The Tea Party Whistle Blower

[babsbunny]

http://havinganaustinteaparty.com/news/2010/07_21_2010_a.html

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 21, 2010

Contact:
Greg Holloway (512.585.7631)
Torin Archbold (512.584.9608)

The following is a statement from Torin Archbold of the Austin Tea Party Patriots regarding the recent race-baiting comments by the NAACP and others and the obligation of tea partiers to set the record straight:

“The question is, do Tea Party activists and founders tolerate racism? I would have to say that they do, although the racism is coming from a surprising source. I would have to say that I am witnessing it daily and that I feel it's my duty as a Tea Party activist and American to right the wrong I see.

There is a quote that I will now live my life by: ‘The only thing necessary for the triumph is for good men to do nothing.’

I have been a Tea Party Patriot in Austin, Texas since the April 15th, 2009 Tea Party at the Texas State Capitol. I have been to many meetings and many events and have experienced absolutely no racism at all. I saw no signs and have heard no racial epithets thrown in any direction at anyone, but that does not exonerate tea partiers from being guilty of not fighting liberal racism when they find it.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. What a tool!

"The white men in the Tea Parties are afraid to speak. They will deny and deny that they are racists and they will deny that they allow racist acts, all the while allowing the true racists to put them on the defensive. They give ground, and allow the true racists to define the argument and set the rules of engagement. They have apparently bought into the belief that a black man can call a white man anything in creation, but if a white man says anything unflattering in the least, to or about a man or woman of color, he is by definition a racist. If this behavior is allowed to continue, then the good men are allowing the evil men to prevail. The Tea Party needs to fight this obvious racism. If they do not, and they allow the NAACP to make these baseless charges about them unchallenged and unfought, they will truly be guilty of allowing racist acts to be tolerated. I am going to stand up in defiance of the race baiters and confront them every time they choose to accuse those of the behavior that they themselves have displayed for so very long."

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