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Is the Tea Party a racist organization?

Is the Tea Party a racist organization?

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rocket88 said:
I acknowledge it. Gardener is superior. At least, to some...
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Thank you, Rocket.

I always enjoy receiving praise from my Betters.
 
Fisher said:
Clearly the Tea Party is a racist organization :roll:

My office is smack dab in the middle of my government center. From it I can see the fed complex, the local courts/government/popo, the offices of our congressman/senator and numerous state and local offices. I can see most every protest that goes on. One day I saw a black guy on the steps of the courthouse with lots of black faces in the crowd and walked down to see what they were protesting. That usually happens whenever a black person gets killed by the cops and I had not heard of a killing recently. It turned out it was my first encounter with my local Tea Party protesting Obamacare. :shrug:
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What city is that and when. Surely, an event like that would have made the news somewhere.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
The bolded also applies to the demorat party (or any sizable group), thus it is simply a general purpose BS assumpton.
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Without a doubt. That's why it's not a BS assumption, but basically correct.

You ceratainly implied that the TP has more than the average number of racists, it is not my contention that absolutely no racists exist in the TP, simply that it is not, in general, a racist organization. I dislike most of Obama's polices yet I am neither in the TP nor a racist.
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You read your own implications into it, my friend. We agree that it is not, in matter of principle, racist. I know that you are not a racist, or in the TP.

I only contend that there are racists, who dislike Obama because he's black, hiding under the banner of the TP.
 
Ray410 said:
I'm not sure that others here have yet recognized your elitist superiority. For the time being you may have to accept that when you post self serving, unsubstantiated nonsense, there will be rebuttal. Oddly, that is why the forum is entitled "Political Debate."
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Oh I have recognized his eltist superiority. His name is Gardener, after all.
 
mak2 said:
I was simply talking about the people around me. I am not in a diverse area.
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Well, it would not be a first for me. I see them here every day. They call his a Kenyan socialist among other things.
 
There are racists everywhere, of every color, race, organization, etc.

The Tea Party, in and of itself, isn't "racist" because it's not an organization based on race. Klan, Black Panthers, Aryan Nation/Brotherhood...those are racist organizations.
 
66gardeners said:
There is no end to exploitation of "inferior groups". That is why they are inferior. So as long as they get to live, everything's okie dokie?
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As long as their rights are not violated or denied, yes. The rest is history. ;)
 
66gardeners said:
What city is that and when. Surely, an event like that would have made the news somewhere.
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a few dozen people hearing a speech about Obamacare back when the Tea Party was getting started is hardly newsworthy. In the local news it was an anti-Obamacrae event, not a "OMG there are black people in the tea party". You can google image search blacks and tea party and see there are more than one.
 
Fisher said:
a few dozen people hearing a speech about Obamacare back when the Tea Party was getting started is hardly newsworthy. In the local news it was an anti-Obamacrae event, not a "OMG there are black people in the tea party". You can google image search blacks and tea party and see there are more than one.
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I googled "blacks and tea party".

This is what I found.
Black Tea Party Activists Called 'Traitors' | Fox News

So in what city exactly did this event occur? Cause all I'm seeing is how black tea party members are uncle toms. No events coming up where black tea party members were highlighted.
 
Navy Pride said:
Chris Matthews thinks so.
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No, they are not racist however looks can be deceiving. To many people the Tea Party represents the grass roots anti-Obama movement, especially 4 or so years ago when they first started to become a national force. As such it has attracted people from all stripes who hate the President for a variety of reasons including but not exclusively race-based tribalism. Often rank and file Tea Partiers who might not have any official voice in the movement still maintain their personal right to free speech can have their private speech inaccurately associated with the Tea Party, an organization they latched onto for reasons other than the official Tea Party agenda. Because of this I can understand how the Tea Party can be falsely associated with racism when in fact they are not racist.

For example: I have a good friend who is involved with the Tea Party. Usually about 5 times a day I get emails from him bashing Obama. 99% of those emails have nothing to do with fiscal policy, the heart of the Tea Party agenda, but rather things like trying to make a connection between the President and Islam; calling into question the President's citizenship; off color jokes about the President; news about urban crime especially in Chicago presented as exciting developments; cheering America being passed up for hosting the Olympics; some emails with hints of racism; emails that promote the idea that blacks, blacks alone and just about all blacks (guys like Herman Cain and Allen West prominently excluded to offer cover against claims of racism) exploit the government's welfare programs and are bankrupting the country by Obama emptying out the treasury for them, etc. None of this represents official Tea Party positions but when its outspoken members engage in it, it can understandably be confused with what the Tea Party is about.
 
You have to wonder at the teabonics displayed in the signs, it's assertive idiocy gone mad!
 
Smeagol said:
some emails with hints of racism.
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Anyone can say " I am a tea partier", and then say anything else. But the actual tea party movement is not some kind of abstraction, despite being decentralized and blissfully leader-free. It is a network of local groups that usually state their agendas clearly, in founding documents. The vast majority of those "mini-party-platforms" feature withering criticism of economic policies implemented by Obama and Bush Jr, but there's nothing anti-black or anti-Texan there.
 
So everyone with a sign is a Tea Party member? Wow, that's great!

I guess I'll go down to the unemployment office and count the Democrats.
 
madman said:
nawww! there isnt any racism in the TP









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Just to be clear, not a single one of those signs is racist. Might want to check definitions.
 
Gipper said:
So everyone with a sign is a Tea Party member? Wow, that's great!

I guess I'll go down to the unemployment office and count the Democrats.
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In case you didn't know. The "Unemployment Office" is currently ran by the Republicans. And, more than likely...if you "a conservative" should happen to lose that cushy job that you have...they've probably already cut you off...so no need to go.
 
Removable Mind said:
In case you didn't know. The "Unemployment Office" is currently ran by the Republicans. And, more than likely...if you "a conservative" should happen to lose that cushy job that you have...they've probably already cut you off...so no need to go.
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I can get another. Education allows for that.
 
Redress said:
Just to be clear, not a single one of those signs is racist. Might want to check definitions.
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Two of those are, IMO. Like the watermelon photo definitely plays on stereotype. Not sure how it ties in to TP, but it is racist.
 
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