The Racist American "Tea Party"

[Klaatu]

Tea Party Leader Condemns NAACP For Making ‘More Money Off Of Race Than Any Slave Trader Ever’

Yesterday, the NAACP approved a resolution condemning “racist elements” within the tea party movement, with its president Benjamin Jealous challenging activists to “expel the bigots and racists in your ranks or take full responsibility for all of their actions.” In spite of the indisputable evidence that racist signs and slogans have been allowed to be displayed at tea party rallies, conservatives have feigned outrage at the resolution, and attacked the country’s leading civil rights organization for daring to speak out.

Mark Williams, the spokesperson for Tea Party Express — a leading tea party group, which has been instrumental in Sharron Angle’s Senate campaign in Nevada, among many others — launched into a particularly hateful attack on the NAACP, accusing the group of being “professional race baiters” who deserve to be sent to “the trash heap” with “all the other vile racist groups”:

WILLIAMS: You’re dealing with people who are professional race baiters, who make a very good living off this kind of thing. They make more money off of race than any slave trader ever. It’s time groups like the NAACP went to the trash heap of history where they belong with all the other vile racist groups that emerged in our history.

Listen to the interview here.

Williams should know about professional racial baiting. Last year, he called called President Obama an “Indonesian Muslim turned welfare thug and a racist in chief.” And in February, he called Obama “our half white, racist president.”

In May, while serving as chairman of Tea Party Express, he called the Muslim god Allah a “terrorists’ monkey-god” while fighting the construction of a mosque near Ground Zero. Despite universal condemnation for his comments, Williams refused to apologized to Muslims. “In the course of the article I described the ‘god’ worshiped by terrorists as ‘a monkey god.’ I was wrong and that was offensive. I owe an apology to millions of Hindus who worship Lord Hanuman, an actual Monkey God,” Williams wrote in a follow-up blog post. He also called a Jewish developer involved in the project a “Jewish Uncle Tom who would have turned rat on Anne Frank.” In a blog post from last year that has since been deleted, Williams further explained his theory on Islam:

[R]epeat after me: Islam is a 7th Century Death Cult coughed up by a psychotic pedophile and embraced by defective, tail sprouting, tree swinging, semi-human, bipedal primates with no claim to be treated like human beings or even desirable mammals for that matter.

But none of this seemed to concern Tea Party Express, which allowed him to stay on as chairman, and then spokesperson. “It doesn’t have anything to do with the Tea Party Express and the issues addressed by the tea party movement,” the group’s Joe Wierzbicki told TPM of the “monkey god” comments. Williams was the leader of one one of the most powerful tea party groups in the country, which has been instrumental in Angle’s election, along with dozens of others, and attracted top conservatives like Fox News contributor Sarah Palin as repeat guests to their rallies. The fact that the group hasn’t condemned his bigotry, or even asked him to step down, shows why the NAACP’s action against the tea parties is justified.
source
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/07/14/williams-naacp/

VIDEO: Yes, there is racism in the Tea Party movement.
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/07/14/tea-party-racism/

[Stephen Colbert]

The right.... racist? I thought it was just them disagreeing with black peoples ideas.... :laugh::laugh::laugh:

[Ocean Seal]

I hate these damn racist proto-fascists. Communists in America need to organize themselves to fight these bigots before they get into power.

[¿Que?]

The thing that bothers me the most is that they're calling people who disagree with them racist. They've even been known to invoke MLK, like Glenn Beck did for his stupid demonstration. They're so fucking disingenuous it makes me sick, or rather, really pissed off.

[Barry Lyndon]

The thing that bothers me the most is that they're calling people who disagree with them racist. They've even been known to invoke MLK, like Glenn Beck did for his stupid demonstration. They're so fucking disingenuous it makes me sick, or rather, really pissed off.

The fact that they do so is nauseating-


"There must be a better distribution of wealth, and maybe America must move toward a Democratic Socialism."- Martin Luther King Jr., 1966.

I wish someone would throw that in Glenn Beck's face.

[M-26-7]

Wow.

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

Can I vom now?
Yuck. Pee in their tea!

[Klaatu]

More on (should I say: "moron") Mark Williams

From his blog:


NAACP Resolution: Colored People change minds about emancipation
Thursday 7/15: Scroll down for update video

Dear Mr. Lincoln

We Colored People have taken a vote and decided that we don’t cotton to that whole emancipation thing. Freedom means having to work for real, think for ourselves, and take consequences along with the rewards. That is just far too much to ask of us Colored People and we demand that it stop!

