Black Political Activists: Tea Party 'Not Racist'

Bob Parks is a member/writer for the National Advisory Council of Project 21; Senior Writer, New Media Journal; VP of Marketing and Media Relations/Senior Writer, New Media Alliance; former VP, Massachusetts Republican Assembly; Executive Director, NMATV; Video Producer, Media Research Center
In light of the NAACP resolution accusing the millions of Americans who attend Tea Parties of embracing racists, Tea Party Express is hosting a National Black Conservative Press Conference.

Black conservative leaders, organization spokespersons, authors, entertainers and activists from across America will gather in Washington DC to introduce themselves and their individual roles in fighting the good fight promoting conservative principles, values and patriotism.

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By Jake Gibson

Published August 04, 2010 / FoxNews.com

Black political activists who also call themselves members of the Tea Party movement on Wednesday rebuked charges of racism running rampant in the group

At a news conference in Washington, the black members asserted that the Tea Party is not at all racist and that the accusations come from outsiders trying to discredit and sabotage the movement.

"The injection of race has come from those who want to destroy us," said Selena Owens, an regular speaker with the Tea Party Express, one of the many libertarian, anti-tax groups in the movement that organized the news conference.

Herman Cain, a radio talk show host, said the accusations are "hurled at us to divide us and to deflect attention away from the failed policies of this congress and this president."

Kevin Jackson, author of "The Big Black Lie" added, "There are two kinds of people I have never seen at a Tea Party: a racist and anyone who owns a yacht. And if they do own a yacht, they pay their taxes."

The Tea Party Express organized the news conference to refute accusations of racism that have been heightened by the recent split with former group leader Mark Williams. Recently, Williams posted a letter on his blog written from "Colored People" to Abraham Lincoln, which suggested that black people would choose slavery over having to do real work.

"Our slowness to split with Mark should by no means condone racism. It was just out of loyalty to our friend," said William Owens, a black conservative author who has also been a featured speaker on past Tea Party Express tours.

The letter Williams wrote on his blog immediately led to a war of words between him and the NAACP, or National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which specifically called Williams a racist and suggested there are many more inside the Tea Party movement.

The black activists at Wednesday's event were at some times dismissive of the NAACP, and at other times outright hostile toward the organization.

"I don't think the NAACP are even relevant anymore," said Tim Johnson, vice chairman of the North Carolina GOP. "I think they just did that to get some news coverage."

Niger Innis, a spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality was more direct.

"I have nothing but respect for the tradition of the NAACP, but I have nothing but contempt for the current leadership and tactics of the current leadership," he said. "There's still a need for the [group], but not if they continue to let themselves be prostituted by some elements of the Democratic party."

When asked about an incident where Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a black Democrat from Missouri, was allegedly spit on during a Tea Party rally on Capitol Hill last march, Robert Broadus, who is running for a U.S. congressional seat in Maryland, said, "It never happened."

Innis added:"There's no evidence, and we are a country of laws."

Link to article

National Black Conservative Press Conference

Date: Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Time: 8-11am
Place: National Press Club, Washington DC

