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The Tea Party has a race problem (Barf Alert)
Washington Post ^ | 5/5/2010 | Jonathan Capehart

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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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: liberalidiots; msm; obama; race; racecard; teaparty
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But here's what did and continues to bother me. When Tea Partyers say they want their country back, what do they mean? Back from what and from whom? When they say they want this country to return to the Constitution, what's their evidence that the nation has run off its Constitutional rails? When they call themselves patriots and declare that they would be willing to fight for their freedom, again, I ask, from what and from whom? Get a clue....
1 posted on 05/05/2010 5:51:49 PM PDT by GregNH
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To: GregNH

I want my country back was the opening line in Howard Dean’s book.


2 posted on 05/05/2010 5:53:31 PM PDT by kabar
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To: GregNH

He is correct. The Tea Party does have a “race problem”. At it’s root is all the lies being told about how we are all racist.


3 posted on 05/05/2010 5:54:14 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Papa of two new Army Brats! Congrats to my Soldier son and his wife.)
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To: GregNH

Jonathan Capehart is an idiot.


4 posted on 05/05/2010 5:54:35 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (JUST VOTE THEM OUT! teapartyexpress.org)
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To: GregNH
Odd how I never expect to see this guy write a column about the racial content of the NAACP, La Raza, the Asian American Defense Fund, the other alphabet soup ethnic hate operations.

Odd.

5 posted on 05/05/2010 5:55:13 PM PDT by Regulator (Welcome to Zimbabwe! Now hand over your property.....)
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To: GregNH

So for weeks the liberal media spreads the story that tea party patriots are racist and then they do a poll to see how effective their campaign against the tea party patriots was.

Only the lying liberal media would be this obvious.


6 posted on 05/05/2010 5:55:22 PM PDT by kezzek
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To: GregNH

This is like someone throwing a bucket of water on you then saying it is your fault for being wet.

His question begs more how he filters the world than anything he would see in the Tea Party.


7 posted on 05/05/2010 5:55:24 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: GregNH

How many whites are in the “black caucus”? Why don’t we start writing opinion pieces about the all black, not primarily black, organizations in this country and what a bunch of racists they are?


8 posted on 05/05/2010 5:56:43 PM PDT by Kenny
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To: GregNH

Wasn’t the Coffee Party diversity-free?


9 posted on 05/05/2010 5:56:44 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (?)
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To: GregNH

One of the first things I read here at FR this morning pointed out that there are some 38 tea party supported minority candidates.


10 posted on 05/05/2010 5:58:03 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: GregNH
According to the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll, three out of 10 Americans believe that racial prejudice undergirds the movement.

30% "believe" the Tea Party is racist?

THAT MEANS 70% DON'T, YOU DUMB SLEAZY SOBs!

11 posted on 05/05/2010 5:59:16 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (FYBO: Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: GregNH
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3 out of 10 people believe the ‘Rat “big lie” propaganda.

So what?

12 posted on 05/05/2010 6:00:58 PM PDT by Touch Not the Cat (Where is the light? Wonder if it's weeping somewhere...)
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To: GregNH
What the message to be ingrained in our culture as second nature is: The person, place, thing, or idea is bad because it is white.

13 posted on 05/05/2010 6:01:03 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: GregNH

It looks like the Democrats might have some kind of problem with white men


14 posted on 05/05/2010 6:01:21 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com << Get your science fiction and fiction test marketed)
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To: kezzek

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You nailed it!

That is how theyu have operated for years.


15 posted on 05/05/2010 6:02:04 PM PDT by Touch Not the Cat (Where is the light? Wonder if it's weeping somewhere...)
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To: kezzek
So for weeks the liberal media spreads the story that tea party patriots are racist and then they do a poll to see how effective their campaign against the tea party patriots was.

Try months

16 posted on 05/05/2010 6:02:06 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com << Get your science fiction and fiction test marketed)
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To: GregNH

Three out of ten people think the Tea Party movement is racist, so that proves it’s racist. What does this guy use to think with? Democratic talking points? Rules for Radicals?

I am sick and tired of these slurs and slanders. Some of the people in this country of a leftist persuasion think you’re a racist regardless of who you are or what you do. I no longer take these people seriously.


17 posted on 05/05/2010 6:03:00 PM PDT by popdonnelly (The enormous crimes in history were all perpetrated by governments.)
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To: Jim Robinson
Whoever takes advice from WaPo, no true conservatives.
18 posted on 05/05/2010 6:03:29 PM PDT by Recon Dad ( USMC SSgt Patrick O - 3rd Afghanistan Deployment - Day 197)
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To: GregNH
three out of 10 Americans believe that racial prejudice undergirds the movement.

And 7 in 10 (70%) don't. 30% is about the number of radical leftists living in the US.

"[T]he 18 percent of Americans who identify themselves as Tea Party supporters tend to be Republican, white, male, married and older than 45."

Meanwhile, identifying a bomber as Muslim or an illegal Immigrant as Hispanic are still taboo.
19 posted on 05/05/2010 6:04:15 PM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: GregNH

The Post has a leftist bias problem.


20 posted on 05/05/2010 6:04:18 PM PDT by Interesting Times (For the truth about "swift boating" see ToSetTheRecordStraight.com)
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