Seems to me Leon Jenkins just wanted to be on the TV (and, as Steve said, couldn’t find anything genuine to complain about).

Hallmark and the drugstores rolled right over on this. How sad.

Unfortunately it is cases like these that give the efforts to stamp out racism a bad name. It is important to remember that racism is still very much alive, and we should make every effort to reduce it.

An organisation cannot expell bigots and racists, because you don’t necessarily know who they are. It can in principle expel people who display behaviours which are racist or bigoted. Thus thinking “I hate blacks” is OK, but shouting it out or carrying a placard could get you kicked out. The Tea Party may be too amorphous to actually have a membership as such, so they perhaps cannot “kick them out”. The link posted by Dave says they were “calling on Tea Party leaders to repudiate those in their ranks who use racist language in their signs and speeches.” This seems a very desirable thing to me. The leaders should distance themselves from such sentiments, and make clear that they do not find them accepatable, or wish to be associated with those who express them.

Should the Tea Party ‘expel’ them. Certainly not, since I believe racists still have the right to form and join various and sundry political organisations in this country.

Does the NAACP have the right to complain about the media’s willingness to not agressively cover racist leaders in the party, say ones holding pictures as Obama as ‘Nigger’ or having a bone through his nose…probably.

http://www.naacp.org/blog

im really surprised hallmark caved on this. i wouldve sent them get well soon cards.