Racism at the NAACP?

[billc]

From one of my favorite authors...

http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/lets-play-spot-the-racist/

It is time to play everyone’s favorite game, SPOT THE RACIST! I’m your host, Keith Olberman. Today we are going to play Minor Celebrity Edition Spot the Racist. Our contestant today is wretched Neo-Con and alleged bestselling author, Larry F. Correia.
Camera pans to contestant – “Hey, Keith. Glad to see you got a new job.”
I was a victim of the Bush economy. Here is our first scenario, Mitt Romney recently gave a speech at the NAACP convention. One of the heads of the NAACP had this to say afterward: “I believe his vested interests are in white Americans,” said Charlette Stoker Manning, chair of Women in NAACP. “You cannot possibly talk about jobs for black people at the level he’s coming from. He’s talking about entrepreneurship, savings accounts — black people can barely find a way to get back and forth from work.”
So, SPOT THE RACIST!
Is the racist:

1. The lady who generalizes that black people are too ignorant to comprehend things like savings accounts?
2. The Republican that says everybody should have the opportunity to work and better themselves through their own efforts?

“I’m going to have to go with A, Keith. Because that’s pretty freaking stupid. I mean, savings accounts are hard to understand? What does race even have to do with that? Entrepreneurship is how you improve yourself, regardless of where you come from. You see an opportunity to provide a service people want and they give you money, that’s pretty straight forward.”
I’m sorry, but you’re incorrect! The correct answer is B. The racist is always the republican.
“Well, that’s freaking stupid.”
Uh oh! – SIRENS SOUND AND LIGHTS FLASH – That was starting to sound like dangerous hate speech!

 

[elder999]

From one of my favorite authors...

http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/lets-play-spot-the-racist/

But the NAACP can't be racist, billi-after all, it was founded by white people. :lfao:

 

[celtic_crippler]

Isn't the NAACP, by it's very nature, racist?

 

[elder999]

Isn't the NAACP, by it's very nature, racist?

How can it be? It was started by white people! :lfao: :lfao:

 

[billc]

Hmmm...and the more liberal it has become the more racist it has become...no surprise.

 

[celtic_crippler]

How can it be? It was started by white people! :lfao: :lfao:

You're killin' me ROFL...

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People... pretty much sums it up. LOL

Thing is, "racism" has become a dirty word and some believe it's exclusive to white people. Guess that's a product of No Child Left Behind. LOL

 

[elder999]

Hmmm...and the more liberal it has become the more racist it has become...no surprise.

Actually, it's always been liberal:

From the NAACP History page:

The NAACP was formed partly in response to the continuing horrific practice of lynching and the 1908 race riot in Springfield, the capital of Illinois and resting place of President Abraham Lincoln. Appalled at the violence that was committed against blacks, a group of white liberals that included Mary White Ovington and Oswald Garrison Villard, both the descendants of abolitionists, William English Walling and Dr. Henry Moscowitz issued a call for a meeting to discuss racial justice. Some 60 people, seven of whom were African American (including W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Mary Church Terrell), signed the call, which was released on the centennial of Lincoln's birth. Other early members included Joel and Arthur Spingarn, Josephine Ruffin, Mary Talbert, Inez Milholland, Jane Addams, Florence Kelley, Sophonisba Breckinridge, John Haynes Holmes, Mary McLeod Bethune, George Henry White, Charles Edward Russell, John Dewey, William Dean Howells, Lillian Wald, Charles Darrow, Lincoln Steffens, Ray Stannard Baker, Fanny Garrison Villard, and Walter Sachs.

In fact, billi, a great number of those "early members" were socialists and communists. I'd say at the beginning it was as pink as it was ever going to be.....:lfao:

 

[Master Dan]

This is my point to MA talk zone? All Billy has to do is drop the Racist card baiting and all the closet white sheet folk give emediate response looking to vent the reverse racism ( Squirrel, Squirrrel) just loves to chime in. It wasn't your people being captured in boats to come here as slave and it wasn't your people being hung for trying to have voter representation. NAACP has valid points and a reason to exist just one that Herr Romney want to eliminate 8 million blacks from having access to good health care and education. Is this all (you people) can do for our country is lament that the we can't go back to Jim Crow politics. All the while your own race is saying bend over grab your ankles vote for Tea Party and Romney.

At least Billy gives more than two word or single text short attention span responses I like him for that he is tenacious and unrelenting something the Democrats and low and middle class need to learn. I just wonder who you really are and if your getting paid If you turn out to be some ulgy 300 pound transgender guy I am really going to need antidepresent medication.

 

[WC_lun]

You folks and I have a very different idea of racist if you think those comments were racist. I also did not see the word ignorant in the quote, but rather the sumation of the quote, which in itself is misleading. This is just more of the attack style BS we have come to expect from these cut and paste links from biased and unreliable blogs.

 

[elder999]

In all fairness, WC_lun is right-I was just having some fun....sort of.

What Ms. Manning said was basicall true, for a variety of reasons:

Many Americans fear they'll outlive their savings, but African Americans and Hispanics face an even greater risk of spending the end of their lives in poverty.
Members of those two groups are less likely than white and Asian workers to participate in their employers' 401(k) plans, and when they do contribute, they save less, according to a study scheduled for release today by Ariel Education Initiative and Hewitt Associates.
African Americans and Hispanics also are much more likely to take money out of their 401(k) plans for emergencies, which could further stunt long-term savings growth. And they are less likely to invest in stocks in favor of low-risk investments and real estate, increasing the risk that their savings won't keep pace with inflation, retirement specialists say.

Of course, I've always maxed my 401k, especially with matching employer contributions:FREE MONEY!!-but hey.......

