Blacks & The Tea Party Movement: Bookerista Perspectives

Constructive Feedback: "The 'Bitter Black Coffee Movement' - Questions They Should Ask Themselves About The Tea Party"

The conservative blogger in metro Atlanta, Ga. zeroes in on black liberal critics of the tea party movement. He wonders: why aren't they more focused on organically building up and better managing black communities?: "You mask your activism as 'concern for 'White Supremacy' returning to beat you down in the streets'. In truth you PROVE that you believe in 'Non-White White Supremacy' based on your focus and, more importantly your DEPENDENCY upon their proposed tax-cuts. If they turn off the spigot - you get thirsty - per the way that you have advocated. Either these are poor White, ignorant trailer trash with no money - OR - you indeed fear that they will cut you off from the nutrition source that you have rationalized under the cover of the 'Social Justice' bond that you hold them to as country-mates. What if the only thing the Tea Partyers offer to share with you as fellow American citizens  is their willingness to not physically assault you on the street and the standard services under the 'general welfare' (fire, police, military, justice and enumerated constitutional protections, etc)?  Let's call it the 'scaffolding' for ease of description. I seriously question if some of you would take this offer and run with it - as you are required to provide the finishing work to the structure. This would serve as the instantiation of the 'Standard of Living' that you seek. You get to live as large as your management acumen affords you."

Responding to an AlterNet article's claim that a "disproportionately high share of our federal government's tax income comes from racially diverse, immigrant-rich, urbanized states, including California, Illinois, New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts; not from extremely homogeneous, conservative, anti-tax strongholds like Idaho, Montana, Utah, the Dakotas and Wyoming", he continues his commentary: "Let's follow the argument folks: The Progressive and diverse states have a greater outflow to the federal government to pay for social entitlements that the 'conservative' 'Tea Party' disparages as 'Welfare'. IF your goal is to have them 'lay in the bed that they have made' and not receive what they have repudiated - WHY do you in the 'Bitter Black Coffee Movement' support federal taxation? I don't judge people based upon their words and the 'hypocrisy' they point out in others. I judge them based on if they truly believe based upon their actions. Thus just as we see several 'city incorporation' or 'county succession' movements as taxpayers who are tired of having THEIR tax money flow outside of their own districts have initiated. If Mr. Benjamin actually intended to use these facts as anything more than a debate factoid - why don't we see the same sort of drive to protect the resources of the 'progressive states' from raids by 'Conservative Welfare States'?"

More: "In the mind of the progressive - the community has 'social justice rights' that must be SOUGHT and FULFILLED.  It matters not to them WHO services them. It only matters that this end state is obtained at this particular point in time - per the plateau that they now stand. If you all are conscious about the external costs that we suffer as a global people from the use of carbon based fuel in order to maintain our lifestyle - why is it so difficult to see the high costs [t]his mode of 'being made in receipt of' a standard of living that your own organic capacity of production cannot sustain? When this 'national resource' is depleted will your community be any more empowered to maintain this standard if and when the US government goes bankrupt than if petroleum reserves are exhausted? What is the 'Green Energy' equivalent of what you should be doing with respect to building up the competencies within your community?"

Lenny McAllister: "Growing Party's Populari-Tea In Black History Month"

The conservative Republican commentator in North Carolina - who has spoken at tea party events - opines about the lack of racial diversity at the recent national tea party convention in Nashville as a limitation of the movement: "Until the Tea Party movement finds a way to embrace diversity (just in the same way that the GOP has needed to do the same) while finding ways to eliminate the needs for (and, thus, the emotional binds to) big government and its programs, the battle for America’s soul — and collective wallet — will remain a segmented fight that unfairly brands some as separatist and radical without giving others a tangible reason to join the movement. This includes a large majority of African Americans, a group that consistently polls conservative and votes Democratic with minimal results for improving our communities. Racist rhetoric by a small minority of Tea Party-goers (such as the 'Obama Witch Doctor' posters) is not acceptable at all from the movement, but advancing the history of men such as Wentworth Cheswell — a Black Revolutionary-era patriot selected to draft New York’s first constitution — should be. Black History Month is the opportunity that the movement should not miss upon, particularly if it wants to break the cycles of government spending and self-purposed bureaucracy that finds its roots in local and state governments that count on urban plight to maintain its toxic philosophical influence — one that threatens black America at a disproportionate rate robbing us of the Vivien Thomases, Ben Carsons, and Colin Powells that could help turn America around as some of the 'bigger people' that we need today."

More: "The Tea Party movement has already shown the ability to impact the nation. However, the contrast from Saturday night highlighted that there is a gap to address if the tea party is going to change the nation for the better. Should more tea partiers choose to make Black History Month the springboard to taking their Americanism to another level, it may not be long before the movement becomes truly historic — and the strangleholds of fiscal irresponsibly, big-government ideology, and Democratic control of black voters become history."

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