Al Sharpton on Tea Party: "There Clearly Are Some Racial Leaves In Their Tea Bag"
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 9:51 PM
Race hustlers Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson jumped into the NAACP-tea party controversy today.
Sharpton told reporters, “There clearly are some racial leaves in their tea bags.”
The Rev. Al Sharpton, center, addresses the media during a news conference at the 101st annual NAACP convention as NAACP President Ben Jealous, left, and Rev. Jesse Jackson look on Wednesday, July 14, 2010, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP/Ed Zurga)
The AP reported:
The Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton sought Wednesday to steer attention away from an NAACP resolution condemning racism within the tea party movement, saying focus should remain on jobs and an upcoming march in Washington.
Jackson deflected questions about the resolution at a news conference during the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Kansas City.
“We will not be diverted or otherwise distracted by any other message except putting America back to work,” Jackson said a day after convention delegates approved the resolution. “We want jobs and justice and peace.”
Sharpton was a little more direct, saying issues surrounding the tea party go beyond claims of racism. He said the civil rights movement sought to pressure the federal government to step in when states were enforcing segregation laws, and the tea party’s focus on states’ rights puts people at risk.
“They talk about restoring dignity. They are really talking about restoring a time before the federal government intervened and protected the rights of people,” Sharpton said.
He noted Arizona’s new law that directs local and state law enforcement to take on federal duties by questioning people about their immigration status, after they’ve been stopped for another crime, if there’s reason to suspect they’re in the U.S. illegally.
“There clearly are some racial leaves in their tea bag,” Sharpton said. “But this is not just about race. It is about how you see government.”
…Mark Williams, a spokesman for the Tea Party Express, said Wednesday it was unfortunate that the NAACP has chosen to “profiteer off race-baiting and fear mongering” when it could be doing so much to help the black community.
He also questioned the motives of Sharpton, Jackson and NAACP officials, suggesting they were taking advantage of the publicity the resolution generated.
“I’m not surprised they are jumping into the fray here because the NAACP just tapped a Gulf oil well full of cash contributions that will arrive from this resolution,” Williams said. “And I know Al and Jesse want their piece of it. The slave traders of the 16th century should have been as good at exploiting Africans as these people are, because it’s just disgusting.”
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Neo commented:
I believe that when they finish counting the votes in November and looking for what really happened, it will be obvious that having a Democratic surrogate, namely the NAACP, go after the Tea party with cries of “Racist !” was a really bad idea. It will do nothing except make anyone leaning toward the Tea Party even more angry than before .. energizing those who were sitting on the sidelines of the Tea Party to “Vote the Muthers Out.”
Having the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton coming in to mix it up will spell the end of the “Civil Rights Movement” as it has been known for the last 50 years.
Mon commented:
Jessie Jackson Jr.’s video tape of the Black Congressional Congress march through “racist” Tea Party Patriots at “kill the (healthcare) bill” rally, is void of accused racial slurs. If slurs existed, the shake down artists would have jumped into “get money” mode, and matter would have been brought to the forefront last spring.
Jim commented:
Alright Reverend Al, prove it.
(He can’t.)
Kenny Solomon commented:
To the music of “Charlie Brown” by The Coasters:
Who comes runnin’ when the cops get out of hand ?
Who thinks the mayor’s in the Klu Klux Klan ?
Yellin’ and a screamin’ as he’s speakin’ to a mob.
He wears expensive suits, but he doesn’t have a job.
Reverend Al.
Reverend Al.
He’s your pal.
Reverend Al.
He’s sappin’ off the people in his own community………
“Why is the white man always pickin’ on me ?”
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Way back in the day when I used to live in NY, there were these two guys on the radio (now on satellite) that made Stern sound like a rookie (and still do)…… They’re known as Opie & Anthony.
Anthony’s brother (Brother Joe) did some of the best parody tracks and this is one of ‘em……. Pretty much the bestest evah snark-across-the-ample-bowsprit of Da Rev.
Want to hear the whole song ?
Low-res audio is on a YouTube page here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3SuYc_1ayQ
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Cheers !
Kenny Solomon
Eeeeevil Jooooooooooo Crackkka
gus commented:
Mon!! We all know that. The hilarity is in the MFM preaching to the converted.
