The National Association for the Advancement of Liberal Colored People leader Julian Bond said during a Tuesday interview on MSNBC that it’s only right and just that the federal government and the IRS target tea party groups. “I don’t think there’s a double standard at all,” Bond said, in the MSNBC report. “I think it’s entirely legitimate to look at the tea party. I mean, here are a group of people who are admittedly racist, who are overtly political, who tried as best they can to harm President Obama … They are the Taliban wing of American politics and we all ought to be a little worried about them.”
My response to Mr. Bond:
Mr. Bond,
Your recent comments in regards to the IRS scandal are
disgusting to say the least. Your
accusation that the Tea Party is "overtly and admittedly racist" just
boggles the mind. You use this asinine
rationale to justify the abuse the IRS directed towards the Tea Party and
conservatives as a whole.
You're an
educated man Mr. Bond, however, history is rife with educated men that were
imbecilic and dangerous and you fall into both categories. The fact that you are the leader of the NAACP
does a dishonor to the history of your organization. The NAACP's founding mission was in part to
ensure the equality of rights of ALL persons, regardless of color or political
affiliation.
Even though you are an
educated man, I don't think you would qualify for Du Bois's idea of 'The
Talented Tenth.' I think Du Bois would
have wanted future black leaders to promote equality and tolerance for all
Americans. You fail in that mission with
the NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Do you think the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. would have endorsed or
justified the recent IRS abuse? The
answer is no. But of course you are no
Martin Luther King...not even close.
UPDATE*******
Mr. Bond contacted me in an effort to explain why he thinks the Tea Party is a racist movement.
I have received a few messages like yours (although yours is more civil than the others) and answered some by pointing out the many examples of Tea Party racism which failed to convince them. Not the ugly racist signs and placards displayed at Tea Party rallies, not the shouts of the “n” word aimed at members of the Congressional Black Caucus, not the spittle hurled at civil rights icon and Congressman John Lewis, not the racists expelled from the Tea Party for their venom, not the association of many members with the Council of Conservative Citizens, a lineal descendant of the White Citizen Council, not the anti-gay slurs aimed at former Congressman Barney Frank, not the members whose racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia should be an embarrassment – not all or any of this could get them to acknowledge the label “racist.” One study, called Tea Party Nationalism, found “Tea Party ranks to be permeated with concerns about race and national identify and other so-called social issues. 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.”It says Tea Party organizations have given platforms to anti-Semites, racists and bigots and “hard-core white nationalists have been attracted” to Tea Party protests.
UPDATE*******
Mr. Bond contacted me in an effort to explain why he thinks the Tea Party is a racist movement.
I have received a few messages like yours (although yours is more civil than the others) and answered some by pointing out the many examples of Tea Party racism which failed to convince them. Not the ugly racist signs and placards displayed at Tea Party rallies, not the shouts of the “n” word aimed at members of the Congressional Black Caucus, not the spittle hurled at civil rights icon and Congressman John Lewis, not the racists expelled from the Tea Party for their venom, not the association of many members with the Council of Conservative Citizens, a lineal descendant of the White Citizen Council, not the anti-gay slurs aimed at former Congressman Barney Frank, not the members whose racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia should be an embarrassment – not all or any of this could get them to acknowledge the label “racist.” One study, called Tea Party Nationalism, found “Tea Party ranks to be permeated with concerns about race and national identify and other so-called social issues. 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.”It says Tea Party organizations have given platforms to anti-Semites, racists and bigots and “hard-core white nationalists have been attracted” to Tea Party protests.
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