NO, Mr Johnson, you don't hate yourself.
You're too frelling stuppid for that.
Oh, for the day when some backroom Tea Party chatter is posted online, when
they're using words that not even Michael "the Clown" Steele can smirk
away...
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Kelwyn wrote:
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> http://epaper.orlandosentinel.com/OS/OS/2010/04/08/ArticleHtmls/08_04_2010_004_040.shtml
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> 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.
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> "I've been told I hate myself. I've been called an Uncle Tom," said Timothy
> Johnson, chairman of the Frederick Douglass Foundation, a group of black
> conservatives who support free-market principles and limited government.
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> "Black Republicans find themselves always having to prove who they are.
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> Because the assumption is the Republican Party is for whites and the
> Democratic Party is for blacks," he said.
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> Johnson and other black conservatives say they were drawn to the tea party
> movement because of what they consider its common-sense fiscal values of
> controlled spending, lower taxes and smaller government. The fact that
> they're black -or that most tea partiers are white -should have nothing to
> do with it, they say.
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> "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, 45, a
> conservative blogger in New Jersey .
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> Some opponents have branded the tea party as racists hiding behind economic
> concerns -and reports that some tea partiers were lobbing racist slurs at
> black congressmen over last month's heated health care vote give them
> ammunition.
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> But these black conservatives don't consider racism typical of the
> movement.
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> Angela McGlowan, a black GOP congressional candidate from Mississippi, said
> her tea party involvement is "not about a black or white issue."
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> "It's not even about Republican or Democrat, from my standpoint," she said.
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> "All of us are taxed too much."
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> Black voters have overwhelmingly backed Democratic candidates. In 2008, 95
> percent of black voters cast ballots for President Barack Obama.
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> "I've gotten the statement, `How can you not support the brother?' " said
> David Webb, an organizer of New York City's Tea Party 365 Inc. movement.
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> "I know of people who would play the (liberal) role publicly but have their
> private opinions," he said. "Why can't we speak openly and honestly if we
> disagree?" Tax Day protests A Tax Day tea party demonstration is scheduled
> for April 15 on the Washington Monument grounds in the nation's capital.
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> FreedomWorks Foundation, the organizer, says gatherings to protest big
> government will be held across the nation.
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