David Duke For President?

He had me up until the racism tumbled from his mouth on the subject of immigration and Affirmative Action policies. But anyway, good luck should your racist ass decides to run in 2012. As a matter of fact, I really hope you do decide to run and that the media gives you some airtime. I hate to say it, but the reality is that there are some really sick individuals - some of them minorities - who would actually proudly vote for this jerk to be POTUS.

Oh yeah, checkout how he defends the Tea Party against them being labeled racist. One thing of note, he claims Blacks are the real racists because 99% of "us" voted for Barack Obama in 2008. The truth is, 96% and not 99% voted for Obama. But what's a few percentage points, right? The fact remains, the 96% of Blacks who voted for Obama, are just as racist as the 95% who voted for Al Gore and the 93% who voted for John Kerry. Moreover, what's important is him making the point that, “diversity doesn’t bring love and brotherhood; it brings the exact opposite.” So yes, per David Duke, the Tea Party isn't racist.

And well, it takes one to know one, right?

Can a Brother Be Human?

by Eco.Soul.Intellectual

They didn't like me as Superman. Or the President. Or a Black Man. Or a Bi-Partisan. Or a Man of Peace. Or a Man of War.

Liberals say I'm too nice to Tea Baggers. Tea Baggers can't look past a birth certificate. And Independents want their jobs back with interest.

They want me to get the troops out of Iraq, put them in Egypt, and not invade Libya, and let Duvalier vacation in Haiti. Hunh?

Now I wonder how much farther can a brother be stretched.

Even when I'm right, in their eyes, I will always be wrong.

That's the Good Ole American way. Now where the fuck is my Batman Cape?

Jesus Loves the Tea Party; Minorities, Not So Much

Since we are a Christian nation and it's the Easter weekend and all. I figured you'd get a kick out of the following Christian America-loving Tea party patriot in the following clip. I don't have much to say aside from the known fact that Jesus died for our sins, and for the American right to free speech afforded by the constitution per the founding fathers who were in attendance at the last supper.

Even more important to note, is that Jesus loves all the litle children of the world; yes, even the innocent Muslim children killed by U.S. Drone Strikes in Afghanistan and across the border in Pakistan. That's right, Jesus is/was a tough guy; he'd so support water-boarding and torture. But how tough is/was he actually? Dude couldn't even survive one measly cricifixion, while Negroes survived the Middle Passage and Slavery? Oh, he must've been light-skinned. Anyway, God Bless America; and, big ups to this Christian nation of ours.

NPR Execs Slammed For Calling Tea Party "Racist". Why?

No, seriously. Why are they being slammed? I'm not going to get down with the Zionist comment. That's a little too far for me. I mean, whether or not Jews control the media or not is kind of irrelevant and sounds like scare tactics steeped in some kind of anti-semitism at most, fearmongering at least when it's usually brought up. I disagree with Schiller's stance on defunding NPR as well, but the other stuff seems spot on.

Where have these people been the last year or two? While not everyone in the Tea Party is racist, it sure does attract a vast amount of racists. It's no secret that they tend to be right-wing Christian xenophobes who obviously slept through most of their woefully inadequate high school history classes (not to mention just chose to read up on any of that after high school). I've dealt with them before in conversation--thankfully only on the internet. My own husband has disowned a cousin and an uncle for their covertly racist, Tea Party bullshit. The ideology is so thick, that there was no need for them to censor their bullshit at all, even though we have biracial children.

Schiller is seen on a videotape during a luncheon with men who were posing as members of the fictitious Muslim Action Education Center.

Among Schiller's comments: Tea Partiers are "Xenophobic, I mean basically they are; they believe in sort of white, middle-America gun-toting. I mean, it's scary. They're seriously racist, racist people." (Source)

What's the big deal again? I guess we've forgotten last year's attacks on plans to build a mosque a few blocks from where the Twin Towers once stood. The Tea Party were on that like white on rice, using their "America Fuck Yeah" antics and capitalizing on a tragedy to push an agenda that was extremely xenophobic, not to mention Anti-Muslim in many ways.

