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Michelle Obama Gives Keynote Speech At NAACP Convention As They Plan Anti-Tea Party Resolution

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Earlier today, First Lady Michelle Obama gave the keynote speech NAACP’s annual convention. Her speech was met with enormous applause, unsurprising considering she is basically the personification of everything the organization has fought for in its 101-year history. However, the NAACP would like all of its members to know that their work is not yet finished. They plan on rejuvenating the base by voting tomorrow on a resolution to condemn the Tea Party.

The resolution (which is expected to pass) will condemn the Tea Party movement for using racial epithets at rallies and allegedly threatening black members of Congress during the Health Care debates.

From ABC News:

“‘We’re deeply concerned about elements that are trying to move the country back, trying to reverse progress that we’ve made,’ NAACP spokeswoman Leila McDowell told ABC News. “We are asking that the law-abiding members of the Tea Party repudiate those racist elements, that they recognize the historic and present racist elements that are within the Tea Party movement.”

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, in coordination with 170 other groups, including labor unions, is planning a protest march in Washington, D.C., Oct. 10 as the next step in building momentum against the Tea Party.”

It’s hard for anyone to condemn the Tea Party for being racist since it’s such a fragmented group. There is no one Tea Party and for every person involved whose hatred of Obama does boil down to the color of his skin, there are plenty more who are just angry about the way the government is being run. Still though, the movement is an obvious target for the NAACP to make since the alleged racism of the Tea Party was such a fixture in the news a few months ago.

But, if the resolution tomorrow helps the NAACP by rallying the troops, it may hurt the First Lady. While her speech never touched on the Tea Party (she spent most of it discussing her childhood obesity initiative “Let’s Move“), the fact that she appeared so close to the vote on the Tea Party resolution will assuredly be more ammunition for people who believe, following the Black Panther DOJ scandal, that the Obama administration is somehow favoring blacks over whites. Glenn Beck covered the NAACP’s proposed resolution in his program today and it is very likely that many will view First Lady Obama giving a speech at a convention for an anti-Tea Party group as proof that she is anti-Tea Party herself even if her speech was mostly anti-fatty foods.

Watch the whole of Michelle Obama’s speech below.

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  • Moderate

    Nothing like playing the race card to rejuvenate the base. That card is coming up a lot lately. I had thought we had gotten beyond that years ago.

  • ChuckfromTacoma

    Oh my God!!!!! The NAACP is going to come out with a resolution condemning The TEA Party.
    That should scare the crap out of those people. If the NAACP is against them, they are better than I thought.
    This ought to aid in the recruitment of many new members to the TEA Party movement.
    Screw the NAACP and the rest of the race baiting bigots in this nation.

  • MichelleF

    Tea Party members have used “racial epithets,” have verbally abused black members of Congress and threatened them,

    This has been proven to be a lie of course, but that doesn’t stop them from saying it.

    Racist NAACP leader says “Kenneth Gladney not black enough” to protect – He’s an “Uncle Tom”

    On May 5th, 2010 The Missouri NAACP hosted a press conference and rally on behalf of Perry Molens and Elston McCowan, demanding the county prosecutor drop assault charges stemming from an attack outside Russ Carnahan’s townhall in South St. Louis County on Health Care last August. Molens and McCowan were arrested after the staged Carnahan event in August after they beat, kicked and stomped on black vendor Kenneth Gladney. The two Russ Carnahan supporters and SEIU members also called Kenneth the n-word as they bashed him into the cement.

    This press conference in May was intended to drum up political pressure to prevent the jury trial of the two SEIU staff members arrested for attacking Kenneth Gladney in the presence of three witnesses.

    Video of the entire press conference was posted online in eight parts and includes speeches by Harold Crumpton (NAACP national board member and president, St Louis City branch), Mary Ratliff, (NAACP state president, Missouri), progressive blogger Adam Shriver (cited as their legal expert), Elston McCowan, Perry Molens, and emceed by Zaki Abruti, UAPO. Also attending the event were a host of self-defined socialist agitators and a self-proclaimed Huffington Post reporter, Jeanine Molloff.

