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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I want my country back was the opening line in Howard Dean’s book.
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.
Jonathan Capehart is an idiot.
Odd.
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.
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.
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?
Wasn’t the Coffee Party diversity-free?
One of the first things I read here at FR this morning pointed out that there are some 38 tea party supported minority candidates.
30% "believe" the Tea Party is racist?
THAT MEANS 70% DON'T, YOU DUMB SLEAZY SOBs!
So what?
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It looks like the Democrats might have some kind of problem with white men
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You nailed it!
That is how theyu have operated for years.
Try months
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.
The Post has a leftist bias problem.
As I recall, about 96% of black voters supported Obama. He is nominally African-American. Why is it surprising that they are not in the Tea Party movement? What should be surprising is that some are. But the liberals and leftists in the media have an agenda, and they will keep pushing this line of bull.
I suspect the Tea Partiers’s would gladly accept blacks into their ranks, but I also suspect most blacks hold different views than the Tea Partiers.
Racism is racist racism.
3 in 10? three in ten? That is some sort of proof? What a total jackhole.
I predict a correlation coefficient of 0.9999 between this particular answer and an affirmative to the followup question: do you always vote 'D'?
This is not a poll of the effectiveness of the liberal smear, any more than it is an indicator of an actual underlying racism, but merely a measure of the number of hard-core Lefties in the country.
Jonathan Capehart has a homosexual problem. The dude has more suguar in his britches than Boy George.
“According to the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll, three out of 10 Americans believe that racial prejudice undergirds the movement.”
Three out of ten, huh? That’d be the same three out of ten who vote exclusively for the progressive agenda...
And...It’s still time to take back the country.
I think it is just one of those averages that is a societal norm for fringe beliefs.
Look. I went to 9/12. I went to the March health care bill tea party.
I was there Sunday for the vote.
What I have a problem with are WP and NYTimes elitists
saying the Tea Party has a problem.
WP, Newsweak, PMSNBC, CNN, NYTimes has a problem. You know it.
They know it. They are losing the opinion that Barack Obama and
his policies are the greatest. The Dems are on track to lose the House in
November. They are the ones with the problem.
We sure do... we have a black racist president that is lying and trying to convince everyone that is not white that we are the devil.
LLS
Yup. It's "Can we get to the finish line fast enough?"
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Why does the Tea Party have a race problem? Because they don ‘t buy off the Negro vote with the promise of giving them other people’s money like Democrats do?
Big deal. Two out of 10 Americans are liberals. Liberals believe racial prejudice undergirds EVERYTHING they disagree with, so that explains 2/3 of the poll results. The rest are probably folks who havent thought about the crap they are spoonfed by the liberal talking heads. They need to change the channel.
The Washington Post and ABC News could find in any survey they create 30% believing anything they wish to portray at all. The good news is 70% realize we are not racists...and of the 30% who said that we are, probably half realize we are not but just want to hurt our movement...
As I recall, about 96% of black voters supported Obama. ..................................... I don’t buy into that, there has to be more than 4% with a decent education and thinking brain to work with.
The problem is they are mostly white. To be white is to be racist now. As the USA turns from a free country to a giant prison the gangs form. Just like in regular prison. Diversify, Divide, and Conquer.
“Now, I am no grassy knoller but I think we know.”
-Capehart
Oh, I beg to differ. You are very much a “grassy
knoller”. Ask yourself this: Are there ANY African-
Americans who attend Tea Parties? How are those
people treated? Why would they bother to attend
if they are treated poorly?
Yes, conservatives do have a race problem but not
the race problem liberals pretend. Our problem is
that we believe in the individual one hell of a
lot more than we believe in race. As individuals
we tend to judge people as individuals, the way
we would like to be judged. That so many people
have been brain washed to believe that they must
all think one way is sad. But we’re not likely to
change. We certainly hope that others will come
to understand and join us but we won’t kiss any-
one’s butt to get them to belong to our club.
Well said
‘30% “believe” the Tea Party is racist?’
30% “believe” that Jane Fonda is a patriotic American... ;-P
Of course a third of those polled believe the movement has a race problem. When the media and talking head elites keep hammering that lie, a certain number of people are going to believe it.
“As I recall, about 96% of black voters supported Obama.”
“Only” 90% or so IIRC...
Out of curiosity I looked up Jonathan Capehart on google, and I find that the chief thing about him seems to be his boyfriend:
He seems to double as the Washington ComPost’s racebaiter and gay rights guy.
http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/03/21/PH2007032101210.jpg
30%? I highly doubt the Compost talked to 90 million people.
Back from idiots like this:
Bring anthrax across Mexican border to kill Americans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDoHuhr1uZ0
overthrow the government
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV7GSff4fIA
America must be burned
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiEKS5iPtDs
GD America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnlRrxXv-v8
Racism: Exposing the Illegal Mexican Agenda.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXbo28dt-Tk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnlRrxXv-v8
And there are plenty of other examples - look around.
Here’s an article that describes exactly how liberals treat conservative blacks.
Black conservative tea party backers take heat
By VALERIE BAUMAN
The Associated Press
6:31 p.m. Tuesday, April 6, 2010
ALBANY, N.Y. — They’ve been called Oreos, traitors and Uncle Toms, and are used to having to defend their values. Now black conservatives are really taking heat for their involvement in the mostly white tea party movement — and for having the audacity to oppose the policies of the nation’s first black president.
