roachboy

premise problem: the equation between the tea party--an organization which doesn't exist---and the naacp--which is an old-school civil rights organization--is in itself false.
it adds legitimacy to the tea party where none should be.
it's arrogant on the part of the defenders of the tea party to pretend that they're on the same level, that they've done the same things, that they have anything remotely like the same track record.
they don't.
the tea party is only trafficking in this canard because they assume that the acronym registers as "some black organization". that's all there is to it. tv news cycle stuff.


second, if you **know** the naacp doesn't "run the show" for african-american people, then what the are you doing calling for a "repudiation" from them of a group you know they don't control?
particularly after you just get finished whining about how put upon the tea party non-organization is for issuing a repudiation (how if there's no organization?) of it's "fringe elements" (but if there's no organization then there's no center, so what's a fringe?)


this "issue" is an unwitting repetition of the Reconstruction period template for the non-movement that is the tea party: white petit-bourgeois types are the Ultimate Victims. any attempts to address racism happen at the (imaginary) expense of that social group.

if you want a good history, read w.e.b. dubois' "the souls of black folk."

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