The back story here is that 2014 is the first year black conservatives - or in this case blacks representing Freedom Works - were allowed to set up a booth at the NAACP convention. So one cheer to the NAACP for finally making that long overdue move. And while the video only shows one woman's rage against them for merely showing up, you know as well as I do that she represents very well the full-scale consumption of left-wing talking points that suggest the mere presence of conservatives at this event is cause for indignation.
And NAACP leaders have pushed this point of view for many decades. The dialogue - if that's what you want to call it - is something to behold.
What animates her insistence that they be kicked out? The blather at the end about the "billionaire Koch brothers" pretty much gives away what informs her thought process, but in a more basic sense she represents something pretty disturbing about the community from which she comes.
She objects to their presence because, as far as she's concerned, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People represents advocacy for liberal policies. Not only is there no other way for colored people to advance, but the mere suggestion that there are better ways to go represents an clear and present threat to bring about their regression.
As the boss suggested in his
recent piece about the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, that represents a mindset that's stuck in the pre-struggle for a people that really need to move on to the post-struggle. The comment about food stamps is a perfect example. For one thing, it's based on ignorance about the very ideology whose presence she finds so objectionable. Conservatives do not advocate a world "without food stamps" necessarily, but an approach to governing that would seek to minimize dependence on government. Within that discussion is room for lots of ideas about the role of public assistance programs - how much they should provide, and for how long, and under what circumstances, and to whom - but for the left, none of that matters. Any suggestion that such things should be limited is treated as a call for the complete and total eliminate of all of them, forever, immediately.
A couple of years ago, the Michigan Legislature imposed a four-year limit on certain public assistance programs. Prior to that, you could stay on them forever. To see the reaction of the left, you would have thought they had just barged into the home of every poor person and shot them all. They have no understanding of what conservatives really advocate and why.
And apparently they don't want to - or at least this woman doesn't, as she is so threatened by the mere presence of people advocating a conservative point of view that she demands their removal, and refuses to listen as Deneen Borelli and CL Bryant try to calmly explain what they actually advocate.
If the NAACP really is, as Rush has often suggested, the National Association for the Advancement of Liberal Colored People, they ought to be more honest about it. I think it's to their credit, however belated, that they finally agreed to let Freedom Works have this one, tiny presence. But we all know that for years the NAACP leadership has railed long and loud against conservatives and their ideas, so it should be no surprise that a woman like this is incensed to see a couple of them actually show up. All she's doing is following the lead of the NAACP.
