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Honestly, maybe the Tea Party (and those sympathetic) is 95% white, but there is absolutely zero racial motivation for anybody I know in the group.

I despise Marxists and what they are currently doing to this country.

Race schmace. I hate Pelosi and Reid every bit as much as Obama.

[GailA]

Charlotte Bergmann Charlotte Bergman is the CONSERVATIVE GOP candidate for the US 9TH District, TENN. She is the most frequent speaker of the Mid South Tea Party.I'm the one with the hat.

[lionheart 247365]

The black culture is basically a society of liberal lemmings for the most part ,, only the whites could possibly save them from their own demise . They seem to have a JONESTOWN mentality .

[Ignatz]

bump for later read

[ebersole]

I was really trying to read this through an open mind frame, but I guess I wasn’t successful. When I read comments such as
“What struck me about this documentary most of all was the American Revolution segment and how average, hard-working men and women rebelled against the great British Empire, in large part because of oppressive taxes”

I was only thinking, are you kidding me? How the hell could you not know this as part of the most basic American history? And if this struck you, you may want to read up on the history of the democratic party and its relationship with your race and perhaps even your culture.

[mojito]

Liberals and the Democratic Party do not want African-Americans to think for themselves: they are the party of government and African-Americans make up the largest percentage of their clients and dependents.

The Tea Party repudiates the expansion of government, wants to roll back the role of government in our lives, and free the American entrepreneurial spirit as the way to rebuild our economy and our future. Not one of these things has anything to do with race.

But liberals and the Democratic Party know the best way to keep their dependent's in line is to smear the Tea Party with espousing a racist agenda. And how do liberals know that Tea Partiers are racists? Why, see for yourselves, cry the editorial writers at the Washington Compost and the New York Slimes: Tea Partiers are overwhelmingly white, and hence, ipso facto, they must be racists.

But do liberals and the Democratic Party ever directly confront the Tea Party on the basis of their beliefs and ideas? No, of course not. Because the liberals and the Democratic Party know that they can't win the argument, and that the ideas espoused by the Tea Party are very popular with the American people - of all races. So, what do they do? When you can't win an argument on the merits, change the subject and smear your opponent. It's the oldest trick in the book.

[TexasCajun]

Kevin Jackson:

[maryz]

Black Americans for all intents and purposes are in an economic depression right now and have been since 2007, when the housing and economic crises first started to manifest.

I wonder if another light bulb will flash on when she realizes that 2007 is when the Dems took over in Congress after the 2006 elections! ;-)

[sinanju]

I about fell off my chair when I read this. The comments section ran about 50/50, wonder of wonders. Not everyone at The Root is a blind true believer.

[highlander_UW]

My concern with the movement has always been that it was too monolithic.

There are more blacks in the Tea party movement than there are whites in the NAACP. So if you have a problem with monolithic groups it should be the NAACP you have issues with.

Please do give the Tea Party movement a good look...come join in, everyone who values America and respects the constitution is welcome.

[Izzy Dunne]

My concern with the movement has always been that it was too monolithic.

--- I won't join a group because there aren't enough of "my kind" (whatever that might be) in it?

Somebody 'splain to me how that makes anything better.

[Chode]

only if they believe in the same things the TeaParty stands for... else, not

[Cacique]

btt

[Rooivalk]

I live in the high desert and attended a tea-party rally last year. I was welcomed as a fellow American. Period

[Right Wing Assault]

the black community should stop being emotional and consider the facts

Good luck.

[FixitGuy]

I have met many Black people who can think rationally and are willing to be heard like this woman.

It's unfortunate that they are very much in the minority of their race.

The real tragedy is that the majority have unwittingly become the mouthpieces for the "gimme-gimme" liberals in our country.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks neverdem. The NAACP owes Tea Partiers reparations.