Showing posts with label NAACP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NAACP. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 19, 2022

QOTD -- Dismantling Democracy

 

"Senators, our democracy may be standing in its final hour.  The bedrock of freedom in America lies in our sacred right to vote.  Without it, everything else crumbles.  We still have time to act, but the window of opportunity is rapidly narrowing.  Let's not miss this critical moment to pass federal voting rights protections, what may be our last hope to save our democracy." -- Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP, in a letter to 100 Senators in the likely futile attempt to appeal to a mojority's sense of justice and morality to pass voting rights legislation.

His plea essentially to the two corrupted Democratic Senators:

"Democratic senators:  what good is preserving a dysfuntional tradition of bipartisanship if bipartisanship cannot even preserve democracy? It is morally inconsistent to praise voting rights legislation while allowing a procedural rule to tank it.

Let's be honest, every voter suppression bill passed in the 19 states across the country has been passed by Republicans alone.  If one party can dismantle our democracy on its own, the other party should muster the courage to safeguard it."

After the maneuvering is over, and the votes are taken, and the voting rights legislation goes down, every Republican and Sinemanchin must be held to account for their decisions to dismantle American democracy.  This is a turning point in our history, and those on the wrong side of history must ultimately pay for their actions (as it's said, revenge is a dish best served cold).


Wednesday, July 11, 2012

They Don't Like The Smell Of What Willard Is Cooking

He tried his best to rush it by his NAACP audience, but while the term "Obamacare" was still fresh in handsomely insured Willard "Millionaire Mitt" Romney's foie gras hole, he had to pause and hear some un-moderated reactions:

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Party Poopers


As we noted on Monday, the NAACP wasn't exactly swift in condemning the racist strains in the tea party "movement" and calling out the likes of Winky and Dick "Major Dick" Armey to condemn the racist behavior of a number of party followers. The wording of the NAACP resolution was also fairly mild, not condemning the "movement" as a whole, but saying that the leadership should make it clear that racists are not welcome (but that might force a collapse of the movement -- editor's note).

Almost immediately after the NAACP's challenge was issued, the wingnut right rose in phony outrage, twisting the NAACP's words into a blanket condemnation, or in Winky's case, a personal attack. Not surprisingly, they've chosen to use the issue for political purposes, rather than deal with the issue itself. E. J. Dionne has a great op-ed piece exposing the right-wing's bob-and-weave tactics.

Monday, July 12, 2010

NAACP's Quick Response System


Looks like the NAACP is just now considering a resolution condemning tea bagger racism. Hmmm... Welcome to the party, but where have they been for the past year?