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Is the Tea Party racist?

Is the Tea Party Movement Racist

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Barbbtx said:
It doesn't attract racists any more than any other group, so why even say that?
What black Republicans have questioned the role of race in the TP movement? Surely not Alan West, or Herman Cain.
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how many "niggar" signs do you see at democrat rallies?
 
jamesrage said:
Amazing the democrat party did all that **** and was once considered the party of the KKK, had a DNC convention jokingly called a Klan bake but yet the republicans are the racist bigots.
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You do realize that most of the staunch racist Democrats deliberately left the Democratic Party and went to the Republican Party, right?

In 1948, Democrats alienated white Southerners in two ways. The Democratic National Convention adopted a strong civil rights plank, leading to a walkout by Southerners. Two weeks later President Harry Truman signed Executive Order 9981 integrating the armed forces. From 1948 onward, southern whites against integration looked for political accommodation for their views... The civil rights movement caused enormous controversy in the white South with many attacking it as a violation of states' rights...With the old barrier to becoming a Republican removed, traditional Southerners joined the new middle class and the Northern transplants in moving toward the Republican Party.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histor...rty#Realignment:_The_South_becomes_Republican
 
As a movement absolutely not. Individuals within the movement yes. And from an above post the Tea Party is aware and dealing with it. Thats good enough for me.

Good to see the poll results so far.
 
jamesrage said:
Amazing the democrat party did all that **** and was once considered the party of the KKK, had a DNC convention jokingly called a Klan bake but yet the republicans are the racist bigots.
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Amazing that we're dredging up ancient history to prove our point. It is ironic that it was once the Democratic party. When the Democrats became the Civil Rights party in the '60s, Nixon developed his "Southern Strategy" and, while not openly "racist," blatantly appealed to those who probably were.

The Tea Party is not openly racist, but it does attract some racists. Basically anybody who is opposed to Obama at all accepts the mantle, and well, that includes racists.
 
rocket88 said:
Amazing that we're dredging up ancient history to prove our point. It is ironic that it was once the Democratic party. When the Democrats became the Civil Rights party in the '60s, Nixon developed his "Southern Strategy" and, while not openly "racist," blatantly appealed to those who probably were.

The Tea Party is not openly racist, but it does attract some racists. Basically anybody who is opposed to Obama at all accepts the mantle, and well, that includes racists.
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But that has nothing to do with the party and what it stands for. There are racist's in every political lean and i would argue there are a lot more racist democrats, and a lot of them who call themselves "black"( but it's apparently okay to be racist and "black"). Pro-union democrats have a lot of racists in there midst too.

The tea party policies have no baring on race at all, cutting specding and taxing FOR ALL. Democrats and liberals have more racist policies giving special handouts, funding, and privledges to people who claim to be of a certain "race" and/or a certain class. Since this is so ingrained into our society we arn't realizing the hypocracy of recognizing race in government.
 
celticwar17 said:
But that has nothing to do with the party and what it stands for. There are racist's in every political lean and i would argue there are a lot more racist democrats, and a lot of them who call themselves "black"( but it's apparently okay to be racist and "black"). Pro-union democrats have a lot of racists in there midst too.

The tea party policies have no baring on race at all, cutting specding and taxing FOR ALL. Democrats and liberals have more racist policies giving special handouts, funding, and privledges to people who claim to be of a certain "race" and/or a certain class. Since this is so ingrained into our society we arn't realizing the hypocracy of recognizing race in government.
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And here we go with the name calling. "You're a racist, " "No, you're a racist." Grow up. Some Tea Partiers are racist. Apparently saying that touches a nerve and leads to Limbaugh-esque proclamations that Democrats are the real racists.
 
rocket88 said:
...Basically anybody who is opposed to Obama at all accepts the mantle, and well, that includes racists.
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No. Basically, anyone opposed to Obama at all has that mantle thrust upon them. They do not 'accept' it. It is forced upon them.
 
rocket88 said:
And here we go with the name calling. "You're a racist, " "No, you're a racist." Grow up. Some Tea Partiers are racist. Apparently saying that touches a nerve and leads to Limbaugh-esque proclamations that Democrats are the real racists.
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Yeah, I don't see what the problem is. Some tea partiers are racist - this is not a controversial statement.
 
theplaydrive said:
Brandon Brice, a primary black speaker at a tax-day Tea Party rally, said he was worried about the movement, noting that, "It's strayed away from the message of wasteful spending and Washington not listening to its constituents, and it's become more of this rally of hate."
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1. You should start using Google and Wikipedia more.
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Ah Ha! He made those comments based on at least one big fat lie.


