Is the Tea Party Movement Racist?

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Yesterday, the Washington Post reported that the Tea Party movement is "struggling to overcome accusations of racism," some of which has been perpetuated in its editorial pages. Yesterday's New York Times, home to the most obsessively anti-Tea Party editorial page in America, was stunned to discover that "at least 32 African-Americans are running for Congress this year as Republicans, the biggest surge since Reconstruction, according to party officials."Previously, The Times reported that Tea Partiers are, on average, people with a high levels of education and higher than average incomes. So it would seem that they aren't, as some editorialists and pundits contend, simply a gang of subliterate militia men or, as actress Janeane Garofalo recently told MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, a subsection of the white power movement.Wandering the recent Tax Day tea party in Washington DC with Reason.tv's Meredith Bragg, we saw some stupid signs--though none that could be considered offensive or racist. We talked to some people that claimed President Obama was both a Czarist and Bolshevik. We spoke to a former star of Saturday Night Live who has previously claimed that president might, in fact, be the anti-Christ. Or a communist. Or both. There were those who fretted that the United States were morphing into a Stalinist state. And there were countless protesters concerned that the Obama administration was spending recklessly, interested in auditing the Federal Reserve, and seething about the General Motors bailout.So did we find that the Tea Party was motivated by race, by the fact that we now have a black president? Did it seem as if their stated concerns about health care reform and a ballooning national debt simply a smokescreen, designed to concealing a racist agenda? Here is what we found.Produced by Michael C. Moynihan and Meredith Bragg. Edited by Meredith Bragg. Approximately 2 mins.

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Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
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vennie brice (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Since you have absolutely no ability to stand on the destruction caused by democratic lies and policies, you have to lie about the tea party because your political ideas are garbage and don't work.
Golden Dragon (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
The Tea party is just another right wing paid organization.Nothing patriotic about them at all.Paid rats!
EvilsOfFeminism (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
The word "racist" is a baseless assertion. This shit does not belong on any channel called "reason" because it is an inherently unreasonable proposition, akin to finding witches to burn at the stake.Is the Tea Party full of witches? Find out on REASON tonight!It's fucking surreal.
ItsTurningGreen002 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Is that woman Jerry's double?
Robert Berger (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
You can't say that the entire Tea Party is racist, but there are more than a few racist people in it . Not ot mention homophpobic bigots, anti-Mexican xenophobes etc .
Eric K (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
So because they have a difference of opinion they are "uncle toms", so who owns them, and in what way did they sell others out? How did they betray their brothers? By being against entitlement programs? By being against the Democrats who started the KKK, Segregation, and Planned Parenthood for the express purpose of exterminating the Black population? You think Democrats switched sides think again, a total of 3 Democrats changed sides out of the 32 "Dixiecrats", people like Bull Connor stayed
Eric K (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Obama/Hitler signs aren't racist, in fact there are several legitimate comparisons that can be made. I've never even seen a racist white pride sign at a tea party, and I have yet to find one even on you tube. Despite all of the claims from the left, as much as they call Racism, there seems to be an extreme failure to present evidence of it.
david52875 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
You have less than no intelligence.
Leo David (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
So I'am against Obama so that makes me a racist,I'm against undocumented demcrats(illegal aliens) voting in our elections and I'm a racist.Yeat it was the dems who faught to keep slavery and continued to fight against civil rights.Oh thats right the racists democrats became the racist republicans and the civil rights opents became democrats what a load of crap
Dan Thorson (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I'd just like to say that last time I checked, desegregation was a good and desirable thing. And your second point is just an undefined statistic with an obviously biased surveyor and a sample size as large as "all of the Tea Party members I have met". I doubt that number is very large.

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