If The Teabaggers Were Mostly African Americans and Hispanics...

[Yavin4]

How would the media treat them when if they were to bring guns to rallies, spit on members of congress, shout "baby killer" during the vote, and commit acts of violence against elected officials?

Do you think that CNN would cover them with deference and respect? Would they broadcast their convention where racist remarks and propaganda was rampant?

[FrenchieCat]

1. If they were folks of color.....

they'd be under the jail!

The media is how we got here.
They grew that movement.
And I'm not just talking about Fox either!

[my2sense]

4. True! n/t

[Cha]

6. +1

[CakeGrrl]

10. Yep. The police couldn't deal with angry people of color fast enough.

I'd bet good $$$ on it.

[Top Cat]

19. Either in jail or killed.... this would not be tolorated

[treestar]

21. Yep!

Exactly.

[uponit7771]

22. yeap

[MadMaddie]

26. FrenchieCat you are more than right

Let's take it one step further...

Those groups would have been treated like the Black Panthers were in the 60's. They would be burned out of their homes and if they resist arrest they would be shot down.

This is the truth and we all know it.

[mrs_p]

29. if they were people of color

the police would shoot first, and not ask questions later

[OneGrassRoot]

2. You'd hear nonstop "thug" talk. It's all so repulsive.

:puke:

I just heard a clip of Rep. John Lewis speaking today, and he said a simple truth, which is a great reminder: "Silence is consent."

Yes sir, it is.

:patriot:

[Uzybone]

3. fire hoses, dogs, riot police

[firedupdem]

18. +1...

you said it.

[Top Cat]

20. and police brutality to say the least...

[Christa]

5. K & R

Excellent observation.

[Beetwasher]

7. Infinite+

[butterfly77]

8. Kick,kick,kick and Recommended!

:kick:

[tishaLA]

9. Didn't Reagan change the open carry rule in CA because of the Panthers?

Old Ronnie got nervous when "the Negroes" showed up in Sacramento with rifles.

[my2sense]

11. Interesting isn't it?

I hope they shut this nonsense down while they still can. It's getting crazy.

[tom_paine]

12. Arrests, taserings and beatings like you've never seen before

But since the KKK/Teabaggers are the most moral, virtusuous and patriotic among us, terrorist acts that would get lefties or minorities beatent o a pulp are magically washed clean in our Corporate M$M.

Hell, if it was African-American, Hispanics, or Lefties "Free Speech Zones" would have been set up to prevent them ever getting close enough to do those thing in the first place.

Bushification is becoming Nazification - I saw it coming long ago. Too long ago for my own good. (take it from me, you DON'T want to be right about something so far in advance of it happening)

[Dappleganger]

13. They'd bring out the hoses as soon as 3 of them got together.

[Number23]

31. 3?? Child, try one!

I remember the hysteria over the two black Panthers in Philadelphia during the 2008 election. I think one of them had a billy club and both of them just stood there and did nothing.

You would have thought it was 8 dozen brothers with AK-47's and machetes the way folks panicked over those TWO black guys at ONE voting station in ONE city. But dozens of white teapartiers can chant, spit, and throw slurs at members of Congress and to many, they're just "exercising their civic duty." :eyes: Gotta love this country...

[polichick]

14. Heard on msnbc from Katrina Vanden Heuvel that war protesters...

...with caskets in front of the WH were arrested this week - while teabaggers carried on.

[ProSense]

15. In this time?

They'd all be suspected of having ties to al Qaeda. That's a fact.

[rufus dog]

16. If they were middle aged white Liberal males like me

they would be thrown in jail. If they were of color they would be shipping them to Gitmo.

Edit to add LIBERAL

[zulchzulu]

17. Holy shit... it would be like the Rodney King riots

Redneck dumbfucks... we can handle. Angry blacks... fire up the choppers and load and load...

:crazy:

[Clio the Leo]

23. They'd be locked up.

White folks can wave guns around and spit on African Americans and it's considered "free speech." Conversely, African American men aren't allowed to drive in certain parts of town without a "good reason."

[BarackObama2012]

24. Hell No

CNN has been pushing the republican agenda ever since the election was over with.

[Catherine Vincent]

25. Another example of "white privilege" nt

[angee_is_mad]

27. a bunch of damn thugs

is what msm would call them, just like they called the people of New Orleans fucking refugees.

Living while black changes everything. How else could Obama be a nazi, communist, socialist, muslim and the antichrist at the same time?

[jbnow]

28. I never thought of that. Such a glaring reality. No one would

seeing them as legitimate anything, no one would be wooing their votes, no one would call them patriots.

They would call them dangerous... and that is even before this weekend. If they had acted like the baggers at the town halls, yelling and getting in peoples faces the police would have taken them away.

The realization is stark.

Reminds me of when cop arrested Gates and many were defending cop and felt Gates was to blame. Chris Matthews asked "What if the Professor had been white and the officer black?"
Boy did that give pause.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

30. The RW would score a bunch of scare points against immigration

Even if every single one of them would be citizens.

[Fruittree]

32. They'd be in jail...

This whole teabag thing is so, so repulsive. Why is it being allowed to exist and where are we in a response?

[PVnRT]

33. They would be "rioters" and "terrorists"

[wndycty]

34. K&R

:kick: