Racial Slur by Tea Party Leader Hits Home

[Tobin S.]

This story is in today's Dayton Daily News in Dayton, Ohio and the story about a Tea Party organizer from Springboro, just south of Dayton. The story was longer in the paper, but this online version hits the highlights.

http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/politics/racial-slur-by-tea-party-leader-hits-home-647303.html

Racial Slur by Tea Party Leader Hits Home
by Lawrence Budd

SPRINGBORO — Racist comments, including a slur about Hispanics, posted on the Twitter page of the Springboro Tea Party were particularly hurtful to Alana Turner.

“Illegals everywhere today! So many spics makes me feel like a speck. Grrr. Wheres my gun!?” said the March 21 posting on the site managed by the group’s founder, Sonny Thomas.

Turner said the comments upset her because she and Thomas have a 6-year-old son who is part Hispanic.

“Basically, it’s like he’s saying he hates his son,” Turner said.

The Twitter posting triggered cancellations by several local and statewide candidates and elected officials scheduled to speak at a Springboro Tea Party rally scheduled for Saturday, April 17, at North Park. However, some officials say this doesn’t tarnish the Tea Party movement as a whole.

(more at the link)

[samplegirl]

I'm really beginning to think Ohio has some of the most

hateful radical teabaggers yet.

[marmar]

1. "So many spics makes me feel like a speck. Grrr. Wheres my gun!?"

Uggh. And they're not even clever with their racist wordplay......It must be a really pathetic existence to be that insecure, so frightened by your own inferiority complex.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. So he hates HIspanics but he will have sex with one?

Was it rape?

[SpiralHawk]

3. Hate and Fear are the twin engines driving the Republicon Homelander Teabaggers

They are soooo far from the American ideal - Home of the brave and the free.

Why are they afraid of America? Why are their souls so saturated with misbegotten hate?

[boobooday]

4. "where's my gun?"

Funny how he can tell by looking at people the legality of their immigration status.

And these right-wingers are pretty free with the racial insults towards Hispanics.

We have to shine the light on them. When people see their hateful faces and hear their hateful words they will turn away from this idiocy.