To be fair, I give Romney credit for going-Bush regularly skipped their convention as President-and for speaking to them as equals-financial equals, which is somewhat delusional, but equals nonetheless. It's one of his talking points, and he has to preach it, and he can't change it just for the audience-flip/flop history notwithstanding. It showed integrity on his part, I think......

 

[WC_lun]

I actually think this was one of the smartest things he could have done. He went in knowing there were thigns he was going to say that were not going to be popular. Now he is using it as a selling point for his campaign. He can tell his base that he will tell it like he feels it is no matter the crowd (never mind he has switched positions to match the Republican base) and look at those people in the NAACP who want something for nothing (good red meat for his base.) While I don't think it'll impress independants much, it does a little to solidify his base a bit.

 

[billc]

Here is an article that looks at racism and the democrat party in relation to the behavior at the NAACP reception of Mitt Romney...

http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2012/07/13/the-democratic-party-as-the-party-of-race/

As someone who was a sixties civil rights worker, wrote movies for Richard Pryor (successfully) and Whoopi Goldberg (unsuccessfully), and has had the pleasure of working with many talented African Americans at PJ Media for nearly seven years now, I think I have earned the right to write what should be painfully obvious to everyone — most of the racism in America today is from blacks (aided and abetted by white liberals) toward whites.
In fact, it’s getting to be outrageously so. The rude treatment of Mitt Romney at the NAACP convention is yet another data point in what has become an all-too-predictable scenario.
Much of the reason for this stems from the extreme dependency of the Democratic Party on race politics. With union membership dwindling, the party would literally disintegrate without the overwhelming support of African Americans and Hispanic Americans. Without at least the perception of racism, the Democratic Party has only marginal support. The party is forced to encourage it for its survival.

A whole network of connections, careers, and lifetyles has evolved from that, many of them largely counter-productive. Indeed, the argument can be made that the Democratic Party has destroyed the lives of minorities in order to save itself. Their programs, from the Great Society onwards, have done nothing substantial to improve minority lives, only to encourage dependency. The proof of this failure we see before us today in the dreadful statistics on black and Hispanic unemployment, far worse than the already horrendous national numbers. The more minorities are “helped,” the worse their lives become, the less equal we are.
The Democratic Party is then the true racist party, trapped in nostalgia for a time when genuine racism — Jim Crow, etc. — stalked the land. They have to assume significant white racism still exists because not to do so threatens the fabric of their being. A Tea Partier has to be a racist so you can dismiss his ideas without having to confront them or even think about them. Mitt Romney is just another rich white man so you don’t have to deal with what he is saying, you don’t have to evaluate whether he has a solution to a mutual problem.

This isn’t to say that whites undergo severe oppression. They don’t. But the racial climate of our society is increasingly polarized and the survival of the Democratic Party, as presently constituted, is the cause. Everyone’s life suffers as a consequence, with the exception perhaps of those who make a living off race-baiting. That the minorities being exploited suffer most of all is almost a cliche. Unfortunately, it also happens to be true.
Correcting this depressing conundrum will not be easy. It is a long time in the making and is based on numerous mythologies and misconceptions, not to mention deeply entrenched habit. It is also based on vengeance, a vengeance fanned by the liberal media for the preservation of their own power and to validate that same nostalgic self-righteousness. But vengeance is an especially powerful creator of racism (remember Gandhi: an eye for an eye and the world will die). Because whites behaved in an atrociously racist manner toward blacks in the past cannot be allowed as any sort of justification for the reverse. That is a prescription for perpetuated mutual destruction.

 

[elder999]

Here is an article that looks at racism and the democrat party in relation to the behavior at the NAACP reception of Mitt Romney...

The suggestion that the reception of Mitt Romney had anything to do with racism, rather than opposition to his proposed policies and what he stands for, smacks of........something.

I mean, you really think the NAACP booed him just because he's white? :lfao:

 

[WC_lun]

...and that article is pure opinion...bad opinion not based upon fact.

 

[celtic_crippler]

The suggestion that the reception of Mitt Romney had anything to do with racism, rather than opposition to his proposed policies and what he stands for, smacks of........something.

I mean, you really think the NAACP booed him just because he's white? :lfao:

They didn't boo everything he said... they actually applauded some things.

...and WTF is reverse rascism? Really?

 

[elder999]

They didn't boo everything he said... they actually applauded some things.

...and WTF is reverse rascism? Really?

Did the word "reverse" appear in any of my posts? :lfao:

Do I even look like I should know any kind of "racism" besides, well, racism??? :lfao: :lfao:

EDIT: Oh, I get it-Master Dan's post. I thought about replying, but I don't understand it..........kinda like Serbian to me: Bar, bar, bar, barsky... :lol:

 

[Takai]

...and WTF is reverse rascism? Really?

Sounds like political correct double-speak to me CC.

 

[celtic_crippler]

Did the word "reverse" appear in any of my posts? :lfao:

Do I even look like I should know any kind of "racism" besides, well, racism??? :lfao: :lfao:

EDIT: Oh, I get it-Master Dan's post. I thought about replying, but I don't understand it..........kinda like Serbian to me: Bar, bar, bar, barsky... :lol:

Yeah... It was an "afterthought" after reading Master Dan's post. PC double-speak drives me nuts. Welcome to Airstrip One.

 

[blindsage]

Here is an article that looks at racism and the democrat party in relation to the behavior at the NAACP reception of Mitt Romney...

http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2012/07/13/the-democratic-party-as-the-party-of-race/

This is just sad, ahistorical, and wrong. If you buy into anything he's says then you don't know your history, your politics, or just reality.

 

[billc]

Really, please enlighten me...