White Racial Resentment Bubbles Under the Surface of the Tea Party Movement

[dreamdancer 0]

sound like a nice bunch...

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Deciphering the racial codes on the movement's ubiquitous placards does not require a doctorate in semiotics. One popular sign shows the president's face and a caption: "Undocumented worker." Another combines Obama's image with this caption: "The Zoo Has an African Lion and the White House Has a Lyin' African!"

Aside from the festive, ad hominem attacks against President Obama, the Tea Party's leaders and its rank-and-file rarely mention race in debate, instead tucking it just under the surface of "nonracial" issues like health care reform, public spending, immigration, and pointedly, taxes.

Palin voices the right-wing drumbeat warning Americans that "government is on your back" and "you should keep your own money." Alongside other avid Tea Party supporters like Tom Tancredo and Glenn Beck, Palin gins-up conservative whites' existing resentment over race, carping over the "high taxes" for public services assumed to be wasted on "illegals" and minorities.

Denouncing government assistance and free school lunches at a town hall meeting in late January, South Carolina Lieutenant Governor Andre Bauer, a Tea Party supporter, said: "My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that."

http://www.alternet.org/news/145560/white_racial_resentment_bubbles_under_the_surface_of_the_tea_party_movement

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[jgoose71 0]

Have you ever noticed how the game of pool doesn't end until the white cue ball knocks the black 8 ball off the table? The game was obviously invented by a white racists.

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[mnealtx 0]

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Have you ever noticed how the game of pool doesn't end until the white cue ball knocks the black 8 ball off the table? The game was obviously invented by a white racists.

I'm sure there's something on alternatereality.org about that, too...

Mike
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[Andy9o8 2]

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the black 8 ball

hey that was racist.

[marks2065 0]

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sound like a nice bunch...

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Deciphering the racial codes on the movement's ubiquitous placards does not require a doctorate in semiotics. One popular sign shows the president's face and a caption: "Undocumented worker." Another combines Obama's image with this caption: "The Zoo Has an African Lion and the White House Has a Lyin' African!"

Aside from the festive, ad hominem attacks against President Obama, the Tea Party's leaders and its rank-and-file rarely mention race in debate, instead tucking it just under the surface of "nonracial" issues like health care reform, public spending, immigration, and pointedly, taxes.

Palin voices the right-wing drumbeat warning Americans that "government is on your back" and "you should keep your own money." Alongside other avid Tea Party supporters like Tom Tancredo and Glenn Beck, Palin gins-up conservative whites' existing resentment over race, carping over the "high taxes" for public services assumed to be wasted on "illegals" and minorities.

Denouncing government assistance and free school lunches at a town hall meeting in late January, South Carolina Lieutenant Governor Andre Bauer, a Tea Party supporter, said: "My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that."

http://www.alternet.org/news/145560/white_racial_resentment_bubbles_under_the_surface_of_the_tea_party_movement

Almost anything can be twisted to mean what ever you want. Most racist comments are really not racist at all but are twisted to be racist. Maybe the rest of the world should do what me and my wife do, take comments as they are meant not how they could be twisted. this solves alot of problems and adds alot of good to the relationship. to bad most people cannot do the same.

[Andrewwhyte 1]

I don't know, calling the president a lyin' African seems to be somewhat focused on his race. Maybe it's just me.

[rushmc 23]

This is pure bull shit

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[CanuckInUSA 0]

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I don't know, calling the president a lyin' African seems to be somewhat focused on his race. Maybe it's just me.

Race no, heritage yes.

There is no "African" race.

Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

[Andy9o8 2]

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There is no "African" race.

Sure there is; it's just that the Kenyans always win.

[CanuckInUSA 0]

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There is no "African" race.

Sure there is; it's just that the Kenyans always win.

Ethiopians have won their fair share of races.

BTW you rarely ever see Libyans win, why is that?

Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

[Andy9o8 2]

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BTW you rarely ever see Libyans win, why is that?

Because they tend to get their asses kicked by the Algerians.

[Andrewwhyte 1]

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Oh My GOD!

Someone criticized a black man!

Harumph harumph harumph!

Pffft. Whatever.

No, someone criticized a black man and found it impossible to do so without bringing up his race, again.

[airdvr 210]

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sound like a nice bunch...

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Deciphering the racial codes on the movement's ubiquitous placards does not require a doctorate in semiotics. One popular sign shows the president's face and a caption: "Undocumented worker." Another combines Obama's image with this caption: "The Zoo Has an African Lion and the White House Has a Lyin' African!"

Aside from the festive, ad hominem attacks against President Obama, the Tea Party's leaders and its rank-and-file rarely mention race in debate, instead tucking it just under the surface of "nonracial" issues like health care reform, public spending, immigration, and pointedly, taxes.

Palin voices the right-wing drumbeat warning Americans that "government is on your back" and "you should keep your own money." Alongside other avid Tea Party supporters like Tom Tancredo and Glenn Beck, Palin gins-up conservative whites' existing resentment over race, carping over the "high taxes" for public services assumed to be wasted on "illegals" and minorities.