Did we forget their mania when they thought President Obama would take away their guns? Have we forgotten their right-wing Christian agenda? Why do we have to mind our tongue when we are dealing with a brand of people who are wholly undeserving of that much courtesy? They ARE racist charlatans. Just check the study:

Surveyers asked respondents in California and a half dozen battleground states (like Michigan and Ohio) a series of questions that political scientists typically use to measure racial hostility. On each one, Tea Party backers expressed more resentment than the rest of the population, even when controlling for partisanship and ideology. When read the statement that "if blacks would only try harder, they could be just as well off as whites," 73 percent of the movement's supporters agreed, while only 33 percent of people who disapproved of the Tea Party agreed. Asked if blacks should work their way up "without special favors," as the Irish, Italians, and other groups did, 88 percent of supporters agreed, compared to 56 percent of opponents. The study revealed that Tea Party enthusiasts were also more likely to have negative opinions of Latinos and immigrants.(more here)

I've long since believed that the little snide remarks about the Tea Partiers simply are not enough. They need to be openly discredited and attacked. Someone NEEDS to speak up against them, and they need to tell the truth. I am disheartened that Schiller left, and while I understand NPR doing what they did, when will we have people call a spade a spade? These people have been able to survive largely because they haven't been called out for the troglodytes that they are. This organization has survived this long by bully tactics and fooling the public into believing they aren't venomous vipers hellbent on turning the country back to archaic principles.

So, if they can't say it, I will. The Tea Party IS racist, xenophobic, obsessed with guns and pseudo-Christian to a harmful, unproductive degree.

It is what it is.

White Ain't Right...Or Is It?

By: Johnathan Fields

Isn't it funny how a group that has essentially taken the rhetoric of the Black Panther Party is now totally blinded by the fact their white privilege is operating as they re-color history again?

Are white's racially oppressed? Is that really a question? Do you have any understanding of what oppression is? Oppression is a state of feeling powerless. I'm confused how anyone benefitting from white privilege, in a white supremacist society, can feel powerless?

CNN's article highlights the fears of the Tea Party members, as well as "a large percentage" of whites, that they are becoming the newest racial minority. First, how do you become the "new" racial minority when you are the original racial establishment that set the standard for racial oppression in this country? Secondly, isn't racism and ignorance rooted in fear? So basically, at the root of all your worries they're operating from a place of fear. This type of thinking is the same logic for anti-miscegenation laws-white people will become the minority.

The sad reality is that we have the white right arguing how they are the minority as they benefit from all the privileges their white skins affords like walking down the street without being questioned, driving without being stopped, not going through rigorous series of application processes for jobs, scholarships, education, etc. and being able to visit Arizona. Then on the white left you have people arguing race doesn't matter any more, let's just stop talking about it. So white ain't right, it's everywhere.

White supremacy is rooted in our (in)justice system, our schools, media, relationships. Hell, it's the foundation of our country. Oppression is all about power. I'm really disturbed at how the racial group with all the power wants to cry about how they're losing some. In Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem, Black feminist scholar bell hooks' chapter "Refusing To Be a Victim" discusses why people use victimization as a tactic. She argues how playing the victim makes us "far more likely to receive attention and handouts." In her book Killing Rage: Ending Racism, she has a chapter with the same title: "Refusing To Be a Victim: Accountability and Responsibility". She talks about how some white women played the victim in feminist labor movements, gaining acceptance into the workplace before both Black men and women. Some of this acceptance was also at the hands of exploiting Black folks.

So you see, white people playing the victim is not a new trope in American society. We do this every time we get scared we're going to lose a little bit of our privilege. Any time we see a few people of color beginning to garner white supremacist notions of success, we start to worry. After all, fear is what consumes this country.

