By FITSNews || The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is poised to adopt a resolution at its annual convention this week condemning the Tea Party movement for its inclusion of “racist elements that are a threat to our democracy.”
According to the language of the proposed resolution, the Tea Party is “not just about higher taxes and limited government but something that could evolve and become more dangerous.”
Umm … we thought the Tea Party was about lower taxes, but whatever.
In our opinion this ridiculousness is the latest example of the NAACP’s inexorable march to complete and total irrelevance. It’s not that there aren’t racists in the Tea Party (we have no doubt there are), but the bottom line is the reforms that the movement is fighting for will benefit all Americans, not just a select few.
Meanwhile, the NAACP has played the race card so many times that it has lost all meaning and relevance. Seriously, what was once a needed organization fighting nobly for the cause of individual liberty and railing against real injustice has devolved into a pathetic organ for the advancement of big government’s increasingly costly culture of dependency.
That’s especially true here in the Palmetto state.
In fact, our founding editor made no bones whatsoever of his unmitigated contempt for the S.C. NAACP when one of its local “leaders” – the Rev. Joe Darby – excoriated State Sen. Robert Ford (who is black) for supporting universal school choice legislation designed to give poor, African-American students a way out of the state’s failing public schools.
“Your NAACP says it is for equality, yet it actively endorses and perpetuates a separate and unequal education system that is falling further behind the rest of the county in all categories for all students – but falling furthest behind for black children,” we wrote to Darby last March. “Your NAACP says it is for justice, but the sad, unavoidable truth is that all it really wants to do is keep black people poor, dumb, out-of-work and totally beholden to the government – just as it has kept them for decades.”
UPDATE: For what it’s worth, though, we are still trying to stamp out Mississippi-ism.
By TaylorSC July 12, 2010 at 11:12 pm
Well, why can’t the leaders of this state do something about the failing public schools? Honestly, is it that hard? You throw that line out like you think failing schools are a permanent condition, or a ship that sailed already, which doesn’t say much for your faith in your choice of leaders. Other states manage better schools, at least 48 other states. What does that SAY about the leaders we keep electing in South Carolina?
By Joe Darby July 13, 2010 at 12:22 am
Three things:
1 – if you’re going to insult me, get it right. I excoriated Senator Ford for a scheme to fund private schools with scarce public dollars – a bad idea in the current economy and a throwback to one of our state’s last efforts to maintain segregation.
2 – if you’re going to paint the NAACP with your broad brush, use the right paint. The organization is about civil rights. If you can figure out how to deal with that without addressing public policy, o great and wise one, then let me know.
3 – thanks for the unintended compliment to the NAACP. A full rant on an organization that you say has “lost all meaning and relevance” means that we were still meaningful and relevant enough to tick you off and generate considerable irrational vitriol – I’m honored.
Joe Darby
By Cooter Brown July 13, 2010 at 12:50 am
Iz deir aniethang gud dat dey iz fer? Please Lawrd, make dem go away!
By Wow July 13, 2010 at 7:34 am
Isnt it funny that an organization based on race will play the race card against another “organization” – irony at its best. I guess the NAACP is really hard up for news and members.
Are the Dems so afraid of losing the mid-terms that they want to go this route?? It smacks of desparation.
By snodgrass July 13, 2010 at 7:45 am
“A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.”
–George Bernard Shaw
By thurg July 13, 2010 at 7:58 am
There is video of the Black Panther Party calling for the murder of white babies.
Will the NAACP condemn the Black Panthers for their documented racism?
(in contrast to the Tea Party rally regarding health care during which the media claimed that racist epithets were hurled by Tea Party protesters without providing any evidence, despite the presence of multiple video cameras filming the protest)
By Clean up your own Act July 13, 2010 at 8:14 am
Get rid or condem the people with signs showing Obama with a bone in his nose, and then i’ll listen. Otherwise your no different than the NAACP. HotAir.
Clean up your act, before asking others to do the same. The T-Party unfortunately lacks the integrity to address this, and if you do get someone in office, it will be shortlived. guaranteed. Noone can handle liars in the present economy or the next. We had two decades of that with Bush. God forgive us if JawMan Palin becomes president. I’ll leave the country.
