<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/> NAACP leader calls on Palin, Armey to condemn racists in tea party<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/naacp-leader-calls-on-palin-armey-to-condemn-racists-in-tea-party/> *Scotty Starnes <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/>*| October 21, 2010 at 6:00 AM | Tags: Ben Jealous <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/ben-jealous/>, Communism<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/communism/>, communists <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/communists/>, Curtis Gatewood <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/curtis-gatewood/>, Dick Armey <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/dick-armey/>, Louis Farrakhan<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/louis-farrakhan/>, NAACP <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/naacp/>, One Nation rally<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/one-nation-rally/>, President Obama <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/president-obama/>, racism <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/racism/>, racists<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/racists/>, Rev. Wayne Perryman<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/rev-wayne-perryman/>, Sarah Palin <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/sarah-palin/>, socialism<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/socialism/>, socialists <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/socialists/>, tea party<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/tea-party/>| Categories: Uncategorized <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/category/uncategorized/> | URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-3aP
<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/naacp-leader-calls-on-palin-armey-to-condemn-racists-in-tea-party/> I'm calling on Ben Jealous to condemn the racists his own group tolerates. Condemn Louis Farrakhan. Condemn Jeremiah Wright. Condemn the Democratic Party who was founded on the pro-slavery platform. <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/naacp-leader-calls-on-palin-armey-to-condemn-racists-in-tea-party/> Condemn the Democrats for their support of slavery, secession, segregation and socialism. Condemn the Democrats for creating the KKK and for giving us lynchings, church bombings, Jim Crow laws and Robert Byrd<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd>, the only member of Congress to where a white sheet and who filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act and voted against Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas in their attempt to sit on the Supreme Court. This is a guy the NAACP supported and gave a 100% rating. <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/naacp-leader-calls-on-palin-armey-to-condemn-racists-in-tea-party/> <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/naacp-leader-calls-on-palin-armey-to-condemn-racists-in-tea-party/> The One Nation Rally, supported by the NAACP, was filled with overt racist, anti-American goons, pro-socialist, pro-communist<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/walter-williams-on-leftists-progressives-and-socialists/>, anti-Semite thugs, yet Jealous has never condemned a single person. I think Jealous needs to look at his own organization before throwing stones at others. The Upshot reports, via Yahoo News<http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101020/pl_yblog_upshot/naacp-leader-calls-on-palin-armey-to-condemn-alleged-tea-party-racism#mwpphu-post-form> : The NAACP is calling on Sarah Palin and Dick Armey<http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101020/pl_yblog_upshot/naacp-leader-calls-on-palin-armey-to-condemn-alleged-tea-party-racism#>to forcefully denounce what the civil rights group calls racism in the ranks of the tea party movement<http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101020/pl_yblog_upshot/naacp-leader-calls-on-palin-armey-to-condemn-alleged-tea-party-racism#> . In a call with reporters to tout a new report on some tea partiers' ties to hate groups, NAACP president Benjamin Todd Jealous<http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101020/pl_yblog_upshot/naacp-leader-calls-on-palin-armey-to-condemn-alleged-tea-party-racism#>slammed the former Alaska governor for working with the Tea Party Express, whose now-expelled leader, Mark Williams, ignited a firestorm earlier this year after a string of racist and anti-Muslim comments. In response to a question from The Upshot, Jealous charged that the Tea Party<http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101020/pl_yblog_upshot/naacp-leader-calls-on-palin-armey-to-condemn-alleged-tea-party-racism#>Express, a prominent tea party group run by a California GOP consultant, has yet to fully hold Williams responsible for his remarks. "Palin is out there with Tea Party Express, which hasn't held Williams to account," Jealous said, adding that Palin should "distance herself from Tea Party Express until they've held Williams accountable." Williams has referred<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/yblog_upshot/pl_yblog_upshot/storytext/naacp-leader-calls-on-palin-armey-to-condemn-alleged-tea-party-racism/38114351/SIG=12s0f6akf/*http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05/tea_party_leader_allah_is_monkey_god.php>to Allah as a "monkey God." And in July, after the NAACP passed a resolution condemning racism in the tea party movement, Williams penned an online mock-letter, written in the voice of Jealous, suggesting that blacks were happier under slavery. The Tea Party Express denounced the letter and ousted<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/yblog_upshot/pl_yblog_upshot/storytext/naacp-leader-calls-on-palin-armey-to-condemn-alleged-tea-party-racism/38114351/SIG=12rqfa6d1/*http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/29918/mark-williams-out-at-tea-party-express/>Williams from the group's leadership soon after. Williams has since apologized<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/yblog_upshot/pl_yblog_upshot/storytext/naacp-leader-calls-on-palin-armey-to-condemn-alleged-tea-party-racism/38114351/SIG=1201kd3la/*http://newsblaze.com/story/20101015134640zzzz.nb/topstory.html>for