Tea Party and Race:A study

[392847]

Tea Party drinking game!

Go to Tea Party rally. Take a shot if you see a person darker than a paper bag.

Go home sober.

:haha: Love it.

 

[D_Fortumus Wigglesack]

excuse me while I scratch my balls and yawn ...

now, what pray tell, does any of this have to do with the issues?

or, is this simply an ad hominem attack attempt by the left to discredit dialogue contrary to the Obama policies and practices?

I think it's pretty relevant if 60% of those in this "tea party movement" are there because of racism rather than legitimate concern. Don't you?

And the article's pointing that out; who says it has to be about another specific issue? That's very socialist and authoritarian of you to try to dictate what someone writes about, isn't it?

But hey, maybe someone will give a serious response to the tea partiers when they actually come up with an organized effort on a certain issue other than "freedom" or "socialism" or whatever other word of the day is on their toilet paper.

 

[ZOS23xy]

Let's stir up the pot a little further:


Black conservative tea party backers take heat


ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - They've been called Oreos, traitors and Uncle Toms, and are used to having to defend their values. Now black conservatives are really taking heat for their involvement in the mostly white tea party movement—and for having the audacity to oppose the policies of the nation's first black president.
"I've been told I hate myself. I've been called an Uncle Tom. I've been told I'm a spook at the door," said Timothy F. Johnson, chairman of the Frederick Douglass Foundation, a group of black conservatives who support free market principles and limited government.

"Black Republicans find themselves always having to prove who they are. Because the assumption is the Republican Party is for whites and the Democratic Party is for blacks," he said...

 

[maxcok]

^ Reminds me a lil bit of gays in the Log Cabin Republican Club.

I know some of those dudes, and they is fucked up.

 

[ZOS23xy]

Nick 4444...?

 

[maxcok]

^ Actually . . . . they's a few other dudes on here I strongly suspect.

They mostly list themselves as 100% straight though. Imagine that.

 

[546820]

The fact that Obongo even gets called "non-white" shows we are not a post-racial society. It's still all about the one drop rule, apparently.

 

[ZOS23xy]

Apparently you can't stop with racial references long enough to realize that you're a bigot.

 

[Industrialsize]

More Americans have a ‘favorable’ opinion of the IRS than of the Tea Party.

Now, a new Fox News poll shows that the Tea Party is viewed less favorably than another bugaboo for the Tea Party, the Internal Revenue Service:

http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/FoxIRS.png

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/08/tea-party-irs-poll/

 

[B_talltpaguy]

^I wonder what the numbers would be in a legitimate poll?

 

[546820]

Apparently you can't stop with racial references long enough to realize that you're a bigot.

Choke on a dick, faggot.

 

[D_Davy_Downspout]

The fact that Obongo even gets called "non-white" shows we are not a post-racial society. It's still all about the one drop rule, apparently.

It would be inaccurate to call him "white", so what do you propose?

Regardless, the idea of us living in a post-racial society is fanciful, but it's not the fault of the people calling him "black".

 

[maxcok]

Choke on a dick, faggot.

Well, he didn't last long. Some people, I tell ya.


issues <

She sounds like a self-hating nigger lover. Find a new roommate, preferably one who is not a racist.

Suck on this dick, slut.

Not sure I want to stay on a site where any controversial opinions are censored.

Buh -bye!

 

[B_OtterJoq]

Well, he didn't last long. Some people, I tell ya.

LOL! Don't worry; he'll be lurking for a while, I bet.

 

[B_VinylBoy]

With 30%, perhaps he's choking on a dick himself? LOL!!

 

[b.c.]

That's my favorite part... Yet when you ask these people to identify in detail what 'principles' it is that we had before, that we no longer have, they have no fucking clue.

Well, M.Rico didn't suggest that America has [strayed] from "founding principles" but that some of these folks believe we have. That in essence is the problem with them. They seem to want to apply so-called "principles" willy-nilly as they see fit.

They had no problem, for example, with a Supreme Court ruling that literally handed over the presidency to GWB, nor another that gives corporations unlimited financial leverage in their dealings with elected officials. And no problem with the idea of government dole outs (er, pardon, "vouchers") to cover the cost of a private school education. "Principles be damned" in those cases.

However, a healtcare proposal designed to provide for greater coverage of most Americans, WHILE ALLOWING THE REST OF US TO KEEP OUR EXISTING PLANS is in their minds a violation of one's rights - to go to one's grave without a piss-worth's of coverage. "Socialism" they call it.

 

[deleted15807]

Well, M.Rico didn't suggest that America has [strayed] from "founding principles" but that some of these folks believe we have.

Indeed it has strayed from it's 'founding principles'. Women, minorities and gays knew their duty, to be invisible. And now they're not and it upsets a lot of people.

The conjunction of a black president and a female speaker of the House — topped off by a wise Latina on the Supreme Court and a powerful gay Congressional committee chairman — would sow fears of disenfranchisement among a dwindling and threatened minority in the country

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When you hear demonstrators chant the slogan “Take our country back!,” these are the people they want to take the country back from.

-Frank Rich


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[maxcok]

This vid of Teabagger signs is revealing and disturbing, but it has a pleasant bluegrassy soundtrack:

YouTube - TEA PARTY RACISM: What The Media Won't Show You About Teabagger Racism​

 

[AquaEyes11010]

It has nothing to do with the issues.

It is spin by the Obama machine.
Disagree with Obama and you will be smeared.

How do you smear ordinary Americans that have families and pay taxes and are disgusted with those who are supposed to be representing them?
Obviously they are ignorant racists.
We even have a poll from a university that "proves" that.

The poll is bullshit.

Kind of reminds me of how the right labelled anyone who was vocally against Bush during his two terms as being anti-american, anti-troops, etc. Opposition to the party in power will always have things thrown at them. However, the anti-Bush people were being told that criticizing the president was un-American, despite it being a very American thing to do, while in this case, we're calling the funny costume-wearing people names that refer to them having lessened abilities at rational thought. Hmmm.....

I haven't been paying that much attention to the tea-bag movement because of a mental block I have on taking them seriously, so I can't say what I think about on what their opinions are really based. The few times I've caught them on the news I can tell that they're angry about something, but (from the little I've seen) they seem to be spouting things out randomly and without much regard to structuring their arguments with facts.

Angry people in funny costumes yelling their opinions about things not working in their favor. OK, I can see how racism could possibly fit, but I don't have any supporting information to link them to it.

 

[AquaEyes11010]

This vid of Teabagger signs is revealing and disturbing, but it has a pleasant bluegrassy soundtrack:

YouTube - TEA PARTY RACISM: What The Media Won't Show You About Teabagger Racism​

Isn't "racism" basically when someone has negative connotations about another ethnic group, and assigns those negative connotations to every member of the group? OK, so the video shows racist tea-baggers, but to extend that to saying that the entire tea-bag movement is racist is....well, kinda racist. It's like Bill Maher has often said: Republicans aren't all, or even mostly, racists, but a lot of racists find their home in the Republican party.