Posts Tagged ‘NAACP’

March Against the NEA, Not With It

September 17th, 2010 by John Feehery

So, the NAACP, La Raza, and the Teachers’ Unions are organizing a march on the Capitol Mall next month.

Does anybody else see the terrible irony here?

Ben Jealous, who is head of the NAACP, loves to point to the possible racists among the Tea Party. Jealous is zealous in his pursuit of Tea Party racists.

In the meantime, he organizes a march with the organization that single-handedly killed school reform in Washington D.C. You couldn’t miss a commercial produced and paid for by the NEA extolling the virtues of Vincent Gray, who has promised to fire Michelle Rhee should he be elected the Mayor of Washington D.C.

D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee speaks alongside D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty and parents and students at Maury Elementary School following a walks to school event in Washington on August 24, 2010. Rhee, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty, Education Secretary Arne Duncan and local D.C. school children walked from Lincoln Park to Maury Elementary School in an event to bring awareness to the importance of a safe and healthy lifestyles. UPI/Kevin Dietsch  Read more...

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Shirley Sherrod

July 22nd, 2010 by John Feehery

Glenn Beck is not necessarily my cup of tea.

But you have to give the guy credit.  His show is pretty entertaining.

And apparently it is watched with great interest at the White House.

Earlier this year, I went home to Chicago for my brother’s 40th birthday (yes, he is my younger brother and yes, it was a surprise), and all anybody could talk about was Glenn Beck.

And they were all positive comments.  Do you watch Glenn Beck?  Do you like Glenn Beck?  Did you hear what Glenn Beck said about this or that?

It was fascinating.  My family is not exactly a bunch of right-wingers.  They are mostly centrists who have grown tired of Barack Obama’s false promises.  They are concerned about the future of the country, about the debt, about the lack of jobs.

They watch Glenn Beck because they find his show entertaining and informative.

They aren’t the only ones.  I remember I spoke once to a fly-in for a member of Congress, and I said something less than positive about Mr. Beck, and I had to defend myself from a verbal attack from the Congressman’s mother, who is a rabid follower of him.  Read more...

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NAACP Vs. The Tea Party

July 15th, 2010 by John Feehery

This reminds me of one of those old Japanese monster movies — – a death match brought to you by cable television.

The NAACP pass a resolution condemning racist elements of the Tea Party.  Various spokesmen from various factions of the Tea Party (there is no one single Tea Party) gamely call the NAACP racist for calling them racist.  Depending on which cable channel you are watching, you either have pictures of white people holding up offensive pictures of Barack Obama or pictures of black people saying really nasty things about white people flashing up on the background.

I understand why the NAACP would pass such a resolution.  Let’s face it, this is a great way for the NAACP to get some press, which has been a pretty hard thing for them to do in the Obama era.

And I can see why the Tea Party folks would react the way they did.  They not only get to say that they aren’t racist.   They get to say it on cable television.  How fun is that?

This is what passes for a civil racial dialogue in our country today.

Thank you, cable news networks.  That is very helpful.  Read more...

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