Just How Racist Is the Tea Party Movement?

[proud2BlibKansan]

Are the openly-racist elements within the Tea Party movement an aberration, or are they more firmly entrenched than tea partiers would care to admit?


OAKLAND, California, 22 Dec (IPS) - It began with Apr. 15 Tax Day protests as thousands rallied in a number of cities across the country.

It continued on into the summer with raucous town hall meetings and gun-toting anti-Barack Obama demonstrators, and appeared to reach its apex with a Sep. 12 march on Washington, which drew nearly 100,000 participants.

Now, however, some in the so-called Tea Party movement are turning their attention toward becoming a force during the 2010 congressional elections.

Several reports on the Sep. 12 event noted it was a nearly all-white crowd and some demonstrators carried an assortment of "homemade" anti-Obama posters, declaring that "The Anti-Christ Is Living in the White House", and calling the president an "Oppressive Bloodsucking Arrogant Muslim Alien".

more . . . http://www.alternet.org/story/144832/just_how_racist_is_the_tea_party_movement

[Bitwit1234]

1. I say it over and over it is an updated version of the KKK

cause how come some of the white supremist are connected to it. And my sister is the worst racist going and she joined it.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. They are just barely smart enough to try to hide their racism

Of course they are not successful.

[BOSSHOG]

4. Agreed, they are merely KKK without robes

Where were the "Patriots" and how many tea parties were held when the white guy was in the oval office wiping out a surplus and running up a record deficit.

The white trash party goers care about no one or nothing except themselves. And it must really suck to have an alcoholic, nobody prick who has never done anything for our country tell you what to do and how to think.

Please lurkers, google "teabagger." You are stupid motherfuckers to the core who don't know a fuck about American History if you call YOURSELVES Teapartiers.

[TexasObserver]

3. Recommend, because racism is the glue that holds them together.

[seeinfweggos]

22. that's right, though the extent to which they are open about it ranges from

kkk to "i'm not a racist but (insert racist statement here).

[Laura902]

5. They are some of the most racist americans...

....I would know because I have family who think exactly like them but don't go out and protest in public. They call black people degrading things like "negro" and other things I wont say at every family gathering. People like them should be ashamed of their intolerant behavior which all stems down to the fact that they cannot stand that we elected a smart liberal black president. I don't know about every tea-bagger but if we had a progressive white president, the ones I know wouldn't be so hateful.

[alp227]

6. Obama's race enhances their rage.

The discourse of tea party types might not have been this tasteless during the Carter or Clinton years.

[Captain Hilts]

15. They think Clinton is a murderer. nt

[alp227]

30. And a pimp.

[Captain Hilts]

31. And a drug runner! nt

[KansDem]

7. Haven't they adopted a new image?

Not just any tea, but white tea...

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. LOL

[DesertFlower]

8. just look at their rallies.

you see only white faces -- no brown, no black, etc.

[proud2BlibKansan]

17. There have been a few black people involved

But their signs out the teabaggers as racist supporters:

[Cleita]

10. Considering that most of them are disciples of Rush Limbaugh and those

who spew the same hate and lies that they do I would suggest that they are bigoted in many ways including race. This is how Rush hooks his listeners, with race baiting, misogynist baiting and fear of what might happen if the poor get equal access to things like good paying jobs, health care and decent schools and neighborhoods to live in. He appeals to their subconscious prejudices that are already there. So it's a small leap to becoming a tea bagger from there.

[hfojvt]

11. a very confused article

first, it says no, then it says definitely yes and then ends with 'not really'

[Greenpeach]

12. That's their whole reason for being...

Stupid, ignorant, hateful, shit-kickers.

[hfojvt]

20. you think they go around calling people names?

Or do they just define certain groups of people as sub-human and therefore not worthy of consideration or compassion or understanding?

[proud2BlibKansan]

28. Yes they call people names

SOCIALIST comes to mind.

[WT Fuheck]

13. It is the KKK, 21st Century style.

[Captain Hilts]

14. They'd be doing the same thing with any Dem prez. nt

[bridgit]

16. How racist? Well, their Coo-Coo White Queen Monica Crowley thinks they're the keenest thing since...

sliced white bread and if anybody knows white bread it's White Queen Monica Crowley; the great great white granddaughter John McLaughlin never had


They're the same Puritanical Zealots that burned witches and demonized as Satanic: the indigenous peoples that stepped out of the deep forests of this land cause they profoundly challenged the Puritan' and their bigoted misunderstanding of God simply by doing so. Nothing has ever changed about them since before they brought their crimes & thieveries - their injustices here. It can't. They can't. They won't let it. They are hardwired-dysfunctional. Toss in personally frustrated, ED addled Korean War vets that never understood tactical retreat or why any of that happened at all; but believe up till today that MacArthur was god walking on earth; toss in that and some Puritanical bullshit about teabags and Revolutionary American Thought and...you...got yourself a cutting edge political movement?