INVITED SPEAKERS INCLUDE: Ambassador Alan Keyes-Chairman of Conservative Majority PAC, Star Parker, President, Center for Urban Renewal and Education, Lloyd Marcus-Tea Party Express/ NAACPC, author of Confessions of a Black Conservative, Kevin Jackson, author of Amazon best-selling book, The BIG Black Lie, President of the Black Conservative Coalition and The Black Sphere, LLC, Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, Founder and President of BOND Action, Ted Hayes-NABS (National America’s Black Shield), William & Selena Owens-Higher Standard Publishers, Mychal S. Massie Chairman Project 21-The Nation Leadership Network of Black Conservatives, Frantz Kebreau-National Director, NAACPC (National Asso. For the Advancement of Conservative People of ALL Colors), Timothy F. Johnson, Ph.D.-The Frederick Douglass Foundation, Lloyd Marcus-Tea Party Express/ NAACPC, Michael Steele, RNC Chairman, Ron Miller, president of Regular Folks United and author of “SELLOUT: Musings from Uncle Tom’s Porch”, C. Mason Weaver, President Mason Media Company Author of “It’s Ok to Leave the Plantation/Motivational Speaker, Emery W. McClendon Dr.,Amateur Radio Military Appreciation Day, Ruth Bryant White, Editor In Chief of BreakingNewsJournal.Net, Leader on Conservative Moms For America and author of “Life Through The Eyes Of An Interracial Couple”, John Felix,President/CEO/founder of the Caribbean-American Cultural Association, Inc. of North America, Bob Parks, Member, National Advisory Council, Project 21; Video Producer, Media Research Center, Bishop Harry Jackson, Pastor of Hope Christian Church and Chairman of the High Impact Leadership Coalition,

Link to Lloyd Marcus

Meet Zaki Baruti (Lavoy Reed)~ Friend of NAACP and The New Black Panther Party and BFF with Hugo Chavez

WAKE UP AMERICA~Another champion of Socialism/Marxism in the news. You must realize that the destruction of our country is happening from within. You must be vigilant in educating your family, friends, neighbors and co-workers.

Many Americans are oblivious to what is taking place in our country. The radical revolutionary movement disguises itself as a preacher, union member, elected official, teacher, judge, attorney, community organizer and THE ACLU. They are involved in the shaping of our laws, schools, government and attempted "transformation" of our country. They have had control of our children for decades and are indoctrinating them with the lies of anti-capitalism, anti-God, pro-abortion, global warming lies,re-defining marriage, and the re-writing of history to promote their agenda.

Now the left wing is using the "race card" to try to incite and divide us.  This is coming from the top down.  The White House, Congress, DOJ, MSM, and of course all of the left wing mouthpieces of this administration are all using the race card as a way to try to marginalize and silence the peaceful movement of millions of patriots across this country that want smaller government, fiscal responsibility and a government that believes in and follows the Constitution.

Meet ZAKI BARUTI, in this brief bio, I find his response to discrimination interesting:

"DISCRIMINATION: The only personal instance of discrimination that has occurred to me happened in 1965 when I applied for a job with Union Electric. There were three positions available and I was the only Black of five finalists for these positions. However, I wasn't chosen. Thus, the slots were filled by the White applicants. Of course, I felt a twinge of racism, but being young, I did not pursue the issue." 

So here is a man that admits he has not been held back because of his race yet uses racial slurs against another black man, Kenneth Gladney. Where is his outrage over Mr. Gladney's being beaten by another black man and a SEIU union member? It appears that, with this man, racism only goes one way.

7/13/10~Bill O’Reilly interviews Zaki Baruti, the man who called Kenneth Gladney an “Uncle Tom.” Gladney, a black Tea Partier, was beaten by SEIU thugs after attending a Tea Party event.

Baruti said he has “no regrets” for calling Gladney an “Uncle Tom,” and added that he believes, “Most people would agree with that terminology of Uncle Tom being applied to him.”

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Since when is selling buttons of a President with the "joker" face on it or mimicking the President as a dope head when he's admitted to smoking dope grounds for a beating?  Did anyone try to force this idiot to buy the buttons? Does anyone remember the offensive signs and stories about GWB? What about freedom of speech? 

His comments are outrageous and Bill O'Reilly is a pinhead for not calling him out on that! The images Mr Gladney was peddling pale in comparison to the offensive images the left has peddled of other presidents.  Did you notice how he pointed out that the offensive (to him) goods were against the "first African-American president?"  What the hell does that have to do with anything?

And......What is O'Reilly doing giving this asshole a pass?  

The goods that Kenneth Gladney was selling can be purchased on any number of websites or stores....does he plan on sending the SEIU in to beat up any of those people selling these goods because they "offend" him?

