The man who played God on film is telling it like it is. Racists and racism pervade the Tea Party. http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44648555/ns/today-entertainment/
He's an actor, not a God. I'm glad that I don't hold entertainer's stupidity against them. Freeman is a great actor. (stupid views, but great actor) The whole Tea party=racist myth is just widespread slander in order to try to discredit them. Are there racists in the Tea Party? Probably. There are also racists in the Republican party, the Libertarian Party and the Democratic party.
Remarks by Freeman give us all the more reason to teach our children to learn from books and not to listen to washed up Hollywood actors who almost always have an anti American/socialist/marxist ideology following them wherever they go. While I like the guy's acting (especially in 'Shawshank Redemption'), I wouldn't give his political views any more credence then I would give a full frontal disenfecting bath to a Michael Moore or a Jeanie Garafolo. None of these people are too deep with the thinking process, if you know what I mean.
Conservatives need to fight this racism charge by howling about affirmative action. Go on the offense on the race issue. Point out that AA is double racism since it persecutes whites in the belief that blacks are too dumb to make it on ability.
This makes the same mistake as many others do related to matters of race. It stereotypes and typically all stereotypes are false. Studies going back to last year do indicate that member of the Tea Party have a 25% more likelihood of being racists than the general public but that obviously does not represent the majority of Tea Party advocates. http://www.oliverwillis.com/2010/04/27/study-tea-party-members-more-racist-than-average-americans/ We also have compelling evidence of this racism by some Tea Party groups. http://www.oliverwillis.com/2010/10...er-registration-by-(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)s-*****/ There is also significant evidence that shows that a percentage of Tea Party followers are also members of extremist Christian religious groups but once again this represents a minority of Tea Party followers. In all of these cases it relates to a minority of Tea Party followers and I, while I don't support the Tea Party agenda, I will side with those that state they aren't racists or members of extremist Christian religious group. Those followers of the Tea Party represent the majority and not the minority.
HAHAHA. Studies prove racism!!!??? Now that's silly. Hell - these crazy liberals call it racism when someone is in fact anti-racist as when they oppose affirmative action. Charges of racism nowadays are just another way of saying "i hate you".
I'm a member of a Tea Party faction, and as of yet I have not seen or heard of one racist among its membership.
I would say that this is representative of the majority of Tea Party followers. Obviously there are some racists as they were evident in news storys prior to the 2010 elections at town hall meetings but remember that the news media over-plays this. Given a Town Hall meeting where the Tea Party showed up and everything was cool the media won't show that when they have other footage of two or three racists showing up at another meeting. There is a lot of distortion in the news because of this fact. Once again I don't support the Tea Party as I find too many flaws in their agenda but the claims that the Tea Party is racist is a gross exaggeration. There are some racists, and the statistics show racism is 25% more likely, that doesn't imply that the Tea Party is generally racist.
True it does not. HOWEVER...it does prove that this abortion of a political movement ATTRACTS RACISTS more than the Democrats or main-stream Republicans! And some haters among us lead the pack...
I wouldn't call the Tea Party an "abortion of a political movement" just like I wouldn't call those protesting "corporate greed" on Wall Street an abortion of a political movement. Misguided perhaps but it is often extreme political opinions that ultimately lead to very positive changes over time. Then again sometimes they lead to negative changes as well. The Tea Party does have one valid argument in that the US government is spending too much money. From there on it reflects hypocracy by only targeting government spending that it politically opposes as opposed to all excessive spending. Paul Rand, a Tea Party favorite, is an example of this hypocracy in targeting specific cuts related to social programs while completely ignoring other excessive spending related to wars of US imperialism in the Middle East. We might not be able to afford all of our social programs but by the same token we certainly can't afford to be the World Cop. Where we also see a problem is with some of it's most visable public figures such as Michelle Bachmann who signed a pledge that implied that African-American children were better off being raised as slaves. The pledge didn't explicitly state that but it did imply it and that was certainly a racist position. Michelle Bachmann is not an overt racist but she's certainly racially insensitive. Rick Perry, with the name of his hunting camp, also shows complere racial insensitivity. Once agian he's not an overt racist but there are racial undertones to his actions.
Buzz, please explain what makes the tea party an "abortion of a political movement". Shiva, the tea party is not extreme, and it is not racist. The whole idea of the tea party being in the same universe as racist comes from the media who will do anything to discredit non-liberal viewpoints. Why don't you take us back to last years "racist" tea party moments. Then compare that to the mainstream onslaught of left wing racism card that gets put out every other day.
As my previous posts have clearly stated I don't believe that overall the Tea Party is racist although there are unquestionably racists that have been a part of it from the beginning. They are a small minority and as the study I posted indicated only 25% of "Tea Party" members are more likely to be racists than the average American. That does not reflect the general Tea Party perspective which is why many supporters of the Tea Party rightfully object to being classified as racists. They're generally not and people need to accept that fact. As for extreme that is merely a matter of opinion. Many hold the same views as the former Project for a New American Century which was basically the foundation of the NeoCons. I would call the NeoCons extremists. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century
Like we didn't know. The entire ********** meme about how the gummit forced banks to make loans to "unqualified people", is just code talk by baggers for "black people".
Yep, our local tea party dinners at the local Mexican restaurant in town proves their charges of racism.....lol. I can't believe people are so misguided on this.
Of course the tea party is racist, just look at this picture: Oh...um, wait, bad example. Nevermind. But, of course we know for a fact that every liberal organisation is very diverse. Nevermind.
I used to respect Morgan Freeman. Now that respect is totally lost. I no longer consider him a serious person. He is just another idiot actor.
This is how propaganda works through MSM. Somebody with notoriety expresses something that may have a small smidgen of truth... something that many want to believe, then like wildfire the idea travels through television, radio, internet, and finally at the water cooler etc. The seeds are planted, then proponents go about blindly parroting the idea.
25% more likely? wow. So if the tea party is 25% more likely to be racist, and the tea party is demographicly similar to the population as a whole (gallup 2010) and if 12ish% of blacks and 13ish% of whites admit to being racist (CNN/Opinion Research Corp. 2006), what percent of the tea party does that make racist? what is that 37-40% of the tea party?