As white people continue thinking they are racially oppressed, I hope they recognize how this is all an exercise in their own white privilege. Getting buses, people, resources, etc. together and mobilizing in the nation's capital takes some type of social capital. All of that takes money, time, etc. The reason we haven't seen a movement as great as the March on Washington is because people are afraid. People don't want to sacrifice their time and sometimes can't because they have to work. You can find white people in every power-holding vector of society. Can you say that same for people of color?

White privilege is not only having white skin. It is benefitting from or reinforcing the white supremacist ideals that founded this nation--ideals that endorsed racism, sexism, homophobia, classism, ableism, etc. It is having enough ignorance to be able to skip over the realities of this country without paying full attention to the context in which you're speaking. Is white right? No, white is left too. And from the looks of it, some white ain't right...in the head.

Johnathan Fields is a DePaul University alum with a B.A. in African & Black Diaspora Studies and Philosophy. His areas of interest include: media representations of race, gender, and sexuality in popular culture, Black feminist theory, Diasporic literature and critical race theory. He is also the latest addition to this site's family of contributors. For more information, visit www.adventuresofaboxcutter.com.

Tea Party Turning Back the Clock to the "Good Ole Days" of Segregated Schools

by JuJuBe (Joanna)

Well the Tea Party has been crying out about "Taking our country back!" recently. They seem to want a return to the (not so) "Good Ole Days" when "those people" knew their place. And, they have been successful in their attempt to turn back the clock in the Wake County School District in North Carolina. Yes, they have won their battle to re-segregate a school district that had one of the most successful economic integration programs in the country.

RALEIGH, N.C. - The sprawling Wake County School District has long been a rarity. Some of its best, most diverse schools are in the poorest sections of this capital city. And its suburban schools, rather than being exclusive enclaves, include children whose parents cannot afford a house in the neighborhood.

But over the past year, a new majority-Republican school board backed by national tea party conservatives has set the district on a strikingly different course. Pledging to "say no to the social engineers!" it has abolished the policy behind one of the nation's most celebrated integration efforts.

And as the board moves toward a system in which students attend neighborhood schools, some members are embracing the provocative idea that concentrating poor children, who are usually minorities, in a few schools could have merits - logic that critics are blasting as a 21st-century case for segregation.

Source

John Tedesco, one of the new school board members and a staunch opponent of the integration policy has made the outrageous claim that segregated schools BENEFIT the children who attend. "If we had a school that was, like, 80 percent high-poverty, the public would see the challenges, the need to make it successful," he said. "Right now, we have diluted the problem, so we can ignore it."

Did You Miss Me? Well, I'm Back

by Eco.Soul.Intellectual

Please forgive my month-long absence. Life happened and I had to fall in it. I got married and I passed my comprehensive exams to finish the last portion of my PhD. And I am playing the wonderful game of catch up. You know, catch up on bills, school, work and sleep.

Yes, I's married now. Yup, that's me about to bawl outta my mind!

I know I've missed all the tantalizing, wonderful messes and miracles that have been going on these past 30-plus days, but other bloggers have explored them in such elegance. But still, let me add my 37 cents...

It is very perplexing that the China-backed North Korea can fire missiles up South Korea's arse, and get off with gentle slaps on the wrists and proclamations of "further investigations" to quell the global outcry for world forces stop a pending war.

The especially mum United States has turned the other cheek, and I don't mean the facial cheeks. Due to its clenched buttocks bent down in the direction of China, the US is experiencing a "pimps up, hoes down" moment because China has the US monetary system, thus the economy by the balls and ass.

Oh and don't forget the current trials regarding the manipulation of gold markets. Or the refusal of trading in US dollars in the East. Long story, another blog on another day.

