The NAACP, the Tea Party and the Question of Racism
EmailThe National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is reported today to be considering a resolution condemning the Tea Party movement for racism within its ranks. While our data don't speak to views at the individual level, in the broadest, population-based sense, we don't see it.
We covered the question in our extensive look at the movement in May. Certainly suspicions of racism are there: We found that 57 percent of people who oppose the Tea Party suspect its members of racial prejudice (specifically, against President Obama). That declined to a quarter of those who are neutral toward the movement, and 10 percent of its own supporters.
Certainly views on race differ among groups, and as we noted at the time, Tea Party supporters are less apt than other Americans to see racism as a major problem. But that view also is associated with attributes other than being a Tea Party supporter – being very conservative, for example, and being white.
We tried to disentangle these by producing a regression analysis predicting independent elements of support for the Tea Party movement, using views of the extent of racism in society and of Obama’s efforts on behalf of African-Americans as measures of racial sentiment.
As we reported: “A statistical analysis indicates that the strongest predictors of supporting the Tea Party are views of Obama, ideology, partisanship and anger at the way the government is operating. Views on the extent of racism as a problem, and views on Obama’s efforts on behalf of African-Americans, are not significant predictors of support for the Tea Party movement.”
The full analysis is here, and I'm pasting the section dealing with race below.
From our May survey:
THE QUESTION OF RACE – Tea Party supporters broadly agree on motivations for backing the movement – economic concern (cited by 83 percent), distrust of government (79 percent) and opposition to President Obama and the Democrats (72 percent). Many fewer supporters, but still 39 percent, cite dissatisfaction with the Republican Party as a reason for favoring the Tea Party.
At the same time, the movement’s supporters broadly reject the suggestion of racial prejudice against Obama. Eighty-seven percent of Tea Party backers say this is not a reason people support it. (One in 10 say it is). Racism, rather, is suggested by many Tea Party opponents, 57 percent of whom suspect prejudice in the movement’s ranks. (Among people who are neutral toward the Tea Party, about a quarter, 24 percent, suspect prejudice is at play in its support.)
Tea Party supporters are less apt than others to see racism as a major problem in this country – a majority do so, 58 percent, compared with 75 percent of all Americans. However, this concern is about the same among Tea Party supporters as it is among all adults who define themselves as very conservative (61 percent say racism is a significant problem). And Tea Party supporters are more apt to be white – 81 percent, vs. 74 percent of all adults (and 65 percent of Tea Party opponents). Whites are less apt than nonwhites to see racism as a major problem.
Further, while 18 percent of Tea Party supporters say Obama is doing “too much” to represent the interests of African-Americans, exactly as many say he’s doing too little in this regard. And those proportions are about equal among all Americans – 12 percent say Obama’s doing too much for African-Americans, 13 percent too little.
Ultimately, a statistical analysis indicates that the strongest predictors of supporting the Tea Party are views of Obama, ideology, partisanship and anger at the way the government is operating. Views on the extent of racism as a problem, and views on Obama’s efforts on behalf of African-Americans, are not significant predictors of support for the Tea Party movement.
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Condemning the Tea Party as racist is ridiculous, have you seen those folks? There couldn’t be a more peaceful, but passionate group of people. I think it is extreme and shameful to attack Americans who only believe this country is dangerously headed in the wrong direction, under this president and the Democrat control. Nothing to do with racism, but that pot must be stirred every time, it gets really old. It’s like the boy who cried wolf, pretty soon no one will listen. Even more shameful is the obvious bias reporting in the media or lack there of. It will certainly back fire, many people are waking up and taking a stand, taking back their country and their liberties. I guess you could call the sleepers the tea party group. I was a sleeper who believed my elected officials had the best interest of the people and this country at heart, boy was I wrong. That is when I ,has decided to start getting involved, mainly because of the bias in the media, and the dishonest politicians. To be honest I am really scared of this enormous sweeping government control. I don’t think the media is really helping the progressive movement, despite a gallant effort. What ever happened to the party who called for embracing peoples differences and accepting everybody for who they are. O ya, I guess that only applies if you agree with them, hypocrites!
