The Tea Party is Not Racist

Juniversal said:
It's funny you say that because this actually did bring to mind certain right wingers that assert "Republicans freed the slaves and Democrats are keeping you on the plantations by way of welfare and handouts!!!". Knowing good and well the current conservative party is in no way equivalent to Lincolns more progressive/liberal Republican party. Apparently they aren't aware of the parties polarity change during the 1950's and 60's.

Neo-cons freeing slaves? Now that's comedy. :D
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Oh, I've heard it too, and I found it very entertaining, especially the "party of Lincoln" stuff. I don't want to hear about that kind of thing unless Lincoln's on the ballot. And what makes it funny is, even the claim that democrats are somehow fooling black people into voting for them, is insulting to black people, since it assumes that black people are naturally more gullible.

There's this assumption that democrats win over black people by calling republicans racist, and so the (white) conservatives can win over black people by doing the same. From what I've seen, democrats win over black people by campaigning in black communities, and addressing the concerns of those communities, while (white) conservatives make themselves look like racists.
 
Mumbles said:
Oh, I've heard it too, and I found it very entertaining, especially the "party of Lincoln" stuff. I don't want to hear about that kind of thing unless Lincoln's on the ballot. And what makes it funny is, even the claim that democrats are somehow fooling black people into voting for them, is insulting to black people, since it assumes that black people are naturally more gullible.
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Not to mention some Conservatives act as if the word "progressive" is some sort of pejorative all of a sudden lol. The act of ending slavery is a progressive one if i've ever seen it. It tickles me that some act as if the current day Republican party and Lincolns Republican party are one in the same. And the last portion is spot on. It is insulting to act as if we're so gullible and being fooled into voting for Democrats. The Right doesn't look very hospitable to minorities (including gays and transgenders) when it's seemingly full of Sean Hannitys, Michael Savages, Glenn Becks and Rush Limbaughs.

There's this assumption that democrats win over black people by calling republicans racist, and so the (white) conservatives can win over black people by doing the same. From what I've seen, democrats win over black people by campaigning in black communities, and addressing the concerns of those communities, while (white) conservatives make themselves look like racists.
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I agree. And i'll admit there is a view that Democrats are more inclusive and actually have our best interest in mind as opposed to Republicans that at times seems to represent lily white America. Tea Party types like Mark Williams don't help that image. I wouldn't be opposed to voting for a Republican if I felt s/he was sensible but as of now that person seems to be a figment of my imagination lol.
 
Darkies. That's the problem in America.

One of them took my parking spot yesterday.
Tomorrow, my job.
Sunday, my guns.

Obama could learn a few things from Michael Jackson.

"Lighten-up, people!"
 
BeAChooser said:
Democrats sure seem to fear the Tea Party. Wonder why? :D
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Because their highest profile representatives are obvious nut jobs like Orly Taitz, Sharon Angle, Sue Lowden, Michelle Bachman, and Rand Paul. They want to repeal the Civil Rights Act and Social Security, imply that if conservatives don't get the congressional seats they want it will result in gun violence, think we should pay doctors with chickens, want to march on Washington with guns, harass our native-born Mexican-American citizens on the off-chance that they might be here illegally, and refuse to accept the fact that Obama was really born in Hawaii (even though Taitz wasn't born here herself).

What did the Democrats do when they didn't get their way? They pried the W's off their computer keyboards and hid them in their offices as a prank. What did the conservatives do when they didn't get their way? Threatened Nancy Pelosi and other liberals with death, sawed through a gas line at the wrong house, and used racial slurs and derogatory terms regarding sexual orientation towards our fairly and legally elected Congress Members. This is not the behavior of rational people; it's the behavior of nutjobs. It goes far, far beyond sour grapes into the realm of psychosis.

I can't say that I'm really afraid of the Tea Party; I just find it disconcerting that people still support the Tea Party in spite of the daily ridiculous faux pas by their leadership.
 
quarky said:
Darkies. That's the problem in America.

One of them took my parking spot yesterday.
Tomorrow, my job.
Sunday, my guns.

Obama could learn a few things from Michael Jackson.

"Lighten-up, people!"
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Wha... I... I did! Look at my avatar! I still get pulled over for driving suspiciously.:(
 
How someone can see the letter as NOT being racist is very hard for me to see. Perhaps Williams and the other Tea Party people are just so racist that they can't even understand what they say is racist. I've known people like that, particularly when I've done business in the South.
 
johnny karate said:
TARP was signed into law by George Bush in October 2008.

There were no Tea Party protests against TARP until February 2009.

