Who didn't see this coming....it started with the T-Baggers rising up to fight HC reform last year. The WS were recruiting at these events...go figure why they think that was a great place to recruit.



NAACP Issues Report on Links Between Tea Party Factions and "Racist Hate Groups"

"The NAACP today issued a report detailing "the links between certain Tea Party factions and acknowledged racist hate groups in the United States."

"These links should give all patriotic Americans pause," NAACP president and CEO Benjamin Jealous writes in a forward.

Jealous allows that that "the majority of Tea Party supporters are sincere, principled people of good will." He urges "the leadership and members of the Tea Party movement [to] read this report and take additional steps to distance themselves from those Tea Party leaders who espouse racist ideas, advocate violence, or are formally affiliated with white supremacist organizations."

These groups and individuals are out there, and we ignore them at our own peril," Jealous said in a statement before the report was released. "They are speaking at tea party events, recruiting at rallies, and in some cases remain in the tea party leadership itself."

On a conference call in conjunction with the release, Jealous said "we have no problem with the Tea Party existing."

"We do however have a problem when prominent Tea Party members," he continued, "...are allowed to use Tea Party events to recruit people for those white supremacist groups."

The report, which CBS News reviewed in advance of its release, is entitled "Tea Party Nationalism," and it looks at the relationships and differences between six Tea Party groups: FreedomWorks Tea Party, 1776 Tea Party, Tea Party Nation, Tea Party Patriots, ResistNet, and Tea Party Express.

"In these ranks, an abiding obsession with Barack Obama's birth certificate is often a stand-in for the belief that the first black president of the United States is not a 'real American.' Rather than strict adherence to the Constitution, many Tea Partiers are challenging the provision for birthright citizenship found in the Fourteenth Amendment," write authors Devin Burghart and Leonard Zeskind of the Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights, which produced the report for the NAACP.

The authors said research for the report began a year ago when they noticed that the white supremacist group stormfront.org had "started a thread to move into the Tea Party."

A document called "The Tea Party: The Racism Within" details some of the findings, including the fact that James von Brunn, the white supremacist who killed a Holocaust Museum guard last year, posted on Tea Partner Express partner websites.

Other findings include alleged death threats against the president by Mark Williams, former chairman of the Tea Party Express; "Nazi glamorization" by Billy Joe Roper, who is listed as a founder of white nationalist organization White Revolution and a member of the ResistNet Tea Party, for his eulogy for Turner Diaries author William Pierce; and a discussion of the March 20th incident in which members of Congress say they were spat upon and hit with racist slurs during a Tea Party protest. (Many Tea Party sympathizers allege this incident never happened.)

It also offers "profiles of troubling Tea Partiers," including Roan Garcia-Quintana, a South Carolina Tea Party member who the report says belongs to the largest white nationalist group in the country; Karen Pack, a Texas Tea Party member the report says is linked to the Ku Klux Klan; and Clay Douglas, a Tea Party member from Arizona the report says has pushed "militia-style 'New World Order' conspiracies" and "hard core anti-Semitism."

In advance of the report's release, Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips told the Kansas City Star it was "typical of this liberal group's smear tactics."

And the Tea Party Express' Sal Russo said that "[t]o attack a grassroots movement of this magnitude with sundry isolated incidents only goes to show the NAACP has abandoned the cause of civil rights for the advancement of liberal Democrat politics."

In July, the NAACP passed a resolution condemning racism in the Tea Party movement. The resolution kicked off a heated rhetorical battle between the NAACP and the movement, which insists it is not racist.

A CBS News poll in April found 52 percent of Tea Party members believe too much has been made of the problems facing black people. Far fewer Americans overall -- 28 percent -- believe as much. Among non-Tea Party whites, the percentage who say too much attention has been paid to the problems of black people is 23 percent.

In the introduction to the report, Jealous writes that moves to hold a "Uni-Tea" rally to promote diversity in the Tea Party movement and other, similar initiatives over the past year have been "welcome first steps."

