NAACP Uses Teachers For Anti-Tea Party Vitriol

It’s well understood that the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association are far-left organizations. While many of their members don’t pay much attention to the tactics and vitriol of the teachers unions, virtually every single public school employee funds those activities, in far too many states with no choice.

And sadly, rank-and-file teachers, who probably aren’t like the leftists that run the national unions, don’t speak up or take their dues back. So they perpetuate the problem.

So it was a big disturbing – but completely predictable – to see the American Federation of Teachers recent convention used as a platform for NAACP president Ben Jealous to launch his tirade against the Tea Party, which culminated with a condemnation of it at his own convention.

So as this group of folks who drink tea and apparently are very gainfully employed according to all the polls say they’re going to take this country back, I suggest we take them very seriously. ‘Cause they will take us right back to the 18th Century if we let them. (applause)

And my white dad would remind my black mama that the 18th Century wasn’t that good for anybody. … We have got to reacquaint these tea drinkers with volunteers who drink coffee.

Is this what the rank-and-file public school teacher believes? Is this was they want to fund?

This isn’t the first time the AFT sided with questionable people. According to Socialist Action Newspaper, now-AFT president Randi Weingarten participated in marches, along with the Black Panthers and other black nationalist groups, against the New York Police Department because of the shooting of Sean Bell. The article also says SEIU provided many of the marshals along the march route.

Paranthetically, who was the go-to person for the local SEIU chapter? Patrick Gaspard, now political director of the White House.

In his AFT speech, Jealous also connected their 2008 work electing Obama to what is currently happening today.

…If we don’t pull ourselves back together, push forward with all our might and make sure the economy of this country works for all of us, then all those voters that we registered in 2008, all those people that we asked to take a leap of faith two years ago and really vote their best intentions will become discouraged and we’ll lose a generation.

America’s public school employees should be embarrassed that they’re forking over hard-earned money to fund such causes. But are they? Because their silence allows the teachers unions to continue acting like the politically-driven, power-hungry radicals they’ve become.