NAACP - Tea Party

[DazedandConfused]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20 ... arty-scrap

If it weren't for the idiot bottom feeders on both sides this would never have been an issue. The people who crack me up are the ones who say they are color blind. It is a question of if you see people as equals. I don't want anything more to do with white garbage than I do black garbage.

[ucanit]

I hate to use FoxNews for anything...but you won't find this video, of Shirley Sherrod (USDA director) making her racist comments to a NAACP audience, anywhere else!

[keepitreal]

"I hate to use FoxNews for anything..."
-then I probably wouldn't...

"The National Tea Party Federation kicks tea party leader Mark Williams out of the tea party...for racism."

"So here's the question: If there weren't any racist leaders in the tea party, then why did the National Tea Party Federation expel Mark Williams? And what about Sean Hannity, who had like others on Fox, had a special affection for Williams?"
-good question...

ucanit...bigotry is and has been throughout history, everywhere in varying degrees. I know you're smarter than this !!

For instance...I could use this quote:
"I think it's clear to me that when I look at the Tea Party it's about one-third Democrat, one-third Republican, one-third independents." -GOP Rep. Pete Sessions

-when the reality is:
All told, nearly 80 percent of tea party supporters describe themselves as Republicans, while 15 percent say they are Democrats and just six percent are, in their own minds, "pure independents."

-then pull a "FOX job" and imply that since the majority of Tea Baggers are Republicans...they ALL agree with the "bottom feeders"...as Dazed puts it. I don't agree with this type of journalism...from either side.

I'm guessing (and hoping), you're just trying to stir the pot a little...

I'm of the belief that every human is some shade of skin color. Me ? I glow at the beach !! But then I can also be lobster red...then pale brown...
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I think we All need to chill and reread a childhood classic from Dr. Suess...which unfortunately, is still relavent today...

"The Sneetches"

This story offers varied lessons. It portrays the senselessness of prejudice and discrimination, and also a lesson of materialism and entrepreneurship.

Sneetches are a group of vaguely avian yellow creatures who live on a beach. Some Sneetches have a green star on their bellies, and in the beginning of the story the absence of a star is the basis for discrimination. Sneetches who have stars on their bellies are part of the "in crowd" (Republicans ? ), while Sneetches without stars are shunned (Democrats ? )and consequently mopey.

In the story, a "fix-it-up chappie" named Sylvester McMonkey McBean appears (Hannity, O'Reilly, Beck ?? ), driving a cart of strange machines (FOX ?!? ). He offers the Sneetches without stars a chance to have them by going through his Star-On machine, for three dollars. The treatment is instantly popular, but this upsets the original star-bellied Sneetches, as they are in danger of losing their method for discriminating between Sneetches. Then McBean tells them about his Star-Off machine, costing ten dollars. The Sneetches formerly with stars happily pay the money to have them removed in order to remain special. (Politics ? )

However, McBean does not share the prejudices of the Sneetches, and allows the recently starred Sneetches through this machine as well. Ultimately this escalates, with the Sneetches running from one machine to the next,

"until neither the Plain nor the Star-Bellies knew
whether this one was that one... or that one was this one
or which one was what one... or what one was who."

This continues until the Sneetches are penniless and McBean departs a rich man, (CAPITALISM !!! ) amused by their folly. Despite his assertion that "you can't teach a Sneetch," the Sneetches learn from this experience that neither plain-belly nor star-belly Sneetches are superior, and they are able to get along and become friends.

-Unfortunately...it is only too apparent that many segments of the general populace have not smartened up enough to learn these valuable lessons...and that there will always be those in the wings promoting instability, jealousy, greed and hatred...only to fill their own pockets...

[ucanit]

kir said, "I'm guessing (and hoping), you're just trying to stir the pot a little..."

You know me too well....

[DazedandConfused]

KeepItReal, I reserve judgement on the Tea Party because they may well be a reincarnation of the Moral Majority. I do not want to surrender My America to either obama's left wing lunacy or the Christian Coalition.