    Here is the unbelievable video of the racist NAACP event. The two men accused of attacking Gladney go on trial this month. Elston McCowan, the man standing next to the speaker, can be seen laughing when the speaker says Gladney is not a brother.

    http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/07/caught-on-tape-racist-naacp-leader-says-kenneth-gladney-not-black-enough-to-protect-hes-an-uncle-tom-video/

  • Moderate

    “alleged racism of the Tea Party was such a fixture in the news a few months ago”

    If we beat that dead horse enough, it just might come to life again.

  • MichelleF

    No more NAACP double standards on racism
    By: Gregory Kane
    March 1, 2009

    Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/gregory-kane/No-more-NAACP-double-standards-on-racism-40513477.html#ixzz0tVzkiyPk

  • philipjames

    Why don’t they just be honest about it and call it the Black Racist Party
    or in a slightly more moderate vein, the Black Nationalist Marxist Reparations Gathering?

  • Sean68

    She means racial “epitaphs,” to quote David Shuster, who used that phrase on MSNBC three days in a row.

  • MichelleF

    In the wake of the racist remark made by senior Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 are concerned by the lack of spirited criticism by the civil rights establishment of the senator’s statement in comparison to their treatment of conservatives and then-presidential candidate George W. Bush on matters of race.

    Senator Byrd was interviewed by Fox News Sunday host Tony Snow in a segment that aired on March 4. While expanding on his comment that race relations are now “much, much better than they’ve been in my lifetime,” Byrd made reference to whites who are still opposed to equal civil rights by saying, “There are white niggers. I’ve seen a lot of white niggers in my time; I’m going to use that word.” He later issued a statement apologizing for his remark.

    While NAACP President Kweisi Mfume denounced Byrd’s comments as “repulsive,” the comments have not generated the same degree of criticism previously reserved for conservatives.

    “I couldn’t believe what I was reading,” said Project 21 member S. Kevin Washington. “Senator Byrd’s comments were first brought to my attention via voice mail from a personal friend. I had not heard it on a national news broadcast; not NPR; not outcries of disgust by well-known black faces around America. The same people who castigated Republicans – President Bush, in particular – as racist now give Byrd a pass for his using the word ‘nigger’ just because he’s a Democrat like them. What a bunch of nonsense.”

    House Majority Leader Dick Armey recently asked to meet with the NAACP’s Mfume to discuss stopping a trend Armey calls “Racial McCarthyism or reverse race-baiting.” Armey wrote: “[I]t has become an all too common practice to spread unfounded, racially charged falsehoods against Republicans for political advantage. Deliberate or not, if left unchallenged, this practice will continue to divide our nation, polarize our political parties and do untold harm in the lives of real people who are unjustly accused of conspiracy against the civil rights of African-Americans.”

    Project 21 members are concerned that the NAACP, which spent millions against then-presidential candidate George W. Bush – focusing on false allegations that his decision not to sign a specific hate crimes bill (Texas already had one) led to the death of James Byrd – is doing little to criticize the intentionally offensive comments of liberal Senator Byrd. Such contrasts give the impression that the group is unfairly pulling its punches when dealing with racist behavior on the part of liberal politicians.

    “I think the way Robert Byrd’s racist comments were treated is typical of our current civil rights leadership,” said Project 21 member Kevin Martin. “Groups like the NAACP have become nothing more than liberal mouthpieces. They seem beholden to liberal interests and, in this case, will simply issue a statement to make it look like they’re doing something. They must hold the Democrats to the same standards they’ve held Republicans lest it become apparent that they’ve sold their souls – and credibility – to the liberal cause.”

    http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21PRByrd301.html

  • MichelleF

    James Murray: NAACP official legitimizes killing White police

    James Murray: Seattle NAACP leader James Bible has demanded a role in selecting the new police chief (and justified Black terrorist attacks on police) because the Seattle Police department is a racist force of “occupiers.”

    So when Black Supremacists kill five police officers in Seattle and Tacoma (see here and here) we have local NAACP and National Action Network leaders asserting the legitimacy of the attacks, asserting the precise moral equivalency of the Black racist murderers and their all-White police victims, and then demanding to pick the new police chief.

