2010
07.20
07.20
The recent uproar concerning the NAACP passing a resolution condemning what it felt as racism within the Tea Party Movement is one of the week’s hot-button topics. Today, we had Isaiah Rumlin, president of Jacksonville’s NAACP chapter and Murray Goff, spokesperson for the First Coast Tea Party to discuss the controversy.
Also, Florida Public Radio’s James Call joined us by phone to discuss a special session in Tallahassee regarding a possible ban on offshore drilling.
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Mr. Goth the representative for the First Coast affiliation of Tea party constantly contradicted himself, much like the movement he represents. For example they are so focused on the mounting deficit but they feel there is taxation without representation? Free speech gives anyone the right to say what they want, but there are consequences to those words as well. To be quite honest I believe that the Tea Party movements as well as some of their racial tones are all a distraction to detract from factual, statistical information. Mr. Goth mentioned that one of the core “values” of the Tea Party was for moral leadership though this movement was formed when we were still currently under the Bush administration and their political ideals. Also, I noticed how when callers mentioned attending Tea Party rallies or discussion with Tea Party members and they had racial undertones his response was, “That is their perception and there is nothing I can do about their perception.”The same can be said about the Tea Party movement, your PERCEPTION of a socialist government or and unmoral leadership are just that your perception as well as a distraction to deviate from the facts and focus on fluff.
Melissa, Thank you for having such a great show today and everyday. I commend you for discussing racism. I commend the NAACP for not being afraid to call a spade a spade. Its time to acknowledge the elephant in the room, Racism and the “Tea Party”. I listened to your show and Mr Goff never acknowledged Racism as an issue of importance that plagues the Tea Party. He denied it first then he said the perception of racism is everyone else’s problem and thirdly he pointed fingers by bringing up the Black Panthers. How can a discussion of any meaning occur when you deny truths?
I think you did a great job tackling the issue of Taxation. I hear Tea Partiers rhetoric about ideals and injustices committed against America. They sound good but where are the facts. The facts are sketchy and often exagerated. I think its a shame that they take up so much of American energy and that they are legitimized with civil discussion. I dont think their so call “ideals” are legitimate when held up to close inspection.
People certainly can listen to something and hear different things. I heard the Tea Party representative say that there are racists in the TP, as there are in almost every organization in America, including the NAACP. He also said it was wrong.
Did my ears decieve me or did I hear the NAACP representative say ‘refutiate’? I had never heard that term until it was reported that Sarah Palen said it, and then I heard it again in the same week. What a coincidence!