The NAACP’s decision to pass a resolution demanding that the Tea Party “repudiate those in their ranks who use racist language in their signs and speeches” has mostly been frowned upon—even by liberals who are no friends of the Tea Party. But Ta-Nehisi Coates at The Atlantic says the NAACP was right. The Tea Party, he argues, excels at “the most potent component of racism,” which is “frame-flipping—positioning the bigot as the actual victim.” Glenn Beck said President Obama has a “deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture,” and that universal health care was “stealth reparations.” Iowa Rep. Steve King said that Obama always comes down “on the side that favors the black person.” And the Tea Party itself said in its response that the NAACP “make[s] more money off of race than any slave trader ever.” Coates concludes, “The notion that [the NAACP] are somehow being unfair to the Tea Party, that President Obama should denounce the NAACP, says a lot about our desire to forget and their insistence that we do no such thing.”
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