I may be way off base here, but if I'm a Tea Party organizer putting together a 'Some of My Best Friends Are...' rally to prove there's no racist element within the Tea Party movement, the last person I'm going to invite to speak is Andrew Breitbart. But that's just what happened in Philadelphia last Saturday.
Doing his part to promote inclusiveness, Breitbart, speaking to 300 people, ranted about the NAACP, the Congressional Black Caucus, liberals, blah blah blah. To top it off, in as fine an example of projection as you would ever want to see, Breitbart told reporters that "the media, in cahoots with the Democratic Party, are dividing the country with false allegations of racism..."
However, organizers considered the rally a success:
First, "crowd" is a bit of a stretch. Three hundred people in Philadelphia on a Saturday afternoon does not a "crowd" make. "More diverse than I've seen at a tea party rally?" Let's take a look. TPMDC had a couple of photos:
OK, no diversity yet. Let's keep looking. Wait a minute, Colorlines has it:
I guess Adams was right. That's about the most diversity I've seen at a Tea Party, too.
Doing his part to promote inclusiveness, Breitbart, speaking to 300 people, ranted about the NAACP, the Congressional Black Caucus, liberals, blah blah blah. To top it off, in as fine an example of projection as you would ever want to see, Breitbart told reporters that "the media, in cahoots with the Democratic Party, are dividing the country with false allegations of racism..."
However, organizers considered the rally a success:
"I hope it has taken away any idea that the tea party is racist," Terry Adams of the Independence Hall Tea Party, a co-sponsor of the event, said. "The crowd today was more diverse than I've seen at a tea party rally."
First, "crowd" is a bit of a stretch. Three hundred people in Philadelphia on a Saturday afternoon does not a "crowd" make. "More diverse than I've seen at a tea party rally?" Let's take a look. TPMDC had a couple of photos:
OK, no diversity yet. Let's keep looking. Wait a minute, Colorlines has it:
I guess Adams was right. That's about the most diversity I've seen at a Tea Party, too.
Like I have said before. They don't have a problem with socialism. They have a problem with YOU receiving benefits from any social program. If they receive it? Then that's O.K.
If you have to point out "The Minority" at your gathering then you're not diverse.
Last I heard Shirley Sherrod is going to sue the little scumbag. I hope that during discovery we'll find out all kinds of good things about Breitbart and his supporters.
Wow...pretty big crowd there, huh? I see more people at IKEA on a Saturday afternoon than that so-called "crowd".
But give 'em credit...they actually found a Real Live Black Person to be there...and she's waving a flag! Amazing what you can get folks to do for $20 and a bottle of water...
The only Tea Party you'll see this A-A at is the one my 4-year old granddaughter has with her stuffed animals...
ok, somebody's got to say it. Most of the black folks that associate themselves with the Tea Party have significant others that are white. Translated that means 'those' black folk wanna be white. There, I said it. Uncle Tom is alive and well in the 21st century. Not that there's anything wrong with that...uh, yes there is.
as an irrelevant sidenote my family is highly ethnically diverse...as I've said before "We all really wanna be white 'cause white folks are just so lovable"
She was probably one of those "plants" they're always talking about.
One for all, all for one - colored person, that is!
What is the most amazing about the Tea Party is how old they are, and well...how fat.
Many of these folks are, or soon will be, covered by socialized medicine and socialized pensions.
How ironic that they turn out to protest "socialism" and listen to fools like Andrew Breitbart.
"More diverse than I've seen at a Tea Party rally".
Yes, I guess when you have ONE black person at an event, that would be considered "more diverse" when most of the Tea Party events have NO people of color.
I gather they consider it diversity when they have a group of fat AND thin people and flat-chested women AND the well-endowed, and when they have people WITH teeth and WITHOUT teeth. Yep, that's their diversity, folks.
Unbelievable. This is NOT my America. The America I believe in was the America we saw in Grant Park in Chicago on November 4, 2008.