On Tuesday at the NAACP's (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) 101st annual convention being held in Kansas City, Missouri, the organization passed a resolution that condemns what it feels is rampant racism in the Tea Party movement.
“We take no issue with the Tea Party. We believe in freedom of assembly and people raising their voices in a democracy,” NAACP President and CEO Ben Jealous said in a statement.
"We take issue with the Tea Party’s continued tolerance for bigotry and bigoted statements. The time has come for them to accept the responsibility that comes with influence and make clear there is no space for racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in their movement,” Jealous added.
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a Tea Party favorite, said the charge from the NAACP is “false, appalling, and is a regressive and diversionary tactic to change the subject at hand.”
“To be unjustly accused of association with what Reagan so aptly called that ‘legacy of evil’ is a traumatizing experience, and one of which the honest, freedom-loving patriots of the Tea Party movement are truly undeserving.”
Palin further added that the only purpose of such an accusation is to dissuade Americans from joining the Tea Party, a movement she said is “motivated by love of country and all that is good and honest about our proud and diverse nation.”
Mark Williams, national spokesman of the Tea Party Express, told CNN, “I am disinclined to take lectures on racial sensitivity from a group that insists on calling black people, ‘Colored,’” “The Tea Party [movement] is about the constitution of this country…[and] ensuring equality for each and every individual human being.”
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