    I suppose it is now racist to oppose the Black supremacist murders of White police. But I refuse to accept these murders are, as the NAACP claims, legitimate self-defense against the “Occupiers.”

    http://theoccidentalobserver.net/tooblog/?p=571

  • C0nstant

    our first lady should toss a freshly shot dead cracka baby up on the stage and get them really pumped up!

  • TfT

    And the media will praise her, saying what beautiful arms she has….style over substance. There is no racial component of the tea party, it was made up BS by the CBB and the state run media.

  • BR

    She is racist.

  • timzank

    Hope-n-Change Baby! The Obama family and the Dems have set back race relations by decades. Just unnecessarily too. This country rises above race and elects a black man President and ever since, everything the Dems, libs, progressives, panthers, etc have done has caused racial strife.

    Somehow I don’t think this is what everyone intended. Post racial my ass.

  • Sean68

    I want to know her LSAT scores!

  • MichelleF

    GREAT quote:

    The Rev. C.L. Bryant, a former president of NAACP’s Garland, Texas, chapter who is now a leading Tea Party activist said the idea that the Tea Party is racist or is trying to instigate a racist climate is “simply a lie.”

    “I have seen posters … where every president from Reagan to Obama has been called a fascist,” Bryant, who serves as a contributor to FreedomWorks, which organizes Tea Party groups, told ABC News. “Why is it that just because we have a black president, we are hyper-sensitive to posters at rallies?”

    The NAACP wants to “create a climate where they can say that those on the right are in fact racist and those on the left are their saviors,” he added. “This is very much what the liberal agenda is about.”

    Amen!

  • Helix

    The NAACP are a bunch of fools who have forgotten their mission, if their mission was not personal enrichment. Their current actions show them to be tools and puppets of the progressives(and others), rather than trying to help those people of color out of poverty, despair, and foolishness. They are fools, because they understand neither the Tea Party or themselves(see Sun Tzu for quote). Attacking the Tea party with more lies hasn’t stopped it yet, and it is unlikely to do so in the future. They would paint the Tea Party with racist lies, not realizing the Tea Party is open to all who love freedom. Despite MSM photoshopping, black people do attend rallies, some of them even enjoy the 2nd amendment along with the rest of us. They do not understand themselves, because a tool will be discarded without a care by the progressives when it is of no further use, and they can not see this in their future. Their involvement in politics will hurt them, because they will be seen as favoring Democrats and progressives, and one fallible leader. When that political movement loses power and favor, they will be inevitably dragged down along with them. Conservative values will help the people they(NAACP) profess to care about far more in the long run.

  • TfT

    The headline right now, but not here, is:

    Mort Zuckerman, the 147th wealthiest American, editor of US News and World Report, and publisher of the New York Daily News, admitted today that he wrote a speech for Barack Obama.

    Yup, collusion between the media and the WH now being admitted to. This should be a glaring headline on all media oriented sites.

  • felixw

    Having to choose sides between bureaucratic, intrusive government and grass roots organizations trying to preserve some measure of individual freedom, Michelle Obama predictably sides with the bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.

  • MichelleF

    Haha Tft, I just forwarded that “tip” to mediaite. I’m sure Colby will get right on it, after he emails me to “check myself:

  • MichelleF

    The head of the NAACP just told reporters yesterday that the organization needs to be more like the Tea Party.

    via The St. Louis Post Dispatch:

    The head of the NAACP paused, started, then paused again when trying to explain what the message of his keynote address would be when he steps to the podium tonight at the civil rights organization’s national convention.

    “The core message will be that we’ve got to pull this nation back together and put this country back to work,” said Benjamin Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP, in an interview.

    Jealous’ strategy for pulling the country back together might at first blush surprise those at the convention. His idea: Follow the lead of the Tea Party movement, which emerged in full force after the election of President Barack Obama with rallies, town hall meetings and a “take back the country” mantra.

  • TfT

    It’s the NAALCP; they hate black conservatives. They are kind of like NOW, which is really the NOLW.

    These two organizations have become a waste…..they are liberal only and could care less about black conservatives or women who are conservative.

  • the real john t

    TfT said:
    Mort Zuckerman, the 147th wealthiest American, editor of US News and World Report, and publisher of the New York Daily News, admitted today that he wrote a speech for Barack Obama.

