We know these tea baggers better than they know themselves and I can tell you why. It’s really just racism in another suit of clothes (barely – have you seen the posters comparing Obama to Hitler? Embarrassing that the rest of the world sees this ignorance too but more about that later). I hate pulling the race card as much as many like me (I mean, it’s not like Rev. Al and Rev. Jesse were selective when they went through their wallet and “BAM!” – racism all day all the time when sometimes it was just plain idiocy but I digress). Tea baggers are a new party and they are just flat out racist.
Here’s my proof: Very few of them can actually articulate with intelligence why they don’t like Obama. They say general things like “He doesn’t love our country” or “He wants to take my money” but they fail to follow up with how George (definitely not H.W. because I actually think he wasn’t so bad as a President. I’m talking about the son…always the son) loved our country by sending us off to the wrong country for an eight war or how that plus giving money to his corporate cronies was “loving” the country so much. Hypocrisy is the end result to them, at the end of the day, really despising the fact that the President of the United States is black. Some of you will say that racism is so 1970s but hey, as long as you have separate proms in the south, the Kardashians coming clean and saying their daddy was not found of the girls dipping in chocolate men and statistics that still show racial profiling existing, black men overwhelmingly being sent to jail more often and for longer periods of time than their white counterparts with the same criminal profiles, you’ve got racism. It doesn’t have to look like lynching or separate water fountains all the time. It can evolve to you breaking out into cold sweats knowing that a black man or woman or Asian man/woman representing your country to the rest of the world and there’s not much you can do about it. We all saw the documentaries where they showed people still using “colored” and “Muslim” with sneers on their faces like they were saying curse words. I’m not even going to open that bag of shameful worms that is the ignorance of what Islam means to the dumbasses in this country. Rather than use that useful tool called “the internet” they’d much prefer to watch Fox Faux news and use sound bites from those polished racists who hide under the world “journalism” though they are far from it.
NPR just did a story (this is a link so you can click on it. The comment section is particularly fun) on these people who care so much about the country that they’d rather boycott their President than say, feed homeless people or organize for children’s welfare (since they are actually the direction of the country). One such airhead in Dallas, Lorie Medina (um, Lorie, are you Hispanic? If so, you scare me more) says this:
“It’s like I wake up every morning, and there’s something new on the news that’s upsetting that I read about that he does,” she says. “If you look at the way he speaks, the way he talks about our country, if you look at the programs and the things he tries to put into place, it really appears that he does not love our country like most Americans do — and like past presidents do.”
Is she kidding me? Does she read or just watch “The Real Housewives of Orange County” (not judging since I watch too but I crack a book, read the news, talk to smarter people than me, etc. on a regular basis). “If you look at the way he speaks” clearly is racist code for “how dare he be articulate, black and not a head-nodder like that idiot Clarence Thomas (I was going to say Michael Steele but he’s just a puppet, either that or his party ignores him behind his back). I’m curious why Little Lorie thinks having healthcare for people means Obama doesn’t love the country. I’m also curious what “love” means in Lorie’s book. I have many questions for Lorie and today, I’d be willing to listen. Tomorrow, I’ll be too annoyed at her ignorance and drown her out to the sounds of some heavy Baptist gospel music because I don’t want to go to hell with my thoughts of her.
Now, don’t get me wrong. I don’t stan for Obama all the time. I don’t think he was ready for the Nobel Peace Prize but then, apparently, neither does he. I do think he takes to long to chop the crazies down but he’s older and might know more about patience than I do. It’s been a year and dude had a lot to contend with. Nobody seems to be able to have come up with better solutions than the ones we’ve been working with, whether you like them or not. Once, a Republican friend, during the George years, told me she didn’t like to talk politics socially because she was raised to not bash the Leader of Our Country. I wonder if she feels that way now that her man’s not in office.
The bottom line is that there’s nothing rational people can do with this Tea Party. They’ve decided what they’ve decided and we decide what we decide. Their ignorance is not the revelation as that’s been going on for years. The sad part is that we have to face the fact that America, much like the bible, is being read in so many different ways that we may not be the United States of anything anymore. That’s going to be the real problem.
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