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Tea Party Racist On Capital Hill
March 21st, 2010
The Klu Klux Tea Party is at it again.
I brought you a post last week showing video of the repeated naked racist tone at Tea Party rallies. Yesterday during their supposed protest of health care on capital hill; Tea Partiers visited their vile racism upon legislators.
It is clear this feigned outrage is not about big government and socialism; as these people didn’t get angry until a Black man became president. Their now blatant racism only underlines what was obvious from the start. The far right is mad that they lost the election; and even madder that they lost it to a Black man.
mlloyd commenting at FrumForum frames the issue succinctly:
The Tea Party movement is funded and supported by GOP outfits like Dick Armey’s “Freedom Works” and Roger Ailes’ tv network [Fox News].
When the GOP controlled the government, they ballooned deficits (and expanded executive power, and squandered our resources in the Middle East, and created an unpaid-for budget-busting Medicare entitlement etc.) without so much as a peep from the people who now go to tea parties.
These outbursts are the natural outcome of this movement. There is no other reason for its existence.
The brackets are my addition
MSNBC as well as others report that Black lawmakers John Lewis and Emanaul Cleaver were called the n-word, and spat upon by Tea Partiers at the “Health care” protest. While likewise openly homosexual Congressmen Barney Frank was called a “f–”.
On their First Read blog they quote the following from African American House Majority Whip James Clyburn:
Clyburn, who helped lead sit-ins in South Carolina in the ’60s had this to say regarding the Tea Partiers:
“It was absolutely shocking to me, last Monday, I stayed home to meet on the campus Pomford University where 50 years ago, as of last Monday, March 15th I led the first demonstrations in South Carolina, the sit-ins…quite frankly I heard some things today that I haven’t heard since that day. I heard people saying things today I’ve not heard since March 15th, 1960 when I was marching to try and get off the back of the bus. This is incredible, shocking to me.
He added, “It doesn’t make me nervous, I am the hardest person in the world to intimidate. … Well a lot of us have said for a long time that none of this is about health care at all. … It’s about extending a basic fundamental right to people who are less powerful.”
As I stated at my Twitter earlier today, I think the racism of the Klu Klux Tea Party is beautiful. Just like with Sheriff Bull Connor and his dogs and firer hoses; the more they show their ugly racism the more they fuel what’s right!
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Didn’t John Lewis or Emanaul Cleaver get spit on??
Didn’t the police hold the guy who dit it?
Why did he decline to press charges???
I would have, to spit on someone is the lowest of low!
I want to who know this clown was can we press charges on behalf of the “people”? Can we know who he was??
I seen on MSNBC they had a guy from the Tea Party saying he didn’t see this kind of behavior from anyone just heard about these two insidences and does not condone it thinks it discusting blaa, blaa and I get that you can’t control everyone but when I said in my last post before “what do you exspect them to do jump on their back and kick their ass?” I changed my mind YES they should have jumped on this guys back and kicked his dang ass!!
I try not to take sides or get riled up stay cool in my own perspective but this pissed my the F off!
I saw a Tea Party leader and a Republican congressmen (Rep. Nunes ) on t.v. double talking. Saying out of oneside of their mouth that the behavior isn’t good, then out of the other that it either didn’t happen, or “what do you expect?”
That’s not discouraging it, that’s encouraging it. They have to give slight of hand pretense to saying it’s not okay; but their attitude and the lightness of their response to the behavior clearly shows that they approve it.
Forget jumping on somebody’s back, why don’t they start with opening up their mouths and actually condemning it, instead of trying to pretend like it’s isolated incidents, simply didn’t happen it, or should be expected, so what’s the big deal.
You know your right why not look in that camera and point and say “that was a discusting act if that’s what your going to do don’t come to our rallies because we Don’t Want You!”.
That would set things straight will alot of folks I think, but like you said they didn’t as far as we know which is something to think about as it is “telling” of who is behind these rallies and if these people are being used who go to them.
Not saying they are just thinking.