Black Conservatives Take Lead Role in Tea Party Movement

FOX ^ | January 19, 2010 | Judson Berger

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Black Conservatives Take Lead Role in Tea Party Movement

Though the tea party movement has attracted criticism for its supposed lack of diversity, minority activists who are involved say the movement has little to do with race, and that it is attracting a more diverse crowd every day.

Lloyd Marcus' conservatism started when he was 9.

His family had just moved out of the "ghetto" to a brand-new high rise in Baltimore -- within months, he said, the "dream come true" turned into a nightmare, as the building of welfare-collecting black residents became a den of crime.

His father moved the family out as soon as he got a job with the city fire department, but "my cousins never escaped," Marcus said. He cried as he told the story.

Marcus, a black conservative who is now involved in the growing tea party movement, attributes the problems of his childhood neighborhood, his extended family and the black community in general to a "cradle-to-grave government dependency" that in the case of his cousins enabled an idle life of crime and drug abuse.

To Marcus, President Obama's policies perpetuate that dependency. That's why, he says, it baffles him and other black conservatives when the tea party movement is dismissed as somehow anti-black, as a rowdy bunch of ignorant, white protesters who have it in for the nation's first black president.

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Touché.....

[ExTexasRedhead]

Lloyd Marcus is an awesome patriot.

[Servant of the Cross]

Lloyd Marcus is an awesome patriot.

And awesome FReeper.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Hey, Freeper Lloyd you Rock! I saw you at the Sacramento Tea Party!

[Servant of the Cross]

Maybe another Black Conservative ('General' Larry Platt) could be enlisted to provide music at future Tea Parties ...

Pants on the Ground

[dumpthelibs]

These folks are braver than brave. They have to take the slights of their own race (remember Jesse Jackson’s quote on a black man and voting for healthcare) and then they have to tolerate the veiled racism by the libtards. How dare you get off the plantation! I have no time for lazy welfare stealing minorities, but I will fight to the death to defend people like this.

[broken_arrow1]

Apostle Claver tells the world how the real party of racism is the Democrats

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbqmxzWu158&feature=player_embedded#

http://www.ragingelephants.org/

[Old Teufel Hunden]

But, but I’ve been told by the MSM that this movement is just a bunch of angry white guys clinging to their bibles and guns. How can this be???

[Voter62vb]

IMHO, it seems to me that black people would be insulted by who the Democrats and media brought forth and staged. Obama had no experience and is really all PR.

The Democrats, demogogues of race, bring out their approved “minority”. And then Nancy and Reid run the show.

I think if minorities really looked at the left, they would see the nosed-turned-up attitude of the Democrats and turn away.

[fullchroma]

A few excellent, prominent examples:

Akindele Akinemi, Terry Anderson, LaShawn Barber, Michelle D. Bernard,
Ken Blackwell, Deneen Borelli, Janice Rogers Brown, Herman Cain, Ward Connerly, Larry Elder, Charles Evers, James Golden - aka Bo Sneardley, Isaac Hayes, Amy Holmes, Bishop E.W. Jackson Sr., Alex-St. James, Alan Keyes, Dr. Alveda King, Yaphet Kotto, Lloyd Marcus, Kevin Martin, Angela McGlowan, Star Parker, Bob Parks, Charles Payne, Jesse Lee Peterson, Joseph C. Phillips, Alonzo Rachel, Condaleeza Rice, Francis Rice, Sonja Schmidt, Donald E. Scroggins, Thomas Sowell, Michael Steele, Shelby Steele, Carol Swain, Lynn Swann, Clarence Thomas, Sheryl Underwood, Tara Wall, Walter Williams

[EnigmaticAnomaly]

Ping for viewing after work...

[MuttTheHoople]

Kim Wade is pretty big in the Tea Party movement down here in Mississippi. He was once with the Nation of Islam, but has been a follower of Christ since the mid-1990's. He gives Stuttering Barry and Bennie "Housebutler for the Liberal Plantation" Thompson hell on his daily radio show on WJNT 1180 AM from 5-6 PM.

[sodpoodle]

***These folks are braver than brave.***

They truly are ‘our fellow Americans’.

The next time you are waiting in line at the airport or somewhere else - start a conversation with that guy or gal sitting next to you. I do. It is a great opportunity to connect and share ideas and experiences, however briefly.

IMHO We are being separated by the media, the class elitists, socialist experimenting politicians and the hate-mongers....we must stop this *divide and conquer* strategy.

[Wee-Weed Up]

Funny thing is, nobody is listening to what the Liberals have to say about the TEA Party movement any more. the more they say, the larger it grows.

[PMAS]

Black Conservatives ?!?!? In the Tea Party ?!?!?
NOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!
(a possible John Stewart moment)

[Syncro]

Thanks for the post.

Good job Lloyd!

[greatplains]

Ditto, big time.

[HarleyD]

There are no “black” conservatives. There are just conservatives. Lloyd Marcus is simply a great conservative.

[Syncro]

True, and Lloyd stresses that fact where ever he speaks.

But it needs to be mentioned to counter the spittleites (matthews,olberman,maddow etc) and the general media lies that the Tea Party Movement is only supported and attended—and LEAD—by whites.

A great quote by Lloyd Marcus from the article:

"This is a movement that has swept the country," Marcus said. "It has really been the rebirth of conservatism in America."

[ksm1]

Not surprising, it was really a matter of time. For example, have any of you read some of Thomas Sowell’s books? He’s one of the most influential conservative-libertarian academics...ever. I recommend Knowledge And Decisions, definitely not easy reading, but very interesting.