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| Black Tea Party Activists Called 'Traitors' |
| 2010-04-07 |
| 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. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #13 What a wonderful answer to the challenge, ryuge. Does it help people to think straighter? ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-04-07 22:43 |
| #12 ....as someone who is gay, benefit from big government, massive debt, mistreating our traditional allies, kowtowing to the worst, etc. Call me tomorrow morning on my private line. |
| Posted by: Barney Frank 2010-04-07 22:08 |
| #11 As a gay guy, I have been told that being a gay conservative is like being a "Jewish Nazi" or a "black KKK member". I find the best way to respond is to bring it back to the subject that they are trying to change. I say, "How do I, as someone who is gay, benefit from big government, massive debt, mistreating our traditional allies, kowtowing to the worst (and most anti-gay and anti-women) tyrants in the world today, lying about transparency . . . Well, the list can go on for quite some length, as most here know full well. So to any minority tea-partiers out there who want my advice: don't get mad, be prepared. At least now, there are many concrete examples of the failure of leftist policies to point to. When Dubya was in office, it was more difficult to demonstrate why Bush's policies (in many instances) were preferable to those of his critics. Thanks, Obama, for making it so much easier now. |
| Posted by: ryuge 2010-04-07 21:11 |
| #10 There is something particularly maddening about being labeled as "racists" by people who righteously claim that they should be able to dictate one's political viewpoints based on the color of one's skin. Do these people not hear their own words? |
| Posted by: AuburnTom 2010-04-07 19:42 |
| #9 In the book, Uncle Tom was a good man, a man of character and faith. He got one of his young masters to teach him to read, as I recall -- or else quietly learned while the lad was tutored, I don't remember -- and turned that skill to reading the bible, making himself from an unskilled slave into a leader in the community, despite the exigencies of a life that took him ever further from his first owner and his first home. Were I Black, I'd be proud to be called 'Uncle Tom'. /It's like Pollyanna... |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-04-07 16:18 |
| #8 The real Uncle Toms are those blacks who continue to live on hand-outs of one sort or another. Indeed. The hatred of those who step out of line and join Republican/other ranks boils down to envy. And the race baiting machine is so hard to confront because we all acknowledge, deep down or subconsciously, that those who hate, whether black or white, are deeply pitiful human beings. It's hard to deal the killer blow to something so pathetic. Those who want to fight it need to learn to divorce the emotion from the emoter: hate the sin not the sinner, as it were. Easier said than done, I think. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2010-04-07 14:58 |
| #7 I long for the time when we get past all the hyphenated horse shit and are simply just Americans. Won't happen as long as the race baiters can gain money and power by using it. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2010-04-07 13:14 |
| #6 maybe they read the news and saw what happened too Zimbabwe and South Africa in the last 20 years. Allen West is one of the black men running as a repub. in FLA. Would get my vote anyday i may just have too drive down and cast one for him |
| Posted by: chris 2010-04-07 11:57 |
| #5 I heard on Bill Bennett's morning show that there are 37 blacks running for house or senate seats as Repubs...I bet they're all taking heat as well. I long for the time when we get past all the hyphenated horse shit and are simply just Americans. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2010-04-07 11:50 |
| #4 The real Uncle Toms are those blacks who continue to live on hand-outs of one sort or another. They rely on massah govmint to provide for them. |
| Posted by: Spot 2010-04-07 10:57 |
| #3 Blacks in the Tea Party movement must really be putting a damper on what libtards would like to be saying. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-04-07 10:29 |
| #2 Because the assumption is And who is driving that race-based assumption? The MSM. They reinforce it at every turn. |
| Posted by: Beldar Threreling9726 2010-04-07 10:22 |
| #1 To quote Napoleon, these people are indeed the "Bravest of the Brave." |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-04-07 09:45 |