This is all they have left. Disinformation and lies.
Don’t kid yourself, all of these RACE GRIEVANCE MONGERS are not INDEPENDANTLY coming up with this nonsense.
This is ASTRO-TURF at it’s worst.
AuntieMadder commented:
“They talk about restoring dignity. They are really talking about restoring a time before the federal government intervened and protected the rights of people,” Sharpton said.
I have yet to hear anyone from the TEA Party talk about restoring dignity. Either I missed that speech or Sharpton just made that sh!t up.
That Sharpton and Jackson are against enforcing illegal immigration runs counter to their claim of wanting to jobs for blacks.
AuntieMadder commented:
Eeeeevil Jooooooooooo Crackkka
The worst kinda’ crackkka.
Olivia1998 commented:
Rev Al should have to prove it. He can’t make claims about the Tea Party like he did the Duke boys and then walk away when and never say sorry
mark commented:
Accusations, distractions, and lies…
In the meantime:
-tens of millions of Americans are without work
-trillions of dollars of debt keep piling up
-millions of gallons of oil keep pouring into the Gulf.
-Europe is warning Obama about the US and EU failing relationship
-Obama is on vacation again.
Opus #6 commented:
Generic cries of racism. Where are the specifics?
I specifically see the NAACP LEADERSHIP calling good Americans racist. SHAME ON THEM!
P. Aaron commented:
I was amazed to see that the AP printed a COMPLETE response from the TEA Party rep. A response that was factual, pointed, and rings true to many Americans that are sick of the guilt-tripping race baiting that’s been shoved at them for these many decades by these hustler-punks.
Recovered Demoholic commented:
Headlines in newMSM: “newNAACP, newBPP, newDOJ, newCBC, and newACLU join forces to gin up racial discord in U.S.”
What could go wrong? After spitting in the wind, will they blame the results on disgusted Republican, Independent, and Democratic voters? Sharpton and Jackson say they have it on tape, and are flying to D.C. for their envelopes. Stay tuned.
jorgen commented:
“There Clealy Are Some Racial Leaves In Their Tea Bag”
Of course there is: all races are represented.
BarbaraS commented:
Dims are so obvious. They have now called in their race baiters to try to bring down the tea party. The calls of racism have not worked in some time. Why would they think they will work now? It is all they have.
Jim commented:
NAACP of today is THE MOST RACIST organization that has ever existed in American history… EVER! That includes the KKK and all others. Messrs. Sharpton & Jackson are the flip side ofthe same coin as Lester Maddox and George Wallace. Hmm. Weren’t they Democrats, too?
BarbaraS commented:
I see Al has picked up Obama’s “clearly” just before he tells a lie. Does Al’s admiration extend that far? Nah, Al lies all the time too.
Callipygian1 commented:
Funny how Irreverent Al is all about redistribution of wealth… but he refuses to pay legal judgements against him.
It’s sad that blacks consider these two fourflushers to be their spokemen, and cannot see the men to be truly admired; -Clarence Thomas, Armstrong Williams, Allen West and myriad others that want America to succeed and care more about personal growth and responsibility than assigning blame.
AuntieMadder commented:
BarbaraS
July 14th, 2010 | 11:23 pm | #22
I see Al has picked up Obama’s “clearly” just before he tells a lie.
I read a piece by an investigator about detecting when someone is lying and using extra, unnecessary words is often – not always – but often a sign that the speaker is lying.
jainphx commented:
Heck it ain’t enough to take over the banks, and the car industry, and student loans. No they have to divide the country on racial lines. The damage being done is getting close to the tipping point and I think it’s by design. Man I hate floorflushers And conniving race baiters. What good has either of these crooks done for anybody. They bleed both sides. Equal opportunity crooks.
Ben commented:
I find their lack of objective evidence coupled with their history and accusations amusing in the extreme.
It is as though merely disagreeing with Democrat party line is sufficient evidence of racism, facts be damned.
IOpian commented:
Sharpton is a political pimp.
Arch commented:
It is wonderful to see that the problems in the black community have been solved to such a degree that their leadership can focus on the task of denying Americans their First Amendment rights.