Like what rug said in another thread other topic still applies: what you do have is "an indictment"!

If Dems are going to just stand there while this tea party tripe is allowed to roll up & down every pike unchallenged, then they better spend their time thinking up their own excuses why they had it and then lost it all. The teabag moment-in-time is not a juggernaut and I do not care who says it is. Tea-baggers are creaking old cha-boogety cha-boogety: POW! tin Saxon' traveling southbound on northbound roads

[doc03]

18. A Teabagger I know constantly mocks this black

women they showed on TV that got heating assitance saying "I got my Obama money."

[proud2BlibKansan]

25. There is a local radio show that plays that clip all the time

And the hosts die laughing and then take several calls from fans who are also dying laughing.

Making fun of poor unemployed people is great entertainment to these assholes.

[doc03]

26. He always has to add to it, "I doesn't have to pay no rent

I doesn't have to buy no food or heat, I gots my "Obama Money". What do you do I am surrounded by bigots here if you say anything you are the a---hole, it's tough being a Democrat in a Redneck area.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

19. They *claim* NOT to be

They also *claim* to be non-partisan too but I don't know of a lot of minorities and/or "true blue" Democrats attached to the movement, especially since we're only now seeing them now that we happen to have a Democratic WH and Congress. I'm sure that it's also no coincidence whatsoever that we're seeing a re-emergence of the "militia" movement. I don't recall seeing either groups as active during the Bush years as they were during the Clinton years. Coincidence? I think NOT! I think a lot of them are former Perot supporters and assorted disaffected wingnuts. I don't necessarily think them as an updated version of KKK but I believe that the movement may have SOME racist elements and/or "undertones".

[EFerrari]

21. Good luck to them in Oakland and Alameda County.

They'll get their racist asses handed to them. I may have to go up there and join that fun.

[proud2BlibKansan]

24. When they were protesting here

we went to several of their rallies. A friend has a radio show and took her tape recorder to record interviews to use on the air. She gave me a CD full of them and it's in my car. I listen to it when I need a good laugh. There's one part where she interviewed a guy who was opposed to ANY socialism, including public safety. My friend asked him what he would do if his house caught on fire and he said "Oh my neighbors will call 911".

Now there's a guy who sticks up for his beliefs! :rofl:

[madamesilverspurs]

23. Kindred spirits recognize each other,

and known racist/white supremist organizations (KKK, Storm Front, Aryan Nations, etc.) have been actively recruiting at teabagger rallies. They've even developed protocols for how to go about approaching prospective recruits at those gatherings. For example, check this out (but keep a bucket handy, you'll need it):

http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=646310


I have the occasional misfortune of having to share breathing space with some teabaggers, and every single one of them is unquestionably racist.



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[cadmium]

34. Great link. Too many Dem/libs are naive about

who these people are and their intentions. That is why I cringe when I see Ron Paul videos promoted here.

[Quantess]

27. Oh, no, not racist at all. Not if you ask them.

In fact, neocons like to use the I'm rubber you're glue tactic, and call progressives racist because we do things like criticize Condi Rice.

According to them, liberals are the real racists.

[JI7]

29. the movement itself grew out of racism

it's like asking how much of an issue is abortion for naral or how much of an issue is animal rights for humane society.

[Edweird]

32. How racist are they overall? No idea. But their 'stupid' is off the charts.

Like chickens voting for Col. Sanders.

[spanone]

33. well, seeing that nothing george bu$h* did pissed them off, i'd say racism was the catalyst

bu$h* greatly expanded government with the patriot act

homeland security

the national debt

the teafuckers didn't have a single qualm with stupid son

[proud2BlibKansan]

36. +1

[That Is Quite Enough]

35. Equal parts racism, stupidity and plain hatred and malevolence.

[showpan]

37. Racism is not limited to teabaggers

Some of you here talk as if they own the whole concept. I would guess that half of Americans are racist. Since I'm not as young as I would like to be..lol...and have met many people all across this country, my estimate is probably close. What is disturbing is the fact that many democrats are now falling for another obvious P&R campaign designed to further our divide. If this country does not unite against corporatism, then we will all loose, just as the 15,000,000 who have lost jobs that will never return. It's going to get worse and arguing about who is right and who is left plays right into their game. I'm not playing, I'm just waiting for Americans to come together to resolve the war on the working class.

[proud2BlibKansan]

38. I'm not coming together with teabaggers

No. Way.