    And just where did you get that little tid bit of information from? Don’t tell me to go google it because I just did. Zuckerman bashes Obama every article he writes. So what radical RW site did you find that at?

  • MichelleF
  • TfT

    Also headlined in red on Drudge, top of the page. The news is out there, you just have to look for it John.

    Funny that it isn’t reported here yet, it’s been on drudge and some other sites for quite a while.

  • Moderate

    That is what Mr. Zuckerman said.

  • the real john t

    TfT said:
    Yup, collusion between the media and the WH now being admitted to.

    You want to talk about collusion. First of all Zuckerman said he “helped” write the speech. But here’s Bush with all his RW parrots. Did you and Michelle get all upset about that?

    http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/us/politics/17radio.html?_r=1

  • the real john t

    Moderate said:
    That is what Mr. Zuckerman said.

    Exactly, but he wouldn’t say what speech.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dave-Noland/1343446359 Dave Noland

    Go Michelle!!! I love watching these racist white assholes on the bloggesphere wig out. I’m sure one of you will say some stupid shit to me. Be my guest. Michelle is a bad ass!

  • mproust

    Michelle Obama is opening herself up to scrutiny and ridicule by Glenn Beck and a lot of other people much more adept at it than the White House and the democratic shills at Mediaite.

  • mproust

    See above Dave Noland useless fart… It just riles decent people to be called “racist white assholes” for political disagreements, and the dumbest of them all (like Mr. Noland) are no match for MichelleF, felixw, and the inimitable C0nstant.

  • http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

    I officially condemn the NAACP . What do the letters stand for again ? Sounds racist to me . See Robin of Berkeley ‘s latest column .

  • murf

    Meanwhile Dave Nolan has a animated picture of Christ with a ghat ..

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    This thread looks like a Klan Konvention. lol

  • juan

    She’s inciting Racism!

    Has Mediaite reported about the New Black Panthers videos?

  • rorschach

    “They plan on rejuvenating the base by voting tomorrow on a resolution to condemn the Tea Party.”

    So, I guess that condeming Hallmark Card over the “Black Holes” thing didn’t rejuevinate the base then.

    http://www.mediaite.com/online/hallmark-cards-space-metaphors-demeaning-to-african-americans-says-naacp/

  • Integr8d

    This is sad. In doing this, the NAACP will be drawing racists to the Tea Party. Those people will be outspoke, they’ll post online, they’ll show up at rallies and they’ll identify as Tea Party.

    Keep on your toes, people! Don’t let those douchies in!

  • marigrace

    When Michelle Obama addressed inequalities for blacks she said…

    ”We live in a time when a black child is more likely to go to prison than a white child”.

    Whose fault is that? It isn’t inequality that puts black kids in prison; it is stupid choices and law breaking.

    .

  • Pablo

    the real john t said:
    You want to talk about collusion. First of all Zuckerman said he “helped” write the speech. But here’s Bush with all his RW parrots. Did you and Michelle get all upset about that?

    http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/us/politics/17radio.html?_r=1

    Yeah, and? Obama meets with liberal columnists Mort was talking speechwriting, not visiting.

  • the real john t

    Pablo said:
    Yeah, and? Obama meets with liberal columnists Mort was talking speechwriting, not visiting.

    What do you think they were discusing with Bush? Do you think they were just having afternoon tea? It was them learning how to spread the Bush agenda over the airwaves. You didn’t even read the article did you?

  • Pablo

    marigrace said:
    ”We live in a time when a black child is more likely to go to prison than a white child”.

    Whose fault is that? It isn’t inequality that puts black kids in prison; it is stupid choices and law breaking.

    We also live in a time where a young black man is more likely to get shot, by another young black man.

  • Pablo

    the real john t said:
    What do you think they were discusing with Bush? Do you think they were just having afternoon tea? It was them learning how to spread the Bush agenda over the airwaves. You didn’t even read the article did you?

    I remember both Glenn Beck and Laura Ingraham talking about it. The conversation was off the record, just like Obama’s meeting with the liberal columnists. I imagine that they talked a lot about things Bush wanted to do, was trying to do, and the state of affairs in various situations. But as far as either of us know, nobody wrote anybody any speeches. Which was the point of the Zuckerman reference. Which is why it’s kind of weird for you to be freaking out about Bush meeting with media conservatives, that being neither out of the ordinary nor relevant to Zuckrman’s revelation.

