Originally Posted by Robbie

The TEA Party? What does the TEA Party have to do with racism?

Dude, you watch too much MSNBC and too many liberal blogs. The TEA Party stands for "Taxed Enough Already"

And no, The TEA PARTY has no ability to polarize the nation OR help heal the nation.
President Obama can do both from his bully pulpit.

He hasn't raised a finger to actually HELP the black population.
BUT...he has certainly jumped in with both feet on every controversial black issue with statements that have further fueled the fire and rioting and making black people more "angry".

And the Democrat Party and Pres. Obama have spent a long time playing "race" politics.
The party line is that Republicans hate blacks, hate clean air & water, want everybody to die.

If you're black and NOT a Democrat...then you are labeled an Uncle Tom and attacked viciously.
Just look at how they tore Herman Cain apart in the election. The very second he was shown leading the polls for the Republican nomination...every liberal organization in the world went after him and his "womanizing". And it pretty much destroyed him.

Didn't see them do that to Jesse Jackson back when he ran for the Democrat nomination.

And now, they are all over this guy Ben Carson. He's considered another "uppity" one who isn't a Democrat.

Now if he WERE a Democrat...he would be the darling of the party. But since he's a Republican...he is EVIL.

I'm not saying I would have voted for Cain or Carson. Both of them are far too socially conservative for my taste.

But I make my decisions based on the man and his policies for a candidate.

The 2 RULING parties simply expect their sheep to follow.

Back to racial tensions and Pres. Obama:
He came to office with "YES HE CAN" and "HOPE AND CHANGE"

Now either he is a complete FAILURE and incompetent.
Or he didn't have the skills to stop those GENIUSES like McConell and Boehner from spreading "racism".

I say it's NEITHER of those.

Quite simply Pres. Obama could have done what NO other President has ever been able to do. By his very presence in the White House he could have given the black community hope for the future & his words to them could have lifted them with inspiration.

Instead...between himself and Eric Holder, I see that they did nothing that was positive to help with racial tension.

And by opening their mouths and saying things that caused the black community to get even more angry in a tense situation...they actually caused more tension.

Go ahead and make excuses. It doesn't matter.
I'm not even sure WHY the Pres. Of The United States seems to feel the need to comment on local crime before any of the facts have been gathered or any real info is out there.

Can you even imagine Bush commenting on a black cop killing a white guy in some town?

The cops ARE out of control. They have WAY too much power and apparently every local police dept. is actually TRAINING cops to shoot to kill under every situation.

Maybe instead of making incendiary comments, or having Eric Holder make them...maybe the President should have DONE something.
Maybe call on Congress to enact a federal law that would make it illegal for local police dept.'s to be shooting unarmed citizens (of course it would be more complex than that).

Or call on the Supreme Court to take a look at the constitutionality of police dept.'s having policy of "shoot to kill"

But we will never know.

What I DO know is...when Pres. Obama leaves office, the country will be more racially divided than I have ever seen it in my adult lifetime.