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Is the Tea Party Racist?
There is a group of people in America that are creating an illusion of a crisis out of thin air. They are portraying themselves as having a noble cause, but anyone who looks closely enough will see what lies behind their claims. Their fake crisis is fooling people into overlooking a much more serious crisis. If that wasn’t enough, their goals only seem to be based on prejudice and bigotry. So who is this group? You probably guessed it by now, it’s those who think the Tea Party have a secret racist agenda.
White Privilege Conference
On April 13th in Minneapolis Minnesota the 12th annual “White Privilege Conference” will take place. People from all over the country will come and be educated on America’s alleged systemic white supremacy. Unfortunately for Minnesota, as Katherine Kersten of the Star Tribune explains, area schools are sending a delegation of teachers to the conference at the tax payers expense, while only recently having to fire 94 teachers. Kersten’s article is worth reading because she goes into detail about the kind of foolishness that goes on at this conference. She explains what was said at the 2009 keynote address:
The Racialists “Evidence”
In a CNN interview Tim Wise said that in order to have an honest dialogue on race we need to understand “the way things actually are,” referring to racial discrimination. In fact, the very basis of the policy suggestions of racialism, such as affirmative action, rely on what experts like Wise propose as fact. In other words, if racialists don’t have evidence that our entire society is plagued with white supremacy then they have no case. This seems like a reasonable starting point, and many would consider Tim Wise one of the best for providing the factual side of racialism. Tavis Smiley on his PBS program said of Wise’s writing that “the data’s there, the studies are there, the evidence is there.” Michael Eric Dyson said that Wise is a “national treasure.” The famed author of the Afrocentric Manifesto, Molefi Kete Asante, said that Wise is “One of the brilliant voices of our time.” According to the Utne Reader Wise is one of the “25 Visionaries” of 2010. Wise is one of the most read racialist, he is constantly asked to speak at college campuses, and he is frequently on cable networks such as CNN to provide commentary on racial issues.