By fitsnews July 13, 2010 at 8:51 am
“Reverend,”
So according to your logic, instead of supporting that “scheme” we should keep pumping billions of dollars into a system that gets worse each year and relegates tens of thousands of black children to second-class status?
A system where less than half of every dollar makes it into the classroom?
A system that has consistently produced the nation’s worst graduation rate and lowest SAT scores?
Yeah … no thanks.
To establishment types like you, the solution is always a “scheme,” isn’t it? You forget that to the parents of children in Allendale County, what you call a “scheme” could be their child’s salvation – a one-way ticket to a better life.
But you don’t live in Allendale, do you sir?
As a black pastor, you should know that there are literally dozens of African-American faith-based groups ready and eager to step in on behalf of children that the state of South Carolina has been failing for DECADES.
Why are you standing in the school house door???
-FITS
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By carl the greenskeeper July 13, 2010 at 9:33 am
Rev. Jackson says that the owner of the Cavs is treating LeBron James like a runaway slave. Jason Whitlock says that Rev. Jackson is needlessly playing the race card. Playing the race card has become a political maneuver. If your existence is based on fighting racial discrimination, don’t you need racial discrimination? What if you don’t find it, do you create it? There are rascists in every group, but is every event racially motivated? It’s rather myopic, and ultimately self defeating, if you view everything that happens from that standpoint only.
By Hmmmmm July 13, 2010 at 10:41 am
Rev Darby,
First of all I think continued funding of public schools at the current rate and without accountability makes no sense. Public Admin say the students fail because there isnt enough money so they continually ask for more and more is given. At what point to we say “enough is enough” either produce or get out. The Administrators and teachers need to be 100% accountable for the products they produce. Would you buy a Ford car made by these teachers and admins??? They want more money without being held accountable for what they were given or their production from that money.
Currently Public education is the only way because there is no competition for the state funds. And because of no competition there is no reason for them to improve.
Hold their jobs to improvement – if students dont produce teachers dont get increases or renewed contracts. Pretty simple. That is how its done in the real world. SC Ed funding needs to remain exactly as it is unless results and improvements are shown.
By Danielle July 13, 2010 at 11:18 am
“Your NAACP says it is for justice, but the sad, unavoidable truth is that all it really wants to do is keep black people poor, dumb, out-of-work and totally beholden to the government – just as it has kept them for decades.”
I agree with this. For the record:
1) I am not a supporter of the NAACP
2) I am black
After the flag debacle, the NAACP lost all support from me. I took a good long hard look around. At the church I grew up in that raised money from the now struggling members (most worked on Hilton Head during tourism season) to the tune of $500 to support the NAACP march on the state capitol. To the reduction of tourism jobs (some towns–mostly black–are dependent on those) and the loss of homes and the new dependency on the government that folks then needed to survive to eat and pay bills, especially in the winter…the bulk of money has to be made during the tourism months. Then when it was all over and done the NAACP does nothing of notice to help support black people (other than the ones running it). The schools (Hampton County/Allendale County) were still failing and I didn’t see them around providing a solution for that at the time. I detest what they did then and I detest their efforts at relevancy now. They are all talk and no action.
On the flip side, racism is still a real and now silent enigma in America. Just because it isn’t as open doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. I am not so naive to believe that the same white folks in their late teens and early twenties that were raising hell in the 60s and 70s against black people, hanging them from trees, spitting on them, and beating them in the streets, all of a sudden had a change of heart and became lovers of black folks because the government said so. They grew up with this hate and became doctors, lawyers, politicians, teachers, and all sorts of other professions and found other outlets for this hate. The fault became that of black folks for actually believing some government law would make a difference. All it did was make them more dependent and have less control over their lives, their children’s lives, and their communities by making them believe that the government’s choices were best. Shut down our schools, stick black folks into public housing projects, and all other manner of “change” that in hindsight didn’t do us a damn bit of good.
