NAACP passes resolution blasting Tea Party 'racism' - CNN.com: "Washington (CNN) -- The NAACP has passed a resolution that condemns what it feels is rampant racism in the Tea Party movement. Members passed the measure on Tuesday at the organization's 101st annual convention in Kansas City, Missouri.
Tea Party activists have swiftly denounced the action as unfounded and unfair.
The resolution pits the nation's oldest civil rights organization, with its storied history of wins on behalf of racial justice, against a grassroots conservative movement that has won some recent political races and is flexing its muscle in Republican circles.
'We take no issue with the Tea Party. We believe in freedom of assembly and people raising their voices in a democracy,' Ben Jealous, president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said in a statement.
'We take issue with the Tea Party's continued tolerance for bigotry and bigoted statements. The time has come for them to accept the responsibility that comes with influence and make clear there is no space for racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in their movement,' Jealous said.
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