In fact we held a big meeting and took a vote in Kansas City this week. We voted to condemn a political revival of that old abolitionist spirit called the ‘tea party movement’.

The tea party position to “end the bailouts” for example is just silly. Bailouts are just big money welfare and isn’t that what we want all Colored People to strive for? What kind of racist would want to end big money welfare? What they need to do is start handing the bail outs directly to us Colored People! Of course, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is the only responsible party that should be granted the right to disperse the funds.

And the ridiculous idea of “reduce[ing] the size and intrusiveness of government.” What kind of world would we have is I ever to control and be responsible for my life own? As Colored People we must have somebody care for us otherwise we would be on our own, have to think for ourselves and make decisions and if you do not agree than there is not enough Colored in your People, as we labeled Ken Gladney [source]

The racist tea parties also demand that the government “stop the out of control spending.” Again, they directly target Colored People. That means we Colored People would have to compete for jobs like everybody else and that is just not right.

Perhaps the most racist point of all in the tea parties is their demand that government “stop raising our taxes.” That is outrageous! Totally racist! The tea party expects Colored People to be productive members of society, especially when our mission is to convince them that progress is impossible for them based on the color of their skin?

Mr. Lincoln, you were the greatest racist ever. We had a great gig. Three squares, room and board, all our decisions made by someone else. Please repeal the 13th and 14th Amendments and let us get back to where we say that belong.

Sincerely

Ben Jealous, Tom’s Nephew National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Head Colored Person

source
http://www.marktalk.com/blog/?p=10387

[¿Que?]

More on (should I say: "moron") Mark Williams

From his blog:

source
http://www.marktalk.com/blog/?p=10387
Yeah, this was such a PR disaster, they decided to get rid of this guy...but then I saw on the news some guy denying that Mark Williams was ever a TP leader. Professional liars, if you ask me.

[Dimentio]

Yeah, this was such a PR disaster, they decided to get rid of this guy...but then I saw on the news some guy denying that Mark Williams was ever a TP leader. Professional liars, if you ask me.

And MW claiming he had 400 000 people behind him.

[redSHARP]

see the sad thing is, the teaparty isnt a single party; its a confederacy (i use that term VERY intentionally) of different groups all espousing tea party ideals. So one group can be staunchly anti-racists (i know it sounds impossible, but it is) while 20 of them might be racist. sadly, most of them dont realize that the policies put forth by the teaparty leaders are racist. while other teaparty groups are connected with known racist groups and dont do shit about it. overall, i will predict that 90% of all teaparty groups espouse racism or support racist policies

[Klaatu]

Personally, I don't think that every tea-partier is racist. But I firmly believe that every racist is a tea-partier.

[counterblast]

The NAACP, is late and ineffective, as usual.

Here in Detroit, the now-defunct Tea Party "movement"; (if you can even call it a movement), was run by the leaders of the National Socialist Movement (http://www.nsm88.org/jointhefight/membership_index.html) (Who moved their national headquarters to an all-black neighborhood in south Detroit a few years ago).

Every other weekend they brought in a bunch of moderately conservative white people from Ann Arbor and the Detroit suburbs who had no idea that they were being organized by neo-Nazis.

They slowly increased their racist rhetoric from simply wanting "stricter immigration laws" to wanting "illegals who didn't voluntarily return to Mexico to be shot and thrown in the Detroit River along with the "n----rs.""

It wasn't long before the entire community came out to protest their next three rallies. On the last rally they decided to protest at the MLK Memorial, but community members forcibly removed the tea partiers leaving a few with ripped clothing, black eyes, or bloody noses and broke a NSM members' back car windshield; which forced the Detroit police to escort the teapartiers out of town for "security reasons".

When they tried to hold a Tea Party rally after that incident, only two NSM members showed up and were surrounded. Police escorted them out, and there hasn't been a rally here since.

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

The NAACP, is late and ineffective, as usual.

Here in Detroit, the now-defunct Tea Party "movement"; (if you can even call it a movement), was run by the leaders of the National Socialist Movement (http://www.nsm88.org/jointhefight/membership_index.html) (Who moved their national headquarters to an all-black neighborhood in south Detroit a few years ago).

Every other weekend they brought in a bunch of moderately conservative white people from Ann Arbor and the Detroit suburbs who had no idea that they were being organized by neo-Nazis.

