“The accusation by the NAACP is just another example of playing the race card because of failed policies,” conservative talk show host Herman Cain said at the event, which was organized by the Tea Party Express and held at the National Press Club.
“And it’s being used as a distraction from what really ought to be happening and what the NAACP, in particular, ought to be doing -- and that is focusing on many of the problems in the black community.”
Cain said in his opinion, “the NAACP has lost its relevance and they are looking for relevance in all the wrong places.”
Niger Innis, spokesperson for the Congress of Racial Equality, said the NAACP has betrayed its own legacy by adopting the same tactic it was formed to fight in the first place. “The same racial terror that was employed by whites in hoods is now being employed by blacks and whites in suits,” Innis said. “The victims now are Americans who just want to exercise their First Amendment rights,” namely members and leaders of the Tea Party movement, he said.
Innis and others at the event also blamed the Black Congressional Caucus for injecting racism into politics and using it as a weapon against the Tea Party movement.
They noted that the first racism charge against the Tea Party movement followed rallies on Capitol Hill against the Democrats’ health care. “And it was the fraudulent and phony charge issued by the Congressional Black Caucus, or some clueless members of the Congressional Black Caucus, that alleged that the ‘N’ word was dropped and that people were purposefully spit upon,” Innis recalled.
Innis mentioned that one of the Tea Party factions wrote a letter to the caucus, stating they “take very seriously any charge of racism within our ranks” and asking the caucus to join them in investigating the matter. “The Congressional Black Caucus has yet to respond to this letter,” Innis said.
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Get this clear America: The TEA party MUST be discredited. The financial elite in America cannot permit the TEA party to change their representatives in Congress.
On the other hand, every effort has been made by the Right to simply infiltrate and change the TEA party from within. This is evidenced by the presence of Palin and Beck in the TEA party meetings on a large scale.
The TEA party represented a desire to throw out ALL INCUMBENTS. Total Change in America.
It is this basic original idea of the TEA party which MUST be altered or eliminated.
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