Posted on 05/05/2010 5:51:48 PM PDT by GregNH
he Tea Party movement has a race problem. To borrow Bob Dole's famous line: I know it. You know it. The American people know it. We all know it. According to the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll, three out of 10 Americans believe that racial prejudice undergirds the movement. That's really too bad, given that it was born out of legitimate concern about the role and size of government, not to mention the size of exploding deficits. But it only has itself to blame.
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‘30% “believe” the Tea Party is racist?’
30% “believe” that Jane Fonda is a patriotic American... ;-P
Of course a third of those polled believe the movement has a race problem. When the media and talking head elites keep hammering that lie, a certain number of people are going to believe it.
“As I recall, about 96% of black voters supported Obama.”
“Only” 90% or so IIRC...
Out of curiosity I looked up Jonathan Capehart on google, and I find that the chief thing about him seems to be his boyfriend:
He seems to double as the Washington ComPost’s racebaiter and gay rights guy.
http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/03/21/PH2007032101210.jpg
30%? I highly doubt the Compost talked to 90 million people.
Back from idiots like this:
Bring anthrax across Mexican border to kill Americans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDoHuhr1uZ0
overthrow the government
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV7GSff4fIA
America must be burned
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiEKS5iPtDs
GD America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnlRrxXv-v8
Racism: Exposing the Illegal Mexican Agenda.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXbo28dt-Tk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnlRrxXv-v8
And there are plenty of other examples - look around.
Here’s an article that describes exactly how liberals treat conservative blacks.
Black conservative tea party backers take heat
By VALERIE BAUMAN
The Associated Press
6:31 p.m. Tuesday, April 6, 2010
ALBANY, N.Y. — They’ve been called Oreos, traitors and Uncle Toms, and are used to having to defend their values. Now black conservatives are really taking heat for their involvement in the mostly white tea party movement — and for having the audacity to oppose the policies of the nation’s first black president.
“I’ve been told I hate myself. I’ve been called an Uncle Tom. I’ve been told I’m a spook at the door,” said Timothy F. Johnson, chairman of the Frederick Douglass Foundation, a group of black conservatives who support free market principles and limited government.
“Black Republicans find themselves always having to prove who they are. Because the assumption is the Republican Party is for whites and the Democratic Party is for blacks,” he said.
Johnson and other black conservatives say they were drawn to the tea party movement because of what they consider its commonsense fiscal values of controlled spending, less taxes and smaller government. The fact that they’re black — or that most tea partyers are white — should have nothing to do with it, they say.
“You have to be honest and true to yourself. What am I supposed to do, vote Democratic just to be popular? Just to fit in?” asked Clifton Bazar, a 45-year-old New Jersey freelance photographer and conservative blogger.
Opponents have branded the tea party as a group of racists hiding behind economic concerns — and reports that some tea partyers were lobbing racist slurs at black congressmen during last month’s heated health care vote give them ammunition.
But these black conservatives don’t consider racism representative of the movement as a whole — or race a reason to support it.
Angela McGlowan, a black congressional candidate from Mississippi, said her tea party involvement is “not about a black or white issue.”
“It’s not even about Republican or Democrat, from my standpoint,” she told The Associated Press. “All of us are taxed too much.”
Still, she’s in the minority. As a nascent grassroots movement with no registration or formal structure, there are no racial demographics available for the tea party movement; it’s believed to include only a small number of blacks and Hispanics.
Some black conservatives credit President Barack Obama’s election — and their distaste for his policies — with inspiring them and motivating dozens of black Republicans to plan political runs in November.
For black candidates like McGlowan, tea party events are a way to reach out to voters of all races with her conservative message.
“I’m so proud to be a part of this movement! I want to tell you that a lot of people underestimate you guys,” the former national political commentator for Fox News told the cheering crowd at a tea party rally in Nashville, Tenn., in February.
Tea party voters represent a new model for these black conservatives — away from the black, liberal Democratic base located primarily in cities, and toward a black and white conservative base that extends into the suburbs.
Black voters have overwhelmingly backed Democratic candidates, support that has only grown in recent years. In 2004, presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry won 88 percent of the black vote; four years later, 95 percent of black voters cast ballots for Obama.
Black conservatives don’t want to have to apologize for their divergent views.
“I’ve gotten the statement, ‘How can you not support the brother?’” said David Webb, an organizer of New York City’s Tea Party 365, Inc. movement and a conservative radio personality.
Since Obama’s election, Webb said some black conservatives have even resorted to hiding their political views.
“I know of people who would play the (liberal) role publicly, but have their private opinions,” he said. “They don’t agree with the policy but they have to work, live and exist in the community ... Why can’t we speak openly and honestly if we disagree?”
Among the 37 black Republicans running for U.S. House and Senate seats in November is Charles Lollar of Maryland’s 5th District.
A tea party supporter running against House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., Lollar says he’s finding support in unexpected places.
