NAACP vs. Tea Party: No matter who wins, we lose

[Marshal Murat]

Briebart Video of NAACP racism in action.

What a world we live in, where in a matter of days a video from years ago can be pulled up and played online for thousands.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Briebart Video of NAACP racism in action.

What a world we live in, where in a matter of days a video from years ago can be pulled up and played online for thousands.

Didn't she say that her eyes were opened, it wasn't about black and white, it was about people who were poor and needed help? What did the rest of her speech say?

[Tellos Athenaios]

NAACP racism in action? Possibly, maybe if you ignore the entire speech I guess.

[Don Corleone]

This whole "tiff" has all the makings of a bunch of out-of-work lawyers. I'm all about limited government, but the pantheon of "tea-partiers" that are recognized hasn't charged my batteries. Including the Paul family, Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin in the same "grass-roots" campaign sure smacks of astro-turf to me.

By the way, once Allison is potty-trained, stay tuned for the launch of the Atlas party, based on Ayn Rand's objectivist principles by yours truly. Join me, in an effort to rail against endless kvetching.

[Hosakawa Tito]

This whole "tiff" has all the makings of a bunch of out-of-work lawyers. I'm all about limited government, but the pantheon of "tea-partiers" that are recognized hasn't charged my batteries. Including the Paul family, Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin in the same "grass-roots" campaign sure smacks of astro-turf to me.

By the way, once Allison is potty-trained, stay tuned for the launch of the Atlas party, based on Ayn Rand's objectivist principles by yours truly. Join me, in an effort to rail against endless kvetching.

It's campaign season, and the kooks are the ones to make the headlines. The cheapest, easiest way to attack any political opponent is to level accusations of bigotry, no?

Is it fair to demonize an entire movement because a few nuts are associated with it? Does the NAACP wish to be evaluated on that basis?

The NAACP picked a bad time to brand the Tea Party with the racist label. Recently the New Black Panther Party has been in the news because the Justice Department declined to prosecute a case where three of their members apparently intimidated voters at a Philadelphia polling place. One DOJ lawyer even quit his job, saying he was ordered not to pursue the case because it involved race.

In response to the story, a number of New Black Panthers have been shown on TV saying incredibly bigoted things. One guy, King Samir Shabazz, even suggested that black Americans kill white babies. This is on tape. Obviously, racial bigotry cuts both ways. Has the NAACP denounced them?

One of the weaknesses of the NAACP is that it has rarely acknowledged black racism. The organization is silent on the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan. Yet it is outraged about the Tea Party. There might be something hypocritical about that.

If I remember correctly, President Obama wisely ran as an American not as an African-American. Unfortunately the NAACP isn't quite as astute. And by saying/referring and profiling all Tea Party followers being sympathetic to racism when proof of that is scant at best...well, that's pretty irresponsible.

There's much more to diversity than just skin color.