[keepitreal]

I agree Dazed...you know my feelings on the extremes...as well as those about balance. Too far Left or Right does OUR America no good. I believe that Bush, Cheney and the other NeoCons shoved us a good portion to the Right...and Obama is trying to balance that back again...but I also believe that voting Americans will not let him push too far Left. That pendulum effect ya know.

The system is working...

ucanit...glad to here it !! Just remember...sometimes you're the one poking with the stick and sometimes you're "the old sleeping dog" !!

[ucanit]

The wise kir said, "Just remember...sometimes you're the one poking with the stick and sometimes you're "the old sleeping dog!!"

You are so right!!! How'd you get so wise for your young and tender years?

[DazedandConfused]

I agree Dazed...you know my feelings on the extremes...as well as those about balance. Too far Left or Right does OUR America no good. I believe that Bush, Cheney and the other NeoCons shoved us a good portion to the Right...and Obama is trying to balance that back again...but I also believe that voting Americans will not let him push too far Left. That pendulum effect ya know.

The system is working...

ucanit...glad to here it !! Just remember...sometimes you're the one poking with the stick and sometimes you're "the old sleeping dog" !!

obama's intent is certainly not to balance the country toward the middle. I believe him to be much more destructive than Bush, and I couldn't stand Bush. The entitlement programs that will take effective shortly are irreversible, and are a horrible leap to the left.

[keepitreal]

...and I'm reserving judgement...

[ucanit]

That's what Mussolini said about Adolf Hitler!!

[GEEZER]

Do these two groups remind anyone else of two spoiled kids in the back seat of the car on a roadtrip?
MMMMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMM!
"He said I was ugly"
"But she said I have knobby knees first"
"Well before that, you said my nose....................."
Sounds a little like the "adults" in both groups need a butt thrashing and made to stand face first at the chalk board with
their tongues pressed into a circle filled in with chalk....that'll keep 'em quiet for a little while.
Or maybe like the commercial with the two kids, one going "I'm not touching you","I'm not touching you","I'm not touching you".and the whole time the first has a finger a quarter of an inch from the others nose repeating "I'm not touching you".
Neither can actually get anything done or get any respect from the other as long as they are this childish.......and neither is mature enough, or smart enough to look in a mirror.
"in my opinion"

[keepitreal]

ucanit...

Seems the Sherrod video clip wasn't exactly what it seemed...taken out of context and 27 years old...

...and that is why you don't use FAUXNews as a source for anything !!

[ucanit]

I'm gonna have to agree with you about how Fox handled this incident. But, on the other hand almost everyone was guilty of a knee-jerk reaction to something taken totally out of context. I think the whole thing exposes two disturbing facts. First, how today's "News and Controversy" programming promotes divisiveness and intolerance and, second, how (even though we've come a long way) race relations continue to be a really raw subject.

Like Sherrod, I had an epiphany back in the 70's when I got into a little trouble with the law. It dawned on me one day that only the few black friends I had were still my friends and without them, I'm not sure I would have made it through that experience. I know that's not quite as traumatic as WestTx's life being saved by a white man, but it has some similarities.

Check your facts, I don't think the video was 27 years old but the life experience she was talking about was out of her distant past.

[keepitreal]

I agree ucanit...

As for the timeframe, 27 years ago was the first I had heard...now I'm seeing 26 and 24 being thrown around...probably that freekin' AOL !!

Anyway...this is a perfect example of why I tend to "reserve judgement". The media (ALL) have this, "We have to scoop everyone." mentallity...and if ya wait long enough, you usually see there was more to the story than first reported...

[DazedandConfused]

I heard today that Fox did not report on anything until she was already fired by obama. Now I am going to have to pay taxes to give her a big fat settlement, so she can sit on her fat ass and never have to work again. She got her job back. Give her a little raise for the embarrassment, but don't make me pay for obama's mistakes any more than I am now, and will be paying more and more in the future.