If America fails will "black folks" be protected from the loss by their imagined separateness from the rest of us?
In my opinion, the biggest challenge with the Tea Party movement, like the Republican Party, is that it is 99 percent white.
I doubt those figures.
If, for example, you compare the Tea Party movement to the 1963 March on Washington, you will note that a respectable number of white Americans, Jewish people and others ...
Jews aren't white people? There is the problem when you start mentally segregating people into various groupings. If you take that far enough then, lo and behold, you eventually get to the place where the 'us' is just one person, you, and 'them' is everybody else.
If you want to be part of a group try being an American. We are bound together by the Constitution, our rule of law, and it's better than any other nation's rule.
“Republican Party is 99% White” is a myth. I know Republicans of every racial background. It takes a strong person to go against what they may feel is expected of them. I’m an American of bi-racial (White and American Indian) background and a strong Conservative Republican. Folks like me are rare.