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.

[Vernon Windsor]

Mainstream media is slowly starting to wake up

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/22887392#35672836

[Vernon Windsor]

Racist incidents, protests spread at UC campuses

By CHRISTINA HOAG, Associated Press – Tue Mar 2, 9:47 pm ET
LOS ANGELES – A firestorm over racially and ethnically charged incidents at several University of California campuses spread Tuesday as UC San Diego announced a KKK-style hood was found on campus and students in Los Angeles and Irvine demonstrated against intolerance.
"What kind of campus promotes an environment that allows people to think it's acceptable to target people for their ethnicity, gender or sexuality?" said Corey Matthews, one of about 200 mostly minority UCLA students who held a lunchtime rally. "It's something about the tone of the environment that allows this."
At UC Irvine, about 250 people gathered for a "student solidarity speakout" to condemn the recent spate of racist incidents at UC San Diego that targeted black students and another incident last month at UC Davis, which targeted a Jewish student with a swastika carved on her door, said Marya Bangee, an event organizer.
The protests came on the same day UC San Diego announced the discovery of a white pillowcase fashioned into a KKK-style hood — the third racist incident around the campus in as many weeks — and a day after UC Santa Cruz officials found an image of a noose scribbled on the inside of a bathroom door.
Officials found the hood, which bore a hand-drawn circle and cross, on a statue of children's book author Theodor Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, outside the main campus library late Monday. A rose had been inserted between the statue's fingers.
Detectives were analyzing the pillowcase for fingerprints and DNA evidence, a university statement said.
UC San Diego Chancellor Marye Anne Fox vowed to punish the culprits to the fullest extent of the law. "We will not tolerate these despicable actions," she said in the statement.
The hood came on the heels two other UC San Diego incidents: a February off-campus, student-organized "Compton Cookout" party that mocked Black History Month with ghetto stereotypes; and a noose found hanging from a library bookshelf last week.
UC San Diego campus police said they had completed their investigation into the noose incident and turned their results over to the city attorney on Tuesday for possible hate crime charges.
One of the students responsible for the noose apologized to the university community in an anonymous letter published Monday in the campus newspaper. She said the noose was formed while she and friends were playing around with a piece of rope and had no meaning as a lynching symbol.
The student said she is not black, but is a minority.
The incident also is under investigation by law enforcement agencies, campus spokeswoman Judy Piercey said.
Although UCLA students said no racial incidents had occurred recently on their campus, in 2007, a fraternity held a "Tijuana Sunrise" party that mocked Mexican-Americans with stereotyped images, they said.
The incidents are disturbing and most likely the work of "outliers" using offensive and outrageous behavior to gain notoriety, said Brian Levin, director of California State University's Center for Study of Hate and Extremism in San Bernardino.
He said surveys show young people are less prejudiced than ever, but "these things touch a nerve, and these folks know it."
UCLA demonstrators called on administrators to institute a required ethnic studies course that would teach students about other cultures.
"It would be a very strong and powerful statement for diversity," said Kent Wong, a speaker at the rally and director of UCLA's Center for Labor Research and Education.
At UC San Diego, officials were already moving to create a more tolerant environment after meeting with black student leaders, Piercey said.
Initiatives include recruiting more minority faculty, instituting a mentoring program, creating an African American Resource Center, and ensuring funding for the diversity office, Piercey said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_black_history_mock_party

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Report: Right-Wing Extremist Groups Grew 244% in 2009

A new report says the United States is seeing a major rise in the number of domestic right-wing extremist groups. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, anti-government “Patriot” groups grew to 512 in 2009, an increase of 244 percent. Right-wing militias tripled over the same period to 127.

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/3/3/headlines/report_right_wing_ex...

http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2010/03/right-wing-extremist-gro...

[Vernon Windsor]

Bob Cesca's Huffington post article "The Tea Party Is All About Race."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/the-tea-party-is-all-abou_b...