Stephen A. Smith almost makes sense, this time.

[heyelander]

I mean, there are examples, but you have to google 'tea party rally racist' to find them. not sure if that means they're not characteristic of the rallies though.

http://aattp.org/20-of-the-most-raci...litical-signs/

finding something you specifically google isn't really all that surprising, is it?

[gcstomp]

I did not say you "would see racist signs the equivalent of hanging people in effigy." My exact words were "that a tea party rally is 100% excluding black people, because the movement is essentially slapping a little sticker on your shirt saying for whites only on it. There is zero subtlety to it, and could not be more clear unless outside the tea party rally stood a hanging tree with a doll hanging in effigy."

To translate, that tea party is exclusionary of black people. I thought that was so obvious that I do not need to prove it. But if you wanted to see large gatherings of tea party, google images, and you will see hundreds of images of large assembly of people with zero black people. I can proceed to explain more obvious crap that will be parsed to fit some voice in your head but to what end, to end up right here again with one word at a time disecting?

[GwynnInTheHall]

I was asked to Google 'tea party rally' and I would see racist signs the equivalent of hanging people in effigy. I didn't find that to be the case. Did you?

I guess that's an answer to a rather specific set of circumstance.

My statement would be...The tea Party is composed of predominantly White people and that most of them harbor some degree of racial prejudice.

Difficult to prove, but if you gave me the money do do an accurate study on it I'd probably be right.

Cuz you know....I'm always right

[onejayhawk]

Cuz you know....I'm always right

Except when you're left.

J

[GwynnInTheHall]

Except when you're left.

J

..........

[Judge Jude]

nots, no need to respond to me. Some things are so obvious as to either be accepted or not. But for fun, google tea party rally, spend a minute looking at images. Note anything? Read the signs being held, the make up of the crowd. Still not clear enough, fine, then as I said, no need to respond to me.

I attended a Tea Party rally around 2008 (was working).
I recall few, if any, faces of color there.

There also were a lot of "Obama as Hitler" 'doctored' posters. These were the most strident Obama opponents, all white. You can google image and see them at countless rallies from that time.

I spoke to them. They were all supporters of Lyndon LaRouche, and were furious with Obama because he did not support their cause for single-payer health care (which is a more liberal position than Obama had adopted, obviously).

[nots]

I attended a Tea Party rally around 2008 (was working).
I recall few, if any, faces of color there.

There also were a lot of "Obama as Hitler" 'doctored' posters. These were the most strident Obama opponents, all white. You can google image and see them at countless rallies from that time.

I spoke to them. They were all supporters of Lyndon LaRouche, and were furious with Obama because he did not support their cause for single-payer health care (which is a more liberal position than Obama had adopted, obviously).

The LaRouchers are sometimes out at the Dunkin Donuts by my work--very angry group of people. Obama-as-Hitler signs must be standard issue for the entire group because these guys have them too.

[Judge Jude]

they're old and angry and liberal and quite possibly racist. are they still around?

it is interesting that they show(ed) up at Tea Party rallies - and they have nothing in common with them - and get portrayed as Tea Party right-wing racists. In my small sample size, I didn't take them to be "double agents" who planned - successfully - to get people to believe that the left-wingers doing the Obama-Hitler thing proved how racist right-wingers are because people will fall for their trick.

They were true believers, and just seemed drawn to the event because other - rather different - people didn't like Obama for very different reasons. This dovetailed with the decline in the number of journalists as well as the rise in internet polarizing, so that anyone could focus only on left-wing sites and assume the Hitler people were conservatives (not that there weren't any conservatives who were racists, or that none showed up at Tea Party rallies or anywhere else). It has gotten worse every year since then.