Author: Tim Wise Let’s play a game, shall we? The name of the game is called “Imagine.” The way it’s played is simple: we’ll envision recent happenings in the news, but then change them up a bit. Instead of envisioning white people as the main actors in the scenes we’ll conjure – the ones who [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Tea Party’
Imagine If The Tea Party Was Black
Posted: August 11, 2010 in PoliticsTags: Racism, Tea Party, Tim Wise
Taxes At Their Lowest Rate Since 1950. Why Is The Tea Party Complaining Again?
Posted: May 11, 2010 in PoliticsTags: Fox News, Glenn Beck, Obama, Rush Limbaugh, Taxes, Tea Party
Despite protests from Tea Party activists regarding high taxes, a USA Today analysis of federal data has found that “Americans paid their lowest level of taxes last year since Harry Truman’s presidency.” Federal, state, local, property, sales, and other taxes “consumed 9.2% of all personal income in 2009, the lowest rate since 1950.” USAToday ThinkProgress.org [...]
Tea Party…Putting Blacks in Chains
Posted: February 11, 2010 in PoliticsTags: Palin, Racism, Tancredo, Tea Party
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 [...]
Tea party protests, marches, town hall meetings and conservative outrage…where were you in 2000? Every couple of days I see a tea party protest, a Sarah Palin rally or something of the sort expressing their outrage for the level of national debt. While I completely agree that the national debt is a point of contention, [...]
