Black voters have been turning out in record numbers not only in Tampa, but throughout the state. There are reports of people standing in line up to seven hours, many of them elderly and disabled—and at one Orlando site there was a bomb scare. So NAACP members have been passing out water to help people deal with the heat. A Republican poll watcher reported this activity at the C. Blythe Andrews Jr. polling site in Tampa, a predominantly African American district, and had the poll clerk stop the water distribution. According to NAACP political action chair Yvette Lewis, the Republican poll watcher accused the teams of bribing voters with the water, much like a challenge filed by a Republican poll watcher Sunday when helpers passed out fried fish.
“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 […] we need to stop making slavery about race.”
From a list of ultimatums submitted by the Tennessee Tea Party today
which demands (among other things) that slavery be removed from any historic accounts of our nation’s founding fathers and that children no longer be taught that our form of government is a democracy.
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2011/jan/13/tea-parties-cite-legislative-demands/
It’s going to be a long month.
Get bent, TTP.
“Of all the silly nonsense, this is the stupidest tea party I’ve ever been to in all my life” .. Alice in Wonderland
A video made at the August 2010 Glenn Beck rally in Washington D.C.
This set of interviews by New Left Media is a very revealing portrayal of many of the Tea Party Republicans.
The interviews were conducted respectfully.
Racism, lies, insults, and wilful ignorance are on full display here.
It’s 13 minutes long. If you don’t have time to watch it now, come back when you do.