Allen West: DC Residents Not Suffering with Unemployment or Foreclosures

You know, I'm really gonna miss Michael Steele once he's gone in January. However, I'm kinda glad that there's a new Negro in town in Washington DC. Yes, Allan West is his name, and yes, as I've mentioned before, he is truly the symbol of our arrival at a blissful post-racial utopia in Amuur'cuh.

As I do almost every week, I wanted to use him the centerpiece for my slave-catcher of the week award. But I decided against it because, him being a black republican having won a seat in Congress on the Tea Party ticket means that Amuur'cuhs are not hung up on race anymore; yes, Jim Crow is dead.

So even though I heard him say some things that are slave-catcher-like on yesterday's Meet The Press with David Gregory, I decided to change my ways.

Obviously we've entered a new era in racial politics so I figured, well, maybe I'll give the brotha a chance since he might know more than I do. So here he is advocating for the permanent extension of the Bush Tax Cuts yesterday, and said something that has left a profound and indelible mark:

Noam Chomsky on Post-Midterm America: "Democrats are barely what moderate Republicans were 30, 40 years ago."

Heralded as the most quoted living thinker, Noam Chomsky is one my favorite scholars. In the following he makes a great point, that the Liberal-Conservative divide in our country is no more than an illusion in the minds of ordinary Americans. Yes, politically we tend to think left, right, and center. However, in effect they're all one in the same with little distinction; more importantly, both parties have shifted to the right.


Here's an excerpt from the above interview via The Real News Network:

I would drop the term left, 'cause, I mean, what is called the left in the media is what used to be called moderate Republicans. The so-called new Democrats are barely—they're essentially what moderate Republicans were 30, 40 years ago. The Republicans are just brashly and openly the party of private power, private tyranny. They—I mean, they talk about we're the common man and elites, but so does everyone. But if you look at the policies, that's what it is. Take, say, Obama. I mean, the core of his funding in the 2000 [sic] election was actually financial institutions. And when groups of investors get together to control the state—what we call an election—they expect to be paid back. And they were.

[...] Well, you know, I think the term stimulus has been turned into a dirty word, like taxes. But if there was real discussion about this, public discussion about it, I think most of the population would probably agree with leading economists, Nobel laureates, who say what we need is a big stimulus. Deficit reduction down the road, maybe. But we didn't have a stimulus. I mean, if you take a look at the Obama stimulus, I mean, contrary to tons of lies about it, there's good objective evidence that it did save maybe a couple of million jobs. However, it was a very small stimulus, and it was wiped out by cutbacks in government spending at other levels. So the stimulus was actually more or less the same as the cutback in state and local spending. So that means there was stimulus.

[...] for roughly 35, 30 years, a little more, wages for the majority, real wages, have pretty much stagnated, working hours have increased. People have been getting by by having two adults working, or women in the workforce at lower wages, and by debt, and by asset inflation, like, say, the housing bubble. Well, that's just not viable. And meanwhile these same people see that there's plenty of wealth around, but it's going into very few pockets. I mean, the top maybe 1 percent or even one-tenth of 1 percent of the population have been making out like bandits. And so we now have this incredible inequality, maybe back to the '20s, or maybe even a record. And this is part of people's consciousness. I'm working harder. Things are getting worse. I'm working more hours. Benefits which were never very good have declined. Meanwhile, other people are getting very rich. Something's wrong. Give me an answer. They were right to ask for an answer. They're not going to get it from the Democrats, the people who are called the left, because they are the ones who have been denying and implementing policies. They're not going to say, yeah, that's true; that's what happens when we participated in the huge growth of the financial sector, which is of dubious significance for the economy, may be harmful, largely; we did that, and we assisted the policy of hollowing out production, which is a policy of setting working people in competition with each other throughout the world. So what we call our trade policies—a bad term for it. Certainly not free-trade policies. What are called free-trade policies are essentially a program setting working people against each other throughout the world, but protecting the privileged people. So, for example, we don't allow foreign doctors and lawyers and economists and others to practice here. There's all kind of barriers to it.