    “BUSH DID IT TOO!” is really played out and it’s people like you that wore it out so fast. Where’s our Hope and Change, though?

  • the real john t

    Pablo said:
    But as far as either of us know, nobody wrote anybody any speeches.

    Zuckerman said he “helped” write a speech. That’s one man that bashes Obama constantly saying that. Now prove that he actually did. I gave you proof, now show me your proof.

  • the real john t

    Pablo said:
    “BUSH DID IT TOO!” is really played out and it’s people like you that wore it out so fast.

    OH Mercy! And there’s you RWers that keep bringing up Clinton, Carter, Byrd, Kennedy etc, etc everytime there’s something mentioned about a Repub. Even if they don’t have anything to do with the topic. Can you say HYPOCRITE?

  • Pablo

    That’s one man that bashes Obama constantly saying that.

    Wait, the guy whose paper endorsed him? The guy who says he voted for him? Did you even watch the clip? If you want to call him a liar, do it to him, not to me.

    I gave you proof

    The only thing you’ve proved to me is that you have a severe lack of capacity for critical thinking,

  • Pablo

    the real john t said:
    OH Mercy! And there’s you RWers that keep bringing up Clinton, Carter, Byrd, Kennedy etc, etc everytime there’s something mentioned about a Repub. Even if they don’t have anything to do with the topic. Can you say HYPOCRITE?

    No, you see, that sort of thing works much better when you are actually comparing things people did. But when you grab that sword and swing it every time you hear something even slightly critical of Obama, you blunt the edge really quick until you’re where you are now wielding a silly looking stump of a useless thing.

  • the real john t

    Pablo

    Why don’t you go google Mort Zuckerman and see what he says about Obama.

  • the real john t

    Pablo says:
    July 13, 2010 at 12:26 am
    ————————————-

    You have reading comprehension trouble don’t you.

  • Pablo

    the real john t said:
    Pablo

    Why don’t you go google Mort Zuckerman and see what he says about Obama.

    Lots of people that really liked the idea of Obama are not happy with the reality of Obama. Zuckerman is one of them. So what? Are you calling him a liar? Or is the fact that he’s not thrilled with Obama enough for you to stick your fingers in your ears and go “Lalalalalalalalalala….”"

  • the real john t

    Pablo said:
    No, you see, that sort of thing works much better when you are actually comparing things people did.

    Do you see the hypocrisy in your comment? Of course you wouldn’t, so let me explain it to you. You said this Zuckerman claimed to have said he wrote a speech for Obama. Which he actually said he “HELPED” write it and you went balist over it. Then I give you proof that Bush met with a bunch of RW hate jocks to support his agenda and you say there’s no comparison. That is hypocrisy. Maybe you should look up the word if you don’t know what it means.

  • ImNotBlue

    the real john t says:
    July 13, 2010 at 12:47 am

    Pablo… I think John T just did a better job of proving his poor reading comprehension, and nonsensical connections better than you.

    That post makes NO sense. How is meeting with people the same as helping write a speech? I met with a few people at work today… but they didn’t help me write any of this tonight. I know… hard to believe, right?

  • the real john t

    ImNotBlue said:
    I met with a few people at work today… but they didn’t help me write any of this tonight.

    I hope they didn’t help you write that. It would just show how stupid they are too.

  • ramjet

    the real john t said:
    And just where did you get that little tid bit of information from? Don’t tell me to go google it because I just did. Zuckerman bashes Obama every article he writes. So what radical RW site did you find that at?

    jt,

    it appears what we got here is failure to googlecate

    http://www.bing.com/search?q=zuckerman+write+obama+speech&pc=Z004&form=ZGAFDF

    this really is an interesting article on the problematic nature of the First Lady’s naacp speech given the day prior to a vote on, at best, a dubious resolution of condemnation, and at worst, an intentionally racially divisive political stunt

  • the real john t

    ramjet said:
    it appears what we got here is failure to googlecate

    Did you read this one?

    http://gawker.com/5585430/mort-zuckerman-did-not-help-write-any-of-obamas-speeches