"They promote diversity and acknowledge the inherent perception problem that plagues the Tea Party: that while many of its leaders are motivated by common conservative budget and governance concerns, for too long they have tolerated others who espouse racism and xenophobia and, in some instances, are formally associated with organizations like the Council of Conservative Citizens--the direct lineal descendant of the White Citizens Council."

On the conference call, Jealous said some politicians are "denying the obvious" by suggesting they are not seeing signs of racism in the Tea Party movement. One of the authors of the report called it "stunning" that many members of the Tea Party caucus in Congress support a bill to repeal birthright citizenship rights contained in the 14th amendment."

The full report can be found here.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20020160-503544.html

No other country in the world grants instant citizenship to anyone born within it's borders. I think it would be fair to change the law so that, one parent must be a citizen of the USA and the other cannot be in the USA illegally.

The author of the citizenship clause in the 14th Amendment said the following: "This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the family of ambassadors, or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons."

So the authors of this report are stunned that the Tea Party caucus believe that the 14th Amendment should be applied as written and intended, rather than as a free citizenship pass? SHOCKING!

I believe, we'd do well to adopt a China type Illegal Immigrant policy.

LOL...once again, the left is going to lose big time in Nov. so all they can do is try to link everything to "racism".

Its an old tactic thats worn out, and its not working.

Tales of the Tea Party By ROSS DOUTHAT

Ekins, a former CATO Institute intern, was examining the liberal conceit that Tea Party marches are rife with racism and conspiracy theorizing. Last week, The Washington Post reported on her findings: just 5 percent of the 250 signs referenced Barack Obama’s race or religion, and 1 percent brought up his birth certificate. The majority focused on bailouts, deficits and spending — exactly the issues the Tea Partiers claim inspired their movement in the first place.

The easy thing would be to take them at their word. But for liberals, that would be too simple. The Democrats are weeks away from a midterm thumping that wasn’t supposed to happen, and the liberal mind is desperate for a narrative, a storyline, something to ease the pain of losing to a ragtag band of right-wing populists. Something that explains the Tea Parties — and then explains them away.

The “Tea Partiers are racists” theory is the most inflammatory storyline, but there are many more. Let’s consider them, in order of increasing plausibility:

THE TEA PARTIES ARE DRIVING REPUBLICANS OFF A POLITICAL CLIFF. This has been a common assumption since the Tea Parties first sprang up, and in some cases — Christine O’Donnell; Carl Paladino; and Rich Iott, the Nazi re-enacting House candidate — it has been vindicated. But just as often, the Tea Parties have elevated smooth-talking, eminently electable candidates, from Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania to Marco Rubio in Florida and Ken Buck in Colorado.

Liberals insist that the cliff-plunge is still coming — it’s just been postponed until 2012. O’Donnell’s primary victory, for instance, was hailed as proof that Republicans would inevitably nominate Sarah Palin for president, dooming their party to a devastating defeat. But the Tea Partiers may prove more pragmatic than their critics hope. In a recent Virginia Tea Party straw poll for 2012, the surprise winner wasn’t Palin: it was New Jersey’s governor, Chris Christie, nobody’s idea of an unelectable extremist.

THE TEA PARTIERS ARE PUPPETS OF THE SINISTER RICH. They’re an “Astroturf” movement, this theory goes, rather than a real grass-roots uprising — a narrative that got a boost this summer when The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer published a much-discussed takedown of the Koch brothers, billionaire libertarians who have financed groups that organize and strategize for the Tea Parties.

But the Kochs have been seeding libertarian causes since Barack Obama was a community organizer, without ever conjuring up anything remotely like the Tea Party. Attributing the anti-Democratic backlash to their machinations is a bit like blaming George Soros for Bush-era opposition to the Iraq war: in both cases, it’s more likely that the money is following the public mood than the other way around.