In case you aren't familiar with the Kenneth Gladney case, he's some information to bring you up to speed:

From the website Gateway Pundit:

Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, July 8, 2010, 6:13 AM

On May 5th, 2010 The Missouri NAACP hosted a press conference and rally on behalf of Perry Molens and Elston McCowan, demanding the county prosecutor drop assault charges stemming from an attack outside Russ Carnahan’s townhall in South St. Louis County on Health Care last August. Molens and McCowan were arrested after the staged Carnahan event in August after they beat, kicked and stomped on black vendor Kenneth Gladney. The two Russ Carnahan supporters and SEIU members also called Kenneth the n-word as they bashed him into the cement.

This press conference in May was intended to drum up political pressure to prevent the jury trial of the two SEIU staff members arrested for attacking Kenneth Gladney in the presence of three witnesses.

Video of the entire press conference was posted online in eight parts and includes speeches by Harold Crumpton (NAACP national board member and president, St Louis City branch), Mary Ratliff, (NAACP state president, Missouri), progressive blogger Adam Shriver (cited as their legal expert), Elston McCowan, Perry Molens, and emceed by Zaki Baruti, UAPO. Also attending the event were a host of self-defined socialist agitators and a self-proclaimed Huffington Post reporter, Jeanine Molloff.

Here is the unbelievable video of the racist NAACP event. The two men accused of attacking Gladney go on trial this month. Elston McCowan, the man standing next to the speaker, can be seen laughing when the speaker says Gladney is not a brother.

Following is the transcript:

Back in the day, we used to call someone like that, and I want to remind you, uh, when this incident occurred, I was really struck by a front page picture of this guy, which we called, a Negro, I mean that we call him a Negro in the fact that he works for not for our people but against our people. Here it is, the day after a young brother, a young man, I didn’t mean to call him a brother, but on the front page of the Post Dispatch, ironically, he’s sitting in a wheelchair, being kissed on the forehead, by a European. Now just imagine that as a poster child picture, not working for our people.

UNREAL.

Ironically, Gladney reached out to the NAACP after the assault, but was mocked by their local president for not filing a claim. 11 months later, the same organization is out in public claiming Gladney isn’t black enough to protect and calling him an “Uncle Tom” for getting his a$$ kicked by SEIU thugs after a Carnahan town hall. And remember- Perry Molens, the SEIU staff member caught on video coming up behind Gladney and throwing him to the ground, is white.
This is outrageous.

Has the NAACP has become a radical racist, leftist group of thugs that promotes public beatings? It looks like it.

Gateway Pundit

UPDATE 7/13/10 Yesterday, the NAACP passed a resolution condemning the “racism” of the tea party movement. They did not pass a resolution condemning the SEIU thugs who beat up Kenneth Gladney, an African-American vendor at a tea party rally. We guess racism is in the eye of Eric Holder.

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With all of the news lately about racism and hate, it is important to point out that it is true that racism does still exist today. The inconvenient truth is that there have not been any incidents of racism from the Tea Party as alleged by the MSM, Democratic Party, NBPP, NAACP, Unions, and any other left-wing group or organization that wants to use the "race card" to try to incite and divide this country. On the contrary, when it comes to organized racism, the New Black Panther Party and the NAACP have built their organizations on hating whites. Members of the NBPP are on video actually calling for the killing of whites and their babies.  They are the equivalent of the KKK and, just like the KKK,  have no place in our society.

Now meet ZAKI BARUTI in an interview in 2006 with "U.S. Hands Off Venezuela".  A Socialist/Marxist organization that praises Venezuela's President, Hugo Chavez.  An organization that calls Baruti and other members of the Universal African People's Organization "comrades."

HOV Interviews Zaki Baruti of the UAPO in St. Louis

Wednesday, 08 November 2006

Could you tell us your name, organization, etc.? My name is Zaki Baruti, I'm President-General of the Universal African People's Organization, whose base headquarters is St. Louis, Missouri.

