Tea Party Resolution Condemns National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Unnamed racist practices high five salute at NAACP meeting.

The Tea Party National Convention condemned the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for explicit racism.

Tea Party spokesperson Derrick Devan said members of the party were insulted by the association's use of epithets in its own name and its lack of diversity.

"In this day and age, to call someone a 'colored' is offensive and should be cast into the recesses of history with other reminders of a racist age," said Devan. "Couldn't the rename it 'National Association of People of Color?'"

Dr. Franklin Franks, a representative of the NAACP said that the association couldn't rename it for "people of color" because it may allow "other people" in.

"The next thing you know we'd have a bunch of Jews or Hispanics running the place," said Franks. "Or a Chinaman. You know how they are."

The Tea Party also condemned the organization's lack of diversity. While Tea Party members come in all races and nationalities, the NAACP only allows black people in.

It's a charge the Franks acknowledges, but says is just an attempt for Tea Party members to deflect against its own allegations of racism.

"It's just the pot calling the kettle colored," said Franks. "err. Black."

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