They slowly increased their racist rhetoric from simply wanting "stricter immigration laws" to wanting "illegals who didn't voluntarily return to Mexico to be shot and thrown in the Detroit River along with the "n----rs.""

It wasn't long before the entire community came out to protest their next three rallies. On the last rally they decided to protest at the MLK Memorial, but community members forcibly removed the tea partiers leaving a few with ripped clothing, black eyes, or bloody noses and broke a NSM members' back car windshield; which forced the Detroit police to escort the teapartiers out of town for "security reasons".

When they tried to hold a Tea Party rally after that incident, only two NSM members showed up and were surrounded. Police escorted them out, and there hasn't been a rally here since.

Send my love to Detroit for that one. Detroit is now fucking awesome in my eyes.

A Tea Party guy hit on me once. I basically told him I was out of his league. But he was choking on his earlier flirtatious words towards me when he found out that I'm of Mexican decent (my dad was from Mexico DF). I'm still confused as to how he didn't notice earlier, though I guess if I wanted to I could somewhat pass for an anglo woman. What boggles my mind about it is at the begining (before I even knew he was involved in that Tea-Bagger Party) he asked me my name and I said Esperanza.:blink:

[AK]

Pee in their tea!
Anything to solve world thirst.

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

Anything to solve world thirst.

I actually suspect that guy from the Tea Bagger Party that hit on me might actually be turned on by it.

[Klaatu]

The NAACP, is late and ineffective, as usual.

Here in Detroit, the now-defunct Tea Party "movement"; (if you can even call it a movement), was run by the leaders of the National Socialist Movement (http://www.nsm88.org/jointhefight/membership_index.html) (Who moved their national headquarters to an all-black neighborhood in south Detroit a few years ago).

Every other weekend they brought in a bunch of moderately conservative white people from Ann Arbor and the Detroit suburbs who had no idea that they were being organized by neo-Nazis.

They slowly increased their racist rhetoric from simply wanting "stricter immigration laws" to wanting "illegals who didn't voluntarily return to Mexico to be shot and thrown in the Detroit River along with the "n----rs.""

It wasn't long before the entire community came out to protest their next three rallies. On the last rally they decided to protest at the MLK Memorial, but community members forcibly removed the tea partiers leaving a few with ripped clothing, black eyes, or bloody noses and broke a NSM members' back car windshield; which forced the Detroit police to escort the teapartiers out of town for "security reasons".

When they tried to hold a Tea Party rally after that incident, only two NSM members showed up and were surrounded. Police escorted them out, and there hasn't been a rally here since.

Interesting. I live in the Detroit area too, but cannot recall this. They were actually called "Tea Party?" I am confused. :confused:

[Lost In Translation]

Apparently some people from the Tea Party thought it necessary to pay for this billboard in North Iowa.

http://www.sott.net/image/image/s2/40816/full/posters_1678527c.jpg

Ironic choice of words, in my opinion, but I suppose they aren't "Fearful & Naive", more like paranoid and stupid. I'm not too sure what the process is for ordering a billboard. Are you obligated to show whoever it is that will eventually put it up what the contents of the billboard are, or do you just show the money and get on with it?

Anyways, the top brass of the Tea Party has denounced the board because the inclusion of Hitler "just totally wiped everything else and misrepresents the tea party movement".

I realize this was a discussion about the Tea Party being racist (please, don't kill me for going off-topic), but I just thought that it wouldn't be complete without showing how narrow-minded they are in their attacks. There really are much better ways to protest against the government, but they seemed to find the most farcical and ridiculous way...

[Klaatu]

Jesus H Christ. If Obama isn't a capitalist, he sure fooled me.

And comparing him to Hitler shows two things: (a) these racists who put up this billboard deserve to be sued for libel and slander (of course we might have a hard time prosecuting the mentally handicapped) and (b) have zero knowledge of what the Nazis were like in the first place. Such comparisons tend to dilute the horror of the Third Reich, to trivialize it down to a low level. But hey, what can you expect from right-wing hillbilly racists who dropped out at the fifth-grade? Shoulda stayed in school, neocons, you might have actually learned about some real history... ;)

[counterblast]

Interesting. I live in the Detroit area too, but cannot recall this. They were actually called "Tea Party?" I am confused. :confused:

Oh I had no idea you lived here! Where in Detroit?

No, they were called the "313 Project" or something like that.

[Communist]

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Well, some liberals compared the last president to Hitler too, I recall that distinctly.
Funny how these two camps never seem to notice they're both the same...