the letter and had it removed. Earlier this week, Palin helped launch <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/yblog_upshot/pl_yblog_upshot/storytext/naacp-leader-calls-on-palin-armey-to-condemn-alleged-tea-party-racism/38114351/SIG=13ru640dv/*http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2010/1018/Sarah-Palin-kick-starts-final-Tea-Party-Express-bus-tour-of-2010>the Tea Party Express's latest bus tour with a speech in Reno, Nev. As for Armey, Jealous noted that Armey's group, FreedomWorks<http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101020/pl_yblog_upshot/naacp-leader-calls-on-palin-armey-to-condemn-alleged-tea-party-racism#>, is the only major tea party faction that involves no formal ties nor leadership alliances with "birthers" -- people who question President Obama's U.S. citizenship, a position that the NAACP says it views as "racially charged." As a result, Jealous argued, Armey has a responsibility to do more to marginalize such views in the tea party movement. "We have yet to see Dick Armey really take on his peers on this issue." In response, C.L. Bryant, a spokesman for FreedomWorks, said Jealous' statement was an attempt to distract from the upcoming midterms. * "Whenever there is difficulty on the left with their candidates, issues or political platform, they always trot out some kind of diversionary race card," *Bryant told The Upshot. "And that's what this is about." Spokespeople for Palin and the Tea Party Express did not respond on the record to requests for comment from The Upshot. In Palin's Facebook response<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/yblog_upshot/pl_yblog_upshot/storytext/naacp-leader-calls-on-palin-armey-to-condemn-alleged-tea-party-racism/38114351/SIG=140m22o6u/*http://www.facebook.com/notes/sarah-palin/the-charge-of-racism-its-time-to-bury-the-divisive-politics-of-the-past/408166998434>to the NAACP resolution this summer, Palin denounced racism while denying that it played a role in the tea party movement. She called the resolution "a regressive and diversionary tactic." The report<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/yblog_upshot/pl_yblog_upshot/storytext/naacp-leader-calls-on-palin-armey-to-condemn-alleged-tea-party-racism/38114351/SIG=11580aqt8/*http://www.teapartynationalism.com/>, written on behalf of the NAACP by the Kansas City-based Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights, highlights what it says are ties between tea party factions and white supremacist, white nationalist and militia groups. The study also charges that national tea party factions have at times offered a platform for racists, anti-Semites and other bigots. Among its findings: • The Council of Conservative Citizens, the largest white nationalist group in the United States, has led and promoted tea party events. • The leader of one local tea party group used to be involved with the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. • Bill Roper, the avowed white nationalist who is running for governor of Arkansas, has had the backing of some tea party activists. • Former Klansman David Duke<http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101020/pl_yblog_upshot/naacp-leader-calls-on-palin-armey-to-condemn-alleged-tea-party-racism#> broadcast a 10-minute online video speech, "Message to the Tea Party," in which he paid homage to the movement and the Founding Fathers -- a sign, says the report, that "hard-core white nationalists regard the Tea Party movement as a reservoir of racists, and as potential supporters of a more ideologically defined white nationalism." I guess the majority of Americans are racists since a majority of Americans believe the Tea Party can help bring the change Obama couldn't<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/abc-poll-majority-of-americans-believe-the-tea-party-can-help-deliver-change/>. Not to mention that other, reliable research reports <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/ny-times-op-ed-article-tea-party-not-racists-or-astroturf-movement-according-to-study/>prove Ben Jealous and the NAACP wrong. I also don't recall the NAACP rejecting the New Black Panther Party and their 'black nationalism.' I don't recall the NAACP rejecting their own groups use of black nationalism either. Also, take a look at Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights homepage <http://www.irehr.org/>and you will come to the conclusion that they, themselves, are paranoid about the Tea Party movement and call it a 'dire threat.'<http://www.irehr.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=61:excerpt-from-leonard-zeskinds-presentation-to-the-naacp-national-convention&catid=16:blog&Itemid=4> "Someone like David Duke shouldn't feel at home in any party in this country," said Jealous, referring to Duke as "one of the most outspoken bigots in our history." "Right now he sees a home in the tea party." Note to Jealous. David Duke is a Democrat<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Duke>. Duke ran as a Republican in 1988 in an attempt to win a State Senate seat. Duke was rejected by the Republican party but was warmly accepted by Democrats, just like they accepted Robert Byrd. Go figure. <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/naacp-leader-calls-on-palin-armey-to-condemn-racists-in-tea-party/> Jealous didn't condemn this at all. Then again, Jealous is known as a two-faced, speak out of both sides of your mouth individual. <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/naacp-leader-calls-on-palin-armey-to-condemn-racists-in-tea-party/> I still haven't heard Jealous' condemnation of NAACP official Curtis Gatewood and his pro-hate rally <http://yesbuthowever.com/racism-within-the-naacp-9000080/>where black participants called Obama the "N-word" and a "Coon" on videotape. <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/naacp-leader-calls-on-palin-armey-to-condemn-racists-in-tea-party/> Not a peep from Jealous. The word hypocrite easily comes to mind. The use of the race card no longer has the same effect. It is used to often to end discussion and to hide the truth. Sorry Ben, only a few will fall for your trick. 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