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NAACP CALLS TEA PARTY ACTIVISTS "COWARDS" DEMANDS THEY "EXPEL THE BIGOTS AND RACISTS" IN THEIR RANKS

At it's convention in Kansas City last week, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) ordered the Tea Party movement to "expel the bigots and racists in your ranks." The resolution assumes that "bigots and racists" are a dominant force in a movement aimed at reducing taxes and returning the nation to constitutional government.

"We will no longer allow you (the Tea Parties) to hide like cowards and hide behind signs that say 'lynch our president', or anyone else," huffed NAACP President Benjamin Jealous.

There's no evidence that anyone has ever carried such a sign at a Tea Party rally (not that one sign can be used to indict an entire movement).

There's also absolutely no evidence, other than anecdotal, that when members of the Black Congressional Caucus passed a Tea Party demonstration to vote on Obama Care in March, they were verbally or physically abused. Publisher Andrew Breitbart has offered a $100,000 reward to anyone who can produce video or audio recording to substantiate the allegations. So far, no takers.

The NAACP isn't alone in attempting to smear the Tea Parties. Commentaries have appeared in The New York Times and Washington Post suggesting that hostility towards the president's policies is a sign of latent racism.

Writing in The Post, Howard Kurtz suggested that there was something dark and sinister in shouts about "the Constitution" and "taking our country back" - as if "the Constitution" is now a code word for "racism," and calls to take back the country could mean anything other than take-it-back from an administration determined to remake it in ways the Founding Fathers would have found appalling.

There's a not-so-hidden agenda here. Those who are trying so hard to stigmatize the Tea Parties like big government. They want higher taxes. They favor government takeover of industry and long for socialized medicine, a la the British system.

They're also terrified of a regime change following the November elections. By tarring the most visible symbol of opposition to this administration (the Tea Parties) as racist, the left hopes to terrify and mobilize minority voters for the fall elections.

In terms of the NAACP, there are two overriding ironies: 1.Big government hurts low-income minorities most -- witness high rates of crime, out-of-wedlock births, incarceration and low educational performance among African-Americans.

2. Far more than the NAACP, it's the Tea Parties that resemble the Civil Rights movement of the '50s, and '60s - grassroots, populist, dedicated to peaceful change, embracing Biblical values and having an abiding faith in the American people and our system of government.


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