Does the name Carl Paladino (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20016461-503544.html) speak to you? Yes? No?
What about this pic?
I know, I know. It's some obscure guy, doesn't count.
OK, does the name Dale Robertson (http://washingtonindependent.com/73036/n-word-sign-dogs-would-be-tea-party-leader) speak to you? I find him quite intriguing.
Hey, these are not tea partiers. Not really.
But even if they are, they're just some obscure guys, OK? Got it.
Hey wait, there's more...
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There is absolutely no racism (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LMmx-znVZc) in the tea party. None whatsoever.
By the way, does the name Mark Williams (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/15/tea-party-leader-melts-do_n_286933.html) speak to you? He's not some obscure average schmuck. He (used to be) a tea party leader. Got kicked out for guess what? - racist remarks. Commendable.
Granted, because the other side of the issue should also be presented (a thing I've yet to see a tea-partier do yet), the NAACP has called for a total repudiation of all racism in the tea party. And Mark Williams got expelled from their ranks. Commendable. We do know, however, that the tea party is about individualism, right? So you can't tell them what to feel and say. So they'll feel and say whatever the damn they please, and that's commendable, isn't it?
So, no matter how hard you try to deny it, racism *DOES* exist within the tea party, and you've got to be in some major denial, or living in a cave, to say it isn't so. Hell, one could see that from 10,000 miles away.
Now, whether racism is mainstream for the tea party or not... I don't know? What does "mainstream" really mean in the context of the tea party, does it make sense at all? Does the tea party have Mainstream? And if yes, wouldn't that defeat its very purpose?
Wait, it's not like (http://blogs.ajc.com/cynthia-tucker/2010/05/06/a-black-tea-party-supporter-offers-advice-on-the-movements-struggle-with-racism/) there aren't African Americans in the tea party - sure there are! Some of them have even come up with suggestions about dealing with racism within the tea party - commendable! But wait... does this mean they acknowledge its existence? I'm now confused...
As for your last question,
I'm not (http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/0810/Poll_46_of_GOP_thinks_Obamas_Muslim.html) sure exactly how (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/18/AR2010081806913.html) many people (http://people-press.org/2010/08/19/growing-number-of-americans-say-obama-is-a-muslim/) believe that he's (http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2008-04-01-obama-muslim_N.htm) a Muslim. 10% of all Americans? 23% (http://www.chron.com/life/houston-belief/article/Poll-finds-23-of-Texans-think-Obama-is-Muslim-1620902.php) of all Texans? 46% of all GOP supporters? Come on, help me out.
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What about this pic?
I know, I know. It's some obscure guy, doesn't count.
OK, does the name Dale Robertson (http://washingtonindependent.com/73036/n-word-sign-dogs-would-be-tea-party-leader) speak to you? I find him quite intriguing.
Hey, these are not tea partiers. Not really.
But even if they are, they're just some obscure guys, OK? Got it.
Hey wait, there's more...
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There is absolutely no racism (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LMmx-znVZc) in the tea party. None whatsoever.
By the way, does the name Mark Williams (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/15/tea-party-leader-melts-do_n_286933.html) speak to you? He's not some obscure average schmuck. He (used to be) a tea party leader. Got kicked out for guess what? - racist remarks. Commendable.
Granted, because the other side of the issue should also be presented (a thing I've yet to see a tea-partier do yet), the NAACP has called for a total repudiation of all racism in the tea party. And Mark Williams got expelled from their ranks. Commendable. We do know, however, that the tea party is about individualism, right? So you can't tell them what to feel and say. So they'll feel and say whatever the damn they please, and that's commendable, isn't it?
So, no matter how hard you try to deny it, racism *DOES* exist within the tea party, and you've got to be in some major denial, or living in a cave, to say it isn't so. Hell, one could see that from 10,000 miles away.
Now, whether racism is mainstream for the tea party or not... I don't know? What does "mainstream" really mean in the context of the tea party, does it make sense at all? Does the tea party have Mainstream? And if yes, wouldn't that defeat its very purpose?
Wait, it's not like (http://blogs.ajc.com/cynthia-tucker/2010/05/06/a-black-tea-party-supporter-offers-advice-on-the-movements-struggle-with-racism/) there aren't African Americans in the tea party - sure there are! Some of them have even come up with suggestions about dealing with racism within the tea party - commendable! But wait... does this mean they acknowledge its existence? I'm now confused...
As for your last question,
I'm not (http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/0810/Poll_46_of_GOP_thinks_Obamas_Muslim.html) sure exactly how (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/18/AR2010081806913.html) many people (http://people-press.org/2010/08/19/growing-number-of-americans-say-obama-is-a-muslim/) believe that he's (http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2008-04-01-obama-muslim_N.htm) a Muslim. 10% of all Americans? 23% (http://www.chron.com/life/houston-belief/article/Poll-finds-23-of-Texans-think-Obama-is-Muslim-1620902.php) of all Texans? 46% of all GOP supporters? Come on, help me out.