Posted on 03/13/2015 7:10:46 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Members of the tea party movement are “screw-loosers” who range from “sort of a generic racism” to “bald-faced racists,” and they tend to become further more racist the further the longer they associate with tea party ideas. Also, “tea partiers are not overly concerned about the economy,” love “gun rallies,” want power in the hands of white people and hate President Barack Obama because he “broke the white monopoly on the presidency.”
Such was the message of a speaker on the first day of this year’s White Privilege Conference, currently happening at a posh hotel in downtown Louisville, Ky.
The speaker was Leonard Zeskind. The author and activist hosted a session concerning the tea party, a limited government movement that shared in the responsibility for returning the U.S. House of Representatives to Republican control four years ago.
Zeskind’s Thursday afternoon talk was entitled “The Denial of White Privilege, the Tea Party Movement and the Building of Our Response.”
The former factory worker turned “social change maker” began his lecture by stressing that his “area of expertise is the white nationalist movement.” He claimed to have begun paying attention to the tea party because, he said, white supremacists swelled in the tea party ranks after Obama was sworn in as president in 2009.
“All this business about government and ‘constitutional’ is a smokescreen that’s really all about, ‘I want this country back for me.’ And ‘me’ meaning ‘white people,’” Zeskind told an overflow conference room crowd.
“We consider the tea party a post-Cold War nationalist group,” he went on to explain. Tea party aficionados “have an internal life around gun rallies” and “around constitutional study groups.”
“I don’t think I have to convince you that they have sort of a generic racism,” Zeskind informed the audience, to many approving nods. He also used the term “bald-faced racists” to describe the tea party. (And the term “screw-loosers.”)
After noting that tea party supporters do not like to be called racists, the leftist activist suggested that tea party advocates mostly don’t like President Barack Obama because Obama “broke the white monopoly on the presidency.”
“Tea partiers are not overly concerned about the economy,” he confidently asserted.
Zeskind noted with dismay that after last year’s White Privilege Conference in Madison, Wis. he came under considerable criticism because “some goomball [sic] conservative tea partiers or whatever” reported that he had “cited the fact” that “the longer you are in the tea party, the more racist you become.”
This year, Zeskind doubled down on the racism allegation, citing it again and insisting that it is true based on an obscure “longitudinal study” he himself did not carry out — but has totally read.
During the question-and-answer period, a woman asked: “What is, like, an African-American tea party member? How could there be one?”
Zeskind said he doesn’t know “how people could do it” but compared black people who support limited government and gun rights to “Jewish kluxers.”
Zeskind repeatedly referred to black people as “black folks.” He bizarrely suggested that “black folks” didn’t know about the tea party movement when it began because it wasn’t a topic of discussion “at the barber shop.”
Zeskind also adamantly suggested that there are “no gay people in the tea party,” and that constitutional government and a free-market economy cannot coexist.
In a handout entitled “Seven Steps to Stop the Tea Party Movement,” Zeskind suggests that White Privilege Conference attendees “hold public forums,” “pass a resolution” “in your trade union” and “advertise widely the notion that the Tea Party movement’s call for ‘constitutional government’ is hypocritical.”
At the beginning of his talk, Zeskind had asked audience members to volunteer to speak about themselves.
“I live in the bowels of the tea party, and I have the privilege of teaching your children,” explained one White Privilege Conference attendee — a woman with a Southern accent.
“I teach at a very elite boarding school,” explained a second woman who said she is from the Boston area. She said the school is “full of tea partiers” who “try to, you know baptize” political opponents.
A third woman, from Minnesota, lamented that the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party is moving “towards what they call the middle” and becoming “welcoming to the needs of independent voters.”
As the woman trailed off after “independent voters,” Zeskind interjected “…which means tea party,” as a way to label such voters.
A fourth woman said she attended Zeskind’s lecture because her “in-laws get all their news from Fox.”
This year’s event marks the sixteenth annual White Privilege Conference.
People — mostly white people — pay hundreds of dollars each to attend the multiday conference each year.
Taxpayer funds from several states go to pay for conference fees.
Getting to the point where being white means having a target drawn on your back.
Until last year I never thought myself “white”, I thought myself AMERICAN!
The current climate of racial hostility fomented by this regime is forcing race consciousness upon a growing percentage of the majority who previously thought that only white supremacists were preoccupied with race.
The Ferguson monstrosity is blaming a lot of people for something they never did nor would contemplate doing, i.e., harboring racially prejudiced thoughts.
People who are falsely accused tend to become extremely defensive, and will see to acquiring the means of defending themselves.
These clowns are really stupid enough to think they can win the race war they are instigating.
When I checked a couple years ago, one of the sponsors of the conference was the Lutheran Church.
From the article:
People — mostly white people — pay hundreds of dollars each to attend the multiday conference each year.
Taxpayer funds from several states go to pay for conference fees.
BTW like most leftists it appears Mr Zitskind is suffering from extreme projection. Europhobia?
Race war?! Are you crazy?!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ALm6pR_B4s
Classic projection. The speaker sees everything through a racial lens, is profoundly racist himself.
ELCA, I presume? Also wouldn’t be surprised if the RCC, ECUSA, UMC and Unitarians are in on this.
That is a face that just screams...PUNCH ME!
sounds like a mutual admiration society for retards.
stupid is as stupid does.
Travel expenses for government employees...
Okay, so which of us goes there yearly to freep this thing as a recruitment drive? Brilliant whomever is doing it. Prefect parody of how liberals imagine themselves.
Every time they’d have a conference when I was at the state unemployment office they brought in a terrorism expert. I still haven’t figured that out.
Looks Jewish to me. He managed in just that little bit I read to slander Italians, White, Jews and Blacks. What a guy! But Tea Party people are the racists, LOL.
It’s sad that so many people in the US believe this kind of spew. They would be the low information folks most likely on welfare. Give a man a fish, they eat for the day. Teach a man to fish, he can feed himself. Allow a liberal communist democrat into a political office and they’ll take your fish and give it to their political supporters.
98% self-hating whites. 2% "other", so that the whites can tell each other they're obviously not racist.
That @hole has obviously never been to a Tea Party rally and observed how welcome the rare black attendees are.
Really, this is nothing new, it’s just the natural progression of the idea that all whites should be stereotyped as responsible for the sins of a few whites in our history, when that same standard cannot be applied to all blacks for the fact that a larger percentage of their smaller percentage of the population commits more crime, including interracial crime. It also singles out the historical wrongs by those few whites as unique in history, when many cultures, nations, races, practiced it and some still do. Because whites are where the money is, and white males created the world to which others are coming in overwhelming numbers in order to be “oppressed”.
He looks like a garden variety pasty faced academic. I like what the other poster said - his face screams ‘punch me’.
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