It's Not Easy Being Black ... And A Tea Party Member

In the wake of all the hullaballo surrounding the recent NAACP's resolution denouncing the supposed "racist elements" of the Tea Party, I can't help but wonder about Black members of the Tea Party!  Now, I am White (aka "a cracka"), so I can only imagine what Black Tea Party members must be thinking ...

I think about a recent story of Cedra Crenshaw, a Black Republican candidate for the 43rd Senate District in Illinois who was kicked off the ballot by Will County officials due to some minor technicalities:



Now, I'm not writing to debate the issue of Crenshaw, a Tea Party activist, getting knocked off the ballot, but rather wondering what she's thinking in light of the NAACP's condemnation of the Tea Party.  (I love her campaign slogan, by the way: "Springfield needs more accountants and fewer lawyers."  I think that's true for our whole nation -- in all of the Obamanation.

Lloyd Marcus, a regular contributor at American Thinker and President of NAACPC -- National Association for the Advancement of Conservative People of ALL Colors, had this to say about the NAACP's resolution in his piece "Black Tea Party Spokesperson Rebukes NAACP Resolution Against Tea Parties" (emphasis added):

The NAACP Resolution proclaiming the Tea Party Movement to be racist is motivated by hate and fear. Though well disguised in intellectual rhetoric, underneath festers hate and fear. Along with their underlying resentment of whites and non forgiveness of America's sins of the past, the NAACP has become zealots for the religion of Progressivism which preaches victimhood-ism and entitlement. The NAACP are the true racists whose secret motto is "Keep Hate & Victimhood-ism Alive."

The NAACP fears the Tea Parties because they are effective; getting conservatives elected and giving We The People a voice to challenge the "deaf to the will of the American people" Obama administration.

Obama and the NAACP are kindred spirits in their disdain for America and the tea parties. Speaking at an NAACP event, President Obama fed the mostly black audience red meat sure to please. Obama said racism is still very much alive and a problem for blacks in America. The audience erupted in cheers and applause. In essence the NAACP audience was saying, "Hallelujah, we're still victims in America!" 

One of my favorite Tea Party speakers is a young entrepreneur named Jay Stewart who blogs at The Grey Falcon.  The charges of racism have been going on since its inception, with the accusers conveniently overlooking such participants as Stewart.  Here's what Stewart wrote back in March when Al Sharpton let the "socialism" cat out of the bag when he said to Geraldo Rivera: "The American public overwhelming voted for socialism when they elected President Obama" [YouTube video clip here] -- emphasis added:

I thought socialism was a code word for “black” and was racist to use. So it’s OK for the race mongers to use it when they get what they want.  When Erik Rush identified Reverend Wright a Marxist, these people said that it didn’t reflect Obama’s views, and that making a connection between them ideologically was unfair.  Everything they said about the Tea Party opposing Obama because he was black was a premeditated rouse to defend an undefendable agenda. 

And what is Kevin Jackson of The Black Sphere thinking these days, another one of my favorite Tea Party speakers?  Jackson counterattacks, saying that the NAACP is racist in its inability to recognize racism within its own ranks.  Here's an excerpt from his post "NAACP Has Gone Rogue" (emphasis added):

Perhaps we need to check the citizenship of Ken Gladney, the black Conservative who was attacked by the two SEIU thugs.  As Big Government showcased in the press conference by the NAACP in St. Louis. Gladney was mocked by the NAACP spokesperson. The organization that “fights for social justice for all Americans” called Gladney an Uncle Tom. Gladney was ‘right on color, but wrong on politics.’ 

Ironically, one of Gladney’s attackers was white. So it seems that in the NAACP’s Hierarchy of Worth, black Conservatives rate lower than the white thugs who would attack them.

And if that wasn’t enough, there seems to be no outcry from the NAACP when the Black Panther voter intimidation case was thrown out by the InJustice Department.  Apparently protecting the rights of those colored “white” is not in the purview of the NAACP…the group “fighting [sic] for social justice for all Americans.” Does the NAACP condone the belief of the Black Panthers that, “Crackers are about to be ruled by a black man!”?

The little known part of that story was that black GOP election officials were threatened, called “race traitors,” and told that there would be “hell to pay,” when they left the precinct. This injustice didn’t manage to make the NAACP website.

Kevin Jackson, by the way, has rattled quite a few in this country, not only with his speeches, but with his book "The Black Lie: How I Learned The Truth About The Democrat Party" in which he blasts the DNC for its racist past and its ongoing agenda of victimology. 

Here's a great video I found on Kevin's website: "People who don't exist", filmed at an April 15th rally.

Excerpt from video --

“… I’m not for the Obama agenda.  I think it’s dangerous.  Racism is going to be laced to the conversation until the day that he’s out of office.  We just gotta get used to it. 

 ...

And even though maybe 1% of this crowd is African-American … listen, I’m from a Black community, and everybody knows that Black people are probably the most conservative people on the face of this earth.  I would say that people that backed Obama not because of his policies but because he’s African-American.”

I hate to think what this young man is called by his community ... and by White Libs.  I guess the young man is "right on color, but wrong on politics", too.  I wonder how he feels about the NAACP's resolution. 

What about the New York Civil Right Coalition leader Michael Meyers who had the audacity to appear on Sean Hannity's show last night and slam the NAACP?  Here's an excerpt from the exchange:

The NAACP is a 101-year-old organization. It is showing signs of Alzheimer's. It is a kind of brain death. Anybody white who disagrees to the NAACP is a racist. Anybody black who disagrees with NAACP is pilloried with racial calumny. They're Uncle Tom or they are a Negro.

This is a sign of brain death because this is — and the irony of it all is that the NAACP is accusing the Tea Party of wanting to push America to the past, pre-Civil Rights era. That's exactly where the NAACP is stuck, in the past! It does not see, it does not recognize the significant racial progress in this nation.

In accusing the NAACP is now being a political arm of the White House and in answer to the question of whether the group should apologize if their claims of racism are unfounded, Meyers said this:

They don't — they don't understand the nature of false charges. Any time they want to stop the conversation they'll just say, "Oh, you're a racist. Oh, you're Uncle Tom. Oh, you are a Negro."

Their former executive director, Roy Wilkins, by the way, used to be called an Uncle Tom, used to be called a Negro, and they ought to be ashamed of themselves for doing the same thing they condemned against their own executive director of 22 years when the NAACP was a sane organization. It no longer is.

I like how the New York Civil Rights Coalition bills itself as "The voice of sanity about race and civil rights."

One of my favorite bloggers, Bob Parks of Black & Right, posted this informative video: "Examining Black Loyalty to Democrats."  It's 18 minutes, but great (unless you're brainwashed ... in that case, you'll start frothing at the mouth).

That's gonna ruffle some feathers!!!  "But, more and more, people are startin' to call the Democrats out on this stuff!"

Again, I'm just a silly little Cracka; but, my guess is if you're Black, conservative, Republican, and/or a Tea Party activist, life gets pretty uncomfortable.  I wonder what family get-togethers or neighborhood barbecues are like. I guess, however, if the situtation gets too difficult, there will be a White liberal just around the corner to come running to the rescue.