As several states with active "tea party" groups prepare to hold important primary elections this month, the movement is struggling to overcome accusations of racism that are tinting perceptions of this loose network of conservatives. Full Story »
Posted by Barry Grossheim - via Digg, Google News (U.S.), Washington Post , Salvador Sala (t), Wil Kristin (t), David Wardell (f), JR Russ (f), Kaizar Campwala (f), Randy Benson (f)
This coverage of the Tea Party is more fair than much of what comes out of the MSM. It presents examples and data from both sides.
This really gives almost sole voice to the TEA Party supporters and other than an individual Democrat's quote and some polling data is mostly mute to the more serious criticisms of the group relating to race. Take a look at the TIm Wise article linked to this review and you'll see what I mean.
This report sounds to me like the TEA Party's PR campaign talking points designed to rehabilitate its image. While the openly, visible, racist elements at their gatherings are addressed by the leaders here, which is fine, it is the underlying arguments they make as policy, that smack of class warfare on the lower classes and consequently to a greater extent on minorities. The reporter doesn't address this or dig at all. You can put lipstick on a pig...
The polling seems destined to be misleading. I you were a racist tea-party advocate, would you admit you were racist, knowing it would hurt your cause to admit it? The article also has no mention of the funding from the Koch brothers and astroturf disinformation recruiting by ethics-free fox. And the claimed opposition to big government is ridiculous when most these people supported Bush and his big wars and big military and big Blackwater warlords and wiretapping every citizen. It is a false partisan claim.
Is the Tea Party movement racist or only perceived to be by it's opponents. Arguments on both sides are presented.
How can they be racist? Aren't most conservatives white? Don't you have to be white to be conservative? ;-)
What biased and unsupported drivel this article is. The only ones stating race is the writer's of this less than professionally written tosh. The Tea Party Movement is inspired and maintained in their mutual distaste not for a race but for an idea being forced upon the citizens the the United States. Their opposition is politically and not racially motivated. All true Americans regardless of color support the protesting of forced legislation that was written and approved by big ... More »
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