Cue the right-wing wailing and gnashing of teeth: The NAACP has now fully backed up its accusations of racism within the Tea Party movement with a meticulously documented report on the Tea parties' multifarious connections to racists and various far-right extremists.
The report, "Tea Party Nationalism," looks at the relationships and differences between the six major Tea Party organizations -- FreedomWorks Tea Party, 1776 Tea Party, Tea Party Nation, Tea Party Patriots, ResistNet, and Tea Party Express -- and the various ways that each group has established connections with, and empowers, outright racists and white supremacists, as well we far-right "Patriot" extremists of various stripes.
"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 heart of the report is the section titled "Racism, Anti-Semitism and the Militia Impulse, which includes some previously overlooked facets of the movement and revealing details:
-- James von Brunn, the white supremacist who killed a Holocaust Museum guard last year, posted on Tea Partner Express partner websites.
-- Mark Williams, former chairman of the Tea Party Express, not only wrote racist screeds, he made death threats against President Obama,
-- Billy Joe Roper, a member of the ResistNet Tea Party who also happens to be the founder of the overtly racist White Revolution organization, indulging in "Nazi glamorization" with his eulogy for William Pierce, author of The Turner Diaries, the notorious race-war blueprint.
We also get "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, another 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."
The report is pretty damn extensive and thorough. It will of course be completely dismissed as proof that the only racism in America comes from African-Americans by the right, but the evidence is overwhelming.
So yes, I have a problem with some elements of the Tea Party. I choose to respond by not voting for them.
Have a nice evening.
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LOL! You pick a few people with marginal connections out of a vast national movement, and that's supposed to be 'proof'?
What about Rev Al Sharpton, Rev Phleger, Jeremiah Wright, Rashshid Khalidi, Edward Said, Khalid al-Mansour, Bill Ayres, Van Jones and a whole host of other racist and anti-Semitic associates of our current Prez?
You honest enough to use the same logic with Obama?
Didn't think so.
I dare you to post this comment.
What credibility does an organization advocating a specific race have when combating "racism" other than to prove on a daily basis that they are anti-white bigots?
The report is pretty damn extensive and thorough. It will of course be completely dismissed as proof that the only racism in America comes from African-Americans by the right, but the evidence is overwhelming.
A) The report isn't one bit thorough, just long; B) the evidence is quite non-existent; and C) all it proves is that the NAACP is just another extension of the Democratic Party. This "report" can be easily refuted in toto based on two of the items highlighted by Neiwert.
The first:
-- James von Brunn, the white supremacist who killed a Holocaust Museum guard last year, posted on Tea Partner Express partner websites.
Lefties are still trying to make the case that this guy was part of any Tea Party? Did anyone actually read the NAACP report and the Free Republic reference it cites? The NAACP claims that the post is gone. I clicked on their cached link from the NAACP End Notes. It doesn't work. Second, I did a cut-and-paste of the Free Republic address and, lo and behold, it's not down; the post is still there. Here's what is in that Free Republic post:
"Posted on Tuesday, December 02, 2008 2:40:03 PM by wannabegeek"
wannabegeek still posts there, while von Brunn is dead. If von Brunn actually posted this piece at Free Republic, how could he still be posting there? Or is it that someone found von Brunn's essay and posted it there? In fact, von Brunn's piece was pulled from this Norwegian site, which is noted under the Free Republic post's title.
But the truly hideous part of this item is the NAACP's willingness to engage in McCarthyite "guilt by inference", although they really suck at it, as I've pointed out.
Von Brunn had nothing to do with Tea Parties, Republicans, Free Republic, none of it. Von Brunn had a lot more in common with one of the liberals' darlings, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Point 2 shortly.
The second:
We also get "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;...
Let's look at that. We have Roan Garcia-Quintana, a Cuban who legally immigrated to America and is now an American citizen, and for those of you liberals who include race into everything, that means that Garcia-Quintana is a Latino, belonging to something the NAACP calls a white nationalist group. Think about it; a Latino being a part of what the NAACP would have people believe is a white supremacist group. In his biography, Garcia-Quintana identifies himself as a Catholic, a Christian denomination that is as virulently hated by white supremacists as those other people and groups they hate. So how is it possible that Garcia-Quintana is part of a white supremacist group? Answer: it can't because the group Garcia-Quintana does belong to isn't a white supremacist group.
As they did with von Brunn, the NAACP is engaging in "guilt by inference", one that is easily debunked.
Anyone who pushes this report as some kind of definitive "proof" of racism in the Tea Party beclowns themselves, just as the NAACP did.
My first comment got deleted somehow.
This report is garbage. Along with the previous point, my first point was to show that the alleged inference of tying von Brunn with the Tea Party is ridiculous. Mostly because the NAACP deliberately misrepresented an essay that was posted on Free Republic, but not by von Brunn. In fact, it was lifted off of a Norwegian site and put on Free Republic by somebody other than von Brunn.
All the real reports of von Brunn indicates he had much more in common with one of the darlings of liberal world, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
All that report shows is that the NAACP is nothing more than an extension of the Democratic Party.
When I land on ZVTS, I scroll to the "recent comments" list in the left column to see if Zandar's trolls have left any fresh spoor behind.
I often do this before I read Zandar's recent posts.
When I saw THREE successive comments from SteveAR to a post called "Last Call" I knew even before I clicked through that Zandar had written something about race.
SteveAR, you do such a good job of reinforcing to Zandar when he's right by the density and volume of your comments.
And as to your ringing defense of that one politician, I can only say this: Politics makes strange bedfellows.
You know, like Allen West using a white supremacist biker gang to provide him with thugs, I mean "security."
Allan:
SteveAR, you do such a good job of reinforcing to Zandar when he's right by the density and volume of your comments.
Oh I doubt I'm reinforcing anything to Zandar; I think Zandar's mind is already set in stone, along with Neiwert, the NAACP, you, etc.
And as to your ringing defense of that one politician, I can only say this: Politics makes strange bedfellows.
Again, there is absolutely no proof that the group Garcia-Quintana belongs to is a white supremacist group. None, nada, zero. All the NAACP uses as "evidence" is inference, innuendo, and their own mendacity to make their case.
You know, like Allen West using a white supremacist biker gang to provide him with thugs, I mean "security."
I see you're just as willing as the NAACP to commit libel. And by the standards set by liberals, your libel against an American who is black is hate speech. Now go and repent.
"Oh I doubt I'm reinforcing anything to Zandar; I think Zandar's mind is already set in stone, along with Neiwert, the NAACP, you, etc."
and when's the last time you changed your mind thanks to something written or said by a liberal?
you're entitled to your shit-headed opinions, but don't call other people closed-minded. a predictable conservative dullard tossing that accusation around is a bit much.
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