NAACP endorses marriage equality

Some wingnuts suggested blacks would abandon Obama over gay marriage.

Many blacks are conservative but most also understand why discrimination must never be tolerated.

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Police corruption in New York

Two cops in Upstate New York are under investigation for allegedly planting narcotics in the car of a couple pulled over in the city of Utica.

The incident, which occurred on February 11, 2011, is being reexamined nearly a year later after the cops involved in the caper have been caught on tape creating “evidence” and placing narcotics in the suspects’ automobile.

The recording of the incident, unbeknownst to the officers, was being made by the camera in their own squad car.

The Utica Phoenix newspaper has come in possession of the recording and has since uploaded an excerpt of the footage to the Web. In the clip, a Utica Police Department officer is seen ushering a suspect in handcuffs away from his vehicle, then approaching the driver-side door, reaching into his back pocket and pulling out a small baggie. The officer then crawls into the car, appears to drop the item in question and shortly thereafter exits the vehicle with the drugs that were allegedly confiscated from the car.

According to the Venice Ervin of a local NAACP chapter, the clip clearly shows Officer Paul Paladino, a white officer, planting evidence in the car of two black suspects.

See http://rt.com/usa/news/planting-utica-car-pocket-215/

In a related story, Stephan Anderson, a former New York police detective, has testified saying planting drugs on innocent citizens was a common occurrence for NYPD officers to meet their quota for arrests.

Anderson’s testimony led to the apprehension of eight NYPD officers in one of the biggest corruption scandals in the Brooklyn South and Queens Narcotics units.

See http://rt.com/usa/news/nypd-innocent-anderson-tavarez-907/

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NAACP to protest South Carolina secession ball

By GINA SMITH - gnsmith@thestate.com

Members of South Carolina’s NAACP will march in protest of a “secession ball” in Charleston later this month. The ball will commemorate the 150th anniversary of South Carolina’s secession from the Union.

State NAACP leaders held two press conferences Friday, spreading the word they will protest the ball and any other sesquicentennial events that they deem disrespectful.

“We are not opposed to observances,” said Lonnie Randolph, state president of the NAACP. “We are opposed to disrespect.”

NAACP members and supporters plan to hold a peaceful march in downtown Charleston the day of the ball, on Dec. 20, followed by a meeting and question-and-answer session focusing on slavery. Participants will watch segments of “Birth of a Nation,” a 1915 silent film that portrayed Ku Klux Klan members as heroes.

Attendees at Charleston’s Gaillard Municipal Auditorium, ball, who will pay $100 a ticket, will don formal, period dress, eat and dance the Virginia Reel as a band plays “Dixie.”

The evening’s highlight will be a play re-enacting the signing of South Carolina’s Ordinance of Secession 150 years ago. This act severed the state’s ties with the Union and paved the way for the Civil War.

“This is nothing more than a celebration of slavery,” Randolph said of the event.

Members of the S.C. Sons of Confederate Veterans, a co-sponsor of the ball, say slavery was one of several issues that caused – but it was not the cause – of the Civil War.

The ball is a way to honor the brave S.C. men who stood up to an over-domineering federal government, high tariffs and Northern states that wanted to take the country in an economic direction that was not best for the South, said Mark Simpson, the S.C. division commander for the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

Simpson said his organization condemns slavery and respects the NAACP’s right to disagree and protest. But that won’t deter his group’s plans, Simpson said.
he added:

We could look back and say (the Civil War) wasn’t something to celebrate – about 620,000 died in the North and South. If you count civilians, you’re up to about a million killed in that war.

“Do we celebrate that? Heavens no,” he said. “War and death is never something to celebrate. But we do celebrate the courage and the integrity of 170 men who signed their signatures to the Article of Secession – the courage of men to do what they think is right.”

Randolph said the Civil War was about states’ rights, one in particular.

The civil war was about the expansion of slavery into the new US territories. The south tried to hold the US hostage with its values and threatened to secede if Lincoln was elected. Lincoln was elected and several states seceded. The south won that battle but lost the war.

General William T. Sherman remembered the SC acts of treason and sacked Columbia, SC during his March to the Sea. Sherman said:

The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.

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Sarah Palin aid, Nicole Wallace, agrees that the Tea Party should renounce racism

On the This Week roundtable yesterday Nicolle Wallace, introduced to the audience as the “former Bush White House communications director,” weighed in on the NAACP’s decision.

What Jake Tapper neglected to mention in his intro was that Wallace was also head of Sarah Palin’s campaign after she was tapped by Sen John McCain to be his running mate, and received some “prime if not necessarily flattering space” in Palin’s memoir Going Rogue.

In light of that rocky-ish relationship, and because Wallace has always seemed to be one of the more grounded voices coming out of the right, it was extra interesting to hear her reflect on the lack of responsible leadership in the Tea Party movement. Nicolle Wallace said:

Any member of this powerful, promising and very relevant movement should stand up and condemn anything that you wouldn’t want to see your children participate in. 

And I can’t imagine there’s any parent in America who would approve of any of the racist signs that show up at any rally. So I think this is easy. I don’t think this is about the leadership. 

I don’t think this is about waiting for the leaders of your movement. And people say, oh, they’re young, it’s not clear where the structure — forget about that. 

Any individual at a rally where — where — where any sign or insinuation of racism appears should condemn it. And it’ll only strengthen the movement and make them more relevant. 

Is this an example the post-racial kool aide the GOP has been trying to sell to America. 


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NAACP not backing off Tea Party racism charges

(July 18) NAACP President Ben Jealous says tea party supporters like Sarah Palin need to publicly condemn racist behavior among some of the group's members.

The civil rights organization accused tea party activists Tuesday of tolerating bigotry.

The National Tea Party Federation has expelled conservative commentator and Tea Party Express spokesman Mark Williams today over a fictional letter Williams wrote on his blog last week. His racist letter was from "Colored People" to Abraham Lincoln.

The NAACP is essentially calling out the GOP on racism because there is little difference between the GOP and the Tea Party.

The Tea Party is really a front for the GOP.  It was needed because conservatives were unhappy with the Republican Party after the 2008 election defeat. 

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NAACP calls out to the Tea Party

As far as Rightardia can tell, the the NAACP simply wants the Tea Party to discipline the racists within the party.

The proposed resolution states that the "movement is not just about higher taxes and limited government but something that could evolve and become more dangerous," NAACP spokeswoman Leila McDowell said.

The resolution would be the latest and perhaps the most pointed denunciation of the Tea Party movement, which has pushed back against recurring accusations of racism since its inception a year and a half ago.

The embedded You Tube video says volumes about what the NAACP is concerned about. This video has no dialogue and make s a strong case the Tea Party is racist.

Update: 


Tea Party Express spokesman Mark Williams fired off an unexpected response to the NAACP resolution to CNN contributor Roland Martin.

Asked to tell racists "you're not welcome" in the tea party, Williams replied:

"Racists have their own movement. It's called the NAACP."

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6678924n&tag=mg;caughtontape#ixzz0tiKeNlMR

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