Posted by
Patrick Henry on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 12:24:29 AM
Today the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People dishonored
and cheapened themselves by suggesting that the Tea Parties were havens for rampant
racism, and demanding that they renounce same. They did this on the basis of the fact
that some racially offensive signs popped up at Tea Party gatherings, and some Tea
Party members allegedly shouted racial epithets at black congressmen during the
bitter debate over healthcare reform. Never mind that there is no documentary
evidence that the latter ever happened, and what party ever has public gatherings where
wingnuts don't show up with offensive signs.
Attorney General Eric Holder alleges that when it comes to talking about race, we
are a nation of cowards, which, in his case is laughable because it is difficult to decide
of which he is the foremost, racist or coward. But let's cut through the horse hockey
and be real. The NAACP is, and always has been, an organization designed to prime
the pump of black-on-white hatred, has thrown the people it is supposed to represent
to the wolves and become a transparent and ineffective shill for the Democratic
National Committee.
Their charge of racism against the Tea Parties echoes that of MSNBC's moronic
Keith Olbermann who crowed that Tea Partiers are "just angry white people looking
for any excuse to yell at a black president." In their eyes no white man can ever
criticize any black man without being racist, and therefore all criticism of Barack
Obama must be racially motivated.
Smug liberal academics have long held that there is no such thing as black racism,
because racism is the systemic implementation of racial animus based on the power
to discriminate. Since blacks are the minority, they have no power. So they can be
bigoted, but not racist. Liberal politicians have baptized that noxious doctrine and
now keep score of how many times they can call Republicans, conservatives and,
yes, Tea Partiers either "racists" or "Nazis," their chosen vehicles of derogation.
But the tired accusations are increasingly falling on deaf ears, like those of the
little boy who cried "wolf" once too often. The NAACP hates (yes, hates) the Tea
Parties because they criticize Obama relentlessly. But the reason they support
Obama is only secondarily because he happens to be black. They are phobic
about Tea Party doctrine, and with good cause. The Tea Parties demand an end
to frivolous entitlement spending, fair taxation and a balanced federal budget. If
they get what they want, then the jig is up for those who have surrendered to the
hand-out mentality (you owe us), in other words the NAACP. The NAACP's
entire resume is a litany of blaming whites for the problems of the black community.
It's what they do, and they want to keep on doing it with the help of the unlimited
entitlement socialists of the Obama administration leading the charge.
The likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton got very uncomfortable when Obama
took the tack of demanding that blacks take responsibility for themselves. They
were far more comfortable blaming whites for the fact that a majority of black
babies are born out of wedlock, that many black men seem to feel entitled (there
it is again) to father serial children and then walk away, that many. many of those
children grow up fatherless, do poorly in or drop out of school, first use, then sell
illegal drugs, join violent street gangs and end up in prison or on death row. And
according to Obama, all of the nation's problems are the responsibility of a white
man, George W. Bush.
But guess what? You can pour Hershey's syrup on a pile of dog do and call it
a sundae, and even believe it yourself if you want to. But the people you're
trying to sell it to soon recognize it for exactly what it is, and you for the self-serving
charlatan you are. So Obama and the Democrats can play their whole deck of race cards, Eric Holder can practice his reverse profiling (we aren't prosecuting voter
intimidation cases with white victims and black defendants) for as long as their terms
last. But people are waking up fast to the fact that America has to stop spending,
reduce its deficit and balance its budget, or else. You can change the subject by
shouting "racist" or "Nazi" all you want, but nobody's buying anymore. People aren't
as stupid as you think.
So the NAACP has changed its mission with one resolution. It is now officially
the National Association for the Advocacy of Cynical Politics. Come November
it will be obvious how irrelevant its sycophants really are.