“I’ve been told I hate myself. I’ve been called an Uncle Tom. I’ve been told I’m a spook at the door,” said Timothy F. Johnson, chairman of the Frederick Douglass Foundation, a group of black conservatives who support free market principles and limited government.
“Black Republicans find themselves always having to prove who they are. Because the assumption is the Republican Party is for whites and the Democratic Party is for blacks,” he said.
Johnson and other black conservatives say they were drawn to the tea party movement because of what they consider its commonsense fiscal values of controlled spending, less taxes and smaller government. The fact that they’re black — or that most tea partyers are white — should have nothing to do with it, they say.
“You have to be honest and true to yourself. What am I supposed to do, vote Democratic just to be popular? Just to fit in?” asked Clifton Bazar, a 45-year-old New Jersey freelance photographer and conservative blogger.
Opponents have branded the tea party as a group of racists hiding behind economic concerns — and reports that some tea partyers were lobbing racist slurs at black congressmen during last month’s heated health care vote give them ammunition.
But these black conservatives don’t consider racism representative of the movement as a whole — or race a reason to support it.
Angela McGlowan, a black congressional candidate from Mississippi, said her tea party involvement is “not about a black or white issue.”
“It’s not even about Republican or Democrat, from my standpoint,” she told The Associated Press. “All of us are taxed too much.”
Still, she’s in the minority. As a nascent grassroots movement with no registration or formal structure, there are no racial demographics available for the tea party movement; it’s believed to include only a small number of blacks and Hispanics.
Some black conservatives credit President Barack Obama’s election — and their distaste for his policies — with inspiring them and motivating dozens of black Republicans to plan political runs in November.
For black candidates like McGlowan, tea party events are a way to reach out to voters of all races with her conservative message.
“I’m so proud to be a part of this movement! I want to tell you that a lot of people underestimate you guys,” the former national political commentator for Fox News told the cheering crowd at a tea party rally in Nashville, Tenn., in February.
Tea party voters represent a new model for these black conservatives — away from the black, liberal Democratic base located primarily in cities, and toward a black and white conservative base that extends into the suburbs.
Black voters have overwhelmingly backed Democratic candidates, support that has only grown in recent years. In 2004, presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry won 88 percent of the black vote; four years later, 95 percent of black voters cast ballots for Obama.
Black conservatives don’t want to have to apologize for their divergent views.
“I’ve gotten the statement, ‘How can you not support the brother?’” said David Webb, an organizer of New York City’s Tea Party 365, Inc. movement and a conservative radio personality.
Since Obama’s election, Webb said some black conservatives have even resorted to hiding their political views.
“I know of people who would play the (liberal) role publicly, but have their private opinions,” he said. “They don’t agree with the policy but they have to work, live and exist in the community ... Why can’t we speak openly and honestly if we disagree?”
Among the 37 black Republicans running for U.S. House and Senate seats in November is Charles Lollar of Maryland’s 5th District.
A tea party supporter running against House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., Lollar says he’s finding support in unexpected places.
The 38-year-old U.S. Marine Corps reservist recently walked into a bar in southern Maryland decorated with a Confederate flag. It gave his wife Rosha pause.
“I said, ‘You know what, honey? Many, many of our Southern citizens came together under that flag for the purpose of keeping their family and their state together,’” Lollar recalled. “The flag is not what you’re to fear. It’s the stupidity behind the flag that is a problem. I don’t think we’ll find that in here. Let’s go ahead in.”
Once inside, they were treated to a pig roast, a motorcycle rally — and presented with $5,000 in contributions for his campaign.
McGlowan, one of three GOP candidates in north Mississippi’s 1st District primary, seeks a seat held since 2008 by Democrat Travis Childers. The National Republican Congressional Committee has supported Alan Nunnelee, chairman of the state Senate Appropriations Committee, who is also pursuing tea party voters.
McGlowan believes the tea party movement has been unfairly portrayed as monolithically white, male and middle-aged, though she acknowledged blacks and Hispanics are a minority at most events.
Racist protest signs at some tea party rallies and recent reports by U.S. Reps. John Lewis, D-Ga., and Barney Frank, D-Mass., that tea partyers shouted racial and anti-gay slurs at them have raised allegations of racism in the tea party movement.
Black members of the movement say it is not inherently racist, and some question the reported slurs. “You would think — something that offensive — you would think someone got video of it,” Bazar, the conservative blogger, said.
“Just because you have one nut case, it doesn’t automatically equate that you’ve got an organization that espouses (racism) as a sane belief,” Johnson said.
Hilary Shelton, director of the Washington bureau of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, suggested a bit of caution.
“I’m sure the reason that (black conservatives) are involved is that from an ideological perspective, they agree,” said Shelton. “But when those kinds of things happen, it is very important to be careful of the company that you keep.”
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Associated Press writers Brian Witte in Maryland and Emily Wagster Pettus in Mississippi contributed to this report.
And three out of ten Americans swear they saw Elvis at a McDonalds within the last five years.
push a lie long enough....
The Tea Party has a serious race problem - they are in a race against Socialism.
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