The Tea Party has a race problem (Barf Alert)

Washington Post ^ | 5/5/2010 | Jonathan Capehart

[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.

[GregNH]

But here's what did and continues to bother me. When Tea Partyers say they want their country back, what do they mean? Back from what and from whom? When they say they want this country to return to the Constitution, what's their evidence that the nation has run off its Constitutional rails? When they call themselves patriots and declare that they would be willing to fight for their freedom, again, I ask, from what and from whom? Get a clue....

[kabar]

I want my country back was the opening line in Howard Dean’s book.

[SoldierDad]

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.

[Jim Robinson]

Jonathan Capehart is an idiot.

[Regulator]

Odd how I never expect to see this guy write a column about the racial content of the NAACP, La Raza, the Asian American Defense Fund, the other alphabet soup ethnic hate operations.

Odd.

[kezzek]

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.

[mnehring]

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.

[Kenny]

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?

[Jack Hydrazine]

Wasn’t the Coffee Party diversity-free?

[cripplecreek]

One of the first things I read here at FR this morning pointed out that there are some 38 tea party supported minority candidates.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

According to the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll, three out of 10 Americans believe that racial prejudice undergirds the movement.

30% "believe" the Tea Party is racist?

THAT MEANS 70% DON'T, YOU DUMB SLEAZY SOBs!

[Touch Not the Cat]

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3 out of 10 people believe the ‘Rat “big lie” propaganda.

So what?

[I see my hands]

What the message to be ingrained in our culture as second nature is: The person, place, thing, or idea is bad because it is white.

[GeronL]

It looks like the Democrats might have some kind of problem with white men

[Touch Not the Cat]

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You nailed it!

That is how theyu have operated for years.

[GeronL]

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.

Try months

[popdonnelly]

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.

[Recon Dad]

Whoever takes advice from WaPo, no true conservatives.

[Tzimisce]

three out of 10 Americans believe that racial prejudice undergirds the movement.

And 7 in 10 (70%) don't. 30% is about the number of radical leftists living in the US.

"[T]he 18 percent of Americans who identify themselves as Tea Party supporters tend to be Republican, white, male, married and older than 45."

Meanwhile, identifying a bomber as Muslim or an illegal Immigrant as Hispanic are still taboo.

[Interesting Times]

The Post has a leftist bias problem.