Some black conservatives question tea party's inclusiveness

He and other black conservatives are divided over the grass-roots movement of tea party groups that has caught fire with adherents of small government and fiscal responsibility. The tension stems from reports of racial and homophobic slurs directed against black and gay members of Congress who voted to overhaul health care, from photos circulating on the Internet of signs raised at tea party protests with slogans such as "Obama Promotes White Slavery," and the exhortation of a speaker at the group's convention that voters should be subject to literacy tests.
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The debate ratcheted up this week as two prominent black conservatives, Thomas Sowell and Ward Connerly, decried accusations of tea party racism. Connerly defended the movement and wrote in a National Review column that "race is the engine that drives the political Left."

"In the courtrooms, on college campuses, and, most especially, in our politics, race is a central theme. Where it does not naturally rise to the surface, there are those who will manufacture and amplify it," Connerly said. "Such is the case with the claims that the 'Tea Partiers' are a bunch of racists and that many of them spat upon members of the Congressional Black Caucus. . . . I am convinced beyond any doubt that all of this is part of the strategic plan being implemented by the Left in its current campaign to remake America."
Similarly, Sowell wrote a commentary on the Web site GOPUSA cautioning Americans to "stay away from injecting race into political issues" and doubting news reports and firsthand accounts by members of Congress that tea party protesters directed racial slurs at black legislators as they walked to the Capitol to cast their votes.
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rocket88 said:
And here we go with the name calling. "You're a racist, " "No, you're a racist." Grow up. Some Tea Partiers are racist. Apparently saying that touches a nerve and leads to Limbaugh-esque proclamations that Democrats are the real racists.
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I think they are... though most may not intentionally be so.
 
theplaydrive said:
Yeah, I don't see what the problem is. Some tea partiers are racist - this is not a controversial statement.
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It is... because what is the point of saying that?
Some of everything is racist.

The only point in saying that "some" tea partiers are racist is the attempt at making the movement illegitimate and make people who are sensitive to the issue freak out.
 
Barbbtx said:
Ah Ha! He made those comments based on at least one big fat lie.
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Barbbtx said:
He and other black conservatives are divided over the grass-roots movement of tea party groups that has caught fire with adherents of small government and fiscal responsibility. The tension stems from reports of racial and homophobic slurs directed against black and gay members of Congress who voted to overhaul health care, from photos circulating on the Internet of signs raised at tea party protests with slogans such as "Obama Promotes White Slavery," and the exhortation of a speaker at the group's convention that voters should be subject to literacy tests.

Some black conservatives question tea party's inclusiveness
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Do you think I'm stupid? The only party you highlighted was the "reports of racial and homophobic slurs". Right after that it says they were also concerned after, "rom photos circulating on the Internet of signs raised at tea party protests with slogans such as "Obama Promotes White Slavery," and the exhortation of a speaker at the group's convention that voters should be subject to literacy tests." In other words, that had several factual reasons to for voicing their concerns.

Your silence on the other two people I talked about, Lenny McAllister and Jean Howard-Hill, show me that you haven't found a way to deny the fact that they too are concerned about racism is the Tea Party.
 
liblady said:
how many "niggar" signs do you see at democrat rallies?
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Do you think one "niggar" sign at a rally makes the tea party racist?
If so, than I guess the Union rallys are predominantly Communists.
 
celticwar17 said:
It is... because what is the point of saying that?
Some of everything is racist.

The only point in saying that "some" tea partiers are racist is the attempt at making the movement illegitimate and make people who are sensitive to the issue freak out.
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What is point of saying that? Do you realize what thread we're in? The question of the thread is: Is the Tea Party movement racist? Racism will necessarily be brought up.

