When in doubt about a comrade, check
DiscoverTheNetworks.org -
BEN JEALOUS
- President/CEO of the NAACP
- Compared the Tea Party to the White Citizens Council, an American white supremacist organization formed in 1954
In September 2008 Jealous was elected president of the NAACP. At the organization's annual convention in 2010, he characterized the Tea Party movement as a white supremacist phenomenon: “Here comes the genetic descendent of the White Citizens Council, burst from its coffin, carrying signs and slogans like ‘Lynch Barack Hussein Obama.'” In the media firestorm that ensued, Jealous declared, inaccurately: “For more than a year we've watched as Tea Party members have called congressmen the N-word, have called congressmen the F-word. We see them carry racist signs and whenever it happens, the membership tries to shirk responsibility.”
In 2012 Jealous claimed that a series of Voter ID laws that recently had been passed in several states were, like the Jim Crow laws and poll taxes of an earlier era, manifestations of a “rising tide of voting suppression” that sought “to encode discrimination into law.” He warned that America was again facing “Selma and Montgomery times,” that “our democracy is literally under attack from within,” and that nothing less than “the battle to preserve democracy itself” was at stake. In March of that year, Jealous and the NAACP went so far as to take their arguments against Voter ID laws to the United Nations Human Rights Council. “In the past twelve months,” Jealous lamented around that time, “more U.S. states have passed more laws pushing more U.S. citizens out of the ballot box than in any year in the past century.”
Jealous resigned as NAACP president at the end of 2013. The following year, he became a senior partner at Kapor Capital, an Oakland-based firm that aims to “leverage information technology” for progressive “social impact” on behalf of “underrepresented communities.” He also joined the Center for American Progress as a senior fellow.
Mystery item No. 1
Hide it back 
