Question about 9/12'er Teabag Protests

Cypress is apparently a self-hating white person who has yet to answer my question about why the race of the protestors makes their point any more or less valid.
 
"The Democratic National Party has released a web ad that unmasks this summer’s Republicans astroturf campaign of deploying tea-baggers to disrupt health-care town halls and other events. The ad exposes the fact that the people shown in cell-phone videos of the disruptions are not the angry constituents confronting their elected representatives they pretend to be, but rather are tea-baggers bussed into the districts to shut down discussion about reform."

http://www.pensitoreview.com/2009/08/05/dnc-goes-after-gops-astroturf-tea-bagger-flash-mobs/
 
Damocles said:
I don't know, I wasn't at one of them. I did, however, just spent the past few hours listening to the next Senator from Colorado.

Here's the video from his website:

YouTube - Ryan Frazier - A New Way Forward

Here he is at a TEA Protest...

YouTube - GJ Sentinel Video of Ryan Frazier at the TEA Party Ryan Frazier for Colorado

He speaks of Balanced Budget Amendments, he speaks of rules that will not allow a vote on new legislation without an explanation how it applies to the powers granted the federal government in the constitution...

IMO, this is the next Senator for Colorado...
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He reminds me of Obama.
 
Epicurus said:
Cypress is apparently a self-hating white person who has yet to answer my question about why the race of the protestors makes their point any more or less valid.
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Why are there no blacks? It gives me pause to wonder...
 
Epicurus said:
Cypress is apparently a self-hating white person...
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KILL WHITEY! :cuss:

who has yet to answer my question about why the race of the protestors makes their point any more or less valid.
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I don't believe I said anything about if their point was valid. Please read for comprehension next time.

I asked why they were so white, and so old.


I'm sure they have a valid point, if your interest is in defending corporate CEOs and private insurance company monopolies.
 
Cypress said:
KILL WHITEY! :cuss:




I don't believe I said anything about if their point was valid. Please read for comprehension next time.

I asked why they were so white, and so old.


I'm sure they have a valid point, if your interest is in defending corporate CEOs and private insurance company monopolies.
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So why are you harping on their race? Why is it significant to you that these groups are mostly white people?
 
Epicurus said:
So why are you harping on their race? Why is it significant to you that these groups are mostly white people?
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Um, I'm not the only one asking why the Teabaggers and the Republican Party are all white. Surely, you're not feigning shock and that this is the first time you've ever heard of it.

Nothing's wrong with a lily-white Party, or white teabag movement, if you don't have a problem with it. As for me personally, I wouldn't be comfortable in a 99% white party. If you can't sell your ideas to all americans, there's something very, very wrong. I personally have a problem with some liberal causes, that are lily-white, like the environmental movement. And trying to bring in the interests of all americans into a movement like that is important, which is why some enviros are pushing environmental justice as an issue. Communities of color face more environmental degradation and environmental discrimination than any other community, but the lily-white environmentalists often have done a poor job outreaching those concerns, and incorporating/including the interests of urban, disadvantaged communities. But, I can at least recognize that and try to work on it.

If you don't have a problem with the teabaggers and republicans being a party of whites, more power to ya. I was just wondering if Republicans, in any way, recognize they have a problem. If they even remotely have any conception of why minorities overwhelmingly reject them.

And from the rightwing responses on the thread, I'm quite sure they don't see a problem. They think having four black people show up for a tea bag party validates their "diversity".

Fair enough.
 
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