  • RTB

    Thank you to most of you for having common sense that this is a joke of an organization. The NAACP and the ACLU are about as legit of an organization as acorn ever was.
    NAACP are frauds, spreading nothing but black myopia across the nation. Pathetic.
    Michelle’s the first lady, and shes black, you think she’s gonna diis the naacp? She doesnt have the backbone to, most blacks in the media, entertainment, politics and sports dont because they’ll be hell to pay, labeled an uncle tom and unfairly scrutinized for not following there agenda, which is fraudulent on there part as well…i guess image is everything, forget about being true to yourself and to your heart…..the world needs more leaders not followers….

  • Latin2

    @ the real john t

    Did you see and hear this from Mort Zuckerman’s OWN MOUTH;

    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/07/12/mort_zuckerman_admits_he_wrote_one_of_obamas_speeches.html

    Straight from his own mouth…and you can see and hear it.

  • Latin2

    Michelle is a race hustler and race baiter.

  • ramjet

    the real john t said:
    Did you read this one?

    ‘course i did, did you? gawker offers up zippo other than opinion, convoluted logic, insults, and a used ticket to avatar. did you read the other 33,299 entries?

  • NORBIT

    The naacp has morphed into nothing more than a gang of White-Hating Racists! They are a disgrace to the purpose & intent of the original organization, and WHEN the GOP takes over Congress they should move to revoke their tax-exempt status!!!

    Why don’t they just call themselves what they are? – the New-New Black Panthers!

    Did you see the video of naacp officials laughing as their fellow RACISTS Mocked the black Tea-Partyer who the SEIU gave a beatdown to? They called him an ‘uncle Tom’!

    There’s a reason the Obama’s spent 25 years with the Racist Reverend(LOL!) Wright!
    ——————————————————————————————————————–

    To Tea-Party Members: YOU KNOW THE THREAT – INCLUDING FROM THIS CURRENT GOVERNMENT!
    BE ‘WELL-PREPARED’ TO PROTECT YOU & YOUR FAMILIES FROM THESE RACIST THUGS!

  • sarainitaly

    Bad move on Michelle’s part to associate with that. It’s not going to do them any good, that’s for sure. Especially when they are still clinging to the false charges of the racial slurs and spitting incident. Bad move.

    I would like to know if they condemned themeselves for verbally attacking Kenneth Gladney, calling him “not black enough” and an Uncle Tom.
    Or if they condemned King Shabazz for saying to kill white crackers, and babies of white crackers.
    Or if they condemned Malik Shabazz for praising Osama Bin Laden.
    Or for his antisemitism, or claims that the US gov. infected black men with AIDS and syphilis. (oh, wait, the Obama’s learned that at their church.)

    Did a small group of loons make racist signs at tea party events? Probably. Did we find numerous cases of Kos types openly plan to infiltrate the parties with questionable signs? Yes. Do fringe elements exist? Yes. Does that mean the entire party is racist because of a handful of loons? No. Did they condemn Bush haters for their Bushitler signs? Or Bush as a Joker signs? Nope.

    “Liberal blogs have also seized on signs that have appeared in Tea Party protests, comparing President Obama to a monkey.” – Did they condemn the THOUSANDS of signs that compared Bush to a monkey?

    “We see it as a threat to democracy. We see it as a threat to human rights. We certainly see it as a threat to civil rights,” McDowell said, adding that the resolution will likely pass when it’s voted upon Tuesday.”

    Well, there are many of us that see goons intimidating voters infront of polling places as a threat to democracy and to our human right to vote. And if they watch the videos We Will Not Be Silenced, they would understand why a lot of people joined the Tea Party.

  • sarainitaly

    So, by the logic of the NAACP, actions of a few are reflective of the group as a whole. So, I guess the ENTIRE Democratic party is full of hateful, sexist, misogynistic race baiter’s?

    http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3506/3797552703_9dbdd22d38_b.jpg

    http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3548/3797554081_21d8fb09a7_b.jpg

    The Obama Team used the race card through out the primary and general election on any and all opponents of Obama’s, including the Clinton’s. They are now aggressively going after the Tea Party because they are worried about the upcoming ’10 and ’12 elections.

