First, thank you for posting and your restraint. Well done. I disagree with you on one point:
[I didn’t see anything racist, and I’m not surprised. Lefty that I am, I’m at least able to distinguish a political movement from a racist one. A few people made it a point of announcing it isn’t about race:]
I'm not racist, some of my best friends are black people. I live in an integrated community, a black family moved in down the street last year...
Just because you don't see overt racism doesn't mean that the movement is not largely motivated by racism. To wit: why have these people not bothered to find out that their characterization of Obama is completely false? It cannot be because he is a Democrat; the tea partiers claim to be non-partisan. Hmm what other motivation could there be? Perhaps because he is black and therefore cannot be trusted? Or perhaps it is an omen that in the future christian white males will no longer be in control? Perhaps it is the cognitive dissonance between their narrow life experience and the result of the last election? Perhaps all of the above?
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[I didn’t see anything racist, and I’m not surprised. Lefty that I am, I’m at least able to distinguish a political movement from a racist one. A few people made it a point of announcing it isn’t about race:]
I'm not racist, some of my best friends are black people. I live in an integrated community, a black family moved in down the street last year...
Just because you don't see overt racism doesn't mean that the movement is not largely motivated by racism. To wit: why have these people not bothered to find out that their characterization of Obama is completely false? It cannot be because he is a Democrat; the tea partiers claim to be non-partisan. Hmm what other motivation could there be? Perhaps because he is black and therefore cannot be trusted? Or perhaps it is an omen that in the future christian white males will no longer be in control? Perhaps it is the cognitive dissonance between their narrow life experience and the result of the last election? Perhaps all of the above?