NAACP Report Ties Tea Party to Militia and Racist Groups

[G_j]

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


NAACP Report Ties Tea Party to Militia and Racist Groups


Less than two weeks before the midterms elections, the NAACP has published a new report that exposes what it 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 and Education on Human Rights.

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AMY GOODMAN: Less than two weeks before the midterms elections, the NAACP has published a new report that exposes what it calls links between various Tea Party organizations and racist hate groups here in the US. The ninety-four-page report was written by the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights. It 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. The reports says, quote, "Tea Party organizations have given platforms to anti-Semites, racists and bigots. Further, hard-core white nationalists have been attracted to these protests, looking for potential recruits and hoping to push these (white) protestors toward a more self-conscious and ideological white supremacy."

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.

The new report being released today is called "Tea Party Nationalism: A Critical Examination of the Tea Party Movement and the Size, Scope, and Focus of Its National Factions."


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[EFerrari]

1. Kick.

[HopeHoops]

2. "Links" to militias and racist groups? Why links? That DEFINES the teabaggers.

[BeFree]

3. Those silly blacks....

... thinking they have enemies. Don't they know that was like, so last century?
Don't they know the Tea baggers are peace lovers and for equal rights?

[Ian David]

4. I am shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, to find racists in the Tea Party!

The Official Teaparty Teapot.

[pinboy3niner]

5. Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Nice teapot, LOL!

K&R

[felix_numinous]

6. It's important to officially document this.

At least official documents are important to sane people.