Posted on 07/17/2010 5:43:29 AM PDT by kristinn
I have never participated in a "tea party" demonstration or rally. Nor do I think I ever will.
The reason is simple: I am black and I am proud...
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But that visceral hatred is not the entirety of the movement. I admire the principle of protesting peaceably against your government. I, too, am fed up by vast unemployment, underemployment, and making do with smaller paychecks and increasingly burdensome taxes. Like many protesters, I agree that the government has gotten too large and has a say over too much of our lives. I think that our nation's immigration laws should be enforced most vigorously. And I agree that capitalism and a strong national defense are the best ways for this great country to continue to thrive, defeat terrorism and lead as the world's sole superpower.
These are sentiments that many of my black friends, neighbors and family members share. Although I may be virtually alone among my black peers in saying this publicly, I know I'm not the only one who feels this way.
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So why can't black Americans have a tea party movement of our own? That is, why can't we get energized by politicians and proposals that would put people back to work and reduce the burden of taxes? I am all for social programs that feed and help people in rough times, but we need to do more than keep heads above water.
No community is more in need of this message than the black community. It's too bad that the bigots and the bad actors in the tea party movement have drowned out the substance of a message we all should hear.
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Idiots. Why can’t they be PART of the tea party movement? But NOOOO, they have to brand it as RACIST and create yet another black-only club.
No its not a SNL skit... its called HISTORY.. American history..
Do you know of the blacks in the revolutionary Army?..
They served but just not in the Tea Party event..
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Do you know of the blacks in the revolutionary Army?..
For you to ask me that question....reveals alot about your mindset. I’m as familiar with American history as anyone with a college degree can be. But I still find the image of anyone other than a Native American, dressing as a Native American...amusing.
Just another racist taking trash. The TEA Parties never said, “This is a white thing.” There are a number of blacks and hispanics in the TEA Parties. They do not see their skin color as a factor, yet, the liberal is a racist and does.
That having been said, it is clear this writer is still suffering from liberal indoctrination and has not yet begun to think for herself. If she wants to start a tea party for Blacks, no one is holding her back--the reality is, she wants some one else to start one, and do the hard work for her.
Or, she could actually attend an ongoing tea party and discover that what she has been fed about them is BS.
> I would go further and suggest anyone that thinks the color of their skin is the most important thing in life is most likely a racist, regardless of what color it happens to be.
I couldn’t agree with you more.
You will help your country and yourself more effectively when you love your country more than you care about your own feelengs.
---"A"-holes are everywhere, even on FR.
---The movement has no "leaders" as such; we are all leaders, we are self-policing. Show up and participate, and you will become a leader as well.
I have Native American blood as well, and I don't..
You missed my mindset..
College educated people these days know little of american history or even civics..
High School educated know even less.. if any at all..
Show up and participate, and you will become a leader as well.
You are right, ofcourse, but I don’t want to have to get ugly. Because if I get some a-hole in front of me calling me outside of my name...it’s on!
“I have never participated in a “tea party” demonstration or rally. Nor do I think I ever will.
The reason is simple: I am black and I am proud...”
Gotta try this on, see how it flows.
I have never participated in a “New Black Panther” demonstration or rally. Nor do I think I ever will.
The reason is simple: I am white and I am proud...
Seems ok.
No community is more in need of this message than the black community. It's too bad that the bigots and the bad actors in the tea party movement have drowned out the substance of a message we all should hear.
To be so eloquent in one paragraph then drink the NAACP KoolAid in the next is disheartening. Can she name the bigots and bad actors? Does she know any of the bigots and bad actors? She is just parroting what the media and the Democrat leaders are want her to blieve.
The Black Community will never have a tea party because they are sheep. That is how the media, Democrat Party and black leaders want it. The black commubity will only have community organizers to tell them what to believe.
Wow, I just watched the link of the Tea Party event. That was great. I’m really feeling the first sister who spoke with the glasses. I just had the same conversation with my older brother (who is terribly liberal) about how we black people have been throwing our votes away on a party that really doesn’t care about black people anyway. Thank you for posting that.
If you go looking for trouble, you will find it.
These "A"-holes are hoping for it to be "on", and if you turn it "on", you fulfill their wishes and do zip zero nada for yourself.
I have been, and from time to time still am, ridiculed and shut out socially for my appearance. In my first 15 years, I learned to respond to it not with tears or violence, but with (depending on circumstance) silent contempt, ridicule, or humor. Faced with that, the true haters (who are actually seeking my tears or violence) slink away; others, who sought to test my mettle, having found it, have turned out to be my greatest friends.
One of the complaints we have with the left is that so many of them seem to be waiting to shocked, offended or "victimized"-- to play the race/sex/religion/perversion card. It is best, and most psychologically healthy, not to emulate this characteristic if we can help it.
ExGeeEye, I wanna be just like you when I grow up.
The New Tribalism.....It's about the skin.
We now live in a color coded anti-white male feminized society that has been rubber stamped by the Supreme Disappointment. A Constitution not followed is worse than no Constitution at all. This state of affairs breeds contempt for the government in the intelligent, and a sentimental belief in the phony protections it was supposed to have in the weak minded. As such, the Constitution now provides a fig leaf for the naked aggression of the socialist statist agenda.
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