Originally Posted by raymor

My wife and half my family is black. I'm white. As you might imagine, I disdain racism. I stopped by the local Tea Party event to see what it was about. I didn't detect a single hint of racism at all. Not a bit. I heard a lot of talk about limited government and really getting back to the principles of the Constitution, but neither heard nor saw anything remotely racist, and I was watching for that.

On the other hand, I never hear Al Sharpton, who starting calling himself "reverend" when he was four years old, say ANYTHING without a racial reference. From what I've seen, he's a professional race baiter who knows how to market racism to black people.