That Word? I Don't Think It Means What You Think It Means

If I have to tell you why this is racist, you need to DIAF.

The rightwingers are all kinds of bent out of shape at the NAACP's suggestion that the Tea Party should disavow racism in its movement. When accusations of racism in the Tea Party first surfaced, caused by actual examples of racism in the Tea Party movement, the Tea Party first tried denial. When that didn't work, they pulled the biggest No True Scotsman in history. That failed, so now they're going with "if you call me a racist, it's because you are a racist."

The NAACP should only propose resolutions that they have exercised themselves. The Tea Party, having only been active for a year and half, is the only group being singled out for racism in today’s society. There are races committed to the destruction of our entire nation and the Tea Party is being targeted as a threat. Perhaps it is a threat.

The Tea Party is only group being singled out for its racism? Really? I guess the writer has never heard of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks racist organizations in the United States and distributes lists of them. "Only" apparently doesn't mean what you think it does.

There are "races" committed to the destruction of the US? Races? Well, there's only so many races, so who is it? The blacks? Asians? Who? That statement is so ignorant, I now think that the NAACP needs to visit the house of every person in the US just to make sure they understand what the conversation is about, because the writer of this piece clearly does not.

These groups run to the rescue of distressed brown people only when the media deems it newsworthy. Meanwhile, there are inner city black children who continue to grow up fatherless while sharing a neighborhood with stray bullets, drugs and a plethora of liquor stores on every corner. To my understanding of the” I Have a Dream” speech, Dr. King’s intention was far from gang-banging and gangster rap.

Silly black people! They think gangsters are dreams! Also, the fact that you have no idea what the NAACP does when the cameras aren't on makes you ignorant, it doesn't make the NAACP useless.

I don’t believe that the true meaning of this nation’s creed was to move black people from one form of slavery to another. The NAACP has been completely ineffective in my lifetime, and the lack of leadership in the black community has contributed to the ability of these groups to speak on behalf of the rest of us. The ignored and forgotten society that lives among the projects has been abandoned by the likes of NAACP. And, along with other groups and individuals that rode in the coat-tails of MLK, they are irrelevant but continue to feed off of the codependence that they have created among blacks for validation.

Once this is realized by the forgotten society, race in this country will be as irrelevant as those who thrive off of it

Race is only a way of getting attention. Once you stop giving those people attention, we'll all be the same color! So, what has the NAACP done for you lately? A lot, as it turns out. (Simple search on the NAACP website, my dear, but why research an article you got paid for half as well as an unpaid blogger?)

The problem here isn't so much that the NAACP called the Tea Party out on its bullshit, it's what the NAACP has accomplished: helping the poor and disenfranchised. The last thing a bunch of nouveau GOPers masturbating to Ayn Rand want is children receiving free health care and unemployment benefit extensions.

What's so funny here is that the writer, in attempting to defend the Tea Party from accusations of racism has proven exactly how racist the Tea Party really is.