Jackson Lee Claims Tea Party Racists

Representative Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is slamming Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) for linking conservative Tea Party activists to the Ku Klux Klan.  The liberal progressive left keeps making assertions with no proof.  Then this is their usual modes operandi when losing a debate.

“Here you have a member of Congress saying that mainstream America, God fearing freedom loving patriots who object to this out of control spending; now they are part of the KKK?” Bachman said. “That's essentially what she is saying. I don't [know] any more of a worse smear that you could possibly have.”

Jackson Lee, according to several press accounts, recently told an NAACP conference that, “All those who wore sheets a long time ago have now lifted them off” and are identifying with the Tea Party.  NAACP delegates passed a resolution July 13 at their conference in Kansas City calling on the Tea Party to repudiate racist elements within its ranks.

“The resolution came after a year of high-profile media coverage of attendees of Tea Party marches using vile, antagonistic racial slurs and images. In March, respected members of the Congressional Black Caucus reported that racial epithets were hurled at them as they passed by a Washington, DC health care protest,” the civil rights group noted on its blog July 13, with photos of racist protesters accompanying the text.

The attacks have been denounced by many Tea Party leaders and members.  With the thousands of photos taken there has only be a handful that can be construed as racist and that is a stretch for those photos.  It should be noted that people at the Tea Party gatherings when a sign has appeared have asked them to remove the sight that isn’t what the Tea Party is about.

The respected members of the Congressional Black Caucus along with Nancy Pelosi deliberately tried to provoke racial slurs.  Some of them at the time said there were some racial slurs.  None of the still or video cameras at that incident saw any of these accusations.  Some of the Congressman later refused to say anything about it.

Were the respected members of the Congressional Black Caucus trying to incite a confrontation?  When one didn’t happen did they exaggerate the meeting?  When confronted the were not able to show any proof and several wouldn’t comment.  You decide?

A number of prominent Republicans, including Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele and Sarah Palin, attacked the resolution.  “I am saddened by the NAACP’s claim that patriotic Americans who stand up for the United States of America’s Constitutional rights are somehow ‘racists.’” Palin wrote on her FaceBook page.

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