Does the NAACP expect the majority of Americans, black or white, to take them seriously after passing a resolution to condemn “extremist elements within the Tea Party”?

There is a common mis-understanding that the Tea Party is a unified party such as the GOP or DNC. The positives: anyone can freely start up their own local chapter and call it their own “Tea Party”. The negative: anyone can freely start up their own local chapter and call it their own “Tea Party”.

There was even a situation in Nevada where there was a group putting forth a candidate up as a “Tea Party” member who was actually working against the Tea Party candidate and/or GOP candidate- a sort of “dummy” candidate hoping to take votes away from the actual conservative who is running. Fortunately that didn’t quite work out.

Because any one person or group could start a group and carry the banner, “Tea Party”, there could be people who abuse that freedom. There would be nothing from stopping a KKK member from putting up signs to join his/her “Tea Party” chapter and then show up with racist material and signs. But I guarantee that if that group were to show up at a rally they would be asked to leave and/or shunned- no doubt.

Just the same, anyone could start their own fake “Tea Party” group, make up racist material, show up to a rally with the hopes that the media will pick it up to show on the evening news. This has even been encouraged by groups on the left. Of course, the question would be, if we are such racists, why would you have to create a racist event for the cameras? (Some people have more time on their hands then they need. Get a hobby for crying out loud!)

From day one there has been a steady stream of media trying to paint anyone who disagrees, and speaks out, against the current administration as being racist. It’s not a matter of finding the evidence of the mainstream media’s ongoing rant against the Tea Party movement, it’s finding evidence that the media isn’t pushing the anti-Tea Party agenda. There seems to be little interest in reporting fact based news anymore.

They make charges, but can’t back it up. When in doubt, they can post the photo of the one idiot with a sign in a crowd of 200,000- and then label the crowd racist. This is an old trick- I believe the name Sal Alinsky comes to mind.

I take a challenge to the NAACP: I would bet there are more African-American members at Tea Parties across the country then there are white people at NAACP meetings- who are members. African-Americans are not only attending Tea Parties, but they are leading them and speaking at the events. With a name like National Association  for the Advancement of Colored People, they are being quite bold to point the finger. Maybe they need to get the log out of their eye.

The Tea Party movement isn’t about the “advancement” of any one group- its about the advancement of more individual freedom for all people through smaller, transparent, fiscally responsible government. The Tea Party is diverse- but unlike the NAACP, they judge people by the content of character, not the color of their skin pigment. I believe the Tea Party is living out the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. even more clearly then groups such as the NAACP. Maybe the Tea Party should take on the name NAAACP- National Association for the Advancement of All People.

The NAACP have become hypocrites. With all the problems facing “their own” communities, they choose to condemn the Tea Party, yet turn their head to actual racist groups such as the New Black Panther party. Their ignorance to the openly vile racism and hate of the New Black Panther party is puzzling. The NAACP resolution against the Tea Party almost seems like a way to take attention off real racism. The media has largely ignored the New Black Panther story. But the “Tea Party is racist” mantra is right in stride with the mainstream media.

Pacific Grove, CA

There something rather ironic about NAACP president Benjamin Jealous. Here is a man, born to a black mother and white father, who grew up in Pacific Grove- the wealthy coastal town in Monterey County, California. Neighboring towns Pebble Beach, Monterey, and Carmel-by-the-Sea attract some of the richest of the rich.

The same people who were neighbors to Jealous have become the same people who the NAACP demonize as “the oppressors”. The percentage of African-Americans in Pacific Grove- less then 1%.

Upon being appointed president of the NAACP, Jealous was living in in Alameda, California- a city where the median family income was between $86,516 and $94,555 as of 2008. Alameda is a place known for wine, theater, and its hometown hero and winner of America’s Cup, the Golden Gate Yacht Club.

Why do I bring this up? Actually, I applaud Mr. Jealous for living out a successful life. I also reject the idea that African-Americans, or any other race, must live in a area based on some racial makeup of an area. That is not only pushing forward a segregation-like mentality, but it is un-American. We are the “melting pot”- somehow those on the left want to take the ingredients out of the melting pot and separate them out.

But there seems to be a do as we say, not as we do mentality coming from the NAACP. They condemn the Tea Party for individuals behavior that the Tea Party has rejected time and time again, yet they ignore racist behavior in their own “party”, even ignoring blatant hate from the New Black Panthers.

I am certain that Benjamin Jealous holds Malcom X in high regard. Based on Malcom X’s own words, I’m not sure if the feeling would be mutual. According to Malcom X, there is no room for people like Jealous in the “black movement”:

“If I have a cup of coffee that is too strong for me because it is too black, I weaken it by pouring cream into it. I integrate it with cream. If I keep pouring enough cream in the coffee, pretty soon the entire flavor of the coffee is changed; the very nature of the coffee is changed. If enough cream is poured in, eventually you don’t even know that I had coffee in this cup”

“This is what happened with the March on Washington. The whites didn’t integrate it; they infiltrated it. Whites joined it; they engulfed it; they became so much a part of it, it lost its original flavor. It ceased to be a black march; it ceased to be militant; it ceased to be angry; it ceased to be impatient. In fact, it ceased to be a march.”

Malcom X judged people by the color of their skin. That is why Martin Luther King, Jr.’s ideas won out in the end. King was a man of God. King was not a hypocrite, nor was he in denial. MLK was far from arrogant, and he was not ignorant.

It is time for the NAACP to listen to the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., the Tea Party movement is. Does racism exist? Unfortunately that answer is yes. But to pull the “race card” on an entire movement the way the NAACP did, is making them look like the exact people they were fighting against many years ago.