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A Quote for the Political Season – What is the Tea Party?
“The tea party is racist. Its followers have deployed a brilliant strategy to deflect charges of racism by using a form of the legislative provision known as severability. Whenever a tea party group or person is “caught” with a racist sign, or saying explicitly racist comments, they simply “sever” that person from the movement by saying, “That person does not represent the tea party.” They get away with it because they claim the status of a “movement” with no structure, leadership or cohesive identity except allegiance to the three magic phrases: “Constitutional Republic,” “Founding Fathers” and “I want my country back!””
– Rev. Madison Shockley in Truthdig.
Sound too simple? Read his whole post HERE and then tell me what you think.
Related Articles
- Yes, I’ll say it: The Tea Party Organization is a racist organization. Just as the John Birch Society is a racist organization. (iflizwerequeen.com)
- “Democrats retreat from reality into hopeful delusion : Most democrats believe the tea party is racist… rest of america not buying” and related posts (ibloga.blogspot.com)
- Joe Conason on the Tea Party… (underthelobsterscope.wordpress.com)
- Too Extreme Even For The Tea Party (talkingpointsmemo.com)
- Truth-Seeking with Lawrence O’Donnell and Matt Taibbi: Tea Party is ‘Narcissistic,’ ‘Incredibly Stupid’ (newsbusters.org)
Unfortunately, this is too common in America…
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Quote of the Day – and note that Repiglicans can’t tell the difference…
In a C-Span interview this morning, Juan Williams was asked if the statement made by Harry Reid that referred to Barack Obama as “light-skinned” with “no Negro dialect” was at the same level of racism as Trent Lott’s 2002 comment “we wouldn’t have had all these problems over all these years” had segregationist Strom Thurmond been elected President.
Juan’s response seems to sum it up just fine:
“I don’t think Barack Obama would be in the White House if we had a segregationist country. That’s a major, major difference.”
You go, Juan!
South Carolina GOP chairmen: Sen. DeMint like a ‘Jew’ who is ‘watching our nation’s pennies’
Umm… who in mainstream America thinks it’s a good idea to write something like that in a guest editorial? Especially in light of the racially-motivated attention garnered by South Carolina Republican activists over the past few months.
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Responding to the PalmettoScoop article, one commenter made this point:
“South Carolina, too small to be a republic and too large to be an insane asylum.”
That about sums it up.
Salon has a good article this morning about the effect of racism on Health Care Reform
Here’s a quick quote from Michael Lind’s piece “Uninsured Like Me”:
Since the 1964 Civil Rights Act destroyed formal white supremacy in the U.S., every attempt to expand traditional social insurance in America has failed. Meanwhile, there has been a massive expansion in government-sponsored welfare going disproportionately to the white and affluent. What the political scientist Christopher Howard calls the hidden welfare state includes the tax-favored employer-provided health insurance that most working-age Americans depend on, as well as the home mortgage interest deduction and the childcare and child tax credits. Affluent and educated workers are more likely to work for employers who provide private health benefits than are low-skilled workers and employees of small businesses. Personal tax benefits like the home mortgage interest deduction are available only to the top half of households who pay federal income taxes, and are unavailable to lower-income workers who pay payroll taxes but no income taxes. In many cases, the benefits of this tax-credit welfare state increase with income.
The whole article is a killer. Read it HERE.
Reverend Wright gets on the news with an anti-Jew comment after yesterday’s shooting…
It’s hard to believe that the news even covers this crap, simply because of the things it stirs up. Reverend James Wright has apparently said that Jews are keeping President Obama from speaking to him.
Perhaps Wright forgets that Obama broke off any relationship with the outspoken Reverend when his remarks directly attacked Obama’s Presidential campaign. If I were Obama I wouldn’t talk to him either, and I’m neither Jewish nor black.
Joan Walsh on the Reid comments in Salon
Jan 11
Posted by btchakir
Harry Reid chose his words poorly, but equating it with saying a racist would have made a good president is idiocy“, Salon editor Joan Walsh goes after Michael Steele and the Repiglicans over what seems to be a manufactured controversy.
Reid’s comment is in an article in the Atlantic HERE, and the full text of Walsh’s article is HERE.
I present you with a small clip:
I’m glad to know Steele doesn’t believe there is any kind of black dialect. I guess that’s why he titled his blog “What up?” told the Today Show in no uncertain terms “brotha’s still here” and said the Republican Party had to use hip-hop to reach black voters. No stereotyping there!
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