    The race card has lost it’s power. It has been used far too often, and no longer has any influence. All it will do is make them look idiotic for playing it yet again.

    Who are the racists, really?

    “They’ve been called Oreos, traitors and Uncle Toms, and are used to having to defend their values. Now black conservatives are really taking heat for their involvement in the mostly white tea party movement — and for having the audacity to oppose the policies of the nation’s first black president.

    “I’ve been told I hate myself. I’ve been called an Uncle Tom. I’ve been told I’m a spook at the door,” said Timothy F. Johnson, chairman of the Frederick Douglass Foundation, a group of black conservatives who support free market principles and limited government.

    “Black Republicans find themselves always having to prove who they are. Because the assumption is the Republican Party is for whites and the Democratic Party is for blacks,” he said.”

    http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=10303032

    Have you noticed how similar Malik Shabazz and Reverend Wright are?
    http://hotair.com/archives/2010/07/12/video-geraldo-and-malik-shabazz-argue-for-15-minutes/

  • NORBIT

    Wake Up People!
    This is a Top-Down Takeover of our country using the same tactics Hugo Chavez used in Venezuela!

    These Marxists go after ONE Election win, then Confiscate Control over Industry, Finance, Media, etc.
    They use Thug enforcers (SEIU & panthers) & give them Gov’t Protection (Holder/DOJ).
    They undermine legitimacy (Supreme Court), and Dismiss any exposition as “conspiracy wacko’s”.
    They’ll foment angst (and support) pitting one group against another (Az. Law come to mind?)
    ——————————————————————————————————————————————

    START TELLING EVERYONE YOU KNOW, AND GIVE THEM EXAMPLES OF WHAT’S HAPPENING!

    They’re going to try silencing FOX, talk radio & the internet next with some innocuous “social-justice” sounding bills!

  • Averreauxii

    The Republican party. Party of the KKK. Enough said.

  • marigrace

    Pablo said:
    We also live in a time where a young black man is more likely to get shot, by another young black man.

    And that has nothing to do with inequalities,but everything to do with bad choices.

  • haryybell

    I imagine that they talked a lot about things Bush wanted to do, was trying to do, and the state of affairs in various situations. But as far as either of us know, nobody wrote anybody any speeches.

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  • Pablo

    ImNotBlue said:
    the real john t says:
    July 13, 2010 at 12:47 am

    Pablo… I think John T just did a better job of proving his poor reading comprehension, and nonsensical connections better than you.

    That post makes NO sense. How is meeting with people the same as helping write a speech? I met with a few people at work today… but they didn’t help me write any of this tonight. I know… hard to believe, right?

    That is some industrial grade stupidity, isn’t it?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Linda-Grant-Grace/1783197560 Linda Grant Grace

    I think a lot of REAL Americans are still in SHOCK of how everyone that is in any way tied together with Obama …..all I have heard is …it’s Bush’s fault…BLOW on all of them…the gov. can call us stupit….they are all cheaters,liers and terrorist LOVERS….if all you people and the FAKE NAMES that voted for Obama want to live in a communist Country and as a MUSLIM belief and the English language is bottom on the list…then vote for him again if our Country even lasts that long …I see how Obama is destorying OUR Country…next thing you know the Gov. will start killing us some how…TOTAL CONTROL IS WHAT Obama wants

  • MichelleF

    Via the LA Times:

    Publicizing what it sees as racist and extreme behavior within the tea party is part of that effort.

    The proposed resolution asserts that “hardcore white supremacist organizations have participated in and occasionally lead tea party rallies.” McDowell said the statement was based on academic research on the tea party movement and referred to a faction within the larger movement.

    Meckler said the accusation was untrue and unfounded. “I’ve never, ever heard of such a thing,” he said. “Never had that complaint. Never seen it personally.”

    For the first time in my adult life, I’m ashamed of our first lady.

  • rorschach

    Averreauxii said:
    The Republican party. Party of the KKK. Enough said

    And ofcourse the dearly beloved Sen. Robert Byrd ( D- WV) Grand Kleagle and Exalted Cyclops, KKK retired (snort).

    Here is an interesting interview in 2001 on Fox News with Byrd and Major Garrett.
    You’d think that by 2001 he’d have learned to quit dropping the ” N ” bomb especially on TV , but its cool he apologized right ?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FIBJt-c2o0

  • rorschach

    Major Garrett sb Tony Snow

  • Phocus2

    America is a big wagon and you are either pulling with the rest of us, regardless of skin color…or you are riding. Which is it NAACP members? Dump the poverty pimps and race baiters. Tea party folks don’t care about your skin color. The fools you pick as leaders care about the tea party because they are about to put this country back on track and away from socialist…black, white, yellow, brown, or red.

  • RTB

    Averreauxii must be a bitter AZ resident.
    Dont forget about fox news being the natzi channel.
    Jerkoffs like this claude are the ones that turned me off from being on the left, too bitter, too vile, and a pissed off at the world chip on your shoulder mentality….of coarse the right has wackos too but what ive seen the left is a bit more wacked…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-Harris/514630301 Michael Harris

    NAACP new black panthers and batons yea right its teaparty affecting negatively. The NAACP has blackmailed companies and states to get their way. Panthers just use fear and they want to say name calling is stopping black congressmen from voting what a joke

  • writer

    Avereauxii, the FBI currently estimates there are two thousand KKK members nation-wide. There are black street gangs with more members.

  • Sue

    I honestly beliee that they cannot see the reality in front of them…they are blind, deaf and dumb to the truth of the world they live in. How can any intelligent, caring human being say what is said and how can this old organization even think about what’s it doing. A resolution, huh! Real bright.

  • am_underground

    Hell, either she or the President will be cutting the ribbon to the NEW BLACK PANTHERS NATIONAL HEADQUARTER next, right alongside the Rev’s Al, Jessie and Wright. I’ve been fed up with affirmative action for years and now it goes to show you it truly doesn’t work. God, the next elections can’t come fast enough.

  • http://none pyrope

    Ms. McDowell said:

    “‘We’re deeply concerned about elements that are trying to move the country back, trying to reverse progress that we’ve made,’ NAACP spokeswoman Leila McDowell told ABC News. “We are asking that the law-abiding members of the Tea Party repudiate those racist elements, that they recognize the historic and present racist elements that are within the Tea Party movement.”

    Progress? Does she think the Civil Rights Act will be repealed?

    So far as I know, ALL those persons who have attended Tea Party rallies have obeyed the law while doing so. To imply that not all are “law abiding” is inciteful within itself.

    However, I wonder if she denounced the hate-filled remarks by Malik Zulu Shabazz? I’ll bet not!!!!!

  • http://none pyrope

    @ Averreauxii said:
    The Republican party. Party of the KKK. Enough said

    How did you ever get your head that far up your ass?

  • http://none pyrope

    timzank said:
    Hope-n-Change Baby! The Obama family and the Dems have set back race relations by decades. Just unnecessarily too. This country rises above race and elects a black man President and ever since, everything the Dems, libs, progressives, panthers, etc have done has caused racial strife. Somehow I don’t think this is what everyone intended. Post racial my ass.

    To be quite honest, I don’t really believe they give a crap as to whether they set back race relations; they’ve got the muscle of the black panthers, the unions, hispanics, and muslims to anihilate every honky in the US.

    Si vis pacem, para bellum.

  • indianastan

    yeah she probably beats the tar out of barry o  every day. pussy whooped  pres.

  • Cefva

    You are a moron.  Do you not know the KKK was a DEMOCRATIC organization?  Read the background of your Dem. Senator Robert Byrd from W.VA.  He was the Exalted Grand Dragon of the KKK. Lincoln who did more for blacks than any other president before or since then was a member of what is now the Republican party.  The only use Democrats have for blacks is to keep them under their thumb dependent on welfare & entitlements so that HAVE to vote for them at election time.  Why do you think Liberals so visciously attack any and all black conversatives?  They fear them so much because these blacks think for themselves and have opened their eyes to who is really for giving them a hand up, not a handout.  Blacks have been brainwashed to think Democrats have their back.  They are being used for their own political purposes and other than that, libs don’t give a rat’s ass about equality or human dignity.  Wise up, my friend.  Read and learn.  Stop drinking the liberal kool-aid.  It’s lethal. 

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