So again: is the Tea Party, at least in part, a racist movement?

+ they welcome racists to speak at their events

= majority of tea partiers are racists

 

Can you name some specific policies the Tea Part supports that is a racist policy? Don't use the Arizona bill since that is up for debate in its own thread and both sides of that bill has been talked to death already.

 

I seem to recall a whole bunch of irrational anger aimed at Bill Clinton. Also, I think the existence of Limbaugh and Beck, the prominence of Fox News and the emergence of the internet have all contributed to a greater amount of fear and anger than maybe we're used to. Add to that the stimulus bill, and you have the recipe for this kind of situation regardless of which Democrat was in charge.

I think if Hillary Clinton were president and followed the same legislative path as Obama, the Tea party movement would still exist, although I don't think it would be quite so strong or angry.

 

Would you like me to use any old teapartyin' crackpots "policy" position, the "official" crackpot policy position, or the thumbs-endorsed fantasy policy position?

Point being, you would need to provide me with actual tea party policies for me to answer your question. More to the point, I said inevitably, since at the moment no coordinated policy exists (lol) and no tea party "policy" has been enacted as such.

 

The tea party doesn't have that voice in government to denounce their leaders. The Tea Party is not organized like the Republican Party or the Democrat Party. There is no central figure to speak up and say denounce a person. If there was no one is listening anyways. The main motivation behind the Tea Party movement is fiscal responsibility, smaller government and less taxes.

If someone on the democrat party says something outrageous its easy for Pelosi and the likes to speak up. who is that person on the tea party?

 

Tom Tancredo at the tea party convention advocating bringing back literacy tests as a requirement for voting is one thing.

 

Well that was also my point which you can see in my other post. Granted if the above is true how can you claim and make accusations that The Tea Party SUPPORTS racist policies if you in fact DONT KNOW their policies????

 

Oh, so not rejecting the racist underpinnings is okay then...my apologies.

 

Sarah Palin

 

although I don't agree with the Tom on this issue but how in fact is that racist? It is not directed at a certain gender or ethnicity. Also again I don't agree with Tom here but he does have a point. How can you vote and know what you are voting on if you can't read the propositions or what particular views a candidate holds? Also this would be very hard to enforce which is why it's not as simple as Tom Tancredo puts it. But again I don't see how this is a RACIST policy.

 

Sarah Palin is not the leader of the Tea Party. She just latched on it for her own agenda of being in the spot light.

 

you're kidding right? please tell me you're joking

 

But they do organize rallies. They obviously don't urge people or train their marchers on racist methods of expression prior to their rallies.

They did organize a convention, in which the opening speaker gave advocated racist policies and was called a great politician.

After members acted aggressively racist towards civil rights heroes and congressmen who were black, the party didn't form a federation to wipe out the racism. They formed a federation to combat bad publicity.

When the civil rights movement was organizing gatherings and rallies, they weren't a political party. They did however train their members on proper behavior for those marches and rallies, and their members withstood attack dogs, and savage beatings from the cops without striking back.

 

Have you ever heard of Jim Crow?

 

Well you need to ask the supreme court. They've shown that it was indeed racist, and literacy tests were used as weapon of oppression for many years in this country. Please do some research on it before claiming it isn't racist.

It is expressly racist, and has been ruled on by the judicial apparatus of our nation.

 

No, because the Tea Partiers themselves can't name any specific policies they support besides assorted vague bumper-sticker slogans.

 

Like I said earlier you will have your extremists from all walks of life. But if you actually pay attention to a local Tea Party rally they are probably some of the most civilized rallies you will see. They obey the law do not get out of hand and respect property. They make sure they clean up after themselves and do not make a mess. You can not say that about the other rallies such as some of the pro-immigration, workers union, etc rallies. These usually turn violent and the place gets trashed.

 

we get your point bigots and racists are cool cause they are always clean and civil

while minorities and poor people are all dirty

 

I can say from first hand experience that Union and pro-immigration rallies rarely turn violent.

 

okay granted that is true you can also say Tea Party rallies rarely and in fact have never turned violent