 Zaki Baruti, President-General of the Universal African People's Organization

Why do you think the question of Venezuela is important for working people and African-American workers in particular here in the United States?

Well, the question of Venezuela is very important to working people and people of African descent on several levels. Number one, the workers across the United  States and throughout the world are constantly exploited by the owners of various factories and the appendages of capitalism, so what's taking place in Venezuela with the workers being empowered sets an example for the western hemisphere as well as throughout the world.

It's very important that we stand in complete solidarity with the workers of the world. In particular to the African community its very important that in Venezuela itself there is a sizable population of people of African descent to the degree of 30%. As we know, across the world people of African descent are normally the most oppressed, and with the revolution that's being led by our brother Hugo Chavez, the vestiges of oppression are being broken, so he will serve as a model for our people as far as one who is seeking and actualizing liberation. As well as the kinds of programs that empower people to have free health care is an example that must be played out across the world, especially in this country where we see over 45 million people who do not have access to proper health care.

So, we at the Universal African People's Organization, as I sit with my brothers next to me Sau'deh, Lionel, Hakim and other brothers and sisters we say - Long live the Venezuelan Revolution! Long live Hugo Chavez! Long live the workers in Brazil who have taken over the factories because factories are closed here because of economic policies, that need to be re-opened. We need to begin to emulate the model being set there.

Do you have any specific message then for the workers of Freteco in Venezuela, and to the Pan-American Gathering of Occupied Factories, of the Landless Peasants Movement in Venezuela and Brazil, and workers in struggle around the rest of Latin America?

Let me salute the brothers and sisters who are coming from across the world to convene around the question of factory takeovers. Keep up the good work!  Bring it back to organize in the poor areas of the United States and across the world, because we must for the salvation of this generation and future generations have a new world order that is based on peace, justice and equality for everyone, and an equitable distribution of wealth for everybody.

  

Some of the comrades of the UAPO at their offices in St. Louis  

Check out this link, Socialist Appeal,  from this story on the Pan American Gathering.

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Written by In Defence of Marxism

