NAACP Disingenously Attacks the Tea Party

The NAACP recently repudiated certain "racist" elements within the Tea Party, and called on Tea Party leaders to disassociate themselves from those same elements.

"Leaders of the country's largest civil rights organization accused tea party activists on Tuesday of tolerating bigotry and approved a resolution condemning racism within the political movement.

The resolution was adopted during the annual convention in Kansas City of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, spokesman Chris Fleming said. Local tea party organizers disputed claims of racism and called on the NAACP to withdraw the resolution."

Not satisfied with with making those baseless allegations, the NAACP then follows with the bromide that the Tea Party apparently "welcomes" white supremacists into their midst.

"We felt the time had come to stand up and say, 'It's time for the tea party to be responsible members of this democracy and make sure they don't tolerate bigots or bigotry among their members,'" NAACP President Ben Jealous said ahead of the debate. "We don't have a problem with the tea party's existence. We have an issue with their acceptance and welcoming of white supremacists into their organizations."

These straw man allegations are, of course, completely unfounded and the NAACP never bothers to offer any type of support or evidence to back up these wild and outrageous claims.

In fact, their latest attempt at rabble-rousing was so poorly conceived that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are actually distancing themselves from it!

The NAACP's attack should be seen as a pitiful and desperate attempt by an increasingly irrelevant organization to stem the tide of limited government that the Tea Party advocates. The NAACP and its members are on the receiving end of a lot of government largess, and any threat to that gravy train is taken seriously by them.

The NAACP's efforts would be better used sticking to its original purpose of trying to make a positive difference in the lives of their members and the black community, rather than seeking to undermine the desire for freedom and liberty demanded by an increasing percentage of the American people.