We don't tolerate racist behavior, Tea Party organizer says

[sabra]

Source: CBS News

(CNN) – A leader of a national Tea Party organization said Monday that her organization has no patience for racists.

"In Tea Party Patriots, we have no place for that," Jenny Beth Martin said on CNN's American Morning. "If we see somebody who's doing something racist, we tell them to leave our events. We're there for our core values. We want to reclaim our founding principles in this country."

Martin, who's the national coordinator for the Tea Party Patriots, said the conservative grassroots movement is dedicated to furthering three core values: fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government, and free markets. Asked whether the Tea Party movement is political movement or a protest movement, Martin responded that it is "a little bit of both."

And Martin said the movement is open to everyone, including racial and ethnic minorities, notwithstanding the fact that some national polls have indicated Tea Party activists and supporters of the movement are predominantly Caucasian.

Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/03/we-dont-tolerate-racist-behavior-tea-party-organizer-says/?fbid=VP2LgjjHQ1T

[ixion]

1. Uh, yeah, except when they do

which is always. It's coded into their lingo.

[Posteritatis]

37. Nah, he's right. They don't tolerate it, they celebrate it. (nt)

[Iowa]

40. Yep...

But they're in full propaganda mode trying to convince the country they aren't racist. I was listening to Neal Conan's Talk of the Nation on NPR the other day. Conan trotted out a black tea partier as his guest in an effort to undermine any notion that there's racism in the tea party movement. I wasn't a bit surprised by this. I have grown accustomed to hearing Conan whore for the right. He feigns "balance", but he is fast becoming the Sean Hannity of NPR.

[Democat]

2. The core principal of the Tea Party movement is hatred of the US Government

Repeat.

[BobbyBoring]

6. It's

A hatred of government when a black man is at the top. That's not raciest though~

[gratuitous]

3. Pay no attention to 80% of our signs and slogans

"If we see somebody who's doing something racist . . ." Yeah, like what? Forming a lynch mob? Buying and selling slaves? What would rise to the level of racism that this garbanzo would recognize? I also like how CNN characterizes the Tea Baggers as a "conservative grassroots movement" without noting where their funding is coming from to send their national coordinator to make the talk show rounds.

[onehandle]

4. I agree. Because racist behavior defines them.

Nothing to tolerate when it's all you got.

[Botany]

5. This is the head of the Texas Teabaggers

[Iliyah]

9. LOL

the delusional tea baggers denying the denier which are themselves.

[HopeHoops]

7. So they don't tolerate teabagger gatherings? WTF?

:wtf:

[sexxybeast]

8. Thats hard to believe

wheres the teabag outrage over whats going on in AZ? they are strangely silent at the Police state tactics that are really going on, and are more upset at poor people getting health care. disgusting.

[CatholicEdHead]

38. What is even more is where were they in the W years

When W started up two wars, the tax cuts, etc... which blew up the deficit. They were sitting on their hands during that time. Hypocrites.

[bhikkhu]

10. They need to read some history

Limited government (depending on how limited, of course) only survives if other governments are similarly limited. After the revolutionary war, our limited government was outmanuevered and basically pantsed by the Europeans, hence the strong central government set up by the constitution in 1787. During the cold war, a limited US government would have been unable to act as a counterweight to the Soviet's influence.

Free markets have failed to provide the most basic equity wherever they have been tried, an economic "survival of the fittest", where the government is always left to pick up the shattered pieces. In any case, a free market no would have the US looking like Haiti in short order - we can't compete with the cheaper labor of the rest of the world.

...and the first victim of fiscal responsibility would be the US military, which consumes the greater part of US revenues.

They're basically self-contradictory short-sighted asshats, hardly bright enough to govern. If the gained power, they'd just run everything into the ground.

[47of74]

11. Riiiiigggggghhhhhttttttt....I have the following items for sale if anyone believes that

[Bette Noir]

34. How much for the Florida wetlands?

I always wanted my own nature preserve...

[joeybee12]

12. Of course they don't "tolerate" it...they PROMOTE it...n/t

[leahcim]

13. They tolerate a lot of...

..."I'm not racist, but..." behaviour.

[Deep13]

14. Um, ri-i-ight. ...

[Unvanguard]

15. So how many Tea Partiers are against SB 1070? n/t

[bitchkitty]

16. Oh, I see.

They don't hate black people, just black Presidents. Mmmm hmmmm.....

[Deep13]

17. They're fine with Black people who know their "place."

It's really very discouraging to see that America is still prejudiced to this degree.

[TygrBright]

18. We don't tolerate violent behavior, Marine Corps Commandant says n/t

[TygrBright]

19. We don't tolerate singing, Metropolitan Opera Music Director says n/t

[TygrBright]

20. We don't tolerate steroid use, NCAA spokeperson says n/t

[TygrBright]

21. We don't tolerate racial profiling, AZ Law Enforcement union spokeperson says n/t

[TygrBright]

22. We don't tolerate lobbyist campaign contributions, DSCC Chair says

This is kinda fun!

Everybody join in!

puckishly,
Bright

[Raschel]

23. "some national polls indicate" lol. Who needs polls, just look at the pictures.

[prolesunited]

24. You mean the founding principles

that state African-Americans do not count as full human beings. I wonder if a bunch of minorities start showing up that they'll start using fractions for their crowd counts.

[Raschel]

25. "we're open to everyone" Hilarious. Where's the blind Dave Chapelle with a sign

when you need him? Now that would be funny.

[martymar64]

41. Just thinking of that character made me smile

If anybody's gonna have sex with my sister, it's gonna be me!

[fatbuckel]

26. And so there are examples of this"leaving their events..." she speaks of?

[SoapBox]

27. ROFL

...oh PULEEEEZE!

Best joke I've heard today.

[yourout]

28. ...we encourage it!

[Xenotime]

29. Bullshit. That's like saying "we don't tolerate water being wet."

[byronius]

30. If true, that's the end of the Teabagger movement. Like an SUV without an engine.

[Jefferson23]

31. Would it have been too difficult for CNN to ask this individual who

claims to be part of the non racist sector Tea Baggers if she and her group support Arizona's new immigration
law? I certainly believe her response would be telling.


Gosh, I can't stand CNN.

[BlueIdaho]

32. Without racism - they have nothing left to talk about.

[Bette Noir]

33. So we're going to stop seeing signs characterizing Mr. President

as a monkey, or a witchdoctor?

If they were to march against the police-state tactics practiced in Arizona, and the fingerprint-linked national ID proposed by the *Democrats,* of all people, I'd march with them.

Somehow, I don't think that'll happen. I don't remember seeing any tea party support for the protests this last weekend in Arizona and LA.

[ismnotwasm]

35. Teabagger; Racist by definition

No matter what they say they "don't tolerate", they can't escape what they are.

[Blue_Tires]

36. 3-4 years ago the "Minutemen" leadership were saying the exact thing...

We all know how that ended...

[Mad_Dem_X]

39. Bull. Shit.

How many people of color do you see at their little "tea parties"?