Monday, 30 October 2006

A Panamerican Gathering in Defence of Rights, Land Reform and Industries has been called in Joinville, SC, Brazil, for December 8-10. The meeting is being called mainly by the movement of occupied factories and is the continuation of the First Latin American Gathering of Occupied Factories which took place in Caracas in November 2005. This meeting marks a qualitative change in the movement of occupied factories throughout the American continent and takes a further step forward in the coordination and integration of the movement on an international scale. The organizations calling for this meeting are the Council of Occupied Factories of Brazil, the National Movement of Occupied Factories (MNER) of Argentina, the Venezuelan Revolutionary Front of Workers of Factories Occupied or under Workers' Co-management (FRETECO), the Brazilian Landless Peasants Movement (MST), the Human Rights Center (CDH) of Joinville-Brazil and the National Workers Command (PIT-CNT), which is the main trade union confederation in Uruguay. Alan Woods, editor of In Defence of Marxism, will also be present at the meeting. Below we reproduce the official leaflet advertising the meeting, also available in Spanish, French, German, and Portuguese. Pan-American Gathering in Defense of Jobs, Rights, Agrarian Reform, and Manufacturing Industry The Coordinating Council of Occupied Factories, the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST), and the Human Rights Centre Joinville (CDH) of Brazil along with the National Movement of Recovered Factories (MNER) of Argentina, the Revolutionary Front of Co-managed and Occupied Factories (FRETECO) of Venezuela and the PIT-CNT of Uruguay are pleased to invite the workers of recovered factories, agricultural and urban workers, parliamentarians, the social movements and the youth from across the Americas to fight in defense of the interests of the working class and the sovereignty of the people against imperialism. We invite all to attend the Pan-American Gathering in Defense of Jobs, Rights, Agrarian Reform, and Manufacturing Industry in Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil, on December 8-10, 2006. Because the capitalists, their governments, the multinationals and finance capital desire to submit us to super-exploitation, the workers of all countries, in defense of their dearest interests, have resisted the closure of factories, the loss of jobs, and attacks on our rights. There are hundreds of factories in Argentina that have been recovered by workers who are faced with a crisis created by the capitalists and their government. In Uruguay, a strong movement of factory recoveries and occupations has developed with the help of the PIT-CNT. In Bolivia it was the miners in defense of their jobs and who fought against the privatization and closure of the mines that put the Bolivian revolution and the nationalization of gas and petroleum on the order of the day. In Brazil the workers have occupied factories and launched a fight for the nationalization of industry in order to save thousands of jobs. In Venezuela the workers occupied factories in the fight against the economic sabotage of the ruling class. With the help of the UNT a movement was launched that took up the call of the Chavez government for nationalizations. In the United States the closing of hundreds of large factories and the loss of thousands of jobs has forced trade unionists to face the question of the occupation and nationalization of these companies. For these reasons we have organized various national and international meetings of workers in struggle. For these reasons we wish to explain and unite our struggles and unite the oppressed against humanity's common enemy - capital and its wars, pillage and ransacking of the wealth we produce. In Caracas in 2005 we affirmed: "They close, we open the factories. They rob the land and we occupy it. They make wars and destroy nations, we defend the peace and the sovereign integrity of the people. They divide and we unite. Because we are the working class. Because we are the present and the future of humanity". (Declaration at the 1st Latin American Meeting of Companies Recovered by the Workers, Caracas, 29/10/05). "Each factory that is closed is a cemetery of jobs as also are the estates in the country. For this the workers of the field and the city have the right to occupy the factories and the lands to defend their work and the sovereignty of our people. For this we occupy the companies and make them produce" (Declaration at the 1st Latin American Meeting of Companies Recovered by the Workers, Caracas, 29/10/05). We know that there are no human rights without work or under the tyranny of capital. Without agrarian reform there will be no work in the countryside, only an increase of misery in the cities and the fields. The workers cannot accept that the social movements and the defenders of human rights continue to be treated as criminals and continue to be the object of judicial measures undertaken on the basis of accusations reserved for the most infamous of criminals. Only our organization and our struggle can save jobs in a sustainable manner and achieve the demands of the people. Only the free and democratic discussion between workers, coordinated internationally, can guarantee that our struggle and our organization will be solid enough to defend the interests of the working class. The exchange of experiences in the Pan-American Gathering in Defense of Jobs, Rights, Agrarian Reform, and of Manufacturing Industry, will allow us to arrive at conclusions and plan common actions which will put our struggle on a higher level in each country. Only through the fight to defend each job and every gain will we find a way out of the present situation. To those that dare to tell us that there is no way out, that there is no way to confront the forces of capital, we respond with our determination to fight in unity in the defense of all that is socially progressive in what humanity has constructed. We invite all to organize their delegations and preparatory activities on a national level. We will meet at the Pan-American Gathering in Defense of Jobs, Rights, Agrarian Reform, and of Manufacturing Industry at the Cipla buildings in Brazil on December 8-10, 2006 in order to resist, explain and advance our common struggle. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Many Americans are oblivious to what is taking place in our country. The radical revolutionary movement disguises itself as a preacher, union member, elected official, teacher, judge, attorney, and community organizer. They are involved in the shaping of our laws, schools, and attempted "transformation" of our country. They have had control of our children for decades and are indoctrinating them with the lies of anti-capitalism, anti-God, pro-abortion, global warming lies,re-defining marriage, and the re-writing of history to promote their agenda. Now the left wing is working on the destruction of our elections as shown here and here. Please, please, please...WAKE UP AMERICA~if you don't, you will be complicit in the destruction of this great country. You must get involved..you must speak up....you must be silent no more! ~For too long we have gone along blindly and allowed our voices to be silenced~ ~WE WILL NOT BE SILENT ANY LONGER~ NOT RACIST NOT VIOLENT JUST NO LONGER SILENT

Michelle Obama Rouses NAACP Before Vote Condemning 'Racist' Elements of Tea Party

By HUMA KHAN

July 12, 2010

Tea Party Leaders Say Political Motivation Driving NAACP Agenda

First Lady Michelle Obama brought renewed energy to the NAACP today, delivering the keynote speech at the annual convention one day before the nation's largest civil rights group is expected to condemn what it calls racist elements in the Tea Party movement.

