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"Not Racist" Republican Suggested Obama Go Back to Kenya (Original Post)
rsacamano
Mar 2019
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dalton99a
(81,065 posts)1. Kick
littlemissmartypants
(22,418 posts)2. Look for the racist, yellow, Tea Party flag in the video.
https://www.vox.com/2016/7/7/12118872/southern-racism-tea-party-trump
How Southern racism found a home in the Tea Party
By Angie Maxwell on July 7, 2016 1:00 pm
Within days of President Obamas inauguration seven and a half years ago, the Tea Party took national politics by storm. Sympathetic pundits and affiliated politicians claimed that the movement amounted to the formation of a new third party that represented widespread economic concerns, its motivation based on outrage over deficit spending, the stimulus package, and the national debt.
Yet coverage of Tea Party rallies also included images of protest signs covered with racist slogans such as A Village in Kenya Is Missing Its Idiot: Deport Obama! Congress = Slave Owner; Taxpayer = N**gar, and Imam Obama Wants to Ban Pork: Dont Let Him Steal Your Meat, among other inflammatory proclamations.
Tea Party members argued that their opposition to Obama was based on differences over economic policies and not on racial animus that those placards were extreme outliers. Yet scholarly debates continue over where Tea Partiers intolerance for government spending on, say, unemployment benefits for those deemed undeserving ends and racism begins.
Those debates remain significant in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election, as accusations of racism trail the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, Donald Trump. In other words, what can the Tea Party teach us about Trump's ascension?
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more at the link
https://www.vox.com/2016/7/7/12118872/southern-racism-tea-party-trump
Let us not forget the origin of this species.
How Southern racism found a home in the Tea Party
By Angie Maxwell on July 7, 2016 1:00 pm
Within days of President Obamas inauguration seven and a half years ago, the Tea Party took national politics by storm. Sympathetic pundits and affiliated politicians claimed that the movement amounted to the formation of a new third party that represented widespread economic concerns, its motivation based on outrage over deficit spending, the stimulus package, and the national debt.
Yet coverage of Tea Party rallies also included images of protest signs covered with racist slogans such as A Village in Kenya Is Missing Its Idiot: Deport Obama! Congress = Slave Owner; Taxpayer = N**gar, and Imam Obama Wants to Ban Pork: Dont Let Him Steal Your Meat, among other inflammatory proclamations.
Tea Party members argued that their opposition to Obama was based on differences over economic policies and not on racial animus that those placards were extreme outliers. Yet scholarly debates continue over where Tea Partiers intolerance for government spending on, say, unemployment benefits for those deemed undeserving ends and racism begins.
Those debates remain significant in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election, as accusations of racism trail the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, Donald Trump. In other words, what can the Tea Party teach us about Trump's ascension?
snip
more at the link
https://www.vox.com/2016/7/7/12118872/southern-racism-tea-party-trump
Let us not forget the origin of this species.