We were better off without it. I take it the NAACP would disagree but I don’t care. Nas had it right, “Walking, talking dead, though we think we’re living. We’re just copycats following the system. Black zombies.”
By Hmmmmm July 13, 2010 at 12:36 pm
+1 Danielle – great insight.
I also agree that racism is still alive today but its from all areas – black and white racist – which is sad and difficult to believe in this day and age it still exists.
The NAACP has hurt more than has helped. They’ve been more exclusive than inclusive and cant or wont contribute to a solution. Their solution has been to protest something and move on instead of protesting and sticking around to fix the problem.
If the NAACP thinks that schools need more money – when was the last time they opened their checkbook and wrote a check to the neediest of schools??
By A-train July 13, 2010 at 1:36 pm
The problem with trying to hold teachers (no so much with administrators) is should this year’s 4th grade teacher be held accountable for a student that placed in her/his classroom who can’t keep up?
The failure of our schools goes back to the parents. If you don’t take an interest in your kids by spending time playing, reading and working with them, they’re already behind.
The poor education in SC goes back to the parents.
By really???? July 13, 2010 at 3:31 pm
@ Clean,
I must have been asleep the 20 YEARS that Bush was in the white house.
By CNSYD July 13, 2010 at 3:41 pm
Does racism exist? Yes. In the US? Yes. Is it a “two way” street? Yes. What about in the rest of the world, does racism exist? Yes.
Racism is actually not the worst, IMO, type of discrimination. How about Catholics vs Protestant? Tribal wars in Africa, etc.? Those aren’t based on “color”.
That brings me to the “CP” in NAACP. What exactly is a “colored person”? Is Obama at 50% “colored”? What about Tiger Woods’ children who are less than 50%. Where is the threshold? What about Native Americans? Are they “colored”? Etc.
By Scooter July 13, 2010 at 8:23 pm
Whether I agree with the NAAPC in all areas is beside the point. What is the point: Tea Party people are dangerous and the leaders are skilled at twisting the truth, and making up stuff to scare their easily led followers. The Tea Party movement is based on negatives and hate. They have divided our country and are proud of it.
By I Wrote The Trick Book July 13, 2010 at 8:47 pm
Ahh, the National Association for Always Complaining People strikes again!
This organization is burning its own bridge…it is astonishing that an organization can do a complete 180 from being a champion for minority rights to being the primary source of racism in this country. Now the NAACP seems like a record that just keeps skipping, never advancing – every time they draw any distinction between black/white (or any other race for that matter), that IS RACISM…and the cycle continues.
Instead, the NAACP needs to get back to its roots (absolutely no pun intended) and MOVE ON…not from its core purpose of championing the rights of minorities, but from this 1960 mentality of “keeping the black man down”. This is a new day, it is time to focus on promoting equality and working together.
In honor of Ms. Danielle’s post/quote…As Jay-Z said: “Its 2010, not 1864″.
By Montana July 13, 2010 at 10:28 pm
The Tea Bag Party are just “haters not debaters” or as others have dubbed them “screamers not dreamers”, with their failed attempts at stopping Healthcare reform, they say they respect the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence but they do not mind passing laws, through weak Governors (no one voted for this crazy) who only cares about getting elected Governor, on the backs of undocumented workers, that will not pass Constitution muster.
Brewer signed into law;
1. S.B. 1070,
2. No permit conceal weapons law,
3. The famous Birthers law,
4. Banning Ethnic studies law,
5. Could she be behind the Mural in Prescott, Arizona, ordered to be whiten,
6. On deck to pass, no citizenship to babies born to undocumented workers,
7. If she can read she should look up Arizona’s House Bill 2779 from two years ago (which was un-constitution and failed when legally challenged),
8. The boycotted Martin Luther King Day, what idiots don’t want another holiday? Yes, you guessed it Arizona.
Well Arizona, you can boycott new holidays and keep passing crazy laws and the rest of us will continue to challenged them in a court of law and continue to add cities to our Boycott of your state.