Your theory doesn't provide an explanation for this particular phenomenon.
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The history and the focus of the beginning protests of the tea party are a matter of historical fact. They weren't about Obama or his race. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement If you have evidence that they were and are in fact based primarily on racist reasons, do post. I have not heard anyone deny that there are undoubtedly individuals within the group that are racist, as there are in just about any group, including the NAACP. Anyway, you've got $100,000 coming to you if you can come up with any video proof of the claimed 'N' word was used at the event in which it was claimed to have been used 15 times. http://bigjournalism.com/abreitbart/2010/06/29/reward-100000-for-full-journolist-archive-source-fully-protected/
 
I don't know that the Tea Party was formed as a racist organization. They just seem to attract the racists.
 
Neally said:
The history and the focus of the beginning protests of the tea party are a matter of historical fact.
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I know. They started right after Obama took office, despite the fact that one of the initial subjects of protest was something Bush signed into law months earlier.

Neally said:
They weren't about Obama...
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And yet they started right after Obama took office, despite the fact that one of the initial subjects of protest was something Bush signed into law months earlier.

Neally said:
...or his race. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement If you have evidence that they were and are in fact based primarily on racist reasons, do post. I have not heard anyone deny that there are undoubtedly individuals within the group that are racist, as there are in just about any group, including the NAACP. Anyway, you've got $100,000 coming to you if you can come up with any video proof of the claimed 'N' word was used at the event in which it was claimed to have been used 15 times. http://bigjournalism.com/abreitbart...ll-journolist-archive-source-fully-protected/
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Your sad attempt at misdirection aside, you'll notice I've never actually called the Tea Party racist. And while the organization as a whole might not be racist, they sure seem to have an open-door policy for those with racist inclinations.

Neally said:
More like it coincided with Obama increased pace of deficit spending that Bush started.
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Since your own link establishes that Tea Party protests began immediately after Obama took I office, I assume you'll be retracting this blatant falsehood. Unless of course you would like to argue that Obama did all of his spending in the first three weeks. :rolleyes:
 
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thaiboxerken said:
I don't know that the Tea Party was formed as a racist organization. They just seem to attract the racists.
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The funny part is, that's also what the NAACP said. Their resolution explicitly refused to call every Tea Partier a racist, and asked them to repudiate those racists that have said or done racist things. Guys like Williams then dashed out to prove their point, while everyone sputtered about how awful the NAACP is.

Point taken, Ben Jealous.
 
In my humble opinion, the Tea Party Racists (I'm considering them a sub-set of Tea Party, not tarring all TPs as racists), are doing a wonderful job.

The more they shoot of their collective deranged mouths, the more we see hitherto supposedly moderate and/or purportedly sensible conservatives (no BAC, not you) rushing to defend them.

Is this just knee-jerk "take one for the team", and "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" behaviour? Honestly, is there anyone who can read that man's statements and not see a steaming pile of racist fecal matter?
 
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That's just after that colored fella took office.


johnny karate said:
I know, what an odd coincidence, right?
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I think the tea party would have sprung up if Hillary Clinton had been elected also. They don't like that someone with a different belief of what is the right direction for America was elected.


I don't see any odd coincidence. Anecdotal but the people who I know who like the tea party are the same people who thought Bill Clinton was a cocaine snorting evil man who planned the crash of Browns plane and covered up the Vince Foster "murder".

ThaiBoxerKen
I don't know that the Tea Party was formed as a racist organization. They just seem to attract the racists.
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The ones I know are not really racist but I do agree it attracts racists.
 
johnny karate said:
I know. They started right after Obama took office, despite the fact that one of the initial subjects of protest was something Bush signed into law months earlier.



And yet they started right after Obama took office, despite the fact that one of the initial subjects of protest was something Bush signed into law months earlier.



Your sad attempt at misdirection aside, you'll notice I've never actually called the Tea Party racist. And while the organization as a whole might not be racist, they sure seem to have an open-door policy for those with racist inclinations.
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Contradicting yourself in the same post is sure a funny way to argue. First you imply that the party started as result of Obama's election, thereby proving they are racist, then you deny that the organization is racist.
Since your own link establishes that Tea Party protests began immediately after Obama took I office, I assume you'll be retracting this blatant falsehood. Unless of course you would like to argue that Obama did all of his spending in the first three weeks.
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The early protests were about Obamas stimulus bill, a local tax on soda, the mortgage subsidy programs. The tea party popularity has increased along with Obamas decline in the polls. That must mean that the previous supporters of Obama are now racists since now they are against him. :D
 
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