Progressives Launch 'One Nation' Coalition to Counter Tea Party

Progressives Launch 'One Nation' Coalition to Counter Tea Party
Source: The Washington Post

If imitation is the highest form of flattery, the "tea party" movement must be honored.

In an effort to replicate the tea party's success, 170 liberal and civil rights groups are forming a coalition that they hope will match the movement's political energy and influence. They promise to "counter the tea party narrative" and help the progressive movement find its voice again after 18 months of floundering.

The large-scale attempt at liberal unity, dubbed "One Nation," will try to revive themes that energized the progressive grassroots two years ago. In a repurposing of Barack Obama's old campaign slogan, organizers are demanding "all the change" they voted for -- a poke at the White House.

But the liberal groups have long had a kind of sibling rivalry, jostling over competing agendas and seeking to influence some of the same lawmakers. In forming the coalition, the groups struggled to settle on a name. Even now, two of the major players disagree about who came up with the idea of holding a march this fall.

In this respect, at least, the liberal effort already resembles the fractious tea party movement. In February, some tea party groups skipped a long-planned gathering in Nashville in protest of alleged profiteering by convention organizers. Tea partiers have also argued about which candidates represent the movement.

Despite the friction among liberal groups, the effort behind "One Nation" was born of a certain necessity: At one of the first meetings, Deepak Bhargava, executive director of the Center for Community Change, said, "Raise your hand if you can push your part of the agenda all by yourself."

No hands shot up.

Indeed, a promised overhaul of immigration law is virtually dead this year. Legislation that labor unions say would make it easier for them to grow their membership are stalled in Congress. The jobless rate is 15.4 percent for blacks and 12.4 percent for Hispanics, compared with 8.6 percent for whites.

"Having been confronted with the specter of the tea party...we felt it urgent to organize the majority of this country, which voted in 2008 and has gone back to the couch," said Benjamin Jealous, president of the NAACP. "We've been split off in different directions."

The groups involved represent the core of the first-time voters who backed President Obama -- including the National Council of La Raza, NAACP, AFL-CIO, SEIU and the United States Student Association. (The effort is separate from the Democratic Party's plan to spend $50 million trying to reach those same voters.)

NAACP President Defends Decision to Condemn Tea Party as Racist, Now Claims David Duke, Stormfront Lead the Movement…

NAACP President Defends Decision to Condemn Tea Party as Racist, Now Claims David Duke, Stormfront Lead the Movement…

(CNN)- Benjamin Todd Jealous is president and CEO of the NAACP, the nation’s largest and oldest civil rights organization.

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.

It is unfortunate that at a time when our nation is reeling in the midst of one of the most devastating downturns in our economy since the Great Depression, the NAACP is compelled to deal with a disturbing, corrosive attack from the Tea Party.

Instead of joining us to repudiate racism, Tea Party leaders have attempted a tit for tat and demanded that we condemn the New Black Panther Party for reported hate speech. It is a false argument. Of course we condemn hate speech from anyone and any organization, including the New Black Panther Party. But that party is a mere flea compared to the influence and size of the Tea Party. And the New Black Panther Party is not a member of the NAACP. What we are asking the Tea Party to eschew is not the racism of some outside organization, but the bigotry within.

After my speech, I was approached by a man named Chris, who asked that his last name not be used. He’s a member of both the Tea Party and the NAACP. He thanked me for denouncing the racist elements of a party to which he is loyal. He explained that he felt increasingly uncomfortable within the Tea Party. We want Chris to live in a world where he can feel comfortable in both organizations.

Over 2000 delegates voted. The resolution was proposed by our Missouri State Conference, from the home state of the Council of Conservative Citizens, widely recognized as the linear descendant of the White Citizens Council. Their fealty to racism is not obscured.

Like Stormfront.org, a website founded by former KKK leader Don Black, the Council celebrates its allegiance to and influence in the Tea Party. The avowed racist David Duke notes that thousands of Tea Party activists have urged him to run for president. When the Tea Party marches by, Duke thinks it’s his fiesta.

Why can't black Americans have a tea party movement of our own?

Why can't black Americans have a tea party movement of our own?

Sarah Palin, the highest-profile tea party supporter, wrote on her Facebook page last week that "the charge that tea party Americans judge people by the color of their skin is false, appalling and is a regressive and diversionary tactic to change the subject at hand." ...more

The Reverend James David Manning, PhD[?]: “Obama is Satan and ‘White Trash’”

The Reverend James David Manning, PhD[?]: “Obama is Satan and ‘White Trash’”

Idiots come in all shapes, sizes and indeed — colors.

I have rarely called a fellow black person a racist — because the word ReTHUGliTOM usually suffices. In this particular instance, this black pastor reaches and crosses that threshold, flips backwards, somersaults and then pisses and diarrheas all over himself.

This black fella — Hon, Rev. James David Manning is an “un-common racist.”

Sincerely, I don’t know what to call this con-man, because he has taken NegroPhobia and Psychoneurosis to new and “disturbing heights.”