I'm pretty sure every person has given some variation of this answer: "No the movement is not racist, but they have racist members." Get over it - it's true. Nobody has tried to discredit the movement. If we wanted to discredit it our answers would have been: "**** yeah the Tea Party is a bunch of racist!" But nobody said that. Move along.
 
liblady said:
how many "niggar" signs do you see at democrat rallies?
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Well I have that video if you'd like to see it again of Liberals wanting to hang Clarence Thomas, wanting to put him back out in the fields, wanting to cut off his toes and feed them to him.
Give me one "niggar" sign in my party over that kind of racism any day.
 
bicycleman said:
Tea Partiers consist of all races, joined together to take back America, the true American way as per the US Constitution.
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Read up on the demographics of the Tea Party. It's the same as the Republican demographics only with even lower percentage of minorities. This bull**** about the Tea Party being anything more than a group composed primarily of disgruntled middle class white suburbanites is ridiculous. The worst part is that people actually buy into the notion that the Tea Party is some sort of 'multi-racial' coalition of tax payers. The only minorities in the Tea Party are the ones they like to parade on TV to show off their multiculturality.
 
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rocket88 said:
Amazing that we're dredging up ancient history to prove our point. It is ironic that it was once the Democratic party. When the Democrats became the Civil Rights party in the '60s, Nixon developed his "Southern Strategy" and, while not openly "racist," blatantly appealed to those who probably were.

The Tea Party is not openly racist, but it does attract some racists. Basically anybody who is opposed to Obama at all accepts the mantle, and well, that includes racists.
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If this is how you feel, than you think they are racist and should have checked yes in the poll.
 
rocket88 said:
And here we go with the name calling. "You're a racist, " "No, you're a racist." Grow up. Some Tea Partiers are racist. Apparently saying that touches a nerve and leads to Limbaugh-esque proclamations that Democrats are the real racists.
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Believing we are all born as equal humans(Meaning, if you are human you have the right to not be judged by your genetics, but by your credentials) with equal rights is the only morally right way to structure a government.

The second people group a human population by their genetics and gives special services to that population because of it, it is racism( this goes for every case). The grouping of "race" has no real significance when it comes to a government who protects the rights and laws of the land, and if it is significant to the government, then it is racist. To the government, the difference of a white man and black man should be none... and it's job to protect that value.
 
Hatuey said:
Read up on the demographics of the Tea Party. It's the same as the Republican demographics only with even lower percentage of minorities. This bull**** about the Tea Party being anything more than a group composed primarily of disgruntled middle class white suburbanites is ridiculous. The worst part is that people actually buy into the notion that the Tea Party is some sort of 'multi-racial' coalition of tax owners. The only minorities in the Tea Party are the ones they like to parade on TV to show off their multiculturality.
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The only reason why there are not more minorities in the tea party, is because of you and your political lean. You have divided the political leans on the basis of race and that is prejudicial. It is so ingrained into the minorities culture to being extremely skeptical of the right wing because of the media and bitterness of things happening 40 years ago.

The minorities who are at the tea party rallies i think deserve more kudos then anyone, for they have transended the cultural norm and it is evidence that they actually thought outside the basis of race, to what they actually believe in.
 
Hatuey said:
Read up on the demographics of the Tea Party. It's the same as the Republican demographics only with even lower percentage of minorities. This bull**** about the Tea Party being anything more than a group composed primarily of disgruntled middle class white suburbanites is ridiculous. The worst part is that people actually buy into the notion that the Tea Party is some sort of 'multi-racial' coalition of tax payers. The only minorities in the Tea Party are the ones they like to parade on TV to show off their multiculturality.
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Been there done that, as in attended a few rallies. I can attest to who was there in the predominantly military town that they were held. You're reading the wrong material and definitely biased, whatever it is.
 
Barbbtx said:
Well I have that video if you'd like to see it again of Liberals wanting to hang Clarence Thomas, wanting to put him back out in the fields, wanting to cut off his toes and feed them to him.
Give me one "niggar" sign in my party over that kind of racism any day.
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none, i see. thanks.
 
theplaydrive said:
What is point of saying that? Do you realize what thread we're in? The question of the thread is: Is the Tea Party movement racist? Racism will necessarily be brought up.

I'm pretty sure every person has given some variation of this answer: "No the movement is not racist, but they have racist members." Get over it - it's true. Nobody has tried to discredit the movement. If we wanted to discredit it our answers would have been: "**** yeah the Tea Party is a bunch of racist!" But nobody said that. Move along.
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-_- you completely missed my point... I think it is not fair to say "but they have racist members"... you should just stop it at "No the movement is not racist." Even though, it is true they do have racist members, but there is no point in adding that fact because every polical movement has some racist's. I think bringing that point up is just meant to stick it in for the emotional response.
 
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