Black Tea Party Activists Called 'Traitors'

[MCWAY]

Don't you just LOOOOOOOVE all that "tolerance" and "diversity" from the left?

Black Tea Party Activists Called 'Traitors'

ALBANY, N.Y. – 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.

Opponents have branded the tea party as a group of racists hiding behind economic concerns — and reports that some tea partyers were lobbing racist slurs at black congressmen during last month's heated health care vote give them ammunition.

But these black conservatives don't consider racism representative of the movement as a whole — or race a reason to support it.

Angela McGlowan, a black congressional candidate from Mississippi, said her tea party involvement is "not about a black or white issue."

"It's not even about Republican or Democrat, from my standpoint," she told The Associated Press. "All of us are taxed too much."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/06/black-tea-party-activists-called-traitors/

[Soul Crusher]

The only traitors are those who still support this admns goals. 

[Vince G, CSN MFT]

Don't you just LOOOOOOOVE all that "tolerance" and "diversity" from the left?

Black Tea Party Activists Called 'Traitors'[/b]

ALBANY, N.Y. – 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.

Opponents have branded the tea party as a group of racists hiding behind economic concerns — and reports that some tea partyers were lobbing racist slurs at black congressmen during last month's heated health care vote give them ammunition.

But these black conservatives don't consider racism representative of the movement as a whole — or race a reason to support it.

Angela McGlowan, a black congressional candidate from Mississippi, said her tea party involvement is "not about a black or white issue."

"It's not even about Republican or Democrat, from my standpoint," she told The Associated Press. "All of us are taxed too much."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/06/black-tea-party-activists-called-traitors/

Don't believe everything you hear from Fox News. 

[MCWAY]

Don't believe everything you hear from Fox News. 

Do you have anything that counters this article, or is this the standard line from the Obama-worshippers, hell-bent on painting any criticism of the President's policies as "racist"?

[Soul Crusher]

I really dont give a rats ass anymore whether people call me racist, skinhead, or barney the purple dinosaur. 

Anyone who works for a living and still supports Obama is a freaking moron.  He is intentionally destroying this nation so that we are on par with other third world nations and all but the left wing clown car sees it.   

[shootfighter1]

"Among the 37 black Republicans running for U.S. House and Senate seats in November is Charles Lollar of Maryland's 5th District"

I love it.  F--k these party line ultra-leftists that tell black people how to vote and throw them to the wolves when they don't tot the party line.  I am happy to see more people of all backgrounds rallying around a fiscally conservative, limited government message.  Really happy to see this. 

The tea party is a mixed group of people who share basic common ideals, it's not a party and not everyone in the party holds the same views outside the basic principles of limited government & fiscal responsibility that brought them together.  The leftist liberals are vicious and I hope people see this, they have absolutely exaggerated and purposely attempted to discredit people that oppose their views as racist and backward.  How utterly ironic to the freedom of speech and opionion good democrats have championed in previous decades.

[shootfighter1]

Vince, you don't have to just believe FOX, there are 37 black conservatives running in November!  Yeah buddy.

[MCWAY]

Vince, you don't have to just believe FOX, there are 37 black conservatives running in November!  Yeah buddy.

And I hope they whip some serious Democratic symbol!!

[George Whorewell]

In all fairness, half of the blacks involved in these protests mistakenly thought that they were attending a free Ice-T concert outside of the White House.