First Lady Michelle Obama spoke to the NAACP Monday in Kansas City, Missouri. delivering the keynote speech at their annual convention.  Here’s an excerpt of what she said:

The past several days have seen an emphasis on racial issues in the headlines.  This renewed fire has seemingly been re-ignited by the civil rights commission’s ongoing investigation into the decision not to prosecute two members of The New Black Panther Party who were caught on camera intimidating with billy clubs and verbally harassing white voters at a voting precinct in Philadelphia on Election Day 2008.

As the days went along, previously unseen videos of King Shabazz surfaced.   One of the videos featured Shabazz ranting and raving to a gathering crowd on a street corner, advocating the murder of white babies.  Another, shown last night on Fox News, featured New Black Panther Party Leader Malik Shabazz making fun of the whole DOJ situation, bragging about the two members not being prosecuted.  Another video, from 2002, showed Shabazz asking the audience to applaud for Osama Bin Laden!  He refused to apologize for it on “Geraldo at Large” last Weekend when Geraldo asked him to.

That brings us to today, when the nation’s largest civil rights group is expected to condemn what it calls racist elements in the Tea Party movement.

According to the proposed resolution,  Tea Party members have used “racial epithets,” have verbally abused black members of Congress and threatened them, and protestors have engaged in “explicitly racist behavior” and “displayed signs and posters intended to degrade people of color generally and President Barack Obama specifically”. 

NAACP spokeswoman Leila McDowell told ABC News:

We’re deeply concerned about elements that are trying to move the country back, trying to reverse progress that we’ve made.  We are asking that the law-abiding members of the Tea Party repudiate those racist elements, that they recognize the historic and present racist elements that are within the Tea Party movement.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, in coordination with 170 other groups, including labor unions, is planning a protest march in Washington, D.C., Oct. 10 in a futile attempt to build momentum against the Tea Party.

According to Ms. McDowell:

The “One Nation” march is designed as an antithesis to the Tea Party, and it’s about “pulling America together and back to work.

I wonder if this new organization is affiliated with another one I found by simply “Binging” “One Nation”?   This is from their website, onenationforall.org:

One Nation is a national philanthropic initiative that promotes pluralism and inclusion in America.

One Nation does this by developing strategies that help Americans connect on a person-to-person basis to highlight our shared values and aspirations as Americans. By bringing Americans together, regardless of faith or background, we seek to help change misperceptions about American Muslims, a minority group that has faced increased marginalization since 9/11.

We also sponsor resources, such as this site, that provide media professionals easy access to experts that can speak credibly about issues related to the American Muslim community and information that more accurately reflects the American Muslim experience.

I have no proof that the two groups are affiliated.  I just thought it was interesting that this new group did not do any research to see if that name was already out there.

Why is all this racial hatred making the headlines during an administration that was supposed to be post-racial?

Dr.  Thomas Sowell, distinguished Economist and senior fellow at the Hoover Institute in Stanford, Calif., wrote these remarkable words in an article titled,”A Post-Racial President?”, on July 28, 2009:

Many people hoped that the election of a black President of the United States would mark our entering a “post-racial” era, when we could finally put some ugly aspects of our history behind us.

That is quite understandable. But it takes two to tango. Those of us who want to see racism on its way out need to realize that others benefit greatly from crying racism. They benefit politically, financially, and socially.

Barack Obama has been allied with such people for decades. He found it expedient to appeal to a wider electorate as a post-racial candidate, just as he has found it expedient to say a lot of other popular things, about campaign finance, about transparency in government, about not rushing legislation through Congress without having it first posted on the Internet long enough to be studied– all of which turned to be the direct opposite of what he actually did after getting elected.

…To think that someone who has spent years promoting grievance and polarization was going to bring us all together as president is a triumph of wishful thinking over reality.

Not only Barack Obama’s past, but his present, tell the same story. His appointment of an attorney general who called America “a nation of cowards” for not dialoguing about race was a foretaste of what to expect from Eric Holder.

The way Attorney General Holder has refused to prosecute young black thugs who gathered at a voting site with menacing clubs, in blatant violation of federal laws against intimidating voters, speaks louder than any words from him or his president.

Those actions are speaking to the American people, almost a year later, in a louder voice than ever.  And Americans do not appreciate its’ tone.

Sources:  drudgereport.com, abcnews.go.com, realclearpolitics.com, onenationforall.org