Posted on 08/23/2011 1:45:12 PM PDT by markomalley
Democratic members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) are ramping up anti-Tea Party sentiment this week, with one congresswoman calling the movement "the real enemy" in Florida on Monday night.
"Let us all remember who the real enemy is. The real enemy is the Tea Party," Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) said at a Miami town hall, according to a report by the Miami Herald. "The Tea Party holds the Congress hostage. They have one goal in mind, and that's to make President Obama a one-term president."
Wilson's comments follow incendiary remarks about the Tea Party from another member of the CBC on Saturday.
This is a tough game. You can't be intimidated. You can't be frightened. And as far as I'm concerned the Tea Party can go straight to hell, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) said at a town-hall-style meeting in California.
Waters, who also attended the town hall in Miami, doubled down on her previous remarks, although she refused to repeat the "hell" line because the meeting took place in a church.
"We're not afraid of the Tea Party," Waters said. "In this struggle, we have to define who we are, what the president is doing and not let our voices be overshadowed by the Tea Party."
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, also participating in the town hall, compared the modern Tea Party movement to opposition to the civil-rights movement. "The Tea Party is a new name on an old game," he said. "Dr. King fought a 'tea party' in Alabama."
It is, and has always been, the Democrat Party that is in opposition to the Civil Rights Movement.
"... the Democrat Party is as it always has been, the party of the four S's: slavery, secession, segregation and now socialism.
It was the Democrats who fought to keep blacks in slavery and passed the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
The Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan to lynch and terrorize blacks.
The Democrats fought to prevent the passage of every civil rights law beginning with the civil rights laws of the 1860s, and continuing with the civil rights laws of the 1950s and 1960s.
During the civil rights era of the 1960s, Dr. King was fighting the Democrats who stood in the school house doors, turned skin-burning fire hoses on blacks and let loose vicious dogs.
Excerpted from: Humanevents.com
Wow, I feel so proud getting a response directly from you. Thank you for this wonderful venue where I have learned so much. FR is more like a “higher learning institution” than a discussion site.
Keep the faith, we have your back.
“I bet a dollar King George III said the same thing back in 1776. So be it.”
That is the best response that I have seen on any of the threads regarding this subject! Thanks for the reminder.
The Welfare Class is scared of the Tea Party.
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