How does this Prof. Parker come to his bigoted and stereotypical conclusion? Surely not by attending Tea Party events. The majority of the people seen at Tea Party events tend to be women. And it's not uncommon to see black, Hispanic and even Asian Tea Party people as well.
In fact, a black man attending a Tea Party event in Missouri a few years ago was assaulted by white male SEIU-affiliated counter-protesting thugs. Could the attack have been racially motivated, just like the KKK might do?
This is not the first time that the Left has, without any logical basis, tried to link the Tea Party movement to the KKK. Just this summer, Democrat far-left Congressman Allan Grayson of Florida issued a fund-raising pamphlet depicting Klansmen burning a cross, with the burning cross serving as the letter "t" in "Tea Party."
Apparently, the Tea Party's potential political clout is feared by many far leftists. If that weren't the case, we wouldn't see them coming out with these inane comparisons of the Tea Party movement to the KKK.
Also, the professor's tarring Tea Party people as uneducated and unaccomplished, though hardly unexpected considering its source in the snobby ivory tower of academia, is not based in fact at all. The intuitive guess here is that Tea Party people as a group have better IQs and accomplishment levels than do Democratic voters, which is all the more reason for the lefties to be uptight.
> In fact, a black man attending a Tea Party event in Missouri a few years ago was assaulted by white male SEIU-affiliated counter-protesting thugs.
Thanks justiceseeker93.
Thanks, well said!
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So, anything that a group of white, middle-aged, middle-class Protestant men decide to do is comparable to the Klan?
I believe the Klan was mostly peopled by poor, white, working-class Protestant men, who felt threatened by competition with blacks for jobs, because they got paid less than whites.