We are delighted that the strength of the black family has been restored. We anticipate a steep decline in teen pregnancy among black women and look forward to the increase in marriages so that the number of black children born to single mothers will decline from its current level of 70%. Our prayers have been answered now that black women (6.5%) will no longer account for 80% of the country’s abortions.
We are looking forward to reading the DoJ National Crime Victimization Survey and the FBI statistics on homicide, expecting to see that the percentages of rapes and murders committed by black males will fall below 50% of the national totals.
We are overjoyed that recent reports that black unemployment was four times the national average have been proven false.
We expect to see families whose Gulf vacation plans have been dashed by the BP oil spill will instead take their children on evening walking tours hosted by black mayors of Detroit, Buffalo, Birmingham and Houston.
We know these things will happen because Reverends Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are honorable men of the cloth and their words are bond. Adding to their credibility is the endorsement of that great American patriot, Michelle Obama.
Or, am I being premature?
Lenore commented:
Any proof of all this racism?
David Johnson commented:
Bottom-feeding catfish.
Charlie Gibson commented:
Post racial my @$$!
Chris Vehr commented:
..as if Shapton and Jackson aren’t the biggest racists on the planet. The black people I know wish those guys would just shut up.
Reaganite Republican commented:
Well put, Mr Williams-
Race Cardman commented:
Anybody see any white (asian, hispanic) people standing with Rev. Al?
Any non-blacks work on the staff of Rev. Al?
RandyChandler commented:
And there certainly is hateful venom in the blacklib nutbag.
RickZ commented:
# 7 gus:
“This is ASTRO-TURF at it’s worst.”
Personally, I think it is afroturfing at its worst. Ginned up cries of white racism shouted at Tea Party participants. What else can it be called?
Rev. jomojava commented:
“We will not be diverted or otherwise distracted by any other message except putting America back to work”
Does Rev. Jesse have a clue what real “work” means?
Hedgehog commented:
Everyone knew that these grifters would show up to get in on the action. If anything, given their records, their involvement should make that ridiculous resolution look all the more ridiculous. I hope that people of color wake up and realize just how cynically they are being used by the Communists.
neomom commented:
He wears expensive suits, but he doesn’t have a job.
Kenny, that’s world class funny.
I never paid attention to these idiots until Jesse extorted a six figure amount from NASCAR for his “Rainbow Coalition”.
These liars and thieves are the cause of the continuing misery in the black community. It’s just that simple.
MWTexas commented:
I’d be willing to bet that Al uses tea leave shampoo to get that luxuriously silky hair.
Galt commented:
Wow, Al Sharpton calling someone else a racist… that is surely the pot calling the kettle–
– oh, I see the trap they’re laying for us!
TheScribbler commented:
The only two cards in these people hands are the race card and the blame it on Bush card.
Melvin Winter commented:
Related: NAACP Hosts National Race Card Tournament http://optoons.blogspot.com/2010/07/naacp-hosts-national-race-card.html
bg commented:
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Al Sharpton, the epitome of a “racial uniter”.. /sarc/
[Equally inexplicable is how someone with Sharpton’s professed abhorrence for racial insensitivity could have spent so many years as
a strong supporter of the late Khalid Abdul Muhammad, whose vulgar diatribes against whites were too incendiary for even Louis Farrakhan
to condone.
Perhaps you remember Mr. Muhammad, who publicly referred to Jews
as “slumlords in the black community” who are busy “sucking our [black’] blood on a daily and consistent basis”; who said that Jews had provoked Adolf Hitler when they “went in there, in Germany, the way they do everywhere they go, and they supplanted, they usurped”; who said that blacks, in retribution against South African whites of the apartheid era, should “kill the women,…kill the children,…kill the babies,…kill the blind,…kill the crippled,…kill the faggot,…kill the lesbian,…kill them all”; who praised Colin Ferguson, a black man who had shot some twenty white and Asian commuters (killing six of them) in a racially motivated 1993 shooting spree aboard a New York commuter train, as a hero who possessed the courage to “just kill every goddamn cracker that he saw”; who advised blacks that “[t]here are no good crackers, and if you find one, kill him before he changes”; who told a Donahue television audience in May 1994 that “[t]here is a little bit of Hitler in all white people”; and who characterized black conservatives as “boot-licking, butt-licking, bamboozled, half-baked, half-fried, sissified, punkified, pasteurized, homogenized Ni**er[s].”
