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President Obama and
the New Secession
“As the first African-American president he’s been
up against a racist white bloc in the Republican
Party that has come dressed as the Tea Party.” Frank
Schaeffer, author of Sex, Mom & God, interviewed
by Jonathan Capehart, substituting for Martin
Bashir on msnbc, August 12, 2011
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The Tea Party Congressmen didn’t go
to Washington to insist upon fiscal
responsibility, but to destroy the
first black president. This is a racist
movement in which holocaust deniers
and Neo-Nazis, Neo-Confederates
play a prominent role and whose
members are drawn largely from the
secessionist states, states that cited
their desire to continue using human
beings as property as the reason for
their secession. Writing in Salon.com,
August 2, 2011, Michael Lind found
that the majority of Tea Partiers are
white men from the south. It figures,
because the Tea Party is a secessionist
movement and the filibustering against
President Obama’s programs, the
most frequent use of the filibuster in
history, amounts to a new nullification.
Early on Senator Mitch McConnell
announced that his goal was to deny
President Obama a second term. He’s
from Kentucky and though Kentucky
was not part of the confederacy, a
confederate “shadow government”
was a powerful influence on the state
government during the rebellion
launched by traitors.
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The Tea Party is founded on a racist
Big Lie. Broker, Rick Santelli, who
calls himself the Tea Party’s “lightening
rod,” said that whites are angry because
minorities are receiving all of the
entitlements, when it would take a few
hundred years for blacks and hispanics
to achieve the kind of government
largess that has been accorded whites,
which includes forced land grabs at
the expense of blacks, native americans
and, mexican’s; the resistance to
minorities gaining financial opportunities,
from the driving out of the chinese
from gold mines to the racist policies
of the Federal Housing Administration,
which denied millions of blacks
mortgages for decades. Whites also
benefited from fdr programs (the G.I.
Bill was called the “white” G.I. Bill),
The Great Society programs, Medicaid,
Medicare, Social Security, and federal
highway programs that built their route
to the suburbs—suburbs that excluded
blacks often by mob violence—just
to mention a few. Whites even benefit
from programs that were set up for
the benefit of blacks like Affirmative
Action. This is not the only such
program that’s supposed to benefit blacks
but ends up benefiting whites.
By
ISHMAEL
REED
One could say that in comparison to
blacks, native americans, hispanics
and south asians, the white middle
class is living in a socialist utopia
however, the upper class whites, with
whom they formed an alliance under
the banner of a Reaganite white
nationalism, might be ready to jettison
them. Jewish Americans who thought
they’d been accepted into this coalition
are now being threatened by the far
right, which the Tea Party represents.
This movement is anti Semitic as
well as racist. Maybe those Jewish
Neo-Cons at The New Republic and
Commentary (whose black representative
is John McWhorter), who felt so secure
in the embrace of white nationalism
that they supported quack theories
about black intellectual inferiority, will
notice this new threat to the security
of Jewish Americans.
Despite Manhattan Institute
spokesperson John McWhorter’s claim
that racial profiling is the last issue
facing blacks (he’s changed his mind
since he was used by Commentary
to dismiss racial profiling as an issue),
millions of blacks have been denied
the kind of advantages accorded whites
when buying homes. As late as Sunday,
July 31, 2011, Tom