Posted by: Linda | July 12, 2010, 11:37 am 11:37 am
That 83 percent expressing economic concern tells us a lot. As Robert Reich keeps reminding us, the increasing concentration of wealth at the top 1 percent doesn’t leave enough in the middle to keep the economy going. And neither party seems inclined to change that. See Reich’s paragraph at the bottom of USA Today’s editorial page today (Monday).
Posted by: Philip Meyer | July 12, 2010, 12:10 pm 12:10 pm
Perhaps it is the NAACP, who are the racists?
Most of the issues the Tea Party supports, have little to nothing to do with race, including the illegal immigration issue. That too, is about the failure to enforce the immigration laws, which are already on the books.
The fact some folks don’t like Obama is a poor accusation. He isn’t liked, not as a person, but as a President, whose priorities are all wrong, whose policies are not good for America, and who has done nothing to stop the flow of illegal immigrants.
Indeed Obama has gone against the wishes, of the majority of Americans, on ObamaCare, and wasted an entire year on that, instead of working on creating jobs for millions of unemployed people.
The NAACP, needs to get in touch with reality, and get out of their “everyone else is racist” box.
Posted by: Rick McDaniel | July 12, 2010, 12:11 pm 12:11 pm
The NAACP are the racists. The majority of people in the Tea Party are white and so are the majority of Americans are also white. African Americans are a minority.
The only goup your going to find that white people are a minority is in the NAACP.
ENOUGH!
Posted by: Kathy | July 12, 2010, 12:18 pm 12:18 pm
So, you judge whether members of an organization is racist by asking them? No reasonable person will admit they are racist and will deny race has anything to do with their motivation. But dig deeper…race is a factor is many more than 18% of TEA partiers…Personally, as a white person I could care less….to me TEA partiers are simply fanactical anarchists who mask themselves in patriotism….
Posted by: indy_voter | July 12, 2010, 12:29 pm 12:29 pm
The unfortunate driver of much of this talk of racism with the tea parties isn’t about evidence of such a perspective, but rather a difference in argument.
Right now we have the Administrations supporters who say that he is the best thing for the country to deal with “social injustice” and because he is an anti-George W Bush. They site the profits of companies, high salaries, political corruption from the GOP and the finiancial issues of the former administration as reasons for supporting the current president.
The denoucers of the current administration are against Obama because he doesn’t appear to listen to the majority of the country regarding his legislative agenda, has ignored the ecomony after he got his Stimulus passed, has not changed the behavior or the atmosphere of the politics of the day in Washington and doesn’t appear seriously interested in proper fiscal management of the governments affairs.
On either side you have people with data to support their claims. On both sides you have people who are vehemently radical in their statements and those who are calm and collected in their analysis.
The issue is that on both sides there are no solutions, to the issues of our day, that seem to see the light of day so we end up with the extremes of each perspective yelling the most hateful accusations in an attempt not to prove that their perspective is the correct one, but to discredit their opposition enough so that their espoused position is seen as discredited as well.
This nonsense from the NAACP is just the latest round of such childishness.
The facts are that from 2000-2008 Bush made poor choices and mismanaged the country significantly, with the aid of Congress from 2000-2008, with both Democrat and Republican congressmen contributing to the mismanagement.
From 2008-today Obama has mismanaged the country significantly and has tread Bush’s path of poor choices with more gusto and heavier boots and has compounded the problems which he had promised to correct if he were elected, with congressional support both from Republicans and Democrats.
When considering issues of mismanagement it is irrelevent what color the skin is of either the accused or the accuser. You consider what the accused has done and the results of their actions. Race is a non-issue.
Posted by: bobtherepublican | July 12, 2010, 12:40 pm 12:40 pm
It seems that the only cards in the Obama supporters deck are the race card. Anyone with opposing ideas is automatically a racist.
Posted by: hkdakota | July 12, 2010, 12:44 pm 12:44 pm
Does anybody even listen or care what the NCAAP has to say? Have they denounced the new black panthers for their racism. Of course not. They are the king of whitewashing black racism and with it all their credibility is non existent.
Posted by: Davis | July 12, 2010, 12:55 pm 12:55 pm
In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
Obama touts a getting tough policy on spending in 2012, but he only plans to cut the deficit by 50%. The deceit is that Obama will create the illusion of being tough while still increasing the National Debt by over a half-trillion dollars.