Barbara Bush on Sarah Palin: "I Hope She'll Stay in Alaska." [VIDEO]

Uh-huh, or in other words, "bitch, sit'cho stupid ass down somewhere." Yep, did ya get that Mama Grizzly? Hopefully you listen and listen well because obviously you're an embarrassment to the GOP establishment.

And just in case Palin might wanna get slick with Mama Bush (like she did with Michelle Obama). Just remember, Barbara keeps a dead fetus is a glass jar on her nightstand; yep, she may not have a problem bussin' a cap in Palin's ass! Shoot, ya think she got old and wrinkled-looking by being nice all her life?

This from an upcoming interview on Larry King Live airing on Monday night:

Pastor James David Manning: "Sarah Palin is a Hardcore Closet Racist" [VIDEO]

I don't know what type of Jedi Mind Trick, Pastor David Manning is pulling. But I'm really at a loss for words that my favorite slave catcher has been this forthcoming with his feelings on Sarah Palin. A hardcore closet racist? Sarah Palin? This from the most slave catching-est slave catcher in America? Really??

OK, so now he says all of this after the GOP/Tea Party has been victorious in last weeks elections? Lemme guess, someone over at "Massa Charlie Inc." has informed him that his services will no longer be needed; yeah, I'm sensing that his last check bounced, and well, obviously, he's just a tad bit upset... and black again?

Sorry Pastor Manning, don't be mad 'cuz Sarah Palin dissed you over the heat you got making Ann Coulter's tweet a "favorite" of yours on Twitter [click to read tweet and see pic]. A tweet that included a TwitPic of a sign outside of Pastor Manning's church that said: "The blood of Jesus against Obama History made 4 Nov 2008 a Taliban Muslim illegally elected President USA: Hussein."

I gotta give it to him, he brought the pain as he skillfully intertwined his usual bullshit; what, can't expect him to change spots overnight; once a slave catcher always a slave catcher. However, what he said about Palin was spot on, as far as her obvious support of racism, and her refusal to acknowledge even her black shadow... or Pastor Manning and his Church of Slave Catchers in Christ.

So yeah Sarah, Manning is right; you are a closet racist... oops, a hardcore closet racist. And I'm willing to bet that had she not been put on blast, she would have kept that tweet in her favorites. And as per usual, she would not be forced to blame the media anyone for her "mistake" as she's known to do oh so often.

(H/T We Are Respectable Negroes)

GUEST BLOGGER: You Big Dummy: How Black Folks Gave GOP the Nation

by Dr. Torrance Stephens


Imagine this; Fred Sanford is at home, sitting down listening to the election returns from around the nation on his radio from NPR. Well not really, imagine me at home in the bed listening to the national election results on the radio, after all that’s what amounted for my entertainment last night. All I could say to myself, upon return upon return were Mr. Sanford’s legendary description of his son Lamont “you big dummy.”

It seemed to fit the evening correctly, both in terms of describing the democrats and the Obama administration and the fools who voted the GOP in office around the country by a historic level. In fact not since 1948, when Truman was president have we seen such a large take over of the house by one party. We know what happened nationally, now in the US House of representatives the GOP controls 239 seats, a pick up of 60 and also added 10 gubernatorial seats that they swiped from democrats

But even more troubling is what occurred on the state levels. In Georgia for example, the second Republican governor was elected in a row since 2002. Prior to this Georgia had not had a Republican Governor since Reconstruction. And for your history Buffs that is since Benjamin Conley in 1872, who ironically was one of the persons who assisted in promoting harsh resolutions condemning the state's failure to comply with the Reconstruction Acts of Congress in the organization of the General Assembly in an effort to reseat the colored members, kicked out by democrats:“A former Whig, Conley had opposed secession and retired to his plantation near Montgomery, Alabama, for the duration of the war. On his return to Georgia after the surrender it was natural for him to join the Republicans and to support the congressional plan for Reconstruction.”

