Civil Rights Leaders Urged to Denounce Attacks on Black Justice
Texas Insider Report: Washington D.C. Project 21 Fellow Deneen Borelli is urging liberal civil right leaders to
denounce violent racist rhetoric against black Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas with the same vigor with which they sought out alleged racial extremism within the tea party movement.
The NAACP Al Sharpton Marc Morial of the National Urban League and others command national attention whenever they allege racism in the tea party movement but theyve so far ignored the revolting comments caught on video in which leftists call for the hanging of a black Supreme Court justice noted Borelli who is a frequent speaker at tea party events.
Comments such as these must be denounced far and wide regardless of the political orientation of the person saying it. Calls for torture and lynching are not a matter of left and right -- they are always wrong.
Hundreds of liberal activists protested outside a conservative gathering in Rancho Mirage California January 30. Christian Hartsock an independent journalist attending a nearby
Common Cause-sponsored conference affiliated with the rally videotaped interviews at the protest.
Because a rally theme was the Supreme Courts Citizens United campaign finance decision Hartsock asked people about Justice Thomas.
Among the more outrageous and radical comments captured on video by Hartsock:
- A man said Thomas should be impeached and put... back in the fields. The same man also said Justice Samuel Alito should go back to Sicily and Fox News president Roger Ailes should be strung up... kill the bastard!
- A woman suggested that punishment for Thomas should be to cut off his toes one-by-one and feed them to him.
- Another woman speaking about Thomas said Im all about peace... but I would say torture him.
- Yet another woman threatened Thomas and his family saying: String him up... and his wife too. Lets get rid of Ginny Thomas.
- A man said the way to deal with Thomas is to hang him.
- A woman identifying herself as Momma Donna called herself Fox News host Glenn Becks worst nightmare and issued a challenge to duel Beck warning I pack Glock -- a handgun.
Along with the participants of the Common Cause conference Hartsock said the rally was composed of people affiliated with Greenpeace Code Pink Progressive Democrats of America organized labor groups and others.
Groups in the civil rights establishment particularly the NAACP unsuccessfully tried to portray the tea party movement as racist and extremist through presumptive allegations misleading and sometimes
doctored photos and web sites such as TeaPartyTracker.org (which apparently went dormant just before the 2010 elections). It is shocking that these groups and their leaders are now saying nothing about this blatant exhibition of violent radicalism on the left.
The silence of the civil rights establishment is shocking. It would seem to demonstrate a political filter in which some incivility and racism is tolerated added Borelli. In this twisted situation race is used as a tool to maintain power and keep their followers on the liberal plantation.
On July 17 2010 on the Fox News Channel Borelli asked NAACP senior vice president Hilary Shelton if his group would issue a statement condemning those individuals who target black conservatives for abuse based on their politics. At the time Shelton replied Why yes maam... Just give us some details.
Despite the fact that he promptly was sent details and then a follow-up letter no condemnation was ever issued by the NAACP.
Project 21 Chairman Mychal Massie has also repeatedly challenged
Al Sharpton Marc Morial and former D.C. congressional delegate Walter Fauntroy to debate their past allegations about tea party extremism but has yet to receive any replies.
Hartsocks video and Sheltons broken pledge can be seen (as of February 6 2011) at
Conservativeblog.org.
Project 21 a leading voice of black conservatives since 1992 is sponsored by the National Center for Public Policy Research.
