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Madame's Nightshirt
Mrs. Peperium
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Contrary to what the White House would like you to most fervently believe, the NAACP story is not about Shirley Sherrod and Andrew Breitbart. It is about the Democrats trying to prevent Category Level 5 Hurricane losses come this November's election.
Borrowing the simple formula put forth by the National Ad Association we will approach this story,
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Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats win in November. Having one’s opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness. - Dr. Mary Frances Berry
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This is the brainic's, Dr. Mary Frances Berry, resume from her employer's website, UofPenn :
Mary Frances Berry has been a Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History since 1987. She received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan and JD from the University of Michigan Law School. She is the author of nine books, including And Justice For All: The United States Commission On Civil Rights And the Struggle For Freedom in America (2009); My Face is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations (2005); The Pig Farmer's Daugher and Other Tales of American Justice: Episodes of Racism and Sexism in the Courts from 1865 to the Present (1999); Black Resistance, White Law: A History of Constitutional Racism in America (1994, orig. 1971); The Politics of Parenthood: Child Care, Women's Rights, and the Myth of the Good Mother (1993); Why ERA Failed: Politics, Women's Rights, and the Amending Process of the Constitution (1986); Long Memory: The Black Experience in America, with John Blassingame (1982); and Military Necessity and Civil Rights Policy: Black Citizenship and the Constitution, 1861-1868 (1977).
Professor Berry has had a distinguished career in public service. From 1980 to 2004, she was a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and from 1993-2004 served as Chair. Between 1977 and 1980, Dr. Berry served as the Assistant Secretary for Education in the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW). She has also served as Provost of the University of Maryland and Chancellor of the University of Colorado at Boulder.
In recognition of her scholarship and public service, Professor Berry has received 32 honorary doctoral degrees and many awards, including the NAACP's Roy Wilkins Award, the Rosa Parks Award of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the Ebony Magazine Black Achievement Award. She is one of 75 women featured in I Dream A World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America. Sienna College Research Institute and the Women's Hall of Fame designated her one of "America's Women of the Century." In 1990-91 she was President of the Organization of American Historians.
Professor Berry teaches the History of American Law, and the History of Law and Social Policy. She also advises students in African American History.
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So once again, this is the brainiac who interestingly has spent her life dealing with the issue of racism doesn't seem to have moral issues with the Democrats' tactic. In fact, she terms it effective:
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"Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats win in November. Having one’s opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness."
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The state of joblessness among African Americans :
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Unemployment for African Americans is projected to reach a 25-year high this year, according to a study released Thursday by an economic think tank, with the national rate soaring to 17.2 percent and the rates in five states exceeding 20 percent.
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Now we get to the eggs of the story:
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:Why we passed our Tea Party resolution
This week at the NAACP annual convention, we passed over 75 resolutions. They addressed critical issues from education equity, to fixing our broken criminal justice and immigration systems, to our top priority: jobs, jobs, jobs.One resolution, which was highlighted in my convention speech, created media frenzy: The unanimously passed resolution demanded that the leadership of the Tea Party repudiate its racist elements and make it clear that there is no space in the organization for bigotry...
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A butter pat of a quote regarding the unanimously passed resolution :
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"Over 2000 [NAACP] delegates voted."
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Over 2000 delegates to the NAACP have decided there are racist elements within the tea party based upon no proof. Interesting, no? Even more interesting, the actual language of the unanimously passed NAACP resolution claiming yet-to-be-proven racism in the Tea Party has yet to be released. The NAACP has said they are waiting until October to surprise us. A brief yet sizzling discussion on the unanimously passed, yet-to-be released NAACP resolution claiming yet-to-be-proven racism in the Tea Party,
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Finally the eggs begin tossing with a direct hit to the face of the President of the NAACP,
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Egg on face - "...you are manufacturing this the summer where the economy is the number one issue affecting blacks and whites. This country can ill-afford the schism of race to be exploited on the false premise of the tea party being racist" - Andrew Breitbart to NAACP President Ben Jealous.
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More egg, courtesy of Breitbart, arrived a few days later with a video snippet of a woman speaking at a NAACP dinner last March. The woman, an employee of the USDA, was relating a story to the audience of her epiphany when being faced with a white farmer who needed help. In the audience sat the President of the NAACP. The same NAACP President who defended the unanimously passed, yet-to-be-released-to the-public NAACP resolution claiming yet-to-be-proven racism in the Tea Party a few months later. The epiphany the woman was relating happened 20+ years earlier when she was at a non-profit. In other words, long before the woman had gone to work for the government. Interestingly in and among her remarks that day, she did tell the NAACP audience to consider seeking work within the government as you cannot be fired.
Why that was interesting because when the video snippet was released she was fired. That's right a government employee was fired. By the White House no less. Yes, the White House came out of nowhere and demanded she pull over to the side of the road. (What road it was she was to get to the side of has yet to be determined) Truth be told the White House's firing did happen after the NAACP issued a statement condemning the woman's remarks as well as the behavior of the audience members. That aspect was even more interesting because the President of the NAACP who had passed the unanimously passed, yet-to-be-released-to-the-public NAACP resolution claiming yet-to-be-proven racism in the Tea Party had been in the audience listening to the woman speak. He had heard her remarks when she originally said them-- last March. Even more interesting The NAACP president had the full tape of her full remarks which Andrew Breitbart did not have. Talk about the haves and have nots but I digress. Interestingly, the snippets of the speech Andrew Breitbart did have included the fact the NAACP president was in the audience and now the NAACP was concerned with the audience's behavior as well as the woman's words --some 4 months later.
Then something even more interesting happened. In the middle of the night the White House decided they were wrong in firing the woman. They wanted her to come back to the USDA. The WH press secretary even issued Wikopedia's textbook example of a non-apology "mistakes were made" to the woman from that day's presser. He said they --the White House--didn't know where she was so, pressed by a reporter, took the chance to speak directly to her by speaking directly in the camera. Then, even more interestingly the next day, the President called the woman (a seven minute phone call) to encourage her to come back to work. Then even more interestingly the President gave an interview a few hours later where he said the head of the USDA was the one who jumped the gun by firing her. The woman said to the media she pleased the President called her but doesn't know yet if she really wants to return to work. She's examining her options. But what is really interesting, she's now saying far more interesting things than she said at the NAACP dinner. These new and even more interesting remarks come after the WH press secretary publicly issued his non-apology apology, the head of the USDA apologized for letting the President fire his employee and the President let the country know about her unique life story/pain experience that qualifies her for the new job at the USDA he's now offering her,
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On Andrew Breitbart SHERROD : I know I've gotten past black versus white. He's probably the person who's never gotten past it and never attempted to get past it. [...]
I think he would like to get us stuck back in the times of slavery. That's where I think he would like to see all black people end up again. And...
COOPER: You think -- you think he's racist?
SHERROD: ... I think he's so vicious. Yes, I do.
And I think that's why he's so vicious against a black president, you know. He would go after me. I don't think it was even the NAACP he was totally after. I think he was after a black president.
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If we are in luck, when Andrew Breitbart returns from his 3 day holiday, he will take the-still-unclaimed-after-all-of-this $100,000 reward for video proof of the tea party calling members of the Black Caucus the n-word, and offer it up for video proof that he, Andrew Breitbart is the racist and that he's after a black president.If there isn't such a thing as a Category Level 6 Hurricane, fear not, if the Democrats keep this going we will see one come election day.
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