But back to my point. In the state house the won 17 seats giving republicans 107 of the 180 seats and in the senate the control 37 of the 56 district senate seats.

Now what caused this? I don’t listen to pundits but I have my own developed postulate on the outcome. Now unlike many I don’t credit this too the Tea (Taxed enough Already) party, and don’t understand how folk, especially black folk can suggest such when they likely don’t even know what the acronym stand for or their beliefs, albeit most of which are rooted in agoraphobic based nativism. But I can say first and foremost is President Obama.

The American Voter: Short on Memory, Full of Fear, & Long on Stupid

Frankly, I'm tired of all the prognosticators with their "this Republican tsunami is a message to President Barack Obama that he's a failure." Wanna know the truth? The only message being sent is that some Americans have short memories, and are downright foolish. But hey, when you listen to oxygen thieves like Sarah Palin, what else is to be expected? But no, polls indicate that "certain folks" are fed up.

OK, so for many, they see Obama's policies as being the epic height of fiscal irresponsibility. And sure, Barack Obama and the Democrats are bad for the country, but are the Republicans any better? Can anyone including the man on Main Street convince me that yes they will better than what we have now?

I'm only asking because, well, according to Main Street, Obama & Co. should have had all sidewalks paved with gold by now; yeah, 18mths is more than enough time. Not hardly a small feat for a Magic Negro, right?

Al Reynolds, Crack Babies, & Single Black Mothers [#NWNW]

Do you guys remember those crack babies of the 1980s we heard so much about back then. You know, that new subhuman species of black folks born into addiction to cocaine, and destined to be the scourge and destruction of society as we know it? Yep, remember them now?

They even became a running joke!

Have you ever wonder what happened to them? Surely you have because obviously everything wrong in society or the black community can be attributed to their existence, right? As destructive as crack was to the black community in the 1980s, one can only imagine just how they're all grown and running wild, right?

Now consider this for a second: Nobody ever talks about crack as a "problem" anymore. Yep, Nino Brown is dead, and I'm pretty sure the infamous "Carter Houses" now exist in a high-rent district as a result of urban gentrification. But today the scourge of the day is meth, but yet we never hear about "meth babies", do we?

Tea Party Nation: Don't Vote for Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), He's a Muslim

Earlier this year I had the opportunity to speak to my local representative Steve Cohen (D-TN.) at one of his town hall meetings. We spoke about issue number one at that time then as is now, which would be, jobs.

He informed me that he had sponsored a bill in the House that supports funding for jobs, as well as, co-signed on to a bill introduced by Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN.) that also targeted jobs in urban communities [read it here].

Well, from what I'm hearing, Tea Party folks in Ellison's district aren't too happy with him. Yes, it would appear that they don't have a jobs problem; evidently unemployment isn't a problem there in the land of 1000 lakes.

I mean, anytime they send out emails urging voters to vote for the Tea Party candidate not Ellison because he's a Muslim and 'supports' terrorists. Obviously they're not concerned about the economic welfare of their residents.

But hey, can't have terrorists purifying themselves in Lake Minnetonka like Appolonia. So I suppose the best way to ensure victory for your Tea Party candidate, Lynn Torgerson, is to send out an email chock full with the tried and true fear-mongering, by having them believe that Ellison is, well, check it out via ThinkProgress:

Kentucky Tea Party Anthem: "If You Don't Give A Damn, We Don't Give A F@%k!" - Left Wing Activist, Lauren Valle Gets Stomped Out by Rand Paul Supporters

With midterm elections exactly one week away, to say things are getting kinda hectic would be an understatement. Case in point: the horrible assault of MoveOn.org activist Lauren Valle outside of the Rand Paul-Jack Conway debate in Lexington, Kentucky last night (watch video at the end of this post).