The revolutionary truth is that the current debt would require 100 years to amortize with yearly payments of 320 billion dollars. An even harder truth is that if we wait until 2012 those payments would rise to 380 billion dollars per year for 100 years. So you see why no one on “the Hill” wants to discuss this and why the TEA Party is an absolute necessity if we are to save our Nation.
The cost just to service the debt by year 2020 is projected to be some 900 billion which is more than we currently spend on Defense, Education, Energy, and Homeland Security combined.
Posted by: Ed Taylor | July 12, 2010, 1:07 pm 1:07 pm
No President in memory has caused more economic hardship to the African American community than Obama. If tea party sentiments were realised, the economy would begin to rebound and African Americans would begin to benefit.
Posted by: Ted Peters | July 12, 2010, 1:14 pm 1:14 pm
NEWS FLASH: Obama Administration finds a possible link between rampant deficit spending and the National Debt. Though not yet reported to the public the 14 trillion dollar projected debt would require 100 years (yes, 100 years) of balanced budgets and payments of 320 billion dollars per year to resolve. The WH has not stated when payments might begin.
Posted by: Ed Taylor | July 12, 2010, 1:20 pm 1:20 pm
I think the REAL question is why do we allow such racist organizations like the NAACP and the United Negro College Fund to exist in America, right under our noses?
Posted by: Fed_Up_American_Citizen | July 12, 2010, 1:26 pm 1:26 pm
Amazing.
We Americans will even lie to ourselves.
Refusing that the Tea Party is racist is tantamount to seeing black and swearing white.
At least the NAACP admits their own racism in the fact that they are more than 90% colored and they are fighting for the “advancement of the colored” (which is understandable given the history of slavery and racism in our Ameria).
The Tea Party is 99.9% white, and wants to keep all the money in the hands of the 2% richest Americans who are 99.9% White.
Am I the only one with eyes.
Or, are we just a country of hypocrits.
Posted by: Steve_NJ | July 12, 2010, 1:57 pm 1:57 pm
The real problem with the NAACP is that they proclaim they are for equal rights. The real truth is that they want to be MORE EQUAL than the rest of us.
I don’t know which is the most dishonest, the NAACP or the ACLU!
Posted by: Greyghost | July 12, 2010, 2:21 pm 2:21 pm
This is one of the reasons I got sick of the Democrats decades ago (this, and Jimmy Carter). Once they decide they can’t defeat you on the ideas, they simply fall back to unfounded charges of racism (or sexism or homophobia, etc). Of course, it is impossible to disprove these charges (when I pointed out to someone I, a white man, was married to a black woman, I was told that proved nothing, that I was just trying to disguise my racist tendencies. That was the last straw for me).
Posted by: Nick in Virginia | July 12, 2010, 2:35 pm 2:35 pm
The majority of the members of the tea party movement are nothing but a bunch of white conservative racists.!
and to answer the questions of why groups like the NAACP exists…read up on your history e.g. Jim Crow laws. If i am not mistaken black people were discriminated against in schools, jobs, obtaining property etc etc.
The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities, with a supposedly “separate but equal” status for black Americans. In reality, this led to treatment and accommodations that were usually inferior to those provided for white Americans, systematizing a number of economic, educational and social disadvantages.
Posted by: JJ | July 12, 2010, 3:02 pm 3:02 pm
Ted wrote, “If tea party sentiments were realised, the economy would begin to rebound and African Americans would begin to benefit.” . . . WOW! Talk about drinking the kool-aid. What a load of cr*p, Ted.
Posted by: Jim | July 12, 2010, 3:08 pm 3:08 pm
Yeah right the tea party isn’t racisist. Im white and I know what racists white people look and sound like. I’ve been to a tea party rally 98% white. Saw it with my own eyes.
Posted by: brian | July 12, 2010, 3:22 pm 3:22 pm
In reply to Brian,come to the county fair here in Lane County Oregon.I will guarantee that 98 percent of the people will be white.Are you saying they are all racists too?
Posted by: danielj1t | July 12, 2010, 3:58 pm 3:58 pm
@Kathy “to me TEA partiers are simply fanactical anarchists who mask themselves in patriotism….”
