Tea Party to NAACP: How You Like Us Now?

The media frenzy continues over the NAACP’s resolution “calling on Tea Party leaders to repudiate those in their ranks who use racist language in their signs and speeches.”

In an op-ed piece, NAACP President and CEO Ben Jealous wrote:

Dick Armey and other Tea Party leaders have not only refused to disavow the racism -- they have denied it.

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The NAACP is working hard to move our nation forward. We have joined with almost 200 other organizations representing people of all races, creeds and faiths to form a movement to pull America back together and put America back to work. “One Nation Working Together” is the antithesis to the bitter polarization being bred by the Tea Party and its ilk. It represents a clarion call to unity, to come together as a country.

Dick Armey’s Freedom Works is an affiliate of the National Tea Party Federation whose membership rules expressly reject Birthers, hate speech and racial discrimination.

Freedom Works plans to come together on Aug. 27 and strategize on how to “take America back.”

As one commenter wrote on my Facebook wall:

Interesting how they’ve adopted images from the 60’s Black Power Movement for their cause, isn’t it?

Indeed it is. But as Pablo Picasso famously said, “Good artists copy, great artists steal.”