Will the NAACP Label the Tea-Party as Racists?

The NAACP is holding its annual convention this year in Kansas City. The First Lady has appeared as a speaker (today). What is disturbing about this conference is a story being reported that the civil rigts organization is going to issue a statement linking the Tea Party to "racism"-pointing to the controversial incident at the Capitol that accompanied the health care vote, in which accusations were made that some protesters used racial epithets against black lawmakers.

First of all, as I have stated before, the NAACP, for most of its existence, has been a great organization with many great leaders over the decades. It was a vital presence before and during the Civil Rights Movement.

Today, however, the organization has evolved into little more than an arm of the Democrtaic Party. Its focus is still the same as it was 40 years ago-rooting out white racism and people they identify as racists.

For them to label the Tea Party as racist is insulting and false. Of course, one can always find some loon who shows up at any rally and says something ugly. That should never color the rest of the people present.

The Capitol case is an example that has engendered fierce debate. At least two black lawmakers charged that they heard the n-word coming from the crowd on multiple occasions (Andre Carson-Emanuel Cleaver). Yet, (conservative) activist Andrew Breitbart, has put up a $100,000 reward for anyone who can produce the video/audio of the incident proving that the n-word was used. That reward remains unclaimed. All of those videos we have seen and heard up to this point reveal no such language. There were a whole lot of videos, cameras and cell-phones covering that event including from the main-stream media. None of them captured the language alleged.

But the people in the Tea Party are a bunch of white racists. That's what the NAACP, the Left and the Democrats want us to believe, so that these people will cower and disappear.

Today, Michelle Obama spoke at the convention. Most of her words were about childhood eating habits. She did not mention the Tea Party issue. As First Lady, Mrs Obama has, to now, not been a divisive figure in my view. Yet, if this motion goes through, then would it not be unreasonable to ask her for her reaction-since she addressed the convention? Such a motion or statement by the NAACP at their convention would be a divisive and polarizing statement. The last thing we would want is for the First Lady to have to make a statement about this. That would be even more divisive.

The NAACP should seriously reconsider making this statement. I don't think they can back it up.