Black Tea Party Members Say Racism? What Racism?
As a black conservative and member of the Tea Party, Deneen Borelli (pictured above) says she's been called an "oreo" and an "Uncle Tom."
At a Washington DC press conference on Wednesday, several African American individuals identifying themselves as members of the conservative Tea Party movement gathered to defend the Tea Party against accusations of racism according to AOL’s Black Voices.
Clearing the air for the rest of us—black and white, these folks dismissed the racist letter written by Tea Party Express leader Mark Williams and various racist billboards, picket signs and disparaging imagery of blacks as coming from “outsiders who infiltrated the the groups to discredit their work.”
“These people do not oppose Barack Obama because of his skin color. They oppose him because of his policies,” said Lloyd Marcus, a spokesman for the group. Then the attacks on the NAACP started.
Speakers described the NAACP as irrelevant and silent on the issues most important to African-Americans. The group is trying to scare blacks into supporting Democrats, charged Niger Innis, spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality, saying the NAACP “racial terror” tactic was borrowed from the Ku Klux Klan.
“The same terror that was employed by whites in hoods is now being employed by blacks and whites in suits,” Innis said.
Alfonzo Rachel, a commentator for the conservative PJTV website, said the NAACP was made up of the “same kind of people who would rat out a runaway slave.”
“What America does not realize is that we don’t have two parties anymore. We have ideologies. We have socialism, and we have liberalism. We have unrighteousness; we have anti-God policies; we have ‘Destroy America.’ That’s what the D is for in Democrat Party,” said Mary Baker, founder of Conservative Moms for America.
Here’s a CNN video of the group dispelling any racism amid Tea Partyers:
Thing is, all one has to do is go to Google images and type “Tea party rally.” Page one should do the trick. It’s laughable that anyone let alone blacks would try to argue that the Tea Party isn’t racist. At least break down and acknowledge that a segment of the group is for credibility sake.
By the way, did anybody catch Glen Beck’s special on Black Conservatives? This should help clear away any notion that black conservatives are a tiny minority in the black community. They’re not. Beck’s special is in three parts. Part 1 is the big video below. Parts 2 and 3 are the little videos at the bottom. Just click on them to watch when you’re done with part 1:
Black Voices: Black Tea Party Members Dispute Racist Claims
For more reading on black conservatives check out the following link:
Tags: African American community, racism, Tea Party
News | Derrick Mathis August 6, 2010
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