Thread: Black conservative tea party backers take heat

Black conservative tea party backers take heat

By VALERIE BAUMAN
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 2:40 pm |

They've been called Oreos, traitors and Uncle Toms, and are used to having to defend their values.

Now black conservatives are really taking heat for their involvement in the mostly white tea party movement _ and for having the audacity to oppose the policies of the nation's first black president.

As with many conservative movements, opponents have tried to brand the tea party as racists hiding behind economic concerns. An occasional tea partier toting ugly race-based phrases gives them ammunition.

But these black conservatives don't consider that representative of the movement.

Some say Obama's election rallied them and inspired more black Republicans to run for office in November. Some are courting tea partiers with a fiscally conservative message.

http://azstarnet.com/news/us/article_bb ... 2b8c3.html

Now black conservatives are really taking heat for their involvement in the mostly white tea party movement _ and for having the audacity to oppose the policies of the nation's first black president.

These a pretty race-based phrases. It's like saying all blacks have to think, act and vote alike. Al whites have to think, act and vote alike and so on...according to their race?