Tea Party Exhibits Racism, House Gives It a Caucus
Sarah Palin & Michelle Bachmann
According to Vice President Joe Biden, neither he nor the Obama administration believes the Tea Party to be a racist organization. This past Sunday on ABC’s This Week, Vice-President Joe Biden said, “I don’t believe—the president doesn’t believe—that the Tea Party is a racist organization,” Biden said on ABC’s This Week. “Very conservative, very different views on government…but it is not a racist organization.”
Additionally, the Tea Party Express was expelled from the Tea Party Federation after one of its top leaders, Mark Williams (the author of “Taking Back America – One Tea Party at a Time”), wrote an abhorrent and racist blog on his website. In the supposedly satirical piece the Tea Party leader used words like “massa” and “coloreds” while he depicted African Americans as lazy. He implied that given the choice, the black community would choose slavery over being “productive members of society.”
When reading his blog one gets the sense that Mark Williams was really proud of his use of nearly every stereotype about black people seen throughout American history – his self-importance just sort of drips off the page. Read more
Top Ten Questions (and Responses) Members of Congress Should Ask FAIR Representatives
Today members of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) are fanning out through the halls of Congress to press their agenda with Members, hoping to “Hold Their Feet to the Fire” of anti-immigrant fervor. It has not been a good week for FAIR. Turnout for its big event was awful. It got a good share of bad press; banned by the Smithsonian from returning for its awards dinner; and leafleted twice at its Radio Row hotel. The 4-H Center probably wishes it hadn’t hosted the FAIR Fire squadron after a flood of phone calls questioning that decision. And it’s only Wednesday!
Since Members of Congress and their staffs are very busy, we offer here—in the spirit of lending a helping hand—ten questions they can ask FAIR representatives if they visit.
1. Do you live in my District/State? A. Really? I hope you’ll move out soon. B. No? Why are you wasting my time?
2. When are you going to return that racist $1.2 million FAIR got from the Pioneer Fund? A. Never? Why don’t you just pass it through to the Klan? B. There is no B.
3. Since the Smithsonian banned FAIR from using its space again, where will you hold your awards dinner next year? A. Glen Beck’s studio? B. Roy Beck’s basement? Read more
National Town Hall Meeting: We Can’t Wait
Among cheers of “Sí se puede!” and “Time is now!” hundreds packed into the Church of the Reformation for a National Town Hall meeting on Capitol Hill. Their calls were clear – we can’t wait, we need comprehensive immigration reform now.
Farmworkers certainly can’t wait. Last year a pregnant teenager, María Isabel Vásquez Jiménez, died after working in a California vineyard in blistering heat without access to water or shade. Her’s is just one of many deaths due to inadequate protections for undocumented workers. How many more farmworkers will die in the fields before our system is reformed? Read more
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