If you wanted the TRUTH of what the NAACP said about racism in the Teaparty, why on earth would you read what a Right Wing extremist like Andrew Breitbart has to say about it. On the other hand, if instead of the TRUTH, what you really wanted was the Right Wing Propaganda on this issue, then you went to the right place.
For the truth go to the NAACP and see what they actually said. You might agree with their view:
Today, NAACP delegates passed a resolution to condemn extremist elements within the Tea Party, calling on Tea Party leaders to repudiate those in their ranks who use racist language in their signs and speeches.
The proposed resolution had generated controversy on conservative blogs, where in some cases the language has been misconstrued to imply that the NAACP was condemning the entire Tea Party movement itself as racist.(HUH, RIGHT WING PROPAGANDA AT WORK)
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Video Shows USDA Official Saying She Didn't Give 'Full Force' of Help to White Farmer
Published July 19, 2010
| FoxNews.com
Days after the NAACP clashed with Tea Party members over allegations of racism, a video has surfaced showing an Agriculture Department official regaling an NAACP audience with a story about how she withheld help to a white farmer facing bankruptcy -- video that now has forced the official to resign.
Shirley Sherrod, the department's Georgia director of Rural Development, is shown in the clip describing "the first time I was faced with having to help a white farmer save his farm." Sherrod, who is black, claimed the farmer took a long time trying to show he was "superior" to her. The audience laughed as she described how she determined his fate.
"He had to come to me for help. What he didn't know while he was taking all that time trying to show me he was superior to me was I was trying to decide just how much help I was going to give him," she said. "I was struggling with the fact that so many black people have lost their farmland and here I was faced with having to help a white person save their land -- so I didn't give him the full force of what I could do. I did enough."
The Agriculture Department announced Monday, shortly after FoxNews.com published its initial report on the video, that Sherrod had resigned.
"There is zero tolerance for discrimination at USDA, and I strongly condemn any act of discrimination against any person," Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a written statement. "We have been working hard through the past 18 months to reverse the checkered civil rights history at the department and take the issue of fairness and equality very seriously.
Sherrod explained in the video that, at the time, she assumed the state or national Department of Agriculture had referred the white farmer to her. In order to ensure that the farmer could report back that she was indeed helpful, she said she took him to see "one of his own" -- a white lawyer.
"I figured that if I take him to one of them, that his own kind would take care of him," she said.
The point of the story wasn't entirely clear; only an excerpt of the speech is included in the video clip.
"It was revealed to me that it's about poor versus those who have," she said, suggesting she had learned that race is less important.
The video clip was first posted by BigGovernment.com. The clip is dated March 27 from an NAACP Freedom Fund banquet.
The clip adds to the firestorm of debate over the NAACP's decision to approve a resolution at its convention last week accusing some Tea Party activists of racism -- a charge Tea Party leaders deny. FoxNews.com was unable to get a response to this story from the NAACP.
In a second clip from the same event posted online, Sherrod appeared to urge black job seekers to find work at the Department of Agriculture because the federal government won't lay people off.
"There are jobs at USDA and many times there are no people of color to fill those jobs because we shy away from agriculture. We hear the word agriculture and think, why are we working in the fields?" she said. "You've heard of a lot of layoffs. Have you heard of anybody in the federal government losing their job? That's all I need to say."
Racism is everywhere and applies to all races, not just whites.
But the NAACP resolution, (contrary to what you will read on most conservative sites) states: " NAACP delegates passed a resolution to condemn extremist elements within the Tea Party, calling on Tea Party leaders to repudiate those in their ranks who use racist language in their signs and speeches." Don't you agree???
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Some people are aware of how race impacts the media and other ethnic groups... With others, racism is a part of their personality and to them, their racist words are normal and don't seem to be racist at all.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Today, NAACP delegates passed a resolution to condemn extremist elements within the Tea Party, calling on Tea Party leaders to repudiate those in their ranks who use racist language in their signs and speeches.
The proposed resolution had generated controversy on conservative blogs, where in some cases the language has been misconstrued to imply that the NAACP was condemning the entire Tea Party movement itself as racist.(HUH, RIGHT WING PROPAGANDA AT WORK)
So the extremist elements that show up on signs and speeches at ALL other rallies around the country are ok? ONLY THE TEA PARY need to be condemned? (HUH, LEFT WING PROPAGANDA AT WORK)
You are a very good propagandist yourself Box. Do you work for a local paper?
When at a Dem or Rep rally, there are blatantly racist signs or posters, (hopefully) the leaders of the rally will object to that type of sign at their rally. The party IS responsible for what happens at their own rally.
When a Dem or Rep politician makes a racist public statement, others in his party, or party leaders will condemn that type of language and discourage it's usage in the future. The NAACP was asking for the same actions by TeaBaggers.
What the NAACP said in their resolution was NOT that the TeaBaggers are Racists, but asked TeaParty leaders to condemn extremist elements within the Tea Party & called on Tea Party leaders to repudiate those in their ranks who use racist language in their signs and speeches. There is a huge difference.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
The Tea Party isn't an organized, recognized political party like Dems or Reps. It is a grass roots activist movement with no centralized leadership. Does the NAACP not know that? Is the NAACP asking those party official or news commentators that call Tea Party activist "Teabaggers" to repudiate those statements? Does the NAACP have a resolution currently in their charter that addresses the fringe element that show up to other activist rallies with racist signs? I doubt it. They are clearly cherry picking one specific activist group that they disagree with politically.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Bachman is not the leader of the Tea Party she wants to start a Tea Party caucus in Congress nothing more than that. They don't need a leader nor do they want a leader because if the Rep party starts to call all their moves then they will lose their identity and motivation and just become part of the Rep party which they do not want. The Tea Party is made up of Dems, Reps, and Ind all who believe in smaller government, fiscal responsibility, individual freedoms and a balanced budget and right now the movement is growing every time the Congress increases spending or restricts individual freedom.
Good try. Forming a caucus for an activist organization that has no official card carrying members doesn't make her the leader.
People from both parties have unsuccessfully tried to harness, label, and stereotype the Tea Party. The Tea Party is the unknown in the political equation. Democrats are trying to marginalize them with slander and paint them as racist, and Republicans are trying to co-opt them with a caucus.
The Tea Party is made up of Dems, Reps, and Ind all who believe in smaller government, fiscal responsibility, individual freedoms and a balanced budget
Who are TeaBaggers??? Americans who identify themselves as Tea Party supporters tend to be Republican, white, male, married and older than 45. They hold more conservative views on a range of issues than Republicans generally. They are also more likely to describe themselves as “very conservative” and President Obama as “very liberal.” (NY Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/us/politics/15poll.html
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
That's the liberal progressive view on the Tea Party but there are quite a few blacks that are in the Tea Party. The liberals want to paint the Tea Party as a white rich and racist and that's totally wrong. Obama is a radical liberal progressive and that is evident in many of the speeches he has made. For the record there are an awful lot of women in the Tea Party movement so your description is wrong.
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