THE TEA PARTIES ARE JUST THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY ALL OVER AGAIN. In a recent issue of Mother Jones magazine, Kevin Drum arguedthat the Tea Parties are nothing new: whether the president is F.D.R., L.B.J. or Bill Clinton, a batty conservative populism flourishes “whenever a Democrat takes over the White House.” Writing in The New Yorker, the historian Sean Wilentz made a similar point, linking Glenn Beck’s daffier ideas (and the Tea Partiers who love them) to the cold war-era paranoias of the John Birch Society.

These parallels are real. But there’s a crucial difference. The Birchers only had a crackpot message; they never found a mainstream one. The Tea Party marries fringe concerns (repeal the 17th Amendment!) to a timely, responsible-seeming message about spending and deficits. Which is why, for now at least, it’s winning over independents in a way that movements like the Birchers rarely did.

THE TEA PARTIERS ARE HYPOCRITES. That is, they say they’re for small government, but they don’t want anyone to touch their Social Security and Medicare. This is by far the most persuasive liberal storyline. Poll after poll suggests that Tea Partiers are ambivalent about trimming entitlements, even though that’s the spending that will ultimately send either deficits or taxes through the roof.

On the other hand, some Tea Party-backed candidates have been refreshingly courageous on this front — whether it’s Rand Paul telling Fox News that he’d support higher deductibles for seniors, or Buck apologizing to Michael Bennet, his Senate opponent in Colorado, for Republican demagoguery on Medicare.

So the jury is still out. If Tea Party standard-bearers end up being as hypocritical on entitlements as most American politicians, then this liberal narrative, at least, will have been vindicated.

But for the sake of the country’s finances, liberals should hope that the Tea Party proves their most convincing story wrong.



http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/opinion/18douthat.html

You HAVE to be putting on me man...LOL...you quote a racist to defend recists?

"Shorter Ross Douthat: Europe wasn’t racist enough, and so now they should be worried about the brown hordes. After arguing that European nations should have done more to restrict Muslim immigration, he concludes that while the end of the West is not near, there is still much to be fearful of.

http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/12/07/time-to-fire-ross-douthat-round-4095/

Wow! Label an entire group by a 5% extreme. Yet we can not call the 9/11 attack by what it was.

Muslims. (a five percent extreme but still Muslim)

Not only that but the party that cries foul and screams RACE. Is by its very name based souly on race.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

I don't know about you but those people I have met of African American descent would be more anoyed if I called the COLORED people than they would if I called them a Nidoubleger.

no other country? what about Canada? they are a country, aren't they?

They don't grat citizenship to the children of illegal aliens.

yea, i guess they changed it a few years ago...

Canada don't really have to worry about anchor babies.
They deport Illegals.

SPLC version of this story:

"New Report Examines “Tea Party Nationalism,” Charts Groups’ History and Extremist Ties"

"Back in July, the NAACP publicly called upon Tea Party leaders to repudiate extremists and racist individuals within their ranks. Although the presence of such elements in Tea Party circles had been evident for some time, movement figures tended to be dismissive and defensive in their response.

Such denials may be a little harder to make following today’s release of “Tea Party Nationalism: A Critical Examination of the Tea Party Movement and the Size, Scope, and Focus of Its National Factions.” The report, published by the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights, is the first in-depth analysis of the main Tea Party groups and their various connections to extremist groups and individuals with past and present activities in hate groups. The full report is available at teapartynationalism.com, with running updates to follow.
“Tea Party Nationalism” examines the leaderships, histories, and activities of six national organizational networks at the core of the Tea Party movement: FreedomWorks Tea Party, 1776 Tea Party, Tea Party Nation, Tea Party Patriots, ResistNet, and Tea Party Express. In each case, with the exception of FreedomWorks, the authors found associations between Tea Party organizations and extremists spanning from anti-immigration activists to militia leaders to white nationalists. Groups with known anti-Semitic agendas come up often and prominently in the report’s 94 pages, which also catalog numerous vitriolic attacks by Tea Party members using anti-Muslim and Islamophobic rhetoric."