So …. people who believe in the constitution and the ideals this great republic are founded on are fanatical anarchists? You ma’am are somewhat without a clue.
Posted by: DVD | July 12, 2010, 4:00 pm 4:00 pm
Re “the Tea Party is 99.9% white, and wants to keep all the money in the hands of the 2% richest Americans who are 99.9% White.”
I’m more of a Libertarian but sort of a Tea Partier. I have to call BS on the above racebaiter comment. I think the Tea Partiers want to keep money in the hands of those who earned it.
Posted by: AlHow | July 12, 2010, 4:11 pm 4:11 pm
Wow… look at all these ‘pubs with their panties in a bunch. Kinda fun to see.
Posted by: MoneyDomme | July 12, 2010, 4:41 pm 4:41 pm
It would be nice to see the demographics for this survey. I am not a racist but it seems that only the people of another color other than white are the only ones attacking the Tea Party movement. Why is it always about race? I truly feel the American people think they have been duped by an Illegal President who has not and will not show us his official Birth certificate, tell us what religion he practices, or stand up for Values in this country…. WE ARE NOT EUROPEAN, WE ARE AMERICANS!!!
Posted by: Patriot1776 | July 12, 2010, 6:31 pm 6:31 pm
The only time race becomes an issue is when the black groups bring it up. They stir the pot and start to sling the mud. Not the tea partyers, race isn’t even in their agenda. So what are we talking about, just nonsense as usual. Race relations in this country is now better than it has ever been. Who is causing the problems? Not the Taxed Enough Already people. The black segment will always support Obama no matter how bad a president he is, because he is black. Just look at the polls on who thinks the country is going in the wrong direction and that will tell the whole story!
Posted by: Patricia | July 12, 2010, 9:04 pm 9:04 pm
I would have expected this type of behavior from HIM, but not Michele. What an insult to the position of first lady to be playing this hateful game.
Everyone in this country should be asking themselves WHY this administration is race bating….and yes they ARE.
The President should be that of one who UNITES not DIVIDES. Yet he cannot do it.
Why is that? Is it that a country divided is weakened? That would be my guess.
First it’s whites against blacks, next it’s whites against Mexicans, then it’s whites against American Indians, then it’s white against Muslims.
Really?
Assuming that people are racist because of their skin color (let’s say white) makes YOU the racist.
RACISM – not just an act performed by white people.
Wake up America. They are scr*wing ALL of us.
Posted by: Sadness | July 12, 2010, 9:18 pm 9:18 pm
So, you go to a tea party and you see only white people there, therefore they are all racist.
So, if I go to an NAACP conference, and they’re all black, are THEY racist too?
What was the demographics of the area near the tea party location?
TO be honest, it sounds like YOU’RE the racist to me.
Posted by: Fed_Up_American_Citizen | July 12, 2010, 10:51 pm 10:51 pm
hmm…haccp says only particular race can produce something useful and other race only can consume what that “productive” race can share? – that is racist point of view.. I see as all races, Asian, European, Middle East, African can be very productive.
Posted by: justreadthis | July 13, 2010, 1:01 am 1:01 am
the word “racist” means nothing anymore.
The extreme left comprises about 4% of the American population. For years, anyone in the remaining 96% who opposed a socialist agenda was called a racist. Slowly, people are starting to realize this isn’t true.
“Racist!” will go the way of “Witch!” and “Heretic!”
Posted by: Pilate | July 13, 2010, 1:06 am 1:06 am
I think the tea party started out as a simple movement… send one tea bag to washington a symbol to remind them of the past…the history of how America came to be… it began to grow like any grass roots group… the more they were ignored the bigger the group got. It is not about race… it is about America. If you dont agree with the way things are going in our country you have to take a stand now before it is too late. I do think it is interesting how a president who said he was for bringing us together as a nation condones his wife speaking at a group ot ban Americans for their own beliefs. Who is the racist here? We are not allowed to say that of NAACP..because they were an all black group who wanted to protect blacks. We agreed that was a good thing. Now the tea party wants to protect America and our lives and our freedoms and they are labled racists…even by the first lady… wow that is really working to bring America together….
Posted by: debra | July 13, 2010, 2:10 am 2:10 am
You ask them if they’re a racist and the answer is no. Wow! That’s some concrete evidence there.
