NAACP Report Ties Tea Party to Militia and Racist Groups

[EFerrari]

Less than two weeks before the midterms elections, the NAACP has published a new report that exposes what is calls links between various Tea Party organizations and racist hate groups in the United States. The report, Tea Party Nationalism, analyzes each of the six most active Tea Party organizations in the country and describes links between Tea Party factions and various white supremacist groups, anti-immigrant organizations and militias. We speak with Benjamin Todd Jealous, the president and CEO of the NAACP; and one of the authors of the report, Leonard Zeskind, the president of the Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights.

Guests:

Benjamin Todd Jealous, President and CEO of the NAACP. In July, the NAACP created a firestorm when the group’s delegates passed a resolution at their national convention condemning racism within the Tea Party movement. The NAACP board of directors ratified the resolution last week.

Leonard Zeskind, President of the Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights and one of the authors of the report, Tea Party Nationalism, He is author of the book, 'Blood and Politics: The History of White Nationalism from the Margins to the Mainstream.'

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/10/20/naacp_report_ties_tea_party_to

Link to the report itself:
http://www.teapartynationalism.com/

Audio, video at link. Transcript soon.

[bobthedrummer]

1. Nothing surprising about that-that's their "base" n/t

[Generic Other]

2. Mad Hatters DISEASE

Hatters commonly suffered from 'hatter's shakes', a form of nerve damage which gave symptoms similar to Parkinson's Disease and which is still known today as 'Mad Hatter's Syndrome'. A neurotoxicologist correspondent of mine has put forward the view that hatters could have been mad in either or both of the 'angry' or 'insane' senses. He states that "Mercury exposure can cause aggressiveness, mood swings, and anti-social behaviour. It is therefore likely that the mercury in hat making did lead to 'mad' hatters both in terms of rationality and plain old grumpiness."

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/mad-as-a-hatter.html


The tea party...is characterized by switching places on the table at any given time, making short, personal remarks, asking unanswerable riddles and reciting nonsensical poetry...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Hatter

[walldude]

3. Why is it that people need to fool themselves into thinking

that the Tea Party is more than a group of people who are pissed off because a Black Man is President? The fact is, they had no problems with the white man when he was running up the deficit and bailing out Wall Street, they are paying lower taxes, Obama has shown the birth certificate, all their complaints are false. They whine about things that don't even exist. The only conclusion one can come to is they are a bunch of whining babies who didn't get their way so they are using the Presidents skin color as a way to vent their anger over the fact that only 20% of America think they are sane.

[Scruffy1]

4. After reading the whole report my conclusion.....

Is that the whole Tea Party thing is a farce by mostly small time grifters and racist and to run afraid of them is laughable.