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[mollymae]

How could someone feel so threatened by the NAACP? Where did all this 'racism against white people' bullshit come from? How, exactly, is Obama racist? The fact that white people are actually starting to feel like victims is sickening, and it's insulting to people who are victimized by real racism. Most white people have no idea what it is like to be truly discriminated against.. including myself!

[Jazzhands]

I love how people act surprised by this. WELCOME TO AMERICA. sure, the stupidity level seems to have shot through the roof this century, but this is pretty average stuff. it reminds me of the Red Summer of 1919. stupid, angry white people afraid of a socialist conspiracy going out and being...stupid angry white people.

[Klaatu]

Allow me to quote Glenn Beck, on Fox News: "Obama has a deep-rooted hatred of white people..."

Obama must truly hate his mother then?

Naw. But I'll bet Glenn's mother truly hated him... that's why he is so crazy?

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

How could someone feel so threatened by the NAACP? Where did all this 'racism against white people' bullshit come from? How, exactly, is Obama racist? The fact that white people are actually starting to feel like victims is sickening, and it's insulting to people who are victimized by real racism. Most white people have no idea what it is like to be truly discriminated against.. including myself!

Varying groups face discrimination to varying degrees.
There are some white people at gender groups that I go to who've been discriminated against as trans. I'm sure there are plenty of white ciswomen face sexist discrimination. I'm sure if you find an old enough Italian-American they may remember the days when Italian-americans faced plenty of discrimination.

What you were saying had validity.

As far as racial discrimination, I feel that those of us who are mixed enough get fucked from both ends too often. So while I think some overrate Obama, I kind of feel for him.

[mollymae]

Varying groups face discrimination to varying degrees.
There are some white people at gender groups that I go to who've been discriminated against as trans. I'm sure there are plenty of white ciswomen face sexist discrimination. I'm sure if you find an old enough Italian-American they may remember the days when Italian-americans faced plenty of discrimination.


Absolutely, but I was talking more about discrimination against white people solely on the basis of us being white. And it's true that Italian Americans once faced terrible racism--same with Irish Americans--but, to my knowledge, much of that has been stomped out.

[Sendo]

The thing that bothers me the most is that they're calling people who disagree with them racist. They've even been known to invoke MLK, like Glenn Beck did for his stupid demonstration. They're so fucking disingenuous it makes me sick, or rather, really pissed off.

Likewise, if you start looting your company's funds you pin embezzlement on someone else, taking the attention off of yourself. Basic human deception.

[Sendo]

Absolutely, but I was talking more about discrimination against white people solely on the basis of us being white. And it's true that Italian Americans once faced terrible racism--same with Irish Americans--but, to my knowledge, much of that has been stomped out.

Italians never suffered from the racism of blacks in America.

[RadioRaheem84]

I fucking hate these tea baggers. They've turned my apolitical albeit coservative future father in law into a ready to mobilize right wing warrior! He has lost all sense of reason and thinks socialism is coming from DC. They're speeding up the propaganda into hyper drive giving middle aged petit bourgoise a stupid cause.

[RadioRaheem84]

Italians never suffered from the racism of blacks in America. Tell that to Sacco and Vancetti! Italian and Anarchist! Plus there was a point in history where Anglos stormed into a jail and began butchering Italian immigrants. The papers called them short and brown. Disgusting.

[Kayser_Soso]

I actually suspect that guy from the Tea Bagger Party that hit on me might actually be turned on by it.

The idea of a Tea Partier attempting to hit on some young woman is amusing to me. It reminds me of this idiotic meme that conservatives like to circulate. Basically it's usually in the form of an image with a collage of photographs, and it compares "Conservative Women" to "Liberal women". Yes, it's really sexist. Conservative women presented are Michelle Malkin(yeah, ok), Ann Coulter(not enough beer in the world, and possibly not a woman), and some anchorwoman on Fox(meh). For the liberals it's Nancy Pelosi, Bella Abzug, and you get the idea. When I see this meme coming from a conservative, I always tell them:

"Here's something you can try: Go to any popular social place and try picking up young ladies with your conservative bullshit about taxes, religion, and what not. See how many of those college girls are attracted to a whiny, angry-for-no-reason jackass who is afraid of his own shadow and gets upset when Obama greets a world leader in the "wrong" way. Good luck casanova."

Yes, nothing gets a woman hotter than being perpetually upset about everything, especially things that didn't even happen.