Posted by: Argyle | July 13, 2010, 8:57 am 8:57 am
In response to JJ: Did you know the democrats created the Jim Crow law, KKK, and welfare? Learn your history before you spout out issues of this magnitude. It makes you sound uneducated. Start reading and stop repeating talking points from something you heard from someone else you thought was intelligent.
Posted by: Joe | July 13, 2010, 9:14 am 9:14 am
In response to Argyle: I know we don’t have to ask the Black Panther Party if they are racist. They will tell you. Oh! I for forgot the NAACP supports them too. I’m a black person and I know this. We as black people need to stop being ruled by this poison pill of racism bitterness that we keep swallowing.
The democratic party has been issuing this prescription to blacks for years and blacks can’t seem to kick the habit. This is done an effort to get your vote at every election. Also, democratic politicians don’t believe blacks take time to analyze issues objectively. They simply hold onto false truths of something they heard from Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, the hood, BET, CNN, or snippets of uninformed conversations in a barbershop.
The morale of the story is this: If you hold onto hurt,resentment,and bitterness it will destroy your ability to thrive as an individual.
Bitterness is like a weed it grows like wild branches and effects every aspect of your life you never intended for it to effect. If we as blacks continue to embrace the comfort of racism claim’s or perceptions, we will never move forward as a people and truly become free.
Posted by: Joe | July 13, 2010, 9:42 am 9:42 am
I like what Brian said. Because “98% of the Tea Party are white”, they are racists. Liberals make me laugh. Somewhere Saul Alinsky is smiling.
Posted by: funnyface | July 13, 2010, 11:39 am 11:39 am
What many people fail to understand is the power of subliminal thought. Racial prejudice is basically lodged in the minds of those who have been socialized into myths, half-truths, stereotypes: it becomes ingrained. When racial prejudice is ingrained, in many instances the perpetrator does not realize or is conscious of his/her racial beliefs.
Where were they Tea Party folks during the Bush administrations?
If one would study the writings of Thomas Jefferson concerning slavery, even though he was also a slave owner, they would find some prophetic truth:
“gentlemen, we have created a monster that will haunt our children and our children’s children for generations to come.”
We are dealing with the hauntings of racism some 300 years later because people do not want to change: it is easier to belief a myth/lie than the truth.
Posted by: James Wiliamson | July 13, 2010, 12:43 pm 12:43 pm
Of course Tea Party folks aren’t going to admit they are racist but why aren’t more African Americans involed with the Tea Party movement? Even right wing Blacks like Alan Keyes are nowhere to be found near Tea Party events. While promiment White conservatives like Sarah Palin are closely aligned with the Tea Party, it’s hard to find their Black counterparts. BTW, the NAACP was founded by Whites, Whites are on the NAACP board and anyone can join the NAACP…as far as the New Black Panthers are concerned, they have been denounced as a fringe group trying to cash in on their 15 minutes of fame by making. They have been discredited by original Black Panthers founder Bobby Seale, an the Bush justice department determined that there wasn’t enough evidence to support claims of nationwide voter intimidation by the New Black Panther Party. Finally, most African Americans feel that Obama has done little, if anything specifically for African Americans; notice that he’s appointed two justices to the Supreme Court and neither have been Black.
Posted by: harryo | July 13, 2010, 1:39 pm 1:39 pm
So the NAACP thinks the tea party is a racist group,they should know since they are the worst racist organization in America. They support the Democrats for all the support the Democrats send their way by Food Stamps,Free Housing, Welfare and now Free Health Care.
Get off the free government dole and pull your own weight for a change,then maybe someone would care what the NAACP thinks!
Posted by: Johnny L | July 13, 2010, 2:26 pm 2:26 pm
No doubt there are racists in the Tea Party. There are racists in every party, social strata and practically group of people in the U.S. – even the NAACP! Years ago, after fighting my whole young life for equality among ALL Americans, I was dismayed to see the Black Student Unions, Black Homecomings, Black this and that. Is that not EXACTLY THE SAME KIND of segregation I had fought against? Now we have Hispanic Chambers, Hispanic Student Unions, Hispanic this and that. I can only imagine the uproar if we formed a White Student Union, White Chamber of Commerce…let’s face it, racism is everywhere. Let’s not let the pots call the kettles black, or copper, or stainless steel! I am so sick of the race card. Find a better argument, folks.
