Tea Party Movement and the Ku Klux Klan

[Vernon Windsor]

My friend Dexter South gave me permission to share this post he had written with the group as he doesn't spend much time here anymore. Dexter lives in Texas and has seen a lot in his life. He writes from the heart and I admire his courage. His post follows...

I am old enough to remember the Ku Klux Klan from the old days. They held big rallies, had parades and made a lot of speeches just like the Tea baggers of today do. But that is not where the
similarity stops.

Back then, the country didn’t have the benefit of the education to whites by the civil rights and educated those who lived through it. Whites learned a great deal since the 50’s about blacks.
We were educated how our actions, thoughts and words affected the people “of
color” and we learned the same applies to all non-whites. But there are some
who learned nothing. And now we have middle-aged white adults who have no first
hand memories and did not experience what those of us did who lived through the
60’s and 70,s as adults.

However there are some who don’t care and are so self centered, greedy, bigoted and ignorant they have developed the same resentments and emotions displayed before the civil rights movement. Some of
the hold over bigots, from the old days, who are bitter and resentful that the
rest of the world had moved on, started to legitimize those ways. By pulling in
issues like abortion and taxes they sucked in the ignorant. Through use of the
talk show host and politicians they picked issues that would attract the
wealthy and the privileged. This drew people like Rupert Murdock who created an
empire of wealth with radio shows and his marketing invention, Fox News. They
learned pandering to the rich, the bigoted and people who were deeply disturbed
with resentments; millions could be made in advertising dollars. Through the
art of “buzz wording” and the old bigots trade of using code words, they all
mastered a sophisticated code language and evil composite ideology, which
enlisted religious fervor from groups that were formed from the old anti-abolition
south like the Southern Baptist Convention.

Taking this all together, with the bigots who left the Democrat party over the Civil Rights Act, they took over the Republican party and hired an actor named Ronald Reagan to soft sell their
ideas and take over the government of the Untied States. While publicly
displaying a face of fake rationalism and common sense, the rich part of the
movement took over and started a systematic rape of the federal Government and
its money. The wealthy succeeded in using the bigoted and ignorant as a front
to pilfer the people’s money.

Now a black man has been voted President largely because the right wing went too far and thought they had a patsy in G W Bush who would garner everyone’s attention long enough to really rape the
country and pilfer the coffers. While giving their big business cronies the
sign to go all out and rape and pillage for all they could get. But GWB was
more stupid than they thought and their friends were greedier than they ever
imagined. A black president was the straw that broke the camels back.

The truest of bigots got mad and started the Tea bagger movement. It turns out to be a perfect place for the worst of our society to find a home. They try real hard to hide their racism, but they
can’t! The KKK and the Tea baggers are the same, just a newer and more socially
ignorant version. Of course today, they need to try and hide their racism to
keep from loosing all credibility but it wont work. People who resent
minorities, the greedy and the bigoted can never hide completely. Conservative
ideologies like this all were festering into a big rotten sore that infects a
nation and makes it ill. Sooner or later the rest of us wake up and kill the
infection.

[Lawrence Bates]

The tea bigots and their so-called movement has got to be exposed for the pure hatred that it is.

You forgot to add racist, Mark. Why are you folks so stunned over the extreme dislike we hold for most of your views and attitudes? You think that it's perfectly normal for you to feel that way about us.

[Vernon Windsor]

Keith Olbermann's special comment about race in America and the tea party movement.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/22887392#35413662

[Madhatterat60]

[Westerly_2]

Yeah! Those were the very placards I was talking about. (No bias there).

[James Worede]

They are all working people like all of us. So was the Klans, they are police officers, elected officials. I see them here in Georgia. All of sudden, they started worrying about the deficit, while they were cheering Reagan have started ballooning the national debt over the roof. I have posted this before, Ronald Reagan Had launched his campaign in Philedlphia, Ms, a few miles from where three civil right workers murdered. His code words were "STATES RIGHT". So please, please quit pretending, it is not "the color" of the President, but his policy Bull Sh... And about, their big gun spokeswoman, ask Alaskans, what she calls the native Americans in Alaska. She was the foot soldier for PAT Buchanan who openly confesses his hates for minorities. So, quite decieving, tell the truth, most of these peoples blood is bioling because, they guy in the White House is not one of them. These bigots, they don't get how they got screwed, as long as their kinds are in the White House. Be openned say so.

[James Worede]

Laura Bush is a classy lady. Even her husband, GW, I don't agree wuth him, but he is no bigot. He was just an instrument for the big cats. His policies had damaged the country so much, now we are paying for it.

[Madhatterat60]

His policies had damaged the country so much, now we are paying for it.

And in our age of INSTANT GRATIFICATION, we expect CHANGE to happen just as instantly as a text message or game boy move. The damage that Jethro and his Congressional thugs did to this country, the divisive grid locking partisan games that are the doom of our country may never be undone in our lifetime.

[Just-a-Writer]

Vernon, your friend has put my thoughts into words. Would he mind terribly if this was sent out to everybody in my email list? There are so many viral emails out there spouting nonsense, it would be nice to forward one that doesn't.

[Vernon Windsor]

Who's raising money for the tea party movement? NPR story.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123859296&...

[James Worede]

NPR and PBS are my radio stations, I heard that story. That the station on my car, occationally switch to hate radios. Sometimes, christian stations, but most of them are becoming political stations. It is disappointing. Normally, one would think, they (the christians) would stand up for the underdogs, but most of them are nothing but that.

[Vernon Windsor]

I hear you James. It makes me uncomfortable that there are areas of the country where the only radio stations you can find are all Christian, right-wing programming.

[Vernon Windsor]

Leonard Pitts Jr. editorial, Tea party fears a matter of race and more


http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/02/27/1503251/tea-party-fears-a-mat...