Posted on 07/15/2010 2:12:19 PM PDT by neverdem
Anybody that had it with entrenched politicians, wasted tax dollars and lack of fiscal responsibility, should give the tea parties a look. The skin color of the person should not be a consideration. If you define yourself by what the tone of your skin might be, you’ll be disappointed in the tea parties that do not care what color you are.
She should be advised that the Tea Party folks DO include some black conservatives, and that blacks are welcome.
Damn... IF ONLY other black Americans would take her words seriously. She doesn’t say ‘Hop on the Tea Party train’ but she does say - take a close look and think about your financial destiny under the current government... WOW!
Never thought I’d read anything quite like that...
“Yes, the Tea Party movement is overwhelmingly white”
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Only because of blind, black racism.
The Tea Party, in a nutshell, is about getting government out of our lives, which is about as far from a specific racial orientation or bias as one can get.
If they can put the country before the color first/group think of the “community” then, yes. Otherwise, no.
The only color that matters is green because
Taxed Enough Already is about federal taxation and overreaching of power. Affects everyone of any color.
All Americans should be tea partiers. The tea party is for constitutionally limited, less intrusive government which would result in lower taxes, stronger economy, stronger America and more opportunity and more freedom for all.
I saw an interview with a black guy who went to a Tea Party. He said, "The only danger I was in was being hugged to death!"
That's not our fault lady, were you waiting for a hand written invitation to remove your head from your nether regions?
The problem with the black community's wary view of the republican party and the tea party isn't the fault of the republican party or the tea party. Perhaps if you studied more of the real history of America, you'd realize that republicans founded the NAACP. Republicans voted overwhelmingly in favor of the Civil Rights legislation in the 50s and the 60s. The KKK was founded by democrats, Jim Crow laws were instituted by democrats, George Wallace and Bull Connor were democrats.
Why, as a white man in America, do I know more about the subjugation of your community than you do?
But that's exactly what the ones who earn their living and their power from race-baiting want black Americans to do.
Don't look at the issues. Instead, listen to our fabricated stories about racism.
Skin color?
Who gives a crap about that?
So sophomoric...The "monolithic" "movement" is barely 17 months old.
If “blacks” want to start a business and make money....they had better look.....
lol Gotta luv it! :)
Thus said from the group that maintains unquestioned 90+% support for Obama.
Actually, young lady, what should be of note is that the Tea Party is even 1% black, given blacks voted in lockstep 97% for Obama.
The goal of the Tea Party is not about rescuing black people from their overwhelming poor judgment...
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.
Oh so according to this article, the TEA party doesn’t have a ‘respectable’ number of blacks ( in her opinion)....
Check out Sonnie Johnson’s keynote address at Roanoke’s
Tea Party on July 4th 2010....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PipQnB2TZO4&playnext_from=TL&videos=fb8zHA66oO4
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