Morgan Freeman was interviewed on the Piers Morgan TV Talk Show calling the Tea Party movement “a racist thing.” He added, “Their stated policy, publicly stated, is to do whatever it takes to see to it that Obama only serves one term. What underlines that? Screw the country. We're going to {do} whatever we can to get this black man outta here.” In the Huff Post he commented on how this group has illustrated there is still hate remaining in America.
To be fair, the racism aspect should only be attributed to a low-life faction of the Tea Party. God knows, the group is already a bunch of certifiable wackos without adding the racial mix. But it was apparently bad enough that the NAACP voted to repudiate the racist element of theparty in July of 2010. They said, “We take no issue with the Tea Party movement. We believe in freedom of assembly and people raising their voices in a democracy. What we take issue with is the Tea Party’s continued tolerance for bigotry and bigoted statements…”I did some research on signs carried by Tea Party racists in their demonstrations and it clearly fits the charge made by Morgan Freeman. Slogans like, “Cap Congress and trade Obama back to Kenya,” “The zoo has an African and the White House has a lyin African,” and a picture of three monkeys, papa and mama with Obama’s face superimposed over the baby monkey. I thought I had left this behind when I exited the South over four decades ago.
Ron Schiller, former executive with Nat’l Public Radio joined the melee against the Tea Party. He was caught on ahidden camera by James O’Keefe, who brought down ACORN, saying the TPers were “scary” and “seriously racist.” Schiller also called the GOP anti-intellectual saying, “…that America did not have enough "educated, so-called elite" citizens…” Schiller added about tea partyers, "I mean, basically they ... believe in sort of white, middle-America, gun-toting. I mean, it's scary. They're seriously racist, racist people."
No Tea Party article would be complete without a mention of Arizona State Sen. Russell Pearce who is up for recall next month. It seems that accused scam candidate Olivia Cortes, who was recruited and backed by Arizona TPers to run against Pearce just to dilute the vote against the other candidate, Jerry Lewis, and who was completely discredited under oath in court recently, is in trouble.
According to a column by LaurieRoberts in the Arizona Republic, Cortes “doesn't know who's behind the "Sí, se puede!" campaign signs - the new slogan, apparently, of conservative Republicans everywhere.” “She doesn't know who paid for the petition circulators who obtained most of the nominating signatures needed to get her onto the ballot.” “She doesn't know who designed her website, the one that went up the day the lawsuit challenging her candidacy was filed.” “She'd never seen one of her two news releases - the "racism is alive" piece, written by a tea-party activist and quoting Cortes as saying Latinos should be outraged at those who question the legitimacy of her campaign.”
There’s more you can read on the Roberts site, above.
The racism comment is completely laughable considering the source, but the whole Cortes affair just shows how far the Tea Party will go to fulfill their mission of bringing down the United States. Pearce is, of course, an avid tea partyer, and dirty politics are something he thrives on. Hopefully, Arizona will be getting rid of him in November. Too bad we can’t do the same with the Tea Party.
