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Herman Cain's Response to NAACP Accusation of Racism by Tea Party People Herman Cain PAC ^ | July 14, 2010 | Herman Cain Posted on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 9:24:29 AM by justsaynomore What! My reaction to the idea of the NAACP declaring the citizen movement known as the Tea Party as racist is ridiculous. I am Black. I have spoken at over twenty rallies and conferences. I have talked directly with hundreds of tea party activists, and have received hundreds of calls from activists to my nightly radio show. Tea Party people are patriots, who want the federal government to stop thespending, stop the legislative abuse, stop the tax increases and start adhering to the Constitution. It is unfortunate that a once relevant and impactful organization is looking for relevance in the wrong place, namely, race. It should be about unity instead of divisiveness. I have been called a sell-out, an Uncle Tom and shameless because I disagree withthis President's policies. Those who are calling me those names have probably never been to a Tea Party event, and I doubt officials of the NAACP have attended an event either. Those that would like to join the name calling parade should save themselves some time. In my grandfather's vernacular, "I does not care!" This President ran on a campaign of hope and change, but his change is not working .over 4 million Americans lost jobs in 2009, the unemployment rate has gone from7.6% in January 2009 to 9.5% in June 2010, the unemployment rate for Black Americans is over 15% and not getting better, and the national debt has increased exponentially to over $13 trillion since January 2009. Tea Party people are not racist.they are Patriotic Americans who want the greatest country in the world to remain the greatest, by exercising their right to make their voices heard. This isn't about race. This is about results, and the results by this administration are missing in action.
Being mad at the federal government is a good start.
It takes time and education for that to happen.
Originally posted by DINSTAAR
reply to post by mnemeth1
Being mad at the federal government is a good start.
They aren't mad at the federal government, they are mad at this federal government. These people would just as easily unleash the power of the federal government against others for their own agenda. Where were these fascists when we were invading other countries illegally? Where were they when the bubble was in its largest state, and Austrian Economics foretold of impending doom?
mnemeth1, libertarians are being used and the idea of freedom is being used to tighten the leash around our necks.
It takes time and education for that to happen.
I am in agreement here, but I won't stand by idly and let the ideas of freedom be used for another assault on freedom itself. It will be 1980 all over again. Reagan killed the last libertarian push because he tricked them into playing along.
Originally posted by SmokeandShadow
reply to post by mnemeth1
Oh, I don't doubt Napolitano is genuine, but I have serious doubts about many of the clapping hands who go home and listen to Glenn Beck. The"establishment republicans" are very much a conniving bunch who love to ring the freedom bell while crossing their fingers for an iron fist baptist.
Originally posted by mnemeth1
I know you desperately want to paint the tea party as racist
because you can't conceive of minorities actually wanting limited government.
Anarchism is a cluster of doctrines and attitudes centered on the belief that government is both harmful and unnecessary.
so-called "national anarchists," who advocate racial separatism and white racial purity. They're also fiercely anti-gay and anti-Israel. Calling themselves the Bay Area National Anarchists (BANA), they envision a future race war leading to neo-tribal, whites-only enclaves to be called "National Autonomous Zones."
"We are racial separatists for a number of reasons, such as our desire to maintain our cultural continuity, the principle of voluntary association, and as a self-defensive measure to protect each other from being victimized by crime from other races," BANA co-founder Andrew Yeoman told the Intelligence Report.
Members of BANA and other likeminded national anarchists cloak their bigotry in the language of radical environmentalism and mystical tribalism, pulling recruits from both the extreme right and the far left.
"It's an extremely diverse group," said Yeoman, with no hint of irony. "We have ex-liberals, ex-neo-cons, we have Ron Paul supporters, we have ex-skinheads, we have apolitical people that have been turned on to our causes."
Although national anarchism in the U.S. remains a relatively obscure movement, made up of probably fewer than 200 individuals in BANA and a couple of other groups in northern California and Idaho, organizations based on national anarchist ideology have gained a foothold in Russia and sown turmoil in the environmental movement in Germany. There are enthusiasts in Britain, Spain and Australia, among other overseas nations. Now, national anarchists in the U.S. are carefully studying the successes and failures of their more prominent international counterparts as they attempt to similarly win converts from the radical environmentalist and white nationalist movements in this country.
Indeed, one of national anarchists' principal tactics is called "entryism," defined in one of the movement's how-to guides as "the name given to the process of entering or infiltrating bona fide organizations, institutions and political parties with the intention of gaining control of them for our own ends."