NAACP Launches New Spy Site
by Tina Grazier
I don’t know whether the NAACP is driven by paranoia, self-hatred or just plain old fashioned politics but they do intend to spy on you Tea Partiers so beware! Yes that’s right, the NAACP has organized a community of like-minded groups in support of a new website to monitor (spy on) tea party patriots. They have put up a website and blog, teapartytracker.org where they will be posting proof in pictures and articles of racism in the Tea Party. They also continue to demand that the Tea Party denounce anyone in their membership who is racist or who makes racist remarks, as if any TPer wouldn’t do that in the moment fo his own volition anyway. .
The first blog post up when I saw the site today was the photo of a man, re-posted above, who is apparently at a tea party rally. His black t-shirt with white letters makes a definite statement…but is this statement racist or extreme…and is this the best they can do:
“Blacks own Slaves in Mauritania, Sudan Niger and Haiti.”
Or does this statement just state a fact that might be germane to conditions in these countries and the subject of racism? Perhaps it is meant as a rebuttal to charges that only white people are racist or that America is a hateful country because of it’s history of slavery. Was he attemting to speak out against the practice as a concerned citizen of the world? Does it matter what his motive in wearing the shirt was given his free speech rights? Here is the uncomfortably sad fact about the T-shirt message:
Wikipedia
Slavery in Africa continues today. Slavery existed in Africa before the arrival of Europeans – as did a slave trade that exported millions of Africans to North Africa, the Middle East, and the Persian Gulf : Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Sudan ** Child slave trade: Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Ethiopia
USA Today
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Poverty has forced at least 225,000 children in Haiti’s cities into slavery as unpaid household servants, far more than previously thought, a report said Tuesday. ** The Pan American Development Foundation’s report also said some of those children — mostly young girls — suffer sexual, psychological and physical abuse while toiling in extreme hardship. ** The report recommends Haiti’s government and international donors focus efforts on educating the poor and expanding social services such as shelters for girls, who make up an estimated two-thirds of the child servant population. ** Young servants are known as “restavek” — Haitian Creole for “stays with” — and their plight is both widely known and a source of great shame in the Caribbean nation that was founded by a slave revolt more than 200 years ago. ** Researchers said the practice is so common that almost half of 257 children interviewed in the sprawling Port-au-Prince shantytown of Cite Soleil were household slaves.
The T-shirt was factual.
Another feature on the website is “the gallery” where interested parties can submit examples of “Tea Party extremism from around the country”. The current crop of photo’s includes people holding signs, none of which is any more inflammatory, angry, negative or bigoted than signs held by activists or Democrats against Republicans and Republican administrations in the past. Many of the signs have to do with the economy, mortgages and taxes. The people themselves are mostly pleasant looking. None were as angry or disrespectful as two photos I have from the Bush years. One is of an angry young black man with his fist in the air screaming, the other is of an elderly, nicely dressed black woman in a hat holding a sign that reads “F*** George Bush” …she is laughing and having a grand old time with her fellow “lady” protesters. Such a message for a nice older lady though, huh? Oh…and another is of a man’s naked butt cheeks with BU on one cheek and SH on the other. (I can imagine Sharpton and Jackson laughing and yucking it up over that one, can’t you?) People are people, people! They do dumb things. Most just live and let live.
I would support what the NAACP in doing if there was any significant evidence that Americans in general, or Tea Party activist in particular, were committing acts of racism or violent acts in greater measure than any other groups. I’d support them if they had evidence of any incident as bad as the one in which Mr. Gladney wasattacked by an SEIU activist at a tea party town hall. There is no any such evidence against any Tea Party member or supporter.
The NAACP would do a lot more good if they created a website that portrayed incidents and photos that show racism as passe…dead…untolerated in America. That would be a site that is more indicative of the truth. A site like that would allow Americans to more easily flush away any last bits of “racist garbage” that might still line a few gutters in America and would go a long way toward influencing better relations across racial and religious lines across the world. We could act as a beacon for peace and brotherhood rather than a bunch of complaining inept whiners.
At some point we must claim victory. We must put an exclamation point on the validity of the civil rights movement and on the wisdom of the founding documents, otherwise, what has been the point? We have worked hard as a nation to put racism behind us. A continued focus on racism as a “cause that never ends” only creates resentment and division and becomes counterproductive.
The NAACP should be celebrating the fact that America has overcome. They should be looking for evidence to prove it. they should creatively seek entrepreneurial solutions for and by the black man to improve conditions for blacks across America. Peer pressure within the ranks works well. Bill Cosby has pointed the way. These things would be more in line with the original charter of the NAACP.
