The NAACP was criticized bitterly by the Tea Party after the civil rights organization accused them of rabid racism in a resolution drafted during their annual convention. Yet another party leader from the grass roots group corroborates the NAACP’s claims by saying that black men opt for criminality over education.
Al Reynolds, a Tea Party candidate from Illinois’ 52nd District, has bunkered himself off from the media since saying African American men preferred dealing drugs to going to college, because it is “easier.”
“I’ve been in the city and the dichotomy of the women and the men in the minorities, there is a difference in the fact that most minority women, either the single parent or coming from a poor neighborhood, are motivated more so than the minority men. And it’s a pretty good reason. Most of the women who are single parents have to find work to support their family. The minority men find it more lucrative to be able to do drugs or other avenues rather than do education. It’s easier.”
According to media reports, the room went silent after Reynolds made those comments. Yet, Reynolds continued on, saying: “We need to provide ways that are more incentive, other than just sports avenues, for the men for the minorities to want to go to college and get an education and better themselves before the women have to support them all.”
Republican leaders in the state of Illinois wasted no time renouncing Reynolds’ statements and have strongly requested the candidate withdraw his candidacy, which Reynolds has so far refused to do.
Perhaps the Illinois GOP is outraged that a conservative Caucasian uttered taboo statements that many others honestly believe but wisely keep to themselves for fear of the type of intense backlash that has since visited Reynolds. Also, party leaders believe that this will substantiate the NAACP and liberal claims that the national Tea Party is overrun by racists. –terry shropshire
