist are NOT Muslims, I think there is actually a point to the argument of minorities of keeping wide spread generalizations out of the limelight because that is where stereo-types come from.
Now that being said, the 1 or 2 signs brought to the Tea party rallies that maybe, somewhat remotely racists, either by design or accident, are usually dealt with on the spot by others in the rallies. But it is clearly 100% ok by minorities, particularly NAACP, to paint not just the Tea parties as Racist, but white people as a whole as racist. When will they ever get away from the Hypocrisy and start taking responsibility for their actions, or inaction of being a general help to society. Sharpton and Jackson encourage the lazy part of their race to keep sitting around and wait for reparations.
Report Post »ripama
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 9:41amHow ’bout “Nukewler” instead of nuclear?
beekeeper
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 9:49amCan you imagine how much more effective MLK could have been if video cameras were as ubiquitous in his day as they are today? I believe he would have embraced the technology and used it to document injustice, hypocrisy, and other illegal acts against people of color. Compare that with this fellow’s insistence that the cameras be turned off “at a press conference they called” so they can have an “honest” discussion…
To believe the principles espoused by the NAACP requires that you ignore the actions and policies of the NAACP, it seems.
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 10:40amThe citizen journalist at SharpElbows & Andrew Breitbart would make a great team… Glad these guys are on our side. Awesome.
Report Post »JKN
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 11:26amThere is a blatant double standard in America when it comes to race; furthermore, there is no such thing as “reverse racism.” It doesn’t matter what color the skin: Either you‘re a racist or you’re not. Period.
Also, it is SO past time to throw out the old race deck as all of the race cards have been used up. This old trick has simply lost its sting and just doesn’t cut it anymore…
Report Post »fobama
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 11:27amyour a hate monger! (sarcasm) he does say repeatedly nacp, the funny thing here is when you call out the lefties they wanna shut down the debate, call a spade a spade!
Report Post »Peters
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 11:33amThe dirty little secret here is that everything on race in America has already been said, and beyond exhaustion. Those that want to believe what they believe, what they have been indoctrinated to believe, are going to continue on in their racist attitudes and mindsets. There’s nothing really left to say except for a few qualifying statements, statements made in departure of any remaining hope of finding any lasting unity. There’s a fundamental realization in recognizing that while one group in this race equation has been evolving out of racism another has dug in and is holding out for a windfall, an immaculate conception such as the case with the over marketed, over sold product of Barak Obama.
Now, of course, that’s the sentiment from the left; they did that. They have been maneuvering toward this despite the risks of being viewed as anti-American, as treasonous by some definitions, and in some circles. When we look at the broad picture, of what the media on the left is promoting, we quite clearly can hear this: They’re telling America that there is nothing left to talk about, that talk will only get you so far; it is the time to take. The reality of that, recognizing it, is simply where we’re at.
And then, the other day, Juan Williams was held up here high on this web site, on our shoulders for all to see. He has a respected voice in our circles, and beyond. So let’s hold Juan Williams up again and put him on display for just a moment longer because many within the last few days showered him with immense respect and admiration for his professionalism, and his fairness; but perhaps, some may have missed the festive environment.
That’s right; FOX viewers were praising a black man, Tea Party members praising a black man, a liberal . . . . But Mr. Williams, in our shared and continued search for fairness and truth, how long are you going to sit in front of a camera and not denounce the actions of how the left is manipulating people of so called “color?” Why Mr. Williams, is it that the people of the Tea Party are advocates of all that you want in the end, as a person of “color,” all the things guaranteed to you and to your labeled “people of color;” yet, you broadly allow us, the Tea Party and conservatives, to be labeled as racists? Are you not participating in a gross and historical injustice to your own people allowing them to exist within a self destructive reality, one that could be avoided by your own teaching and your direction, by your example, by your responsibility?
Are you, Mr. Williams, a man of stature and reputation in the black community, as a communicator? Do you write articles and books of your thoughts . . . present the challenges your fellow man is enduring, the “people of color?”
Many people here in the Tea Party, those that tune in to FOX News respect you. They told you that. They are faceless and nameless . . . they are neither black or white . . . they have written respectful things about you and it’s not because you are white or black; it’s because you apply relative common sense to the issues that we share. The key is, “that we share.”
But let’s just throw all that crap off the table for a moment; in fact, let’s get the table surface right down to the old weathered planks of liberty and democracy in America. Let’s throw out there for a moment that “people of color” are guaranteed prosperity in America from this day forward; let’s take for a moment that it is guaranteed, assuming that you and your “people of color” believe that it wasn’t guaranteed before.
And then, you, and the “people of color,” have to face and realize, must identify what it is in life that is not possible to guarantee, where individual responsibility begins, of how “people of color” go about attaining their guaranteed prosperity like all others. But where is this critical understanding, among your people, of what it is that’s guaranteed to you. Where are you promoting, advocating an understanding that you have the guaranteed freedom to choose; the “people of color” have the freedom to choose. Let’s repeat that, “people of color” have the freedom to choose their path in life, but only they personally, as individuals, can go out and get it; only they personally can gather the stones and build for them self the prosperity that is guaranteed to them. “The people of color” are guaranteed all the things needed to prosper except for what cannot be humanly guaranteed: the effort and desire to rise up and live as an individual ethically, morally and responsibly with everyone, including us here that support you and are trying to do the same for ourselves.
But here’s the conclusion on that dirty little secret Juan Williams, the people that you advocate in government for, are instructing a population that prosperity is not earned in America. What your administration is teaching is that prosperity in America was taken by thievery and deceptions and corruption . . . and that those things are the norm. Hatred then becomes incubated for the assumed and accused takers because if they’re taking, they must be taking from someone, somewhere, and somehow. It’s a simple matter that you are either a taker or being taken from. So it would seem, so is the reality of the Democratic Party and what they want “people of color” to see. And we could throw Darwin’s name out there at this point, if we wanted, but that’s of another conversation.
The focus on this is that it is your people in government Mr. Williams, Democrats that are advocating a perpetual path to misery by instilling in your “people of color” that the path to prosperity in America is only attained by taking it from someone else; or that someone else is to be forced to hand it over in the name of guilt for crimes committed by others, in other times long ago. This reality is being sold to your people as being the easy and perhaps the only path to guaranteed prosperity; you are allowing it and advocating it, the destruction of the human spirit, of your people.
Your people Mr. Williams, the Democratic Party, are throwing dirt at the group that wants to sympathize with you and your “people of color.” We are being buried by you when we are your best hope Mr. Williams, the Tea Party, conservatives. We are yours and your people’s best hope because we believe in you, “people of color,” that we are all the same, that we all share in the same responsibility of finding prosperity for ourselves and helping others attain it . . . but not by stealing it. Your guilt by association though, it tarnishes you . . . until you find yourself capable of advocating truth and honesty to our, all of us together, our “people of color.”
When will America be home to you Mr. Williams . . . and to your people? In your liberal ideology, when, at what point in time and after what events do we become one?
Is that even what you want . . . you and our people? Put it on the table.
Report Post »pajamash
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 1:20pmWord, john seven eighteen, WORD!
Report Post »Leslie_Benedict
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 2:37pmHmmm. Maybe they’ve also decided to just drop the “advancement” part of NAACP.
Report Post »ishka4me
Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:23amgestapo! the brown shirts are coming people.great video. the man is very courageous and respectful. let the truth be told
Report Post »Texas lady
Posted on October 23, 2010 at 10:21amThis is so great, way to go guys, hold their feet to the fire.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on October 23, 2010 at 3:26pmwhat is this guys IQ ?
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