Posted by: Atticus Americus | July 13, 2010, 5:18 pm 5:18 pm
Have a great idea!! Let’s start an organization called NAAWP! That’s not racism is it? Or maybe we could have White History Month or….. Who’s on board? I get so sick of this crap from the naacp. Just put a sock in it already and quit blaming everything on white people. You put yourselves in your own situation.
Posted by: Boondox | July 13, 2010, 5:19 pm 5:19 pm
The NAACP is there to help colored people! Well, I’m colored! My color is white and I don’t recall them ever helping a white person!
I just read an article by Heather Hollingsworth where she wrote that 3 congressmen were walking in the White House and had racial slurs directed at them from Tea Party members. What she felled to mention is that back when they said that, someone put $100,000.00 on the table if anyone could bring any proof of that happening. The money is still on the table! It would seem that with all of the video cameras churning when 3 congressmen are going into the White House, someone would surely have caught that remark.
The NAACP should consider A RESOLUTION condemning themselves! Everything that they do is race based!
Posted by: Barb702 | July 13, 2010, 6:43 pm 6:43 pm
How come this is a RACIAL ISSUE? Where was ABC when 2 Black Panther leaders were dressed in military garb, waiving wooden clubs, spewing racial slurs and intimidating white’s from voting at a Philly voting place??? ABC is really slipping!
Posted by: Brad Robertson | July 13, 2010, 6:49 pm 6:49 pm
Let’s see, there is the NAACP, Negro College fund, Miss BLACK America. Who’s racist?
Posted by: nearuss | July 13, 2010, 7:01 pm 7:01 pm
I don’t need Gary Langer to tell me what is ‘racist” …. Snakes and cowards don’t tell you that they are racist……actions speak louder than words that are so vibrantly printed on their T-shirts. These idiots were driven by the possibility of a “black” man becoming President, and started the Racist insults before the President was elected. I remember the rallies led by Sarah Palin. There weren’t issues being discuss….but there were a lot of hatred and racist remarks at the McCain and Palin rallies. And she elevated it in the name of money after she lost the election. Go to hell ABC….and start reporting the truth.
Posted by: sara | July 13, 2010, 9:00 pm 9:00 pm
Obama WH uses politics to help ” in their mind” “their own kind”…this is political racism….NAACP responding to deflect criminal behavior of Black Panthers is explicit support…If they were genuine they would be color blind.
Posted by: max | July 13, 2010, 10:18 pm 10:18 pm
It seems to me that Naacp are the only ones who are racist.They gey away with it .The media sides with them.. Shame but true.
Posted by: Joeray | July 13, 2010, 10:40 pm 10:40 pm
The stated mission of the Tea Party is not related to racism, even if the movement contains some unsavory activists that are racists. Same could be said of the Democratic or Republican parties.
It seems to me that the NAACP’s main objection is that the Tea Party would likely vote down “big government” entitlement programs that the NAACP supports. The NAACP’s approach seems a disingenuous attempt at making the Tea Party seem fringe or extreme to mainstream voters. I think it is getting so much press coverage exactly because it shows the NAACP in such a poor light. Doesn’t the NAACP have real injustices to prosecute?
For the record, I’m a white independent that voted for Obama.
Posted by: HD | July 13, 2010, 11:35 pm 11:35 pm
When all you have is the race card to play, thats what you play, the naacp and the new black panther party are pure racist, the tea party would exsist no matter who was president, its about obamas not knowing how to lead a country thats in play here not his color, wake up and smell the coffee Bro’s
Posted by: cracker | July 14, 2010, 12:44 am 12:44 am
Say WHAT? Are you guys who think Tea Partiers are RACIST saying that because they want fiscal responsibility from BOTH PARTIES? Because they carry signs that say my grandchild is only 3 years old and already owes $39,887 in debt to the government?
You guys really need to get a LIFE? This has nothing to do with race! It has to do with the emergency fiscal crisis we are in and not letting this Administration spend so wildly that our economy collapses!!! Sure, some of it started before Obama, but he is going all out to make things worse fiscally as fast and hard as he can. That and the fact that he thinks he has the right to supercede the Constitution, the Congress (latest moves while they were out of session) and whatever else he can dig up from Chicago politics!