Anyway, on this topic, most Tea Partiers don't even understand how they are racist. They think racism is all about the intentions of the person speaking, not about the perception of those listening. I often find I have to explain to them why their comments are blatantly racist. They think a racist is someone who runs around saying things like, "You know what I hate? BLACK PEOPLE!!!" Till you are actually burning a cross on someone's lawn, a typical conservative will usually ignore mountains of racist comments.

[Jazzhands]

And what's ironic about their racism is how often they enact godwin's law. What I can't figure out is how people from other countries must view America. Here's what I think they see.

A bunch of crazy reactionary (even by bourgeois standards) racist peasants who are stuck in the 1950s, running around with signs of extreme stupidity doing symbolically stupid and useless acts of protest while naming themselves after a...symbolic and useless act of protest that some white people made dressed as the natives they slaughtered en masse???

not that I'm saying the Boston Tea Party was not significant, but it really didn't help the skyrocketing price of tea to dump it into the sea.

but really, what do you imagine is going through the rest of the world's head right now?

[Jimmie Higgins]

What I can't figure out is how people from other countries must view America. Here's what I think they see.

A bunch of crazy reactionary (even by bourgeois standards) racist peasants who are stuck in the 1950s, running around with signs of extreme stupidity doing symbolically stupid and useless acts of protest while naming themselves after a...symbolic and useless act of protest that some white people made dressed as the natives they slaughtered en masse???

I think most Americans think that most Americans are like this. To me that's one of the devious things about the way the media hypes right-wing populism. They repeat this myth that most Americans are white, middle age males who live in small towns and have businesses... that would probably be 5% (to be generous) of the US population considering that only 20% of the US population in rural to begin with.

These nuts get the attention because they are promoting ideas that the ruling class wants - for the most part because I think sometimes the ruling class wants to shut them up when they get too embarrassing (like the birther stuff). So most of the US population is actually urban and a bigger chunk is to the left of the Democrats on issues than is to the right of the Republicans (i.e. tea partiers). Yet uncritically, the media parrots Rush Limbaugh's assumption that the US is and always has been a center-right country. This is simply a convenient lie to help the ruling class demoralize the kinds of people who would be opposed to their plans of busting unions, retreating on the gains of the civil rights movement, waging war wherever and whenever, and pushing worker's living standards down to a nice new more profitable level.

The tea-partiers are the fruits of the ruling class offensive that began in the 1970s. The ideas they have are just straight from the Cato institute and other think-tanks via Beck and Rush Limbaugh.

[gorillafuck]

*Jimmie Higgins post*
To add onto this, I work at a survey center and so I call people up and when it comes to political surveys, I never get people who want social security cuts or welfare cuts or attacks on workers rights, regardless of what party they identify with (though a lot of the time, I think to myself "why on earth is this person a republican?"). I can also get people who, say, support the arizona anti-immigrant law or the war in Afghanistan, but then they always still hold the same pro-welfare, pro-childcare, pro-union views that I get most frequently.

[Pretty Flaco]

To add onto this, I work at a survey center and so I call people up and when it comes to political surveys, I never get people who want social security cuts or welfare cuts or attacks on workers rights, regardless of what party they identify with (though a lot of the time, I think to myself "why on earth is this person a republican?"). I can also get people who, say, support the arizona anti-immigrant law or the war in Afghanistan, but then they always still hold the same pro-welfare, pro-childcare, pro-union views that I get most frequently.

I know a lot of people that buy into Republican and Tea Party bullshit because they think the right is "more christian".

[redSHARP]

not that I'm saying the Boston Tea Party was not significant, but it really didn't help the skyrocketing price of tea to dump it into the sea.

but really, what do you imagine is going through the rest of the world's head right now?

actually the tea was relatively cheap, and of all the taxed goods, it was slight even in those days.

[Stephen Colbert]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWs6g3L3fkU

[prochoice-bangbang]

The whole "liberal" thing by today's Republican propagandists and their followers is based on lies and delusions. The top lies to foster and build delusions at the bottom.

The "liberal=Nazi" line isn't being pushed by conservative academia although there are few conservative academics who have uttered even the most minor criticism of the equation. It's being pushed almost entirely by the Republican propaganda machine like the Goldberg's and Beck's, who, of course, are far too intelligent to think it's true and far too dishonest to change what they claiming.

But behind the lot is, I think, an attempt by the Republicans to create a sort of fictional antiideology-ideology, where everybody is just folks and downhome supporting the Constitution and low taxes and opposing them Democrat liberal communist Nazi socialist ACORNer union anarchist Mooslims.