Apparently in Kentucky there's a new dance called the "Rand Paul Stomp". Yeah, a more Caucasian/Tea Party friendly, Kirk Franklin approved version of the "A-Town Stomp" I suppose. Apparently getting crunk in the club or gettin' stomped in the club is not only a act exclusive to Atlanta rappers like Lil Scrappy.

This via TPM:

As the candidates arrived, a group of Paul supporters pulled a female MoveOn member to the ground and held her there as another Paul supporter stomped on the back of her head and neck.

According to the Louisville Courier Journal, "Lauren Valle of MoveOn.org approached Paul and tried to give him an "employee of the month award" from Republicorp...a fake business MoveOn created to symbolize what it says is the merger of the GOP and business interests controlling political speech."

Now, I'm gonna say that it probably wasn't a good idea to attempt to run up on Paul and give him the "employee of the month award" from Republicorp the way she did. But, even so, there's no excuse for the treatment she received at the hands of Rand Paul's Tea Party Secret Service employees supporters.

To Paul and company I suppose this is no big deal given his response to it on Fox where he dismissed the attack because she got what she deserved. But to me, this is yet another example of just how despicable members of the Tea Party actually are; and it's appalling that arrests have yet to be made.

Oh well, "Don't Start No Shit, Won't Be No Shit," isn't just a Black thing, I suppose. Who knew the Tea Party had so much in common with grimmey Atlanta rappers. One thing's for sure, I doubt they'd be quick to run up on a brotha with that shit. But then again, this is the Tea Party, and they're not racist.

Speaking of which (yes I gotta throw down a race race card) can you imagine black people at an Obama rally getting away with some shit like this were the victim a fun loving Tea Party activist?

Texas Tea Party Group, King Street Patriots, Under Investigation for Voter Intimidation

So this week the NAACP released the results of a recent study which links the Tea Party to several racist orgs and groups in America. Just like I mentioned in that post this week, I expected the information to be met with skepticism, and downright idiocy by some of the people I expected to comment on it (read: wing-nut trolls).

So anyway, not that I'm working overtime trying to prove Tea Party racism because, well, it just doesn't exist. But I'd be remiss if I didn't bring to you my dear right-wing nutjob internet trolls readers, this story out of Houston, Texas, which involves a local Tea Party faction and their acts of intimidation related to voter registration via TPM:

A group trying to register voters in Houston received threats and emails containing racist slurs after being targeted by a local tea party group accusing it of "voter fraud."

In emails obtained by TPM, the group Houston Votes was accused of being "a bunch of white guilt ridden assholes, NIGGERS and greasy mexican spics," "fraudulent Marxist pigs," and "American hating A-holes."

"We received a couple of threats and several harassing e-mails," Maureen Haver of Houston Voters told TPMMuckraker. "There have been several efforts, I think, just trying to race-bait and stir racial tension and part of that I think is just based on what we've received in messaging from them."

"It's really had a chilling effect on our office," said Haver, adding that one of the e-mails was reported to the FBI.

Now of course this is no indication that the entire Tea Party is hell bent on bringing back slavery and Jim Crow laws should they "get their country back." But as the recent NAACP report (and all the anti-Tea Party posts on this site) pointed out, there is no denying that racist groups and orgs feeds and fuels the Tea Party.

NAACP Backed Report Links Tea Party to Militia & Racist Groups

With less than two weeks before the 2010 midterm elections, the NAACP today released a report compiled by the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights. Titled 'Tea Party Nationalism', the report analyzes the six factions that make up what is known aand exists under the umbrella of the Tea Party. In the report, links to various white supremacist groups, anti-immigrant organizations, and militias.

Its findings cite that members of groups such as the Council of Conservative Citizens, which opposes all efforts to "mix the races of mankind," have become involved in tea party chapters, and that posters on the online white nationalist Web site Stormfront.org have written of "inflitrating" tea party events.

