Some black conservatives question tea party's inclusiveness

[alp227]

A year ago Brandon Brice was one of the primary speakers at the tax day "tea party" rally in New York. The 27-year-old African American, who calls himself a hip-hop Republican, felt at home with the fairly diverse crowd of protesters, shouting into the microphone: "We tell the federal government that it does not tell us what to do!"

Today, Brice says he is worried about the movement.

"It's strayed away from the message of wasteful spending and Washington not listening to its constituents, and it's become more of this rally of hate," he said. "The tea party leaders should apologize on behalf of the irresponsible comments that were made, but they should also stand very firm on where we stood and where they stood in 2009."

He and other black conservatives are divided over the grass-roots movement of tea party groups that has caught fire with adherents of small government and fiscal responsibility. The tension stems from reports of racial and homophobic slurs directed against black and gay members of Congress who voted to overhaul health care, from photos circulating on the Internet of signs raised at tea party protests with slogans such as "Obama Promotes White Slavery," and the exhortation of a speaker at the group's convention that voters should be subject to literacy tests.

The debate ratcheted up this week as two prominent black conservatives, Thomas Sowell and Ward Connerly, decried accusations of tea party racism. Connerly defended the movement and wrote in a National Review column that "race is the engine that drives the political Left."

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/07/AR2010040703402.html
Brice's blog: http://hiphoprepublican.com/

Hmm, given Brice's choice to call himself a "hip hop Republican", no wonder why a Worldnetdaily columnist called Obama a "hip hop president."

Otherwise it's good to see some conservatives calling out some fools who are crossing a very fragile line of decent discourse.

[xultar]

1. In other news Tiger, a famous golfer is also a skank ho.

[TygrBright]

2. "some black conservatives question tea party's inclusiveness"

Did anyone else spray ice tea/soda/coffee/water/smoothie/whatever all over their monitor when they read this?

Sheeeesh, my diaphragm is still sore from laughing that hard.

amazedly,
Bright

[Uzybone]

3. some chickens question the diversity of the KFC menu

[marmar]

4. Ya think?

:think:

[TheDebbieDee]

5. Black conservatives are only NOW questioning this..............

Meanwhile, alongside a river named Denial........

[MrScorpio]

6. Don't get me started on "Black Conservatives". However, they only make up around 5% of black people

Which conveniently coincides with the number of nutjobs in our general population

[BlooInBloo]

9. Oh it's that high?

[MrScorpio]

10. Yeah, I'm embarrassed to say that it is

But it's one of those things that we don't like to discuss in polite company

[BlooInBloo]

11. Well that's one problem you'll never have with me around.

:P

[ecstatic]

7. Is he serious?

Hip hop republican? Did Steele recruit him? :crazy:

[BlooInBloo]

8. PSST!!! They'll never like you. Ever.

[d_r]

12. some roaches question the sweet goodness of raid

[HopeHoops]

13. The teabaggers are TRYING to find blacks dumb enough to travel with them.

They just make the blacks ride in the BACK of the Teabag Express.

[HughBeaumont]

14. "It's strayed away from the message of wasteful spending . . . "

I think your FIRST clue should have been that they were nowhere to be seen when King Douchemaster II doubled the National Debt, mostly to enhance the coffers of ultra wealthy people (yes, that would be "not YOU", Brandon) who subsequently pocketed and sat on it instead of, you know, hiring workers here.

Well, that, and signs like these . . .






Class.

[Brewman_Jax]

15. Really?

did they figure that out all by themselves, or did they ask a 5th grader?

Hip hop republican? An oxymoron by a moron. :eyes: