The National Association for the Advancement of Coddled People
My column blasts the desperate, Tea Party-bashing demagogues of the NAACP. In new developments, the Sacramento chapter of the NAACP is crusading to turn Michael Jackson’s Neverland into a state park. The St. Louis NAACP official who called SEIU beating victim Kenneth Gladney an “Uncle Tom” reiterated and defended the slur last night on Fox News. And the NAACP and all the other old, usual suspects of the far Left are trying to recreate the Tea Party movement with a top-down coalition called “One Nation.”
Imitation is the best form of flattery…
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The National Association for the Advancement of Coddled People
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2010
Before the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People decided to ride the anti-tea party wave back to political relevancy, its most recent activist crusade involved a silly space-themed Hallmark graduation card. Yes, the NAACP has been lost in space for quite some time now. And blaming whitey will no longer cut it.
In June, the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP demanded that the greeting card be pulled because it used the term “black holes” (which the bionically equipped ears of the p.c. police insisted sounded like “black whores”). “It sounds like a group of children laughing and joking about blackness,” one NAACP official complained.
It was a group of hipster cartoon characters chattering about the universe and galaxies and wide-open possibilities to new high school and college grads. Alas, this is what has become of the once-inspired drive against racial discrimination.
In just a few short decades, the stalwart strivers for equality have turned into coddled whiners for hypersensitivity. The NAACP is a laughingstock. The group no longer represents the best interests of oppressed minorities, but the thin-skinned whims of the black elite and the ravenous appetite of the Nanny State. Establishment civil rights leaders now use their once-compelling moral authority to hector, bully and shake down corporate and political targets.
As Ward Connerly, the truly maverick opponent of government racial preferences who is black, wrote, “the NAACP is not so much a civil-rights organization as it is a trade association with clear links to the Democratic Party, despite the claim of its chairman that ‘the NAACP has always been non-partisan.’ Such a statement doesn’t pass the giggle test. The NAACP uses the plight of poor black people as a fig leaf to hide its true agenda of promoting policies that benefit their dues-paying members, not black people in general or poor black people in particular.”
To compensate for squandering the proud history of the civil rights organization on innocent greeting cards, NAACP leaders introduced a much-hyped resolution at their annual convention this week attacking the nation’s biggest racial bogeyman: the tea party movement. It’s a tried and true tactic of worn-out grievance-mongers: When you can’t find evil enough enemies to blame for your problems, manufacture them. (Just ask hate crimes huckster Al Sharpton.) This is why one of the most popular signs spotted at tea party protests across the country remains the one that reads: “It doesn’t matter what this sign says. You’ll call it racism, anyway!”
The NAACP resolution calls on its chapters across the country to “repudiate the racism of the Tea Parties” and stand against the movement’s attempt to “push our country back to the pre-civil rights era.” Yet, it’s the NAACP that lobbied the Obama White House to dismiss voter intimidation charges against the thugs of the New Black Panther Party, according to Justice Department whistleblower J. Christian Adams. It’s the NAACP that opposes the 21st century school choice movement to free poor minority students from rotten government schools, as black parents in Washington, D.C., have suffered firsthand. It’s the NAACP that elevates “diversity” above academic rigor as its primary education goal. And it’s the NAACP that backs retrograde, race-based set-asides and classifications that encourage cronyism of color championed by their water-carriers at the Congressional Black Caucus.
And it’s the NAACP that tolerates racist sneers and smears like those leveled by the St. Louis NAACP chapter against black limited-government activist Kenneth Gladney, who was derided by civil rights leaders as an “Uncle Tom” after he was beaten bloody by Service Employees International Union henchmen last summer.
Addressing the convention on Monday, first lady Michelle Obama urged NAACP mau-mau-ers to “increase” their “intensity.” She’s a pro at employing intense accusations of racial oppression as a defense against criticism and milking the victim-ocracy for all its worth.
At Princeton, she complained about “further integration and/or assimilation into a white cultural and social structure that will only allow me to remain on the periphery of society; never becoming a full participant.” But rather than remaining “on the periphery,” Mrs. Obama climbed the crooked Chicago ladder on a rapid ascent to the top. She hopped from Princeton to Harvard to prestigious law firms, cushy nonprofit gigs and an exclusive Hyde Park manse, before landing in the East Wing with the greatest of ease.
Question the timing of the tea party-demonizing resolution? You bet. The NAACP’s man at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. finds himself radically out of step with the American mainstream in the lead-up to the 2010 midterms. He sent his wife to the convention to re-establish White House racial authenticity at a time when increasing numbers of minorities are now as fed up with massive debt, usurpation of individual liberties, corruption in Washington and chaos on the border as everyone else.
It’s a black hole bonanza. Cue the distraction: RAAAACIST!
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Why, some of my best friends are coddled people.
All lefties are sick in the brain. This just proves it for the millionth time.
Heh, Jet, good un. But shouldn’t that be “persons of coddle”?
Not me, Chap. I just wondered if the Dem’s Nov prospects drove you to some serious “goodbye cruel world” mulling.
Like I sez, I don’t bring her up, that’s more your worry. Other than her being the one who’ll quite likely end Reid’s career, I don’t think much about her either way. Besides, I’m not GOP, Conservative, etc, just a “small i independent” who won’t miss Harry.
“Well documented”, lol. It’s well documented that I’m the latest incarnation of Krishna. But if you’re looking for straight, apolitical polling that incorporates Rasmussen, you might wanna check out:
Pollster (2010 Nevada Senate General Election)
which yields, at the very least, a statistical dead heat with her leading Reid by almost 5 points.
Lessee here – we got us a candidate who is very well situated to take out the sitting Democratic leader of the US Senate. Yeppers, I think can live with such disasters.
I don’t know much about Angle, but I am very concerned that the GOP has so much trouble fielding first-rate candidates. The cranky old RINO at the top of the ticket in 08 would certainly be an example, and many of the more ideologically attractive (i.e., “conservative”) candidates don’t seem to be much better. McCain’s primary opposition would seem to be an example there.
I am certainly less than enthusiastic about our Senate and governorship candidates in California, although, admittedly, it is a tough state from a conservative’s perspective.
We should be walking away with the Senate seats in Nevada and Kentucky, but we are not. Assuming a victory in Kentucky, we are electing a loose cannon, to say the least, and from a state where we should be able to elect a reliable conservative with no crazy genes.
I guess it is not useful to walk through the party and rip our candidates so I will stop here. But there seem to be a lot of them to be unenthusiastic about.
Wait, wait wait… did you SEE those poll numbers? All of them since she wone the primary showed Angle wth a steady decline. That is not a good sign for her. Every time she opens her mouth it seems it is another half point swing Reid’s way.
Yup, I think others have already made note of the fact that Reid has been unable to break 43% support since the polling started. For Angle – or anyone else for that matter – it doesn’t matter if she wins by 5 points or 50 points. To coin a phrase: a win is a win.
I agree – her statement declaring there are “No Illegal Immigrants Doing Construction Work In Nevada” is one example of a desperate and tottally clueless candidate.
Oh wait. That wasn’t Angle, my bad. No wonder Reid’s kid is trying to run for office as just “Rory 2010.” I dunno if that’ll help, though. (If so, we’ll likely see a run of Democrats changing their last names to “2010″.)
But on the plus size, Chap, since Reid is a shoo-in you might want to sell the farm and make a killing in the wagering markets.
Speaking of…Intrade has Reid as a 52% likely winner. He was at 25% before Angle came along.
There yuh go, Chap. Now the only question left is when you’ll be converting all your assets to cash to lay it down on ol’ Harry at Intrade. We’re talkin’ easy money here, after all!
Never said it was a sure thing. All I said is that Angle took a sure thing in the other direction and drove it into a tree.
So, Chap, then you’re only trying to bolster your spirit by whistling past a graveyard?
Okay – you don’t need to sell the farm, but if actually believed what you’ve said you’d be laying at least a few hundred down. Com’n, open the wallet.
But I understand your reluctance. As I mentioned before even the WH is gloomy about the reality. Barring something wild and totally unforeseen, Reid won’t be the only Dem that Americans will be putting into retirement.
The continual flow of news such as this will likely not lift Dem spirits much:
PPP: Obama, Palin tied 46/46 in 2012 polling.