I hesitate to even mention this act of hypocrisy by the NAACP because it is so silly and meaningless it is beneath contempt. Then I realized that the best way for a lie to be believed is for those who know better to keep silent.
I do not care what the NAACP says any more than I care what the KKK says. They are both racist organizations. We have all been indoctrinated so that the news media cannot label black racism as such. As a white Southerner I have always been judged a racist by bigoted Yankees simply because of the color of my skin and the location of my birth. I have always said, “Tell it to someone who gives a damn”. Those who know me know I do not care about a person’s skin color or ethnic background. It is the person who matters.
From the beginning, the Tea Parties have been branded as AstroTurf, right-wing extremist, potential terrorist, homo-phobic, neo-Nazi, and racist. And that was just from the Speaker of the House. Any term that would belittle the movement has been used. It is part of how the Democratic Party operates under Obama. In this world, you cannot just disagree with them; they have to destroy their opponents. Ask “Joe the Plummer”, they tried to do it to him for simply asking the candidate a question.
Every Tea Party is different. That is one of the reasons the news media gets so frustrated with the movement, we do not have a “National Spokesman” or even a State spokesman. We have 22 Tea Parties here in Louisiana. We are just now beginning to talk to each other as a move to cooperation. Here in the BRTP we have no idea how many of us are Black. We do NOT ask for race when you sign up. At our rallies, there may be one Black person. But if you understand that any Black who shows up to support us in public will be ostracized from the Black Community for being an “Uncle Tom”, you can understand why there are so few. The few Blacks who shows up for Tea Party event have always being interviewed and said they are “with my type of people”. Then, having been on TV with their faces and names broadcast to the community, they are outcast from their fellow Blacks. It takes a lot more courage for them to show up than all the White people.
Being branded by every known hateful name shows how worried the Democrats are about the Tea Party movement. The fact that this name calling has had no effect on the movement shows the popular support it has.