The 38-year-old U.S. Marine Corps reservist recently walked into a bar in southern Maryland decorated with a Confederate flag. It gave his wife Rosha pause.
“I said, ‘You know what, honey? Many, many of our Southern citizens came together under that flag for the purpose of keeping their family and their state together,’” Lollar recalled. “The flag is not what you’re to fear. It’s the stupidity behind the flag that is a problem. I don’t think we’ll find that in here. Let’s go ahead in.”
Once inside, they were treated to a pig roast, a motorcycle rally — and presented with $5,000 in contributions for his campaign.
McGlowan, one of three GOP candidates in north Mississippi’s 1st District primary, seeks a seat held since 2008 by Democrat Travis Childers. The National Republican Congressional Committee has supported Alan Nunnelee, chairman of the state Senate Appropriations Committee, who is also pursuing tea party voters.
McGlowan believes the tea party movement has been unfairly portrayed as monolithically white, male and middle-aged, though she acknowledged blacks and Hispanics are a minority at most events.
Racist protest signs at some tea party rallies and recent reports by U.S. Reps. John Lewis, D-Ga., and Barney Frank, D-Mass., that tea partyers shouted racial and anti-gay slurs at them have raised allegations of racism in the tea party movement.
Black members of the movement say it is not inherently racist, and some question the reported slurs. “You would think — something that offensive — you would think someone got video of it,” Bazar, the conservative blogger, said.
“Just because you have one nut case, it doesn’t automatically equate that you’ve got an organization that espouses (racism) as a sane belief,” Johnson said.
Hilary Shelton, director of the Washington bureau of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, suggested a bit of caution.
“I’m sure the reason that (black conservatives) are involved is that from an ideological perspective, they agree,” said Shelton. “But when those kinds of things happen, it is very important to be careful of the company that you keep.”
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Associated Press writers Brian Witte in Maryland and Emily Wagster Pettus in Mississippi contributed to this report.
And three out of ten Americans swear they saw Elvis at a McDonalds within the last five years.
push a lie long enough....
The Tea Party has a serious race problem - they are in a race against Socialism.
it's not our fault there are so few black or asian or latino conservatives
it's theirs...let's be frank about it
they have free will and they choose largely to exploit racial divisiveness, claim victimhood and seek redress for it and most importantly...use their own political power against what they view as the white majority even though we are obviously quite fractured...they seem oblivious to that
they are the ones who vote as a race 3-6 times greater than do whites so who is really consumed by racial identity? the majority white tea party? or the majority leftist minorities?
it's around 80 percent over aged 50 whites and majority women
much like this forum actually
not saying that is bad....I'm one of them
but it is true....they can put blacks and latinos outfront all they like
it's still a vast majority white movement
whites are simply exponentially more conservative than any minority but Viets and Cubans that I know of
and we have been trying to change that forever to no avail
they simply don't want to be conservative...it implies responsibility
unaccountability and victimhood are irresistible siren calls
We have 32 Blacks running as conservative Republicans in the mid-terms.
I’d think that has to mess with the libs’ minds.
There’s a whole slew of women, too.
Who says we aren’t diverse? lol
BTW, I love your Marsha Blackburn!
and they will be elected by white voters not blacks
we love Marsha too....we smack dab in the middle of her district...before we were barely in it when in urban Nashville
“and they will be elected by white voters not blacks”
I can’t help but think that there will be blacks who vote for them. Most southern blacks that I know...and there’s been a lot of them over the years...are rather conservative and very religious. I know that whites will vote for them, but I think some of the black vote will be peeled off, too. These are the mid-term elections, and Obama isn’t on the ticket.
I’d like to state right now that I don’t like identity politics, but it’s where the libs and establishment Republicans live so I guess we have to compete in that arena.
Mike Bloomberg's Got the Velvet Touch
As far as we know, Michael Bloomberg is the first mayoral candidate to step out to "Beige," the weekly gay night at B Bar. The Republican billionaire and his girlfriend, Diana Taylor, had a three-hour double date in one of the VIP booths there last Tuesday, with policy adviser Jonathan Capehart and his boyfriend, architect Giuseppe Lignano. Bloomberg was amused to hear that the reservationist had booked his table under the name "Bloomberry." On the way out, he stopped to chat up doorman Derek Neen on how he decides who does and doesn't get past the velvet rope.
Blacks detest black conservatives
they may get a little black vote but not much unless something has changed
I’m not crazy about that gal in north MS, she is not very conservative..by my opinion..lol....which admittedly is sorta rigid
But it has to bug them that they only convinced 3 in 10. And those are just liberals anyway who didn't need convincing.
Let’s pause a moment from screaming race-baiters at the Marxist Washington Post and look for a moment at the all white ownership of the WP. Oops! Not supposed to notice that.
3 out of 10 people think the Tea Party has a race problem. That number pretty much corresponds with the base of the democrat party so it’s not surprising.
The Tea Party has a lame-stream media problem.
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