This may be why. This is the response of a Tea Party big wig to the rather mild NCAA condemnation of the racist elements in the Tea Party
Dear Mr. Lincoln
We Coloreds have taken a vote and decided that we don’t cotton to that whole emancipation thing. Freedom means having to work for real, think for ourselves, and take consequences along with the rewards. That is just far too much to ask of us Colored People and we demand that it stop!
In fact we held a big meeting and took a vote in Kansas City this week. We voted to condemn a political revival of that old abolitionist spirit called the ‘tea party movement’.
The tea party position to “end the bailouts” for example is just silly. Bailouts are just big money welfare and isn’t that what we want all Coloreds to strive for? What kind of racist would want to end big money welfare? What they need to do is start handing the bail outs directly to us coloreds! Of course, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is the only responsible party that should be granted the right to disperse the funds.
And the ridiculous idea of “reduce[ing] the size and intrusiveness of government.” What kind of massa would ever not want to control my life? As Coloreds we must have somebody care for us otherwise we would be on our own, have to think for ourselves and make decisions!The racist tea parties also demand that the government “stop the out of control spending.” Again, they directly target coloreds. That means we Coloreds would have to compete for jobs like everybody else and that is just not right.
Perhaps the most racist point of all in the tea parties is their demand that government “stop raising our taxes.” That is outrageous! How will we coloreds ever get a wide screen TV in every room if non-coloreds get to keep what they earn? Totally racist! The tea party expects coloreds to be productive members of society?
Mr. Lincoln, you were the greatest racist ever. We had a great gig. Three squares, room and board, all our decisions made by the massa in the house. Please repeal the 13th and 14th Amendments and let us get back to where we belong.
Sincerely
Precious Ben Jealous, Tom’s Nephew NAACP Head Colored Person
Gee, I cannot imagine why anyone would think them racist.
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It gets better. Further down that same linked article, he’s quoted “Calling President Obama an ‘Indonesian Muslim turned welfare thug and a racist in chief’”, “Saying Muslims worship a ‘monkey god’ and calling Islam a ’7th Century Death Cult Coughed Up By A Psychotic Pedophile’”, saying “Political correctness led to 9/11, political correctness led to Barack Hussein Obama — political correctness is a societal HIV. (America has) a full-blown case of AIDS and we’re the cure”, “calling former president Jimmy Carter a ‘creepy f*ggot’”, and some insane rant about Vermont (“retarded . . . genetically defective, circus freak, tiny cranium, hairy-arm-pitted female and faggot alleged male biological train wrecks who totally make the argument for forced Eugenics, starting with anyone with a Vermont return address”).
Conservatism sure is pretty when you get a close look at it.