This writer tells it like it is regarding the "Tea Partyers."

Published on Thursday, April 15, 2010 by Black Agenda Report

White Nationalism on the March

by Glen Ford

The campaign to bring White nationalism, the founding ideology of the United States, fully out of the closet, kicks into a higher gear on the Right's anti-holiday, April 15. Newt Gingrich and the various tribes of White Rightists unveil their "Contract From America," a scaled-down version of the manifesto the Republicans rallied around to win control of the U.S. House of Representatives, in 1994. The 2010 "contract" is leaner, built for mass Caucasian consumption. It is written largely in code, the language of obfuscation that American racists speak in an attempt to hide their white supremacist beliefs from others - and, in many cases, from themselves. Indeed, much of American mass political speech is conducted in code, allowing white people to identify each other through terms like "middle class," "family values," "taxpayers," "patriots," "law-abiding" - terms which, although literally applicable to people of every ethnicity, are understood to mean "good white American citizens."

Corporate media almost universally describe the Tea Partyers as "anti-government" - which is nonsense. They oppose the government providing assistance - economic, legal, educational, real or imagined - to those that are "undeserving," which in their world consists mostly of folks that can be defined by race, language or religion (using code words, when required by polite society). Naturally, the average Tea Partyer - when sober - will deny having "a racist bone" in his body, but any group whose unifying characteristic is daily engorgement on Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck is, by definition, racist. Anyone who tries to tell you different, is far too tolerant of bigoted behavior, assumptions and speech to be anything but a closet racist, himself.

What the Tea Partyers really oppose is a social contract among all the resident peoples of the United States. In this, they are indeed the direct political progeny of the Founding Fathers and the great mass of white settlers, who found the very concept of full U.S. citizenship for Africans and Native Americans monstrously repugnant, a devaluation of their superior white selves. Racism in the national womb prevented the United States from forging a genuine social contract between whites and Others. More to the point, white people rejected any relationship that did not recognize and maintain white supremacy. This was to be forever a White Man's country, expanding as far as might and money could take it - but white, white, white.

The white nationalists want their white nation back. But they can't have it. And, since there can be no bargaining on that issue, there is no reason whatsoever for Blacks and browns and people of good will to engage or humor the Tea Party's white nationalists. There is nothing to concede to them, and nothing they can offer us to which we are not already entitled.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/04/15-5

Interview with White Supremacist at Sarah Palin's Boston Common Teaparty Rally
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8153781

K&R

as to boil the complex issues of war, greed, and corruption down to a white v black thing. Even sadder that someone that thinks this way is running a website that influences people to think the same way. Political dialog used to be much more interesting when both sides didn't have a "buzz-word" reaction to anything their opponents say ("socialism" for the right, "racism" for the left).

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They are uniformly happy with the money spent on war and entitlement programs (except for Medicaid and Welfare). Those are the things we spend money on and they don't want to cut spending on what they like. It follows that they want to cut spending on programs for the poor.

Who do you think that a conservative organization the is almost 100% white believes is getting a "hand out"? I think you are being incredibly naive if you don't think the one true common denominator in the Teabag Party, is racism against blacks in the south and a particularly vicious racism against Latinos in the west.

Try and understand, the tea partiers are made up like "The Back Street Boys"
They are a made up group. Funded by corporate interests the leaders hold focus groups to see what gets the best response from the hicks in the styx.

See the America First movement of the 1930's same song next verse. They grab headlines but that is all. They are the political equivalent of the infomercial.

If I hear one more idiot talking head call the Teabaggers "anti-big government" I'm going to scream.

The NYTs had an article about the make up of the 'Baggers. It was all about how they are mostly white and mostly collecting some form of government money S.S., unemployment, medicare). Nothing about racism. Scroll down to about 400 letters and comments calling them out on their racism. How is the media missing this?

But it doesn't fit The Great American Narrative that
there should still be racism in this country among
Whites so they simply refuse to report on that. Also,
if they reported fairly and accurately on the extent of
White racism, they and their sponsors/advertizers would
get millions of letters threatening boycotts, and the
media can't afford to lose any more eyeballs/ears for
their ads.

Tesha