Posted on 01/19/2010 11:21:59 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Black Conservatives Take Lead Role in Tea Party Movement
Though the tea party movement has attracted criticism for its supposed lack of diversity, minority activists who are involved say the movement has little to do with race, and that it is attracting a more diverse crowd every day.
Lloyd Marcus' conservatism started when he was 9.
His family had just moved out of the "ghetto" to a brand-new high rise in Baltimore -- within months, he said, the "dream come true" turned into a nightmare, as the building of welfare-collecting black residents became a den of crime.
His father moved the family out as soon as he got a job with the city fire department, but "my cousins never escaped," Marcus said. He cried as he told the story.
Marcus, a black conservative who is now involved in the growing tea party movement, attributes the problems of his childhood neighborhood, his extended family and the black community in general to a "cradle-to-grave government dependency" that in the case of his cousins enabled an idle life of crime and drug abuse.
To Marcus, President Obama's policies perpetuate that dependency. That's why, he says, it baffles him and other black conservatives when the tea party movement is dismissed as somehow anti-black, as a rowdy bunch of ignorant, white protesters who have it in for the nation's first black president.
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Lloyd Marcus (black) Unhyphenated American. A true American patriot.
Love ya Lloyd!
It’s important to remember there would be no Tea Party if the RNC/GOP had done their job.
Wonderful news!
The ‘Pants on the Ground’ song is catchy! And true, lol.
The ‘General’ would be a great addition to the Tea Party Road Show.
Courageous Patriot Hero.
We need to get Denzel Washington on the tea party express. We are gong to have to impeach the marxist next year if the Republic is to survive. He is going to take Coakley’s loss personally.
Mr Marcus is a smart man who understands what freedom means.
Good article but somehow I don’t think the MSM is going to give up their racist charge. I do find it quite ironic that MSNBC is the one leading the charge since all (or most) of their hosts are white.LOL
Thanks Sub-Driver.
I think if minorities really looked at the left, they would see the nosed-turned-up attitude of the Democrats and turn away.
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Disagree. http://atlah.org/atlahworldwide/?p=4667
You forgot Lt. Colonel Allen West.
Bump
Great!
Yes, and if you didn't see Brett Favre singing it you missed a hilarious moment!
“Black Conservatives Take Lead Role in Tea Party Movement”
“Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! We have become a conservatives”
“Black Conservatives Take Lead Role in Tea Party Movement”
“Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! We have become a conservatives”
Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Farve strayed from his classic two-hands-in-the-air celebration Sunday to a new routine: the Internet sensation “Pants on the Ground.” Favre treated teammates and reporters to a rousing rendition of the song after he led the Norsemen to a Texas-sized stomping of the Dallas Cowboys in the NFC divisional playoffs.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/3971128/brett-favre-with-pants-on-the-ground/?playlist_id=87249
Brett Favre With ‘Pants on the Ground’
You’re right. Thanks!
I believe Jimmie Walker (of Good Times) leans right as well.
Good one, thanks!
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