The report was issued by the Kansas City, Mo.-based Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights, which is funded, in part, by the liberal Firedoll Foundation. The paper was authored by Devin Burghart and Leonard Zeskind, both of whom have written widely about white nationalism.

The more formalized and politically active tea party organizations have made statements repudiating racism; the report focuses primarily on the more diffusely affiliated tea party networks online and in county-level chapters throughout the country. It also singles out five members of various tea party groups, one of whom has been expelled from the movement, as having ties to anti-Semitic, militia or white nationalist groups.

One person highlighted in the report is Roan Garcia-Quintana, a member of ResistNet who served as media spokesman for a 2010 Tax Day Tea Party in South Carolina and is running for state Senate. He has also been active with the Council of Conservative Citizens.  (source)

Now of course much of this has been covered and discussed on this site. But I'm just a blogger, and obviously easily dismissed as yet another leftist loon by many who visit this site. I suspect the same sentiment would be easily developed by some after watching the following interview with NAACP President Ben Jealous, and co-author of the report, Leonard Zeskind with Amy Goodman of the program Democracy NOW!

Allen West: Not Your Typical Tea Party Candidate; He's Down With Crime

I hate to be stereotypical, but when it comes to black republicans they're almost one in the same. I mean you see one black republican and you've seen them all, right? You know, the usual nose in the air, and tightly clenched butt cheek as they navigate their created altered reality which doesn't include one drop of racism? You know, because all men are created equal, and of the color of their skin is never a problem within the meritocracy?

Well, in an attempt to dispel racial stereotypes, in steps Republican nominee for congress, Allen West. Now looking an West pictured above, he looks to be a natural jig master as are pretty much all black republican political hopefuls, and or elite (read: Michael Steele). But, as the old saying "never judge a sellout by his skin color," comes some very damaging info about this darling of the Tea Party down in Florida's 22nd District.

According to an NBC news report, West has close ties to a well known biker gang. And no, we're not talking the Hell's Angels, but instead Outlaws Motorcycle [website]. I've never heard of them before, but apparently they're well known across the nation. Enough so to be the target of an FBI investigation for their involvement in racketeering, "violent crimes", and "attempted murder". You know, good company for any politician.

This from NBC's Lisa Meyers:

Carl Paladino: New York Republican Governor Hopeful & Bestiality Porn Lover

by Joanna (JuJuBe)

Ok, so my first introduction to Carl Paladino was when I read about his wonderful idea of transforming New York prisons into poor houses training centers for welfare recipients. He is an ultra conservative millionaire businessman. He is a Tea Party backed candidate. He is now the official Republican candidate for governor of NY. He is quite an interesting choice for a party that claims to have a lock on morality and virtues.

Not surprisingly, given the recent Republican party shenanigans, their new candidate for governor has been proven to be a racist. His email history was included messages he had forwarded of a blatantly bigoted nature. One showed a group of Black men in front of an approaching plane and read "Run ni%@a, run". Another portrayed Michelle and Barack Obama dressed as a pimp and a ho. Yet another showed an African tribal dance, and was labeled "Obama Inauguration Rehearsal".

Other emails were sexist and just down right perverted. One contained a video labeled "Miss France 2008 Fu#@ing", while others featured nude women. And the kicker? He sent out a video of a horse having sex with a woman. Ah, yes, family values. The moral high ground. The Republicans sure have a lock on those, as evidenced as their choice of candidates. (Oh, and did I mention the party that tried to impeach Clinton for getting a blow job just nominated a candidate for governor who has a child from an extramarital affair?)


As for the issues? Carl Paladino has stated that the "Ground Zero mosque" is a "symbol of conquest" and says he will use laws of eminent domain to prevent the Islamic Center from being built. He has stated that global warming is a "farce". He has vowed to completely shut down the state government if the budget is late.

Now, luckily, NY tends to be a heavily Democratic state, so Paladino has virtually no chance of actually becoming the governor. But how scary is it that people would actually cast a vote at all for a man like this??