LTC Allen West (USA, Ret.)
BigGovernment.com
7/13/2010
The NAACP has missed the target. Their target should not be the Tea Party, but instead the larger issues facing the Black community: astronomical unemployment rates (15.5%) and the breakdown of the Black family, which result in higher drop-out rates, disproportionate incarceration rates and teen pregnancy rates (12.6%). These issues should be the focus of increased scrutiny by the NAACP.
This NAACP Resolution is consistent with the Obama administration tactic of demonizing and blaming someone else for your own failures and shortcomings, and not take responsibility and accountability.
Also at Big Government, Black Activists Condemn NAACP Resolution Against Tea Party Movement, by Bob Parks:
As the NAACP plans to use their group’s prestige to bash the tea party movement, members of the Project 21 black leadership network are urging delegates at the NAACP’s national convention not to turn the NAACP into a pawn for progressive political bosses…
At Power Line, NAACP Embarrasses Itself Again
…NAACP President Ben Jealous has blasted the tea party leadership, saying they need to “be responsible members of this democracy and make sure they don’t tolerate bigots or bigotry among their members.”
Reportedly, the NAACP cut off its live feed so the public could not see the debate on the resolution…
Update: Professor Jacobson’s article at Legal Insurrection, NAACP Passes “Tea Party is Racism” Resolution.
Once again the NAACP is still trying to fight pre Civil Rights era struggles in a post Civil Rights era world. They will even go after a media made racial boogeyman to do it. The NAACP is working with the false story from the media that Tea Partiers hurled racial slurs at black congressmen. To date not a single video of the incident has ever emerged and the media itself has seems to drop the story all together. Yet here is the NAACP getting all fired up about it now. If the NAACP thought there was truth to this story, they should have made noise when it happened, instead of waiting until now.
Why did they wait you ask? Because the midterm elections are now four months away and the NAACP is more about shilling the leftist agenda than they are about the “advancement of colored people”. Rallying blacks against the Tea Party is more important to the leftist agenda than tackling the real issues facing the black community like poor schools, unemployment or the devastating effects of drugs and crime.