This has nothing, I SAY NOTHING TO DO WITH RACE! If you got to know some of these Tea Partiers, you would be shocked at how nice they are and what the real motives are!!! This is totally about upholding the Constitution and saving our country; and I say “God Bless You All”!!
Don’t judge what you have no comprehension of, guys!!
Posted by: JS | July 14, 2010, 8:29 am 8:29 am
At eleven years old I marched with my church youth group for civil rights for all people. I have never forgotten the words of Dr. Martin Luther King regarding measuring the person by the content of their heart and not the color of their skin. I am most certainly not a racist, however I truly believe that those who consistently use race as a divisive political tactic are the true racists.
Posted by: Steven G. Poyzer | July 14, 2010, 9:47 am 9:47 am
NAACP is and always has been a Racist Org……. All America knows this……LOL LOL LOL
Posted by: Rodger | July 14, 2010, 2:01 pm 2:01 pm
Yes, I agree that the NAACP has had trouble with Racists in it’s organization for decades!
Posted by: beckjr2000 | July 14, 2010, 2:41 pm 2:41 pm
Any organization devoted to skin color is racist. The NAACP is racist by it’s very definition. Create the “National Association for the Advancement of Caucasian People” and see how far you get.
Posted by: Bob | July 14, 2010, 3:10 pm 3:10 pm
The Tea Party is just another cross section of America. I am sure there are racists there just like anywhere else.
But mark this! I am not ashamed to be white, conservative, against illegal immigration or totally against Obama’s agenda.
Posted by: BamaTony | July 14, 2010, 3:39 pm 3:39 pm
If you want to call the Tea Party racists you have to call them anti-Red not anti-black.
Obama is more red then either black or white and surrounded himself with admited markists, socialist and revolutionarys. The protesters of the 60′s and founders of violent groups and attended an anti-white chuch for 20 years. He still hasn’t found a “suitable” church in DC.
Posted by: idgaf | July 14, 2010, 7:24 pm 7:24 pm
I believe that the Tea Party and the NAACP are both movements for racism. Both groups are only see they want to see and will lie, cheat, and misrepresent information to advance their own cause.
Posted by: Jack | July 15, 2010, 10:51 am 10:51 am
The NAACP has to calm down. Our president happens to be black, hooray for a country well advanced in Civil Rights. After reviewing Michelle O’s speech, she is the one who doesn’t like her husband to be characterized or called names. Guess what, thats what oppositions do in political rallies. It goes with the job. To undo years of civil rest for the greed and vote-grab of one president, who is in a frantic position in this moment of time, will result in a back lash that will last for years, making us start from ground 0. Is that what the NAACP and blacks want? Other politicians have been treated worse, Bush and Palin comes to mind…Carter trailing. The NAACP goes on
TV complaining like a bunch of babies…or they will
get you. Come on, grow up.
Posted by: Rhet Marcus | July 15, 2010, 3:54 pm 3:54 pm
my 2 cents.. everybody is racist. deal with it… i don’t have to like you and you don’t have to like me. thats life !
Posted by: halfmn | July 16, 2010, 11:18 am 11:18 am
Glenn Beck had Dr. Alveda King and Pastor Stephen Broden on tv tonight and it was the most thoughtful and insightful program I have ever watched. Perhaps the NAACP could learn from these 3 great Americans. The NAACP is selling out the African American community, it promotes progressive values which for the most part is contrary to Bible teachings.
Posted by: Downwithsocialism | July 16, 2010, 8:35 pm 8:35 pm
With his cut up spliced clip with sound effects of laughing and clapping ADDED to it – it is very obvious what Breitbart is doing.
Tea party does have ELEMENTS of racism in the tea party movement. And the Breitbart fabricated cut up spliced clip of Shirley Sherrod is proof that the Tea Party does have ELEMENTS of racism in it.
Posted by: Angie | July 22, 2010, 6:31 pm 6:31 pm
With his deliberate racial insult against the black community with his satire letter labeling the black slaves as lazy and not wanting emancipation, Williams proved that there are racist ELEMENTS in the Tea party.
Posted by: Angie | July 22, 2010, 6:37 pm 6:37 pm
What did the NAACP do?
