Darian, I'd like to respond to your article, NAACP not invited to the Tea Party?, especially in regard to my own article, Tea Party Racism. I would definitely agree with you that the Tea Party socioeconomic statistics are pretty damning. There is clearly a bias towards whites in the Tea Party, and, judging by the statistics, in conservative movements on the whole.
Yet despite the hidden racial prejudice present in the Tea Party, I believe their intent is to comment on and create change politically, and not simply to expose their racism. As Michael Gearson wrote in the article I expounded upon in my own article, "In the long, tense months until the November congressional elections, a little sanity will be needed [from members of the Tea Party]." If they want to have any kind of impact on American politics, they have to put aside their racism, and maybe even confront it within themselves.
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