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

[rushmc 23]

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just attacks on the poster rushmc - nothing more from you
(when did you stop beating your wife)

Ohh,

Now another kind of baiting?

Get help dude
It is not worth going through life as angry as you are

you haven't answered my question - when did you stop beating your wife? as you refuse to answer i assume you still are
meanwhile...

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Democrats began competing with Republicans to prove that they could be even tougher on the dark-skinned pariahs. In President Bill Clinton's boastful words, "I can be nicked a lot, but no one can say I'm soft on crime." The facts bear him out. Clinton's "tough on crime" policies resulted in the largest increase in federal and state prison inmates of any president in American history. But Clinton was not satisfied with exploding prison populations. He and the "New Democrats" championed legislation banning drug felons from public housing (no matter how minor the offense) and denying them basic public benefits, including food stamps, for life. Discrimination in virtually every aspect of political, economic, and social life is now perfectly legal, if you've been labeled a felon.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/08-6

As the irony meter explode to the "not answering a question" comment

Again with the false assumptions my needy friend

Are you and adult?

Are you a US citizen?

Do you have another ID on this site?

Since you have not aswered I we no you are not an adult
you are not a us citizen
and you do have another ID on this site

Hows that for your own shit piled back in your face???
Get help man (or girl) which ever the case may be

"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]

back to topic...

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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

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

[ridestrong 1]

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just attacks on the poster rushmc - nothing more from you
(when did you stop beating your wife)

Ohh,

Now another kind of baiting?

Get help dude
It is not worth going through life as angry as you are

Wow... you guys are still trying to reason with dreamdancer?

You really might as well just start saying' 'I know you are, but what am I?'

Edited: to add a fu(king coma.

*I am not afraid of dying... I am afraid of missing life.*
----Disclaimer: I don't know shit about skydiving.----

[billvon 3,120]

Both of you cut it out.

[dreamdancer 0]

thanks bv
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If this level of racism, by a minority radio commentator, was directed at white people there is no way in the world he would still be broadcasting. No way period! I don’t care what people say about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. I don’t care what videos of Louis Farrakhan that Fox News drags out and airs every hour on the hour. If America was really post-racial then this fool would not have an audience. As it stands, Limbaugh is one of the most successful talk show host in the nation. He is spewing this crap on more than 600 radio stations. And some estimate, he is reaching between 12 and 20 million people. So why do people tolerate this crap? It’s because they think he’s funny. His racism is shared by them. Only, THEY can’t say it because society has deemed being an unabashed racist as being poor taste. So they have this fat, oxycontin-addicted barf bag spewing it for them. I suppose its cathartic.

1. “Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?”

http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/03/09/racist-rush-at-it-again-paterson-gets-to-play-massa/

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

[ridestrong 1]

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thanks bv
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If this level of racism, by a minority radio commentator, was directed at white people there is no way in the world he would still be broadcasting. No way period! I don’t care what people say about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. I don’t care what videos of Louis Farrakhan that Fox News drags out and airs every hour on the hour. If America was really post-racial then this fool would not have an audience. As it stands, Limbaugh is one of the most successful talk show host in the nation. He is spewing this crap on more than 600 radio stations. And some estimate, he is reaching between 12 and 20 million people. So why do people tolerate this crap? It’s because they think he’s funny. His racism is shared by them. Only, THEY can’t say it because society has deemed being an unabashed racist as being poor taste. So they have this fat, oxycontin-addicted barf bag spewing it for them. I suppose its cathartic.

1. “Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?”

http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/03/09/racist-rush-at-it-again-paterson-gets-to-play-massa/

Um... I think he was talking to you too.

*I am not afraid of dying... I am afraid of missing life.*
----Disclaimer: I don't know shit about skydiving.----

[dreamdancer 0]

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thanks bv
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If this level of racism, by a minority radio commentator, was directed at white people there is no way in the world he would still be broadcasting. No way period! I don’t care what people say about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. I don’t care what videos of Louis Farrakhan that Fox News drags out and airs every hour on the hour. If America was really post-racial then this fool would not have an audience. As it stands, Limbaugh is one of the most successful talk show host in the nation. He is spewing this crap on more than 600 radio stations. And some estimate, he is reaching between 12 and 20 million people. So why do people tolerate this crap? It’s because they think he’s funny. His racism is shared by them. Only, THEY can’t say it because society has deemed being an unabashed racist as being poor taste. So they have this fat, oxycontin-addicted barf bag spewing it for them. I suppose its cathartic.

