NAACP Resolution Calls on Tea Party to Repudiate 'Racist Elements' in Movement - Polidicks

[release]The NAACP adopted a resolution Tuesday condemning "racist elements" in the Tea Party movement and calling on the movement's leaders to repudiate bigotry, despite claims from Tea Partiers that the measure is just a political ploy. The nation's leading civil rights group took up the language at its annual convention in Kansas City, Mo. The resolution initially said the NAACP would "repudiate the racism of the Tea Parties" and stand against the movement's attempt to "push our country back to the pre-civil rights era," though the wording was amended to downplay criticism of all Tea Partiers while asking them to repudiate bigots in their own ranks. "We take no issue with the Tea Party movement. We believe in freedom of assembly and people raising their voices in a democracy," the NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous said in a written statement announcing the unanimous vote. "What we take issue with is the Tea Party's continued tolerance for bigotry and bigoted statements. "The time has come for them to accept the responsibility that comes with influence and make clear there is no place for racism and anti-Semitism, homophobia and other forms of bigotry in their movement." NAACP leaders have referenced an incident in March when Tea Party protesters allegedly hurled racial epithets at black lawmakers on Capitol Hill ahead of a health care vote. ...[/release] [url=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/13/tea-party-preempts-racist-resolution-condemns-bigoted-naacp/]Fox News[/url]

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I would laugh if Fox created a News Bot specifically for Facepunch. Would anyone be surprised?

Comments on the Fox News website brutally raped my braincells.

I had to listen to fucking Neal Boortz talk about this when I went in to work yesterday. He said they were calling the Tea Party raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacist becuase it was their way of "getting blacks riled up". Oh yes the blacks are racist for calling us poor hardworking white people racist and they need to get riled up because blacks usually won't do anything other than steal your hubcap. And yes he stretched the word racist out.

[QUOTE=DOG-GY;23381247]Oh yes the blacks are racist for calling us poor hardworking white people racist and they need to get riled up because blacks usually won't do anything other than steal your hubcap.[/QUOTE] Not all of them do. Everyone can be hardworking or lazy. Nothing to do at all with race.

[QUOTE=Zeddy;23380678]I would laugh if Fox created a News Bot specifically for Facepunch. Would anyone be surprised?[/QUOTE] That a huge news channel created a news bot for a small internet forum where 95% of the people hate them? I'd be really fucking surprised.

I doubt they'd make a news bot on this forum. All the good little trolls and liberals flame them every day, so it would be pointless.

[QUOTE=CoolKingKaso;23381401]Not all of them do. Everyone can be hardworking or lazy. Nothing to do at all with race.[/QUOTE] That wasn't my opinion it was me saying that's the likely opinion of a racist such as Neil Boortz/Glenn Beck/etc. [editline]12:56PM[/editline] How did you even take that as my opinion. It was blatantly insulting the other party.

[QUOTE=Zeddy;23380678]I would laugh if Fox created a News Bot specifically for Facepunch. Would anyone be surprised?[/QUOTE] Yeah I'm confused, is this just some guy who loves Fox News or did they really make a news bot?

I really wouldn't doubt this being a bot. No posts or responses other than the thread, and even then it's just a link to fox news.

[QUOTE=sp00ks;23381477]That a huge news channel created a news bot for a small internet forum where 95% of the people hate them? I'd be really fucking surprised.[/QUOTE] You underestimate the power of stupidity.