NAACP Chair Emeritus: ‘Legitimate’ For IRS To Target ‘Admittedly Racist’ Tea Party: ‘Taliban Wing’ Of Politics

by Noah Rothman | 11:32 am, May 14th, 2013

Julian Bond, chairman emeritus of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, joined anchor Thomas Roberts on MSNBC on Tuesday where he said that he did not believe the federal government was complicit in any wrongdoing given the news that the Internal Revenue Service singled out conservative groups for added scrutiny. He said that it is right of the government to look into the Tea Party, which he called “overtly racist” and the “Taliban wing of American politics.” Bond made these comments after noting that his group was illegitimately targeted by the IRS in 2004.

Bond said that his group was singled out by the IRS in 2004 after he delivered a political speech critical of President George W. Bush. Though his organization was later cleared, Bond said that his group was “unfairly targeted.”

However, Bond said that there are no parallels between that case and the charge that the IRS devoted undue scrutiny to conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status.

“I don’t think there’s a double standard at all,” Bond said. “I think it’s entirely legitimate to look at the tea party.”

“I mean, here are a group of people who are admittedly racist, who are overtly political, who tried as best they can to harm President [Barack] Obama in every way they can,” Bond continued.

“They are the Taliban wing of American politics and we all ought to be a little worried about them,” Bond asserted.

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“I mean, here are a group of people who are admittedly racist,...

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Bond, you lying SOB...

Bond knows in his heart that you won't find a group of people any less racist than the Tea Party.

He also knows that there are many conservative blacks, like myself, who are Tea Party members.

I guarandamntee you that Bond would unhesitantly and sure of his safety, walk through this crowd of so-called racists...



...long before he would ever walk through this one...

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The Tea Part is overtly political. Ok, this guy is sharp as a bowling ball.

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It amazes me that people think the Tea Party is racist. It has a prejudice but it's not against skin color. It's against taxes!

In fact, they are so silly excited to get a black person involved, they just love it. It's racist in it's own way, the way they beg for people of any color to join. I guess I'm okay with that. I also would love to have people of any color, brown, dark brown, whatever to join. And people of white, lily white and peach colored too.

I don't know where this crap comes from.