1. “Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?”

http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/03/09/racist-rush-at-it-again-paterson-gets-to-play-massa/

Um... I think he was talking to you too.

i think he was just being polite
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Folks are quite rightly upset by the Tea Baggers in Washington D.C. hurling of racial epithets at civil rights icon Representative John Lewis and calling Barney Frank a “faggot.” The Tea Party health care brigades were thorough as they also spat upon and threatened other members of Congress.

What befuddles me about this episode is how some folks among the punditry and in particular on the Left seem surprised and shocked by the Tea Baggers dropping their mask and showing us who they have always been. As I said before, these are a bunch of neo-John Birchers whose grandparents were likely members of the Klan or White Citizens’ Councils (the younger members of the tea bag cadre were likely more benign as they merely threw rocks at black school children trying to integrate schools in places like Boston). So please, spare me the gasps at their foul behavior. To paraphrase Forrest Gump, “White trash is as White trash does.”

What I find more interesting, not so much as it is a surprise, but it begs a question, is how Michael Steele, Chairman of the GOP can continue to support this movement? Once more, Black Conservatives vex me: you have one more instance in a clear pattern of abusive and racially reactionary behavior by the neo-populist Palin Tea Party Right wing and the titular head of the (Black) Republican establishment continues to make excuses.

http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/03/22/what-is-michael-steeles-soul-worth-after-excusing-away-the-racism-of-the-tea-party/

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

[rushmc 23]

Obi-Wan
The koolaid is strong with this one

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/06/black-tea-party-activists-called-traitors/

And the real racists are coming out of thier holes now it seems

"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]

sound racist to me...

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Not surprisingly, the right-wing media and the Republican Party are seemingly immune from accepting the fact that racist elements are operating in the Tea Party movement. Just as they have reframed language in a disturbing type of Orwellian “newspeak” (in which, for example, according to Glenn Beck, progressives are now “fascists” and Hitler was really a “liberal progressive") the obvious signals to white racism at the Tea Party events are dismissed or minimized as irrelevant or non-existent. Predictably, those who call attention to the use of racially incendiary language, signs and posters that speak to the worst stereotypes of Obama as an “African” or “witchdoctor,” and caricatures of the president as a racial terrorist in the guise of Adolf Hitler, are overly sensitive, and/or are playing the omnipresent and devious “race card.”

The few people of color at these events are trotted out like mascots who work to immunize the Tea Party from charges of racism. The black and brown faces of the right-wing also serve as fetishes that legitimize any rhetoric, however racist, xenophobic or bigoted by the conservative establishment or its followers. See Michael Steele’s excuse-making for the racist behavior of the Tea Party. In the extreme, conservatives believe themselves to be “colorblind” by definition. In this twisted understanding of American politics and society, it is in reality white men during the age of Obama who are the most aggrieved victims of some imagined type of reverse racism as they suffer under the jackboots of Jim Crow 2.0.

A quick survey of Fox News, the Republican establishment, or the right-wing blogosphere reveals a similar meme about the racist happenings at the Washington anti-health care rally: There were no real racists at the event; if racist language was used it was because the Tea Partiers were provoked and angry; Democrats are the real racists and likely planted agent provocateurs among the crowd; Barack Obama and the Democrats want the Tea Party to be violent and if violence comes it was duly provoked; and my favorite -- we didn’t hear any racial or homophobic language so it could not have possibly happened because conservatives and the Tea Party are incapable of such things.

http://www.alternet.org/news/146190/the_tea_parties%3A_built_on_fear%2C_violence_and_race_resentment?page=entire

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

[rushmc 23]

you should really pay attention to your own sig line

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stay away from moving propellers - they bite

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

[rushmc 23]

Tea Party members are my kind of people

Like the guy in the video.

What do you think?

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/04/16/nbc_reporter_to_black_man_at_tea_party_have_you_ever_felt_uncomfortable.html

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

[funjumper101 15]

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Tea Party members are my kind of people

No kidding.

Grossly ignorant of facts and the US Constitution, loud and proud of their ignorance, and extremely racist.

Your kind of people all right.

[rushmc 23]

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Tea Party members are my kind of people

No kidding.

Grossly ignorant of facts and the US Constitution, loud and proud of their ignorance, and extremely racist.

Your kind of people all right.

You are a point maker extraordinaire!!!!!!

Thank You

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

[rushmc 23]

More ignorant



http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/us/politics/15poll.html

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

[rushmc 23]

More racist

what is the percentage of blacks or minorities in the US???

11% of the tea party members are minorities
Compare the numbers

and then again there is this

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/us/politics/15poll.html

You bigoted views are fun to expose!!!

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