'BUSTED: Liberals Admit Racism Charges Against Tea Parties A Tactic, Not A Truth

This is infuriating. There are racists in every party, but there should be no place in the national discourse for the following from Politico and Mary Frances Berry:

Question: Will branding the tea party 'racist' work as a political strategy?

Answer: "Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats win in November. Having one’s opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness."

This response from Grover Norquist nailed it:

The tea party movement is shorthand for Americans who are not committed to one party or the other (independent or non-active in party politics) and have recently been politicized to oppose the tremendous wave of federal spending coming from Washington.

Because they are swing voters, they are doubly important in electoral politics.
In 2006 and 2008, independents voted Democrat, reacting negatively to the unending occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. Now these same independents are trending strongly Republican as they react against the Reid/Pelosi spending.

Last year, the left was trying to prove that this was all organized by oil companies or Washington-based activist groups. It wasn’t. There is no “leader” of the movement, and yet thousands of local leaders have organized millions of Americans to go into the streets and into town hall meetings to oppose spending.

This latest effort by the left to call everyone who questions Democrat spending a racist just irritates voters already convinced Congress is ignoring their calls for less spending.
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Washington, D.C. – Members of the Project 21 black leadership group are condemning the left’s false use of the accusation “racist” as a political tactic, saying they recognize the strategy from the teaching of left-wing organizer Saul Alinsky.

Former U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Chairman Mary Frances Berry, a long-time prominent liberal activist, has admitted in an interview with Politico that the left is trying to smear the tea party movement as “racist” for strategic reasons, not out of genuine concern that the movement is itself racist.

Berry called the tactic an “effective strategy” and chose not to denounce it.

“As an active participant in the tea party movement, I know the movement’s motivation is about Obama’s policies and not his race,” said Deneen Borelli, a Project 21 full-time fellow who has spoken at many tea party rallies and is scheduled to speak at the “Uni-Tea” rally in Philadelphia on July 31.”Race card politics is the last-ditch effort to shift the debate away from President Obama’s harmful policies such as the government’s takeover of health care and his failure to create jobs — both of which are having an impact on his popularity. This diversion may also help Obama to try to jam through cap-and-trade legislation through Congress. It’s a grand distraction from policies and may unfortunately increase racial tensions.”

Berry, now the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and History at the University of Pennsylvania, was asked, “will branding the tea party ‘racist’ work?”

Berry replied:

Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats win in November. Having one’s opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness.

“This is exactly the kind of thing that has irked me all of my adult life, to put it mildly,” said Project 21 member R. Dozier Gray. “This willful and purposeful use of the race card for nothing more than political gain is toxic to race relations, and Mary Frances Berry must know that. But she evidently does not care. Based on her comment, political posturing takes primacy over whatever real issues regarding race that she might pretend are her calling cards. I have seen this all before. I find it shameful.”

Project 21 member Bob Parks added: “What’s most disturbing about this very public quote? Not only is Mary Frances Berry making this comment without fear of admonishment, and that progressives have apparently embraced and are employing these very shameful, race-baiting tactics — but Berry is likely teaching this ‘social thought’ hate to children.”

Left-wing organizer Saul Alinsky, whose tactics have been studied and followed by Barack Obama and his followers, taught his activists to “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” The Tea Party movement has unnerved the left and energized supporters of smaller government, causing the left to target it, as per Alinsky’s method, with bogus racism charges.

Project 21, a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization sponsored by the National Center for Public Policy Research, has been a leading voice of the African-American community since 1992.

http://dailybail.com/home/busted-liberals-admit-racism-charges-against-tea-parties-a-t.html

Everyone with half a brain already realized this, the Tea Partiers are dangerous to the Liberals as demonstrated in the 2010 and 2011 elections and they know they will be doomed in 2012 unless they can paint them as negativly and disgustingly as possible.

Well what would you expect from Grover Norquist? Of course it's a strategy, just like all the fanciful smears that come from the right about the left. Nonetheless, racists obviously have a natural home with the Tea Party. They are not disavowed or repelled at Tea Party rallies. They appear to feel quite welcome. Their signs speak for themselves. Just Google "tea paty rallies racist">images. The Tea Party is obviously quite comfortable with the company of racists.

I see nothing wrong with pointing that out to the world.

I've read many a post here, on these boards, referring to people who have been 'Taxed Enough Already', as racial, bigoted, etc., etc.

Now, they will see their info was just propaganda they fed into.

The brainless, all believing Liberal es.

well I am going to brew my evening tea as I am totally opposed to about everything in Washington right now - tho personally I feel a certain affection for the Obamas as people - why not - they are NICE

and I have no fear - anyone/every one who has ever known me knows that the last thing I am is racist

tho I have been a target of racism which makes the above discussion ironic at best - and experienced racism from blacks in my community - in those situations it is generally someone who does not know me at all personally, however

i googled that like you said, and this was the very first one to come up... imagine that...

http://biggovernment.com/jhoft/2010/04/16/racist-leftist-infiltrators-driven-from-tea-party-rallies/

another, from the same search

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/10/14/study-actually-there-arent-many-racist-signs-at-tea-party-rallies-after-all/

http://www.examiner.com/chester-county-2010-elections-in-philadelphia/tea-party-racism-not-according-to-african-americans-at-the-dc-tea-party-rally

No you didn't. You wouldn't have come up with a lot of links.

whatever... i didn't pull those links from my butt...

actually, i copy and pasted what you typed, and it came out "tea paty rallies racist" lol

You obviously dont know what your talking about since African American's and Hispanic's are amoung the tea parties founders and leadership.

No, anyone who opposes their Fuhrer Obama or his policies is labeled a racist.

You really don't read the things you want to respond to, do you? Just the tea Party talking point that you are unfairly victimized by an unjustified charge. Why continually whine about something that isn't even before you?