First Lady Michelle Obama Addresses NAACP

The nation's largest and oldest civil rights organization will vote on the resolution Tuesday during its annual convention in Kansas City, Mo.

In her speech, the first lady focused on the issue of childhood obesity and her "Let's Move" initiative, but outside of her remarks, anti-Tea Party activism has been a key focus of the gathering, which conservative leaders say is driven solely by a political agenda.

Tea Party members have used "racial epithets," have verbally abused black members of Congress and threatened them, and protestors have engaged in "explicitly racist behavior" and "displayed signs and posters intended to degrade people of color generally and President Barack Obama specifically," according to the proposed resolution.

"We're deeply concerned about elements that are trying to move the country back, trying to reverse progress that we've made," NAACP spokeswoman Leila McDowell told ABC News. "We are asking that the law-abiding members of the Tea Party repudiate those racist elements, that they recognize the historic and present racist elements that are within the Tea Party movement."

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, in coordination with 170 other groups, including labor unions, is planning a protest march in Washington, D.C., Oct. 2 as the next step in building momentum against the Tea Party.

The "One Nation" march is designed as an antithesis to the Tea Party, and it's about "pulling America together and back to work," McDowell said.

"We see it as a threat to democracy. We see it as a threat to human rights. We certainly see it as a threat to civil rights," McDowell said, adding that the resolution will likely pass when it's voted upon Tuesday.
Supporters of the Tea Party movement have frequently faced charges of racism.

The most notable case is that of Kentucky GOP Senate hopeful Rand Paul , who came under fire in May for criticizing the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Paul said he supports the act and opposes discrimination, but added that the government doesn't have a right to tell private restaurant owners who they can and cannot serve.

"If we want to harbor in on private businesses and their policies, then you have to have the discussion about, 'Do you want to abridge the First Amendment as well,'" Paul said on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow show. "If you decide that restaurants are publicly owned and not privately owned, then do you say that you should have the right to bring your gun into the restaurant, even though the owner of the restaurant says, well, no, we don't want to have guns in here."

In March, Tea Party protesters opposing the health care bill were alleged to have shouted racial slurs at black House members in the halls of Congress, a charge that Tea Party supporters say has not been proven. Liberal blogs have also seized on signs that have appeared in Tea Party protests, comparing President Obama to a monkey.

Tea Party leaders say the charges are misguided and are being fertilized by the left for the sole purpose of gaining political ground.

The Rev. C.L. Bryant, a former president of NAACP's Garland, Texas, chapter who is now a leading Tea Party activist said the idea that the Tea Party is racist or is trying to instigate a racist climate is "simply a lie."
"I have seen posters ... where every president from Reagan to Obama has been called a fascist," Bryant, who serves as a contributor to FreedomWorks, which organizes Tea Party groups, told ABC News. "Why is it that just because we have a black president, we are hyper-sensitive to posters at rallies?"

The NAACP wants to "create a climate where they can say that those on the right are in fact racist and those on the left are their saviors," he added. "This is very much what the liberal agenda is about."



Dale Robertson , a Tea Party activist who runs TeaParty.org and has himself been at the center of a race-related controversy, said the NAACP is merely pandering to the Democratic party.

"I find that the NAACP should be standing against the new Black Panther and their stance and yet instead of doing the right thing, they're doing the wrong thing by attacking people who feel government should be held accountable," Robertson said.

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