Surprise, Surprise: Tea Party Leader Tells Racist ‘Joke’ at Arkansas Rally
Tea Party board member Inge Marler, stayed true to the racism and bigotry of the organization when she made a joke that could only be considered ignorant.
Speaking to a crowd of supporters in the Ozarks of Arkansas, Marler had this to say to get the crowd going:
“A black kid asks his mom, ‘Mama, what’s a democracy?’
“‘Well, son, that be when white folks work every day so us po’ folks can get all our benefits.’
“‘But mama, don’t the white folk get mad about that?’
“‘They sho do, son. They sho do. And that’s called racism.’”
*Cue laughter from rednecks citizens concerned about higher taxes.*
Racism is nothing new for this organization.
In January of last year, two dozen members of the Tea Party of Tennessee presented lawmakers with a list of “priorities and “demands” for the 2011 legislative session. According to the Party, it would “besmirch the image of the Founding Fathers” to be honest about this nation’s history.
In material distributed to the legislators, they demanded that state laws governing textbook criteria ensure that “no portrayal of minority experience in the history which actually occurred shall obscure the experience or contributions of the Founding Fathers, or the majority of citizens, including those who reached positions of leadership.”
Party spokesman and Fayette County attorney Hal Rounds said the group wants to address “an awful lot of made-up criticism” about, for instance, the founders intruding on the Indians or having slaves or being hypocrites in one way or another.
“The thing we need to focus on about the founders is that, given the social structure of their time, they were revolutionaries who brought liberty into a world where it hadn’t existed, to everybody — not all equally instantly — and it was their progress that we need to look at.”
According to The Huffington Post, leaders within the Tea Party condemned Marler’s “joke” — after they were contacted by the press.
As is white people are not on welfare…some white people are so damn ignorant….gtfoh
Not surprised at all. These types of white people have to be pretty stupid or racist or both to think all black people sit at home and get welfare checks. They spend a lot of time talking about black people and welfare. This welfare queen crap that they spread around is not the reality for most black people. These idiots watch Maury and the local news and read ignorant blogs and come up with their opinions and jokes. Arkansas? I wonder how many of the people in that audience were getting help from Uncle Sam and taxpayers lol.
The tea party spends a bit too much time talking about black people to not be racist. Black people make up 12% of the population. They try to make it seem like we are sucking the country dry with our welfare queen lifestyle. They try to make it seem like Obama only won the election because of black people voting for handouts. When you look at 12% of the population and the actual number of black people voting, this is just not the case. The tea party in my opinion, has been working really hard to make it seem like this recession and everything wrong in this country is because of socialism to benefit poor people. Since they equate poor people with black people, I’m saying that they really like to push the message that black people and welfare are ruining the country.
The welfare that they complain about is TANF. The number of people on TANF is like 4% of the population. About 40% of those people are black. Black people who support the tea party are crazy. How can you support an organization that uses code words to demonize and dehumanize you? These idiots sit up at these rallies and cheer. They’re just too silly to understand Republicans and their code words. You know why those poor white people in Arkansas cheered about poor people? It’s because they understand that they’re not the poor people that the speaker was talking about.
I can agree with the tea party about fiscal conservatism, but I would never be a member. They are just too dishonest in the first place. Their main objective seems to be to take the country back to a period when white people were thriving, conservative values especially bigoted values were the norm, and black people were far removed from them, kept their mouths shut, and worked very hard for low, low wages like Chinese sweat shop workers. Neither party Republicans nor Democrats is more fiscally conservative. Democrats and their spending and Republicans and their wars and tax cuts are both a big reason for the national debt. At the end of the day, what these races all boil down to is social issues. Tea partiers are upset that the country has moved away from Christian values. They want to put more religion in the government. They want to stop black welfare queens and make them work outsourced factory jobs for less than minimum wage, kick out illegal immigrants (legal ones too), punish gay people, stop safe sex programs, stop selling condoms, shut the atheists up, put prayer back in school, and stop Asian immigrants from taking their kids’ spot in university.
There was an article about there being more minority babies than white ones over at Yahoo one day. You should have seen the comments. Most of the idiots jumped to black vs. white responses and blaming black people and their supposed inborn promiscuity. (Again, their opinion is formed by watching too much Maury, hip hop videos, and local news clips about the very rare baby mommas with fifteen kids.) The birth rate for black people is actually not that high. The increase in minorities was because of Hispanics. That is what they are afraid of – that one day they will be the minority and have to really experience democracy especially you know not getting representation or a voice because the majority doesn’t agree with you.
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