NAACP Plans to Call You a Racist Today

From David Freddoso:

Tea Partiers are called racists for opposing a black president, racists for wanting lower taxes, and racists even for opposing health care reform.

So it should come as no surprise that today, the NAACP will vote on a resolution condemning Tea Partiers for the fact that there are racists in their midst. This racism was brought to their attention at the time of the House health care vote, when people shouted repeated racial slurs at Reps. John Lewis, D-Ga. and Andre Carson, D-Ind. — 15 times, Carson said — so quietly that none of the dozens of nearby video cameras picked it up, nor did anyone but Lewis, Carson and one aide ever claim to have heard it.

NAACP CEO Benjamin Jealous puts it thus:

“The Tea Party movement knows that there are tens of thousands of dedicated racists and ultra nationalists in their ranks,” Jealous said. Those groups “must be repudiated by the regular, law-abiding members or they must take responsibility,” Jealous added, saying “they can’t have it both ways.”

I have not seen a single interview of any Tea Partier — and certainly of any credible movement leader — who did not repudiate and denounce racism when asked. I hope they all continue to repudiate it, but I don’t really think that’s what the NAACP is trying to accomplish here.

If the NAACP really took a truthful look at America today they'd have a hard time finding anything more racist than their own name.

And the whole motivation for this resolution is an "n" word that never happened - the fantasy story told by Congressional Black Caucus (that's not a racist name??) that Tea Party protesters had directed racist taunts at them as they walked on Capitol Hill.  See Big Government for more background on that issue.

The whole purpose of today's vote is to try and take whatever shreds of credibility the NAACP still has and use them to taint the Tea Party movement.  It won't work.  The NAACP has become a sick, tired joke.