Here is the video I made of my day at the Tea Party in Boston.
Our good friend Sarah showed up in Boston this spring and I made this video of my pleasant and informative interactions with the many Tea Baggers that I interviewed that day for Karmalooptv.com, including the white power contingent of the Tea Party. Enjoy!
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People are judged by who they associate with. But of course, Teabagges and all forms of Gooper would rather simple realities like that not apply to them.
"They [referring to the Tea Party] deny that bigotry or rejections of Obama because of his race are part of the movement's appeal, a perception fueled by YouTube videos showing racist signs at some Tea Party rallies. Even so, they do have a distinctive perspective on race.
Nearly half say blacks lag in jobs, income and housing "because most African Americans just don't have the motivation or willpower to pull themselves up out of poverty."
Personally, I'm starting to wonder if there's something in the water, or if the hormones in our food are making us all just a little stupider every day. If you've already got a high IQ, it'll be a while before the effects are obvious. But for those who are already hanging from the last rung of the ladder... Well, you get the idea.
That something is in our food, well, I've thought the food was planted in grocery stores in democratic strongholds. You think the inverse. That's fine.
The video does not suprise me. You know and I know we could find equivalently provoking videos in many "progressive" events.
The tea baggers are a kind lot as are most progressives. We may disagree, but let's not let the journalists with agendas incite violence. I ask you to consider what I am saying carefully because the tension in our nation is truely concerning.
It is time that people like you and me to take lead. I do not think traditional leadership is built for the task.
The difference is when a couple of old ladies from Code Pink interrupt congressional hearings with banners, they aren't claiming to be a part of a huge movement of millions of progressives. They're old ladies yelling about war. Conversely, the Tea Baggers claim to number in the millions and a part of a broader political movement that has muscle and a philosophy with the will to change America.
Its frightening and disheartening the level of ignorance in this country but never short on entertaining.
He did show them. It was every person he interviewed EXCEPT that group. He may have nudged and probed to see what lay beneath the surface of some of the people's opinions, but I don't see where he called any of them or associated any of them with white power except that a white power group was allowed to attend seemingly without protest.
And why do you have white power in quotes?
I have come to the conclusion that progressives like to live in a fantasy world. Like spoiled children, they believe only what their emotion dictates. You must be direct with them, they do not comprehend abstractions as well as their counterparts.