I beleive the Tea Party is strongly tied to racism.

No of course not...and the Nazis weren't anti-Semites. They just loved Germany so much they knew that poisoning and shooting six million people was the "only way" to save it.

 

The tea party didn't start out racist nor did it start out with the abject hatred of the President or the Democratic party. But it was hijacked by Fox News, racist elements and the right wing noise machine. It became a sewer of ideas that included birthers, conspiracy nuts and yes some racists. One can tell when an anti-tax grassroots organization was running around with professionally made signs attacking people, not policy that they jumped the shark.

 

What was that organization that David Duke belonged to....before he joined the Tea Party. Had like three identical letters in it?!?!?!?

 

Any large organization has its kooks. "Big tents" can cover a broad spectrum and "big tents" are a necessity in national politics because the name of th game is numbers. The Democrats aren't immune, either. They are shot-through with their own breed of racist.

The difference is that the Democrats have solid racist planks in their core agenda. Race-based preference, for instance. We have discussed it and Affirmative Action is racist on its face. Racist individual Democrats? Maxine Waters, Eric Holder, and Donna Brazile come readily to mind.

The Tea Party may include racist individuals but they are not policy-makers. The Tea Party agenda is clear and simple and not a bit racist: Less spending, less taxation, less government in general. What is racist about that?

 

There are racists in every political group in existence. Only a partisan hack would think otherwise. Continue with the Democrat Party cheerleading act.

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Oh, the same group that Robert Byrd, longest serving Democrat congressman in history, belonged to.

 

White Nationalists are racist by their very definition: they are worried about the White race more than they are about any other group. What is really annoying about White Nationalists is that most of them are negative racists; they blame others and try and denigrate or even dehumanize them.

If a majority of White Nationalists concerned themselves strictly with positive White racism (pride in past accomplishments, trying to preserve White-created Western values, increasing their birth rate, improving public schooling, etcetera) I'd actually have some respect for them. When I think of a typical White Nationalist, I think of some trailer park trash wannabe skinhead with a head full of hate.

 

What does a Tea Party member mean when he/she says "I want my country back"? Of course the Tea Party is a racist organization.

 

I doubt you know any White Nationalists, personally, and are just basing your opinion on your progressive indoctrination. That explains your cartoon charicature level of perspective on the issue, as well as your obvious prejudice and hate.

 

Please see libhater post #25 on this thread. david Duke supporter. Why don't you ask libhater if I am lying about this?

 

Uh oh, is Howard Dean a racist?

 

can I get you again to say how you fake it at Tea Party meetings because Blacks are there? When you shake hands with those Black Tea Party members what do you say? Do you tell them the truth?

 

As if you pay any attention to what liberals are standing up and saying.

"Farrakhan, a notorious racist and anti-Semite" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/abraham-h-foxman/what-russell-simmons-need_b_1631591.html

"Thankfully the media gave up on Farrakhan saying anything remotely intelligent or newsworthy long ago: now if he were only white AND Christian, he would get airplay on Fox!" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/29/louis-farrakhan-gay-marriage_n_1552556.html (user comment)

"During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama unambiguously rejected and repudiated Louis Farrakhan..." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/menachem-rosensaft/arthur-jones-holocaust_b_1312530.html

 

You're right, I don't pay attention to what liberals say. Thanks for proving that.

 

I give up. What do they mean?

 

What in the world are you talking about? What exactly am I faking? Tell them the truth about what? Stop being so vague here.

 

Ethereal is not right of center, though. He's a social liberal and a fiscal free market capitalist.

People just don't like him and they try to get his threads closed. His like-ability factor shouldn't play a part in the complaint gang bang, but it always does.

He's been threatened by posters on here and to my incredible frustration it requires an act of Congress and a few Hogwarts magic spells to have anything done about it.

 

Well, I consider anyone with common sense right of center. We may disagree on the words to describe, but am certain we are on the same page. He's got his political (*)(*)(*)(*) together. So of course liberals will want his threads shut down. And if we were all doing this in the real world, they'd probably want him arrested and given an IRS audit.

 

Rand Paul: Drug war targets minorities

A report released recently by the American Civil Liberties Union revealed that nationally, blacks were four times as likely as whites to be arrested for marijuana possession. It also indicated that these unfortunate numbers were true despite the fact that marijuana use is about the same for both black and white Americans.

Why is this happening? Why the vast disparity?

I spend so much time battling our gargantuan federal government that I can't possibly manage to keep up with all the damage it does, everywhere, every day and in so many countless ways. As former White House adviser David Axelrod said recently in defending Obama over the IRS scandal: "Part of being president is there's so much beneath you that you can't know because the government is so vast."

Interestingly, neither Axelrod nor Obama have ever shown much interest in taming the federal beast. In fact, virtually every solution they offer involves making government bigger. This often leaves the individual American citizen defenseless against a "vast" system that even its greatest champions can't outline, comprehend or be held accountable for.

Black Americans are being imprisoned far more than white Americans for marijuana possession for one primary reason: the federal government subsidizes it.

The New York Times reported: "Federal programs… continue to provide incentives for racial profiling, the report said, by including arrest numbers in its performance measures when distributing hundreds of millions of dollars to local law enforcement each year."

So, federal dollars are awarded to states or precincts that produce the right numbers? This alone is troubling because it incentivizes law enforcement to arrest as many people as it can. But why do black Americans get arrested far more than whites? The Times' continued: "Phillip Atiba Goff, a psychology professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, said that police departments, partly driven by a desire to increase their drug arrest statistics, can concentrate on minority or poorer neighborhoods to meet numerical goals, focusing on low-level offenses that are easier, quicker and cheaper than investigating serious felony crimes."

Professor Goff concludes: "Whenever federal funding agencies encourage law enforcement to meet numerical arrest goals instead of public safety goals, it will likely promote stereotype-based policing and we can expect these sorts of racial gaps."

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and I have co-sponsored legislation that would effectively get rid of mandatory minimum sentencing. Due to mandatory minimums, many non-violent drug offenders have been imprisoned alongside rapists and murderers — often for sentences longer than rapists and murders. Many people's lives have been damaged or ruined for making one mistake, usually while these people are still young and more prone to make mistakes.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/06/24/rand-paul-marijuana-arrests-column/2452259/

 

After listening, I agree with most of what David Duke said in that video. What did he say in that video that you have a problem with? And what did he say in that video that was racist?

 

Yet even more reasons to end the silly "war on drugs". Now as for Axelrod's comments, I don't quite buy into that. I think Barack Obama is a supreme control freak. He wants to control what we drive, how we get our electricity, how we are insured, etc. Axelrod is a hack simply looking to defend his Fuhrer.

 

I don't think Obama even knows what's going on. It was his job to get elected so other people could run the country.

 

Which thus can lead to wrong ideas about strawmen of your own imagining, as opposed to anything real....

 

Get back to me when you have actually produced some evidence. And the nation Of Islam cares only about balck people are they racists as well? What about the congressional Black caucus? Are they racists as well?

Of course there are some racists in the tea party. Just not nearly as many as in the Democratic Party.

 

Are not claims of racism flame bait by their nature?

 

You've got a great issue here. I agree completely that the war on drugs is incredibly harmful, and should be ended.