Washington DC - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has announced plans to vote on an amendment denouncing the Tea Party movement at their annual conference in Kansas City, Missouri. The NAACP has cited "explicitly racist behavior" by conservative activists as their reason for the vote.

Andrew Langer, President of the Institute for Liberty and Tea Party Leader, released the following statement regarding the vote:

"With their blanket condemnation of the Tea Party Movement today, the NAACP demonstrates that it has come full-circle in its fight for the individual rights of Americans.  Condemning a movement in which fights for those same rights, which represents the same interests, which holds many of the same conservative values that NAACP's constituents hold, demonstrates that these leaders clearly do not understand this movement.  That is hardly surprising, considering that none of these leaders has met with, spoken to, or otherwise tried to work with the leaders of the Tea Party Movement.

Such blatantly ignorant statements harken back to the days when racists would condemn the NAACP and other organizations representing minority groups, as well as raise the specter of the kind of prejudicial rhetoric spewed by white supremacists.

The Tea Party is a trans-partisan, post-racial movement representing people from all walks of life.  Men and women. White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian. Christians, Jews, Muslims and Atheists.  It is a movement focused on Freedom--an ideal we thought the NAACP held dear."
 
With over 25,000 followers, the Institute for Liberty supports keeping the government focused on the primary mission of making sure our nation is safe, while keeping it from unnecessarily interfering in the daily lives of America's entrepreneurs.

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