Friday, February 05, 2010
US flag not good enough for Teabaggers
As the first day of their "convention" progressed, it became clear that two items were prominently missing from the 1st Annual Teabaggers Roundup, the US flag and black people. Remarks by organizers made it clear that neither was good enough for true blue teabaggers.
As the Washington Post reports, "The convention's first day lacked the orchestrated staging of most modern political events. The convention host delivered a meandering welcome speech without notes, saying he misplaced them. Former congressman Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) offered a fiery defense of Judeo-Christian faith and traditional American values, but there was no prayer or Pledge of Allegiance to open the convention -- nor was there an American flag in the convention hall."No wonder the GOP is rushing to embrace the Teabaggers, they share the same values.
The opening night speaker at the Tea Party convention suggested a return to a "literacy test" to protect America from presidents like Obama -- a segregation-era method employed by southern US states to keep blacks from voting.
In his speech Thursday to attendees, former Republican congressman Tom Tancredo invoked the loaded pre-civil rights era buzzword, saying that President Barack Obama was elected because "we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country."
Southern states used literacy tests as part of an effort to deny suffrage to African American voters prior to Johnson-era civil rights laws.
Subscribe to Posts [Atom]
Post a Comment