Obama is a ‘54DD’ WHITE/BLACK WOMEN PIMP, a LONG LEG FREAK & MAC DADDY — Pastor Manning

This NUT-BAG needs to see a psychiatrist!

The Hon. Pastor notes: African Americans should never vote for a black man who has not been to jail, citing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Rev. Jesse Jackson and Jesus Christ as great leaders who have all been imprisoned.

His website Atlah.org declares:

The Hon. James David Manning, PhD — James David Manning is the energetic and visionary pastor of the ATLAH World Missionary Church located in ATLAH, New York. He has founded three schools and developed a national church ministry. He holds a PhD in philosopy, the author of The Oblation Hour book, a former Marketing Executive with Proctor and Gamble and the Ford Motor Company.

Visionary? What an insult!,…and judging by the spelling of the word “philosophy” — something is definitely wrong with this man’s mind.

Perhaps the saddest part of this “corruption of the work of God,” is that he has a Flock of followers who he poisons every Sunday — with his sermons.

I say …..this MORON should be stripped off his TAX-EXEMPT status, and the IRS should chase his ass all over New York.

Incidentally, the “FIX News” people a.k.a. FOX News (Hannity and Colmes) — invited this punk to their show, let him speak his repulsive vile, and then “gleefully” and hypocritically pretended that they were scolding him……..after airing his crap!.

Sean Hannity “forgot” that he has smeared Obama as a black racist based on the views of his pastor Jeremiah Wright. Now, Hannity insisted that Obama is a decent man with good intentions and that it’s not fair to attack his parents when he’s the one running for president. One has to wonder whether Hannity would have been such an advocate if he weren’t a) getting a lot of bad publicity over his former friendship with a Neo-Nazi/white supremacist and b) dealing with a black man attacking Obama. With video…. More From NewsHounds.US

…this is yet another case of FOX News promoting racism using people of color — the twist in this case: The guest is a stupid black racist moron.

This man suffers from more than Negrophobia Syndrome — I think I should invent a new term for this deranged weirdo: How about NegroMORONphobia

Manning makes Pastor Jeremiah Wright look like a “disciplined Carthusian Monk!”

Even far right-wing “Num-Nut” Rush Limbaugh calls Pastor Manning’s sermons: ““ROUGH STUFF!””

Manning Throws Coffee Grinds

BORN IN THE USA?
Harlem 'trial' finds Obama 'guilty'
Pastor says incriminating information to be given to 'authorities'
Posted: May 22, 2010
12:45 am Eastern

By Stewart Stogel
© 2010 WorldNetDaily

James Manning

NEW YORK – The controversial Harlem pastor who led a days-long "trial" of President Obama says the resulting "guilty" verdict and corroborating evidence will now be turned over to appropriate authorities, congressional and otherwise.

The event was held at Atlah World Missionary Church over the past few days, and its pastor, James Manning, claimed it to be the first "legal verdict" against Obama since he took office.

Focusing on allegations regarding Obama's status as a "natural born citizen" of the United States as well as the allegedly illegal "award" of a diploma from Columbia University, Manning insists new legal ground was broken.

The activist pastor says that under the 10th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, citizens can legally hold a trial and arrive at a verdict, with the results turned over to appropriate government bodies for enforcement.

Manning claims the fact that the Secret Service, charged with protecting the president and investigating threats, allowed the "trial" to take place constitutes evidence it was legitimate.


"If the trial did not have legal standing, then why did the federal or city authorities not intervene to halt [the proceeding]?" he said. "We did not hide the trial, in fact we did our best to promote it. So if the authorities had any problems why did they not act?"

Not only was there no government interference during or after the trial, Manning boasts the NYPD had officers in the neighborhood to protect the church when the trial was under way.

Coincidentally, Obama was less than 4 miles away at a Democratic Party fundraiser in mid-town Manhattan the night before the 5-day trial began May 14.

Just four blocks from the church that hosted the Obama trial stands the Harlem office of former President Bill Clinton.

Ironically, the conservative Manning heaped praise on the 42nd president: "He was (and still is) a friend of the Harlem community. He and Hillary did a lot of good things here and for that we thank them."

Now that the Obama trial is over, Manning said, he will pass on the verdict and the evidence presented to the appropriate congressional authorities for their own "review."

"Just like a civilian who witnessed a crime, we will report our findings to Congress. ... Let's see what they do," he said.

Regarding Manning's allegation that Obama never actually attended Columbia, the New York times blogged mockingly:

"When we asked a Columbia spokesman whether the president did in fact attend the school, he replied, 'We’re not commenting on the Reverend Manning or the trial.' Denial or confirmation? You decide."

Manning, undeterred, says, "The ball is their (Congress') court. The verdict is in, the trial is over.

"Of course they (Congress) will try and ignore it and hope I will go away. .. but anyone who knows me knows I will not go away."
 

Coffee grinds, coffee grinds, coffee grinds.