NAACP Documents Links Between Certain Tea Party Elements and “Racist Hate Groups”

David Streeter — October 20, 2010 – 12:38 pm | Abusive Holocaust Rhetoric | Election 2010 Comments (0) Add a comment

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has released a new report that documents “the links between certain Tea Party factions and acknowledged racist hate groups in the United States.”

NAACP President Benjamin Jealous declared that “the majority of Tea Party supporters are sincere, principled people of good will.” But the report’s focus is on the certain “Tea Party leaders who espouse racist ideas, advocate violence, or are formally affiliated with white supremacist organizations.”

CBS News wrote about the report:

The report, which CBS News reviewed in advance of its release, is entitled ‘Tea Party Nationalism,’ and it looks at the relationships and differences between six Tea Party groups: FreedomWorks Tea Party, 1776 Tea Party, Tea Party Nation, Tea Party Patriots, ResistNet, and Tea Party Express.

‘In these ranks, an abiding obsession with Barack Obama’s birth certificate is often a stand-in for the belief that the first black president of the United States is not a “real American.” Rather than strict adherence to the Constitution, many Tea Partiers are challenging the provision for birthright citizenship found in the Fourteenth Amendment,’ write authors Devin Burghart and Leonard Zeskind of the Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights, which produced the report for the NAACP.

The authors said research for the report began a year ago when they noticed that the white supremacist group stormfront.org had ‘started a thread to move into the Tea Party.’

CBS also noted:

Other findings include alleged death threats against the president by Mark Williams, former chairman of the Tea Party Express; ‘Nazi glamorization’ by Billy Joe Roper, who is listed as a founder of white nationalist organization White Revolution and a member of the ResistNet Tea Party, for his eulogy for Turner Diaries author William Pierce; and a discussion of the March 20th incident in which members of Congress say they were spat upon and hit with racist slurs during a Tea Party protest. (Many Tea Party sympathizers allege this incident never happened.)

Click here to read more of CBS’ report on the report.

Click here to read the NAACP’s report itself.  

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