The American Left Just Loves Black Tea Party Members
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 8:46AM The Leftists in this country are working overtime to discredit the Tea Party movement as racist and devoid of color. However, contrary to what the MSM will tell you, there are plenty of African-Americans participating and many of them have had to endure racists slurs from our friends on the tolerant left. This from the AP:
They've been called Oreos, traitors and Uncle Toms, and are used to having to defend their values. Now black conservatives are really taking heat for their involvement in the mostly white Tea Party movement—and for having the audacity to oppose the policies of the nation's first black president.
"I've been told I hate myself. I've been called an Uncle Tom. I've been told I'm a spook at the door," said Timothy F. Johnson, chairman of the Frederick Douglass Foundation, a group of black conservatives who support free market principles and limited government.
"Black Republicans find themselves always having to prove who they are. Because the assumption is the Republican Party is for whites and the Democratic Party is for blacks," he said.
Johnson and other black conservatives say they were drawn to the Tea Party movement because of what they consider its commonsense fiscal values of controlled spending, less taxes and smaller government. The fact that they're black—or that most tea partyers are white—should have nothing to do with it, they say.
You have to be honest and true to yourself. What am I supposed to do, vote Democratic just to be popular? Just to fit in?" asked Clifton Bazar, a 45-year-old New Jersey freelance photographer and conservative blogger.
Opponents have branded the Tea Party as a group of racists hiding behind economic concerns—and reports that some tea partyers were lobbing racist slurs at black congressmen during last month's heated health care vote give them ammunition.
But these black conservatives don't consider racism representative of the movement as a whole—or race a reason to support it.
Reader Comments (3)
What a surprise. The hypocritical left attacking black Americans for utilizing their right to free speech. The propaganda machine rolls on.
Journalism is dead. I wonder what these propagandist say their story meetings. "Hey, the Tea Party is getting a foothold. Go write a story that will make them sound like kooks and put doubt in the heads of independent voters."
YES. We need black conservatives in large numbers.