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egbertowillies

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Sat Sep 5, 2015, 09:53 AM Sep 2015

This Liberal had pleasant but surreal experience at Kingwood TX Tea Party Ted Cruz rally (VIDEO)


I will be frank. I enjoy crashing Tea Party events. It is exciting when I am mostly sure that most people do not have a clue that my ideology is diametrically opposed to theirs. It is amazing what I can learn from unfiltered utterances.

It is also exciting when I engage with them in an adversarial but civil manner. After-all, in an ideal world that is how one comes to a consensus that all can accept.

I have engaged a Tea Party fanatic black man, I have engaged the Southern Avenger (Jack Hunter). I have engaged descendants of the famed Daniel Boone clan who were avid Tea Party members.

This week I attended a large Tea Party rally in Kingwood Texas. The first thing that was clear is that diversity was absent. There were between 500 to 800 people there based on my empirical count. I counted four black women and two black men. I guess I was the third black man. One thing that was obvious is that most in the crowd bent over backwards to make me feel welcomed. I cannot see what is in anyone’s heart but I can see their actions.
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This Liberal had pleasant but surreal experience at Kingwood TX Tea Party Ted Cruz rally (VIDEO) (Original Post) egbertowillies Sep 2015 OP
Great read. Thank you. think Sep 2015 #1
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