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Many groups are quick to paint those who participate in the Tea Party Movement(Taxed Enough Already) as racists. This is done without really knowing what they are truly talking about. The Racist card is very overused. Especially today. But it still happens.

However, the NAACP is planning on condemning every Tea Party Movement member of racism.

The NAACP today is set to vote on a resolution to condemn the Tea Party movement for “explicitly racist behavior.” – CBS News

Sure, there are signs that might promote individual ideas but the Tea Party movement is not about racism. In fact, they go out of the way to point that out.

Nearly since its inception, the Tea Party movement has sought to shake off its image as racist. Brendan Steinhauser, director of campaigns for FreedomWorks, a group that has facilitated the Tea Party movement, told the Washington Post the charges of racism are not justified.

“I think there’s been a concerted effort to make us look like were are extreme,” he said. “We’re a very mainstream movement that talks about the debt, the bailouts, the spending.”

Could it be that minority groups who are living off the government are worried about their ability to live off the government if the Tea Party has it’s way?

All the NAACP will accomplish is alienating those who are in the Tea Party and continue to paint themselves as intolerant. Possibly even racist in their views as well. Which the St. Louis Tea Party certainly believes with this statement release.

St. Louis Tea Party Coalition Resolution
July 12, 2010
Whereas, the National Coalition for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded to advance the position of minority groups, and

Whereas a hallmark of the NAACP has been to do the important work of identifying and exposing
remaining vestiges of racism and discrimination, and

Whereas the NAACP vocally stands against the discriminatory and harmful practice of labeling people
with a broad brush, and

Whereas the NAACP decided to launch their 101st National Convention with a resolution condemning
the Tea Party movement and labeling millions of their fellow Americans who subscribe to the movement
as “racists”, and

Whereas the “Tea Party movement” is a label applied to patriotic Americans who have expressed their
political free speech in the grand tradition of all that is American, that being the spirited expression of
viewpoints in a 100% peaceful manner, and

Whereas, it is a hallmark of America that we settle our disputes civilly and avoid the gutter tactic of
attempting to silence opponents by inflammatory name-calling, and

Whereas the very term “racist” has diminished meaning due to its overuse by political partisans including
members of the NAACP, and

Whereas, the NAACP had an opportunity to preserve some semblance of legitimacy by standing up
for Ken Gladney, the victim of a vicious racist battery conducted by a black avowed communist, even
labeling him an “Uncle Tom”, but chose instead to use the opportunity to mock the St. Louis Tea Party,
and

Whereas, the NAACP has refused to denounce the New Black Panther’s call to murder white cops and
their babies, and

Whereas, the NAACP does its entire membership a grave disservice by hypocritically engaging in the
very conduct it purports to oppose,

Now therefore be it resolved that the St. Louis Tea Party condemns the NAACP for lowering itself to the
dishonorable position of a partisan political attack dog organization, and,
Be it further resolved that the St. Louis Tea Party calls on similar organizations to join in unanimous
condemnation of this despicable behavior, and

Be it further resolved that we demand that the NAACP withdrawal their bigoted, false and inflammatory
resolution against the tea party for any further consideration, and
Be it further resolved that these organizations call on the Internal Revenue Service to evenly apply their
standards and consider the tax-exempt status of the NAACP considering the degree to which they are
engaging in habitual partisan political behavior.

Adopted unanimously, this day, July 12th, in the year of our Lord, 2010.

A copy of this resolution shall be sent immediately to the NAACP at: washingtonbureau@naacpnet.org – St. Louis Tea Party

Where is the tolerance from all groups? Including minorities. Rhetoric from those on the left does nothing to solve the problem. In fact it shows that the left is less tolerant of others than the right.