I real cannot believe anything that comes out of Brewer’s mouth, in an interview she first said her father had died in Germany fighting the Nazi in World War II (war ended 1945) but of course we find out the truth that father was never in Germany and died in California in 1955. But we are suppose to believe everything else she says, right! No one voted for you for Governor, yet you keep listening to the tiny brains of the crazies and signing into law everything that comes into their feeble minds, it only make you look dumb, stupid or racist, or maybe all three.
As for the Tea Bag Party, their phony patriotism is sickening; they are just racists going by another name. We all know you are just itching to put a sheet on their head? Let’s face it the Republicans had eight years to deal with health care, immigration, energy (remember Cheney’s secret meetings with oil companies where loosening regulation and oversight were sealed), climate change and financial oversight and governance and they failed. It appears that the Republican Party is only good at starting wars (two in eight years, with fat contracts to friends of Cheney/Bush) but not at winning wars as seen by the continuing line of body bags that keep coming home. The Republicans party will continue turned inward to their old fashion obstructionist party (and their Confederacy appreciation roots) because they continue to allow a small portions (but very loud portion) of their party of “birthers, baggers and blowhards” to rule their party. I will admit that this fringe is very good at playing “Follow the Leader” by listening to their dullard leaders, Beck, Hedgecock, Hannity, O’Reilly, Rush, Savage, Sarah Bailin, Orly Taitz, Victoria Jackson, Michele Bachmann and the rest of the Blowhards and acting as ill programmed robots (they have already acted against doctors that perform abortions). Yee Haw!
By Joe July 14, 2010 at 1:35 am
Scooter says: “Whether I agree with the NAAPC in all areas is beside the point. What is the point: Tea Party people are dangerous and the leaders are skilled at twisting the truth, and making up stuff to scare their easily led followers. The Tea Party movement is based on negatives and hate. They have divided our country and are proud of it.”
Did you just wake up from a coma? That’s laughably absurd. This country was divided long before this movement began and the formed PRECISELY because politicians on both sides of the aisle divide people. They are sick of it – as you should be.
By Knows hate when it rears it's ugly head July 14, 2010 at 1:18 pm
@ Montana. You are one hateful and ugly being. You are part of the problem.
By Elaine July 14, 2010 at 1:25 pm
Scooter: I have been to three Tea Parties and have to say that at none of them did I feel that they were spewing negatives or hate about a class of people. They did talk about their dislike of big government, more taxes, and more people taking advantage of the system. We could probably agree that on both sides, there are people with very strong opinions. They sometimes make fools of themselves. The majority of tea partiers are moms and dads, grandmas and grandpas, not hardened activists. They are upset that their representatives in congress are not listening to their concerns. They are not racists.
By ra44mr2 July 14, 2010 at 1:32 pm
ummm…Scooter, last i checked the Tea Party wasnt voting to call the NAACP a racist organization although i bet as a white man i couldnt get in. Ask ANY black Tea Party member how they are treated at the Tea Party protests and i bet you will be quite surprised.
By kim krausfeldt July 14, 2010 at 8:21 pm
Really scooters, were you born yesterday? You should really try and think for yourself and do a little fact checking instead of spewing back everything you are told to think and say by the government owned media.
By Dogmeat July 15, 2010 at 9:37 pm
The problem is this. Tea Party candidates will win a number of these congressional races because local districts are often safely partisan in nature. They can make their wild, unfounded claims, crazy accusations, etc., and win. That means not only are we likely to see an increase in Republican seats in both houses, we’re likely to see more antics, more insanity, more stupidity. At the same time they’re going to do everything they can to derail Obama’s policies which will likely mean high unemployment, a moribund economy, and more compromises on policy positions that make no one happy.
That could literally mean that if the Republicans put up a legitimate candidate in 2012, they could win. Such a result is bad enough, but the likely response for the Democrats is to move further to the “middle” to placate voters. As we’ve seen over the last decade, the “middle” in American politics is basically on the verge of being an 80s Republican. Increasingly that means we’ll have a political landscape of a conservative party and ratfuck insane parties. The former, given it’s track record, slowly moving to the right, the latter, given it’s track record, loudly screaming “socialism, communism, fascism!!!”
If we continue on this course, privatization will be socialism.