NAACP sent a letter asking the Tea party to clear out the racists Elements that are in their Tea Party.
NAACP asked for the Tea Party to get rid of the racists ELEMENTS that are in the Tea party.
Posted by: Angie | July 22, 2010, 6:41 pm 6:41 pm
What did Tea Party do after they got the letter?
Tea Party falsely and wrongly misrepresented what was in the letter.
Tea Party lied when they claimed that NAACP called the Tea Party racists.
Posted by: Angie | July 22, 2010, 6:43 pm 6:43 pm
One thing that is happening in Arizona, a group of a civilian men are monitoring the border, not the border agents who are trained to deal with the border, But a group of civilian men at the Arizona border whose flag is mockingly offensively replicating the American flag but with a Swastika over it. Those men believe that they have the right to stop anyone from coming into Arizona who do not look like them. What are the chances that this group in Arizona are also Tea Party members and Republicans?
Posted by: Angie | July 22, 2010, 7:00 pm 7:00 pm
I think the NAACP is in Obama’s camp. The TEA Party has no membership rolls and it’s certainly not the NAAWP! It is instead a loosely held group of people next door patriots that recognize a Government that is no longer representing the populace.
Why not consider the TEA Party if you have ever pondered just where does legislation actually originate? If each of the 435 Representatives held frequent town hall meetings only taking inputs from their districts back to Washington (as the Constitution implies), bills would be neither large nor intrusive. However that is not the case, if perchance town hall meetings are held they are more to justify why our Congressman voted for some cockamamie bill.
So where do gargantuan bills originate? Certainly not from the 435 districts, where would legitimate constituents or their Representatives find time to write such legislation? Members of Congress can’t seem to find time to read, much less understand, thousands of pages. So legislation is written by special interest lobbyists with money trails far from the 435 districts. Some bills have not even been fully read by the bill’s own sponsors.
The invasive and controlling “cap and tax” bill is but one example to watch out for. My Representative keeps touting nonsense about an overwhelming consensus of world earth scientists while 31,487 American scientists have signed a petition against global warming. Do you suppose your Representative bothered to consult even one of the petition signers? Does he represent you or special interests far from your doors?
Posted by: Ed Taylor | July 24, 2010, 10:16 am 10:16 am
Racism is the last line of Liberal defense when all their other arguments have been debunked.
Posted by: Bill | July 30, 2010, 11:06 pm 11:06 pm
All this accusing of racism, every second, when it really happens no one will know even if it bites you in the a**
Posted by: firedup49 | August 3, 2010, 2:34 pm 2:34 pm
I have no clue as to how anyone can be drawn to the Tea Party unless they do absolutely no reading on their own, have a poor understanding of our government, and prefer to hear what they want to hear from politicians. They are strongly for Soc. Sec. and Medicare, yet “they” donated $500,000 to Angle in NV who’s against it. Of course, who are the “they” that decides these things? The Tea Party apparently never votes of polls its members to see who they support. And apparently they don’t care either – their shepherds are free to do what they want in their names!
Posted by: The_Mick | August 5, 2010, 2:36 pm 2:36 pm
FACT: The Tea Party is made up of Republicans, Independents and Democrats of virtually all races.
FACT: Democrat VP Joe Biden said 9 days ago the Tea Party “is not a racist organization.”
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In a nutshell the Tea Party is for much less spending, much smaller government and most importantly they feel as I do that
***OUR VOICES ARE NOT BEING HEARD IN WASHINGTON***
Posted by: Kcage | August 8, 2010, 9:32 pm 9:32 pm
There is no question. The NAACP are racists and that’s all there is to it. I use to loathe racism but now I laugh at it because it’s nothing but an excuse. They play the race card at every turn and it gets old. As long as the racists NAACP is around….racism will always be here.
Posted by: Don | August 10, 2010, 7:10 am 7:10 am
Liberals use any card they want to further their purpose. Liberals have to vilify the enemy in order to win. And it’s true, they can not ever win on platform alone. Label someone or group as racist or haters or whatever and there will be some number of de-haired Kool Aid drinking sheep believing it.
Posted by: And the truth will set you free... | August 12, 2010, 4:39 pm 4:39 pm