Denouncing government assistance and free school lunches at a town hall meeting in late January, South Carolina Lieutenant Governor Andre Bauer, a Tea Party supporter, said: "My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that."

http://www.alternet.org/news/145560/white_racial_resentment_bubbles_under_the_surface_of_the_tea_party_movement

I think it's hilarious that this post comes to us from Germany...lol.

Please don't dent the planet.

Destinations by Roxanne

[dreamdancer 0]

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I think it's hilarious that this post comes to us from Germany...lol.

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Rich Benjamin is the author of Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America.
He is senior fellow at the nonpartisan think tank Demos and sits on the board of the Roosevelt Institution. His commentary is featured on NPR and Fox Radio, and in newspapers nationwide.

http://www.alternet.org/news/145560/white_racial_resentment_bubbles_under_the_surface_of_the_tea_party_movement

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[airdvr 210]

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I think it's hilarious that this post comes to us from Germany...lol.

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Rich Benjamin is the author of Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America.
He is senior fellow at the nonpartisan think tank Demos and sits on the board of the Roosevelt Institution. His commentary is featured on NPR and Fox Radio, and in newspapers nationwide.

http://www.alternet.org/news/145560/white_racial_resentment_bubbles_under_the_surface_of_the_tea_party_movement

Not talking about the link...

Please don't dent the planet.

Destinations by Roxanne

[dreamdancer 0]

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I think it's hilarious that this post comes to us from Germany...lol.

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Rich Benjamin is the author of Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America.
He is senior fellow at the nonpartisan think tank Demos and sits on the board of the Roosevelt Institution. His commentary is featured on NPR and Fox Radio, and in newspapers nationwide.

http://www.alternet.org/news/145560/white_racial_resentment_bubbles_under_the_surface_of_the_tea_party_movement

Not talking about the link...

you're german?

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blue skies from thai sky adventures
good solid response-provoking keyboarding

[rhaig 0]

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Oh My GOD!

Someone criticized a black man!

Harumph harumph harumph!

Pffft. Whatever.

No, someone criticized a black man and found it impossible to do so without bringing up his race, again.

don't you mean alleged nationality?

To say I was a North American would not be a description of my race. To say someone is African is not a description of their race.

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[Andrewwhyte 1]

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No, someone criticized a black man and found it impossible to do so without bringing up his race, again.

don't you mean alleged nationality?

To say I was a North American would not be a description of my race. To say someone is African is not a description of their race.

[rushmc 23]

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No, someone criticized a black man and found it impossible to do so without bringing up his race, again.

don't you mean alleged nationality?

To say I was a North American would not be a description of my race. To say someone is African is not a description of their race.

You're full of shit and you know it. It was a shot at his race, or worse yet an allusion to the morons only conspiracy theory about him being born in Kenya and the records being altered.

Oooooohhh, he touched a nerve???

Would not hurt as bad if Obama was looking to be a success right now, . would it.

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[dreamdancer 0]

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This is pure bull shit

you're just full to the brim with resentment

stay away from moving propellers - they bite
blue skies from thai sky adventures
good solid response-provoking keyboarding

[rushmc 23]

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This is pure bull shit

you're just full to the brim with resentment

Resentment? no, not so much. Pissed about yet another attempt a PC bull shit? Maybe

Now, go throw the race card again at someone. Seems you know what is in all who disagree with yous heart. At least you indicate here you do

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[Andrewwhyte 1]

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Oooooohhh, he touched a nerve???

Would not hurt as bad if Obama was looking to be a success right now, . would it.

Actually it hurts so bad because I have watched conservatives shoot themselves in the foot over stupid issues like race over and over. Often I have had to live with the left wing governments that resulted. When Obama gave his "race speech" last year I made the point on here how the right needed to stop worrying about race and focus on his eat the rich, socialist message. Now that he is president his race is nowhere near as significant as his socialist policies.

[rushmc 23]

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Oooooohhh, he touched a nerve???

Would not hurt as bad if Obama was looking to be a success right now, . would it.

Actually it hurts so bad because I have watched conservatives shoot themselves in the foot over stupid issues like race over and over. Often I have had to live with the left wing governments that resulted. When Obama gave his "race speech" last year I made the point on here how the right needed to stop worrying about race and focus on his eat the rich, socialist message. Now that he is president his race is nowhere near as significant as his socialist policies.

So show me. Examples of where the right has shot themselves in the foot? Be specific please?

(this otta be good)

By the way, the only ones making race an issue in regards to Obama is the left.

Black or white, so far, he is failing as a president.

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[rhaig 0]

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You're full of shit and you know it. It was a shot at his race, or worse yet an allusion to the morons only conspiracy theory about him being born in Kenya and the records being altered.

Actually I don't know what the author of those words was thinking when he wrote them. I can only read and interpret. Referring to President Obama as an African is likely a reference to the birthers complaints. However, the word "African" even in this context refers to someone or something from the continent of Africa. It is not a description of race any more than referring to me as a North American is describing my race.

And you should be careful... I got my one warning for calling someone ignorant.

and mods. I do not consider this a personal attack. It's got to be better than that to get under my skin :)

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[rhaig 0]

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Now that he is president his race is nowhere near as significant as his socialist policies.

"nowhere near as significant" implies there is some significance.

You think his race has any significance on his role as president? Really?

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