More...

http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/10/20/new-report-examines-tea-party-nationalism-charts-groups-history-and-extremist-ties-2/?ondntsrc=MBQ100970HTW&newsletter=HW102110

EEEK...

How can you be both anti-semetic AND anti-muslim.

Oawww comon bubba... Just throw every possible 'hate' group at them... Something 'ill stick... Mericans is sooo stupid... they wont see the disparity. Heck most of em can't even spell disparity.

We'll stop that darn tea party somehow.

Tea party actual message... Get your hands out of my pocket. Stop working for anyone but the American People. Stop taking Bribes and 'donations' from special interests. and most of all SHRINK GOVERNMENT down to its proper size.

What special interests and Politi-thiefs want us to believe is the tea party message... they hate everbody.

the name comes from the HISTORY of american policies which overlooked and exploited people of color, the organization arose out of the need to correct those historical ills, and it continues on to make sure that 'equality' that hasnt always been afforded to ALL PEOPLE continues to be maintained,,,

Colored people are non white people, not just black folks so your analogy with the childish spelling of an offensive word isn't even valid.

History advances.

Time for this also to advance.

So that Martin Luther King Jr. spoke truth when he said 'that all men be judged by the content of their character'

What better way to make this truth than for those that balanced the scales to continue to balance them...

by the greater dream.

When one walks in truth... Truth becomes reality and the path of many become one.

but TRUTH is subjective to individual experience and reality which is NOT the same for every person or every group collectively

to CHANGE the name of the organization, in my opinion, would have nothing to do with TRUTH, it would be more about an ILLUSION that things have somehow become EQUAL or that things have no chance of being UNEQUAL

nope, I dont believe there is such a moral hierarchy in the states for those same historical elements which found a way to discriminate, segregate, and oppress in the past to not revert to doing it again

the pressure needs to be MAINTAINED for the progress to be MAINTAINED , so organizations like this dont need to have their very reason for inception forgotten by changing the NAME

5 percent racists in the tea party..not!
That is almost like saying that 5 percent of alqaeda hate America

Like I have said before. White racism works better disguised as something else.

Illegal hatred is one of the most obvious of it outside of Obama hatred.

You know how you can tell the difference between a racist Obama hater and someone who just dislikes him based on his policies? Look at the names and tone used to describe him.

White racists use everything from anti welfare rhetoric to communism and socialism as tools to convert others to their side.

White racists who want to work in the political system nowadays do not wear a hood and they do not speak of the mud races and Jews, they speak of anti welfare, the government attacking their rights to bear arms, the government being too large and controlling, illegals taking over, etc...

They use other methods to accomplish their goal.

Creating fear of illegals, fear of Muslims, fear of socialism, fear of reverse racism (which actually means no racism but hey I didn't create the term), fear of government, etc.. so they can turn the fear into hatred along the way.

Racism is in all races and cultures but in a country that has perpetrated white racism since it's beginning and is still a majority white, white racism is still a major problem in this country.

Have you ever been to a 'tea party' rally?

Unless you have don't buy the hype.

there isnt an open organization(non exclusive) that can keep racists out, all an organization can do is promote and encourage an atmosphere of respect and civility,,,


people will find reasons for their bigotry and ways to spread it, whatever else happens

although I dont believe the name NAACP to have been intended towards any bigoted agenda(mostly because I read a little more than internet media and youtube ) , certainly SOME colored people will see it as an opportunity to try and spread their bigotry to others, although media doesnt report it often and in all my years as a member I have not seen it nor heard any indication that it would be tolerated,,,


similarly, a slogan like 'take our country back' is certain to give some bigoted white folks an opportunity to spread theirs as well, and media happens to report those things quite often with 'pictures' which SEEM to validate the accusations for those who are lazy thinkers,,,


I dont believe either organization is racist, but I do believe their to be racists who join both groups,,,,