Kirata
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Joined: 2/11/2006 From: USA Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: rulemylife Maybe he should have said close to 100% but you understood the meaning and you are trying to imply that the teabaggers are racially diverse, which they are not. Given that the Tea Party groups are not Obama fan clubs, that 96% of black voters cast their ballots for Obama, and that blacks represent 13% of the electorate, one can only reasonably expect them to comprise about one half of one percent of Tea Party supporters. Now as it happens, a number of the whites in the Tea Parties also voted for Obama, or so I've heard them say, so, if there may be some disaffection with Obama among blacks, then one might expect they would comprise more than one half of one percent. But even double that would still be only one percent, which is small enough to be hardly noticeable. So I think that the Tea Parties are about as diverse with respect to blacks as one might reasonably expect them to be, and that the oft heard charge of racism is not needed to explain it, notwithstanding that in any large gathering of whites there are bound to be some racists looking to promote their affliction. K.
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