Okay, we all know in here that DennisDee is an ignorant racist, cannot be denied. For him, it is not enough proof that people show up at tea party rallies with racist signs depicting President Obama as a witch doctor or a jungle savage, congress as slave owners and taxpayers as slaves. Or the facts that black members of congress had racial epithets hurled at them and were spit on at a tea party rally.
If that is not enough proof for him, or for other tea party pundits in this forum, there are real scientific studies. A survey by the University of Washington Institute for the Study of Ethnicity, Race & Sexuality found that members of the tea party are 25% more likely of being racially resentful that those who are not tea party supporters. In another poll conducted by the New York Times/CBS News survey found that white tea party supporters were more likely to believe that "the Obama administration favors blacks over whites" and that "too much has been made of the problems facing black people."
So with this information, why does this imbecilic teabagger DennisDee debate the issue? The right wing media, i.e. Fox News, and the tea party themselves continue to laugh at the idea that there party is racist. Think Progress, Media Matters, and New Left Media created a site TeaPartyTracker.org to monitor racism at Tea Party events. This has got the lunatic fringe Teapublicans all upset. They claim that people who are not teabaggers show up at their rallies with racist signs and they dont have any control over that (what a blatant lie). If that is so, why weren't the outside agitators at these rallies called out and their racism repudiated? Because teabaggers are liars!
The outspoken tea party is strangely silent when it could have a chance to change some members minds. After many examples of racism, the Tea Party Federation did make a statement a few years back (2010) about racism, but racism continues to show up in this 'movement'. It took McCain too long, but he eventually spoke up at one his rallies when he was running against Obama and strongly stated that he will not tolerate racism. The teabaggers could do the same thing. Not just a single weak statement - but the speakers at rallies need to call out these 'invading' racists in the crowd when they see it. They choose not to, therefore their silence about racism shouts their acceptance of the vile ignorant practice.
Racism is not just about the overt signs or use of the N word. There is another form of racism in the tea party. The majority of tea party members hate President Obama. Why? Because he may be Muslim? He may not have been born in the United States? I ask you, would these rumors plague a white guy? [I say emphatically NO! There are numerous reports about teabaggers supporting Ted Cruz, who was actually not born in the United States - as opposed to the blatant racist lie by Teapublicans that President Obama was born in Kenya ] The fact remains that the birthers out there are proven racists.
Before the whole Islamophobia took it out of the spotlight, race relations were hitting a new low in the United States. People thought electing a black president would improve our race relations but instead it just made some white people act stupider. Fox News stories continue to have made up scary black people (I recall ACORN, Shirley Sherrod and the New Black Panthers).
The premise by these racists is - now that there is a president who is not white, watch out whiteys, black people are going to take over the country. It is sad and ridiculous. The tea party and other bat-sh*t crazy conservative groups have always operated on fear tactics. However, they are refining their bigotry today in a small box - they now specifically racially attack Muslims, Black Americans, and Mexican Americans.
We continue to see them alienating themselves form real Americans, making their movement impotent.
Teabaggers are desperately afraid of people of color as well as losing power when they are a 'minority in America, they desperately try to make it seem like everyone else is really bad and scary - when we know these lunatics are the real scary ones. Of course teabaggers like DennisDee are racists. But, he and his ilk refuse to realize it. They deny that their fear of President Obama is based on the color of his skin.
You can make signs against Obamas policies if you want. But, when teabaggers create signs depicting President Obama as a monkey, they are just proving everyone else right.
kvdon wrote:
I think you picked the perfect quote...seems he was talking directly about you!
the most posts with the least substance and also sprinkled with bigotry and invective! Yes, the show fits very well!