Perhaps you think that an individual who could utter such filth must be
a hollow-headed racist. Well, Al Sharpton did not think so, not by any means. In fact, Sharpton actually lauded Muhammad for being nothing less than “a very articulate and courageous brother.”]
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Greg commented:
Outside the black panther nuts, AL and Jesse are the biggest racists in America and any company that responds to their extortion should be boycotted. When tanning services were being taxed, congress should have given equal time to taxing hair straightener. The refference to teabag by sharpton is about as racist
bg commented:
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“They talk about restoring dignity. They are really talking about restoring a time before the federal government intervened and protected the rights of people,” Sharpton said.
who are Sharpton’s people, the ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS?? /duh sarc/
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justasimplepatriot commented:
I think Americans are fed-up with minorities playing the race card.
This is simply piling on more disgust for this President and his administration.
Dennis commented:
If the race baiting Al Sharpton is against it, then I’m probably for it. These Bas***ds are creating and legitimizing White on Black racism where it has not existed before. They are spoiling for a race war.
aprilnovember811 commented:
Hey Al, not so Sharpton(hat tip Mark Levin,) remember Tawana Brawley? Wasn’t that also a set up to try to pin your phony charge of racism on European Americans? I think there are clearly some racists at the National Association for the Advancement of Communist People. It’s not that there African descent Al, it’s that they’re RED!
Watson commented:
Sinister clown.
Rock commented:
Al, and Jesse calling anyone racist, what a joke. The old adage of the pot and the kettle comes to mind immediately. But I suspect that neither man understand that the race card has been over played and lost much of sting.
down with dems commented:
Africans sold their fellow Africans into slavery. Africans fought each other, and the victors took the losers prisoner and sold them into slavery. Enough with the mean white slavemaster analogy — African hands have blood on them too.
So much for the post-racial president and post-racial America. I’ve never heard so much race baiting and race hating in my life. Al and Jesse run their mouths about the Tea Party and LeBron James’s old coach but don’t say ANYTHING about black students attacking a white student on a schoolbus in the St. Louis area and don’t say a peep about Kenneth Gladney’s beatdown. The President calls a white cop stupid, hires racists like that green jobs czar, protects the Black Panthers, and is suing Arizona in order to prevent immigration enforcement.
Post-racial president? More like MOST racial president.
down with dems commented:
RockNo Gravatar
July 15th, 2010 | 9:49 am | #52
Hope your pot and kettle are any color but black, because otherwise that would be RACIST
Chessy T Cat commented:
Al Sharpton is a classic racist. Works both ways there, Al.
Rock commented:
@ down with dems>> Actually I just checked, and I have a mixture colors under the counter, with the last one used and cleaned ending up on top. But I’m sure Al and gang to somehow claim raciest
Stanley commented:
“There clearly are some racial leaves in their tea bag,” Sharpton said. “But this is not just about race. It is about how you see government.”
Psychic game! No! It’s totally about how a group of minds who represent the government, see themselves. Master or Servant? When I look at government I don’t see color, I see CORRUPTION.
BarbaraS commented:
It’s really hilarious that the dims sent the NAACP, Jackson and Sharpton out at the same time to call the tea party racist. They must have had a meeting with Obama and decided that Americans are stupid clunks who will fall for anything and the cry of racist trumps everything. Everyone, especially republicans dread being called a racist. They just don’t get. Their last resort has been used so much it has lost its teeth. We just don’t cre what they call us. We just want to get rid of them. And we will in November. We may not be able to get rid of Obama but we can pull his teeth.
donh commented:
The only two stories I recall of a lynching of Obama in effigy were in Jimmy Carter’s home town of Plains GA, and in a RI school classroom after the teachers were fired in a budget battle.
militant conservative commented:
Jesse, how is your son by someone other than your wife doing. Hipocrite. found more interesting stuff on toilet paper in the bathroom.
powder is dry
bg commented:
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no RACISM or HATRED here, no, no, no..
“NBPP is not a hate group or racist organization”
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