Arkansas Tea Party Member Resigns After Telling This Racially-Charged Joke About ‘Democracy’

Damn those crickets are loud! :)

Right?

The silence is deafening :)

LOL!

I don't by any means speak for the left - but as an Obama supporter - who I classify as a slightly left-leaning centrist (despite the RW'ers labeling of him as a radical socialist marxist...) - my response is: Welcome to our view of several segments/leaders of the tea-party. Glad you could make it. And I hope this doesn't sound condescending. It's not intended to be by any means.

Several of my SH friends have written blogs here over the past few years about how racism is woven into the fabric of several tea party groups. Not all. But several. Most commonly in the former confederate states/Bible Belt. And these groups tend to be the most vocal/militant. With the election of the country's first President of partial African descent - that should come as no surprise to any of us.

The typical response to these blogs from the right was/is of course to deny ANY suggestion that the tea party is racist. That we were simply "race-baiting LWNJ's". I probably don't need to rehash this for you, Tinka. I'm sure you've seen it yourself.

In any case - thank you for taking a stand on this issue. You all are right: for "the real tea party" to emerge as a meaningful third political party - these attitudes will need to be rooted out, or wholly rejected by TP leadership - as you are doing here. Otherwise - the vast majority of the country will be turned off to the party as a whole.

Thanks for responding earnestly :)

Another bright one.

Every group has it's idiots.

But evidently not "every group" calls out their own.

I think you're confused about what a Tea Party is. It's a very loose group. I'll call any idiot out.

So do I - and also the room full of idiots that applaud the one idiot.

It wasn't even a good "racist joke" or funny... 2 fails comedy & politics GMAB

got that right-

True! The GOP has Romney.

And you have...let me see...Alex Jones!

I have Alex Jones? Do I? Sure about that? Don't make things worse with assumption.

I was not talking to you, note who I addressed that to.

Thanks for admitting that Romney is an idiot.

What did you expect? The Tea party was an engineered facade by corporate taskmasters, and corrupt politicians. They wanted to fool you all into electing republicans to congress to block each and every proposal of the President's and then have the public blame him for the lack of action. Thus securing them the power to rob this nation again. The Tea party built upon racial politics, look at their main organizations http://cofcc.org/ The Council of Conservative Citizens. Whom by the way are hailing the election of the grand daughter of the far right french leader who publicly admires of all people Adolf Hitler. The writing has been on the wall and now you are just finding out that us liberals were dead on right about them the whole time.

Where did that come from left field?

far left-

I think it came from "foul territory". We all know how the tea party started. What it has become is a different story.

the corps could ruin heaven...
were they allowed access-

You said a mouthful with that...

many think all i cough up is hairballs-

lol - haaa! Thank you, I needed a laugh ;)

Did you make up all this fantasy yourself just now?

Enjoying your daily Big Brother prescribed two minutes hate?

Looks like Maci's got other issues from the looks of things down there.
(I'm being blocked now.)

The tea party is full of her kind im telling you FULL !

Barack Obama's church is the one FULL of racism.

how so explain? Explain to me the racism that is in Obama's church. I am being serious because i would like to know, what proof do have of this racism and let us discuss it here.

The proof about Rev. Wright's First Church of It's All the White Man's Fault is all over the internet in case you've been living on an island.

Oh really, so he said its all the white mans fault, really i wonder how come they have not played that portion.

Now i do remember him say " has damned America"

No different than Farwel and Roberts along with all the other white evangelical leaders saying god has cursed us because we allow gays, abortion and taking god out of schools. so one black guy says god has damned America" and two white preachers or more has said god has cursed America? You tell me what the difference is, if there is any.

All of them were talking about 911

Yeah, you must have been living on an island somewhere.

December 2007: “Barack knows what it means living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich, white people. Hillary would never know that.”

September 2001: “The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.”

January 2008: “Fact number one: We’ve got more black men in prison than there are in college. … Fact number two: Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run.”

so tell me where any of those statements are false? Was this country not founded upon racism, is there more black men in prison than college, and he is not the only one who thinks the government created aides and not all those people who believe it is black. hell that is one of the first things i heard when i started paying attention to conspiracy nuts.

is this country not controled by rich white men (majority), so if all these statements are true, then what is it exactly you have a problem with and why is it when a white person says these things you dont have a problem with it?

Please explain, because honestly i am having problems with why you would say the man is a racist, when i ahve heard white pastors and ministers of some of the largest churches in this country say far worse things? Or is it because one is black and the rest are white, because honestly you are making no sense. None at all.