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.

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