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Muslim Civil Rights Group Endorses NAACP Condemnation Of Tea Party For Harboring Racists

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CAIR, the national group focused on protecting civil rights for the nation's Muslim population, is standing in support of the NAACP's resolution calling on Tea Party leaders to repudiate racism in their ranks. In a strongly-worded statement released this afternoon, CAIR spokesperson Ibrahim Hooper said that his group shares the NAACP's concerns about racist rhetoric found among tea partiers.

"If the Tea Party wishes to be taken seriously by mainstream Americans, it must repudiate all those who express or promote extremist, racist or bigoted views while claiming to be affiliated with the movement," he said.

The statement comes as the debate over building a Muslim community center and mosque near Ground Zero in Manhattan has fired up many groups on the right, some of whom have suggested letting Muslims worship near the site of the World Trade Center attacks is tantamount to letting the terrorists win.

For it's part, the NAACP resolution has produced a fair amount of outrage on the right with some tea party leaders suggesting it shows that the NAACP is itself a racist organization.

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July 15, 2010 5:36 PM   

Next up La Raza?

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July 15, 2010 6:16 PM    in reply to Walter Mitty

I sure hope so.

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July 15, 2010 6:26 PM   

KABOOM!!!

Did TPM report on this letter from a Tea Party leader?

http://politicalcorrection.org/blog/201007150012

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July 15, 2010 7:51 PM   

La Raza and the ADL must also step up to the plate, join the NAACP and demand tea party leaders condemn the racists among them and stop welcoming white supremacists into their ranks.

The problem is that teabaggers are racist and racism is the driving force behind their movement.

Forget the deficit---they are the ones who twice elected Bush who took a record surplus and turned it into a record deficit.
They were ok with Govt spying on Americans, they were ok with all of Bush's wild spending...

What enraged them is having a Black man as President.

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July 15, 2010 8:13 PM   

The TeaScrotums need to be called out for being inbred, corn-nut teeth, ignorant, backwoods, kid diddlin', whore mongering, racist, birthers, rights denying, science denying, homophobic, closeted gay, Sarah Palin promoting, asswipes. There I said it. Again.

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July 15, 2010 8:14 PM   

The TeaScrotums need to be called out for being inbred, corn-nut teeth, ignorant, backwoods, kid diddlin', whore mongering, racist, birthers, rights denying, science denying, homophobic, closeted gay, Sarah Palin promoting, asswipes. There I said it. Again.

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July 16, 2010 2:27 AM   

I heard someone from the NAACP on Countdown the other night say something telling. This is a paraphrase since I don't recall the quote: if there's no racism in the tea parties, who's threatening to kill us for saying there's racism in the tea parties?

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July 16, 2010 4:40 AM    in reply to ericf

I saw that interview as well. I thought it was very telling.

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