(IBD) NAACP Shamefully Plays Race Card With Tea Party Conservative Senator Tim Scott

[Daniel John Sobieski]

Racism: The once-proud NAACP has dissed a new African-American  Republican senator as a token who knows nothing about civil rights because,  well, he's a Republican — unlike, say, Democrats who opposed the Civil Rights  Act.

NAACP President Ben Jealous made the claim Wednesday concerning Sen. Tim  Scott, R-S.C. — the first black senator from the South since Reconstruction and  the first black GOP senator since 1979, when Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts  retired. Indeed, Scott is only the seventh African-American ever to serve in the  chamber.

Jealous based his claim on Scott receiving an "F" on an NAACP scorecard of  issues that can charitably be described as goofy since many items appear to have  nothing to do with racial matters or civil rights. Item No. 3, for instance,  concerns banning the EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions.

So now we have the bizarre spectacle of the president of the National  Association for the Advancement of Colored People slandering a black man who is  advancing to the United States Senate. We are asked to believe that Scott, a  black man who was raised by an indigent single mother in the deep South, knows  nothing about the struggles for civil rights or racial equality.

When. Gov. Nikki Haley of the right-to-work state of North Carolina, another  racist no-no, appointed fellow Tea Party Republican to the Senate, she was  recognizing the content of Scott's character and someone who grasps free-market  job creation and believes our rights come from our Creator, not from our  government.

The NAACP's scorecard, however, says you only believe in civil rights if you  back Big Labor, support new government regulations, vote for activist judges,  use public money to support abortion providers, favor weaker criminal penalties,  oppose constitutional checks and balances on executive power, support punitive  taxation on the successful and embrace the administration's environmental  agenda.

Ironically, the NAACP was founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, a registered  Republican, and a higher percentage of GOP senators supported the Civil Rights  Act than did Democrats. We are also reminded of former Secretary of State  Condoleezza Rice's reason she became a Republican.

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