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To: KLP who wrote (374223)7/21/2010 8:03:10 PM
From: Tom Clarke2 Recommendations  Respond to of 793968
 
"Uni-Tea" Event Will Celebrate Diversity In The Tea Party Movement

A Tea Party group is holding a "Uni-Tea" convention celebrating the diversity of the movement. The event will be held at the Independence Mall in Philadelphia on July 31st, and will feature a number of black speakers as well as white Tea Party favorites like Andrew Breitbart.

As NewsCore reports, TeaParty365 co-founder David Webb cast the event as a sequel to U.S. President Obama's "beer summit" last summer in the wake of the arrest of black professor Henry Lewis Gates, Jr. by a white Cambridge police officer. Mr. Webb, who is black, condemned what he called the NAACP's "selective racism" on CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday. He stated that NAACP President Benjamin Jealous "will not condemn the New Black Panther Party for saying that they want to kill crackers and kill cracker babies, whereas he would condemn the KKK or any element that shows up....and claims that they are a part of the Tea Party."

Booker Rising response: Actually, this event was in the works before the NAACP controversy, because blogger Vanessa Jean Louis mentioned her invite awhile ago. I see that quite a few folks highlighted on Booker Rising are participating in the event: Deneen Borelli (Project 21), Charles Payne (FOX Business), Ms. Louis, Leette Eaton-White (Hip Hop Republican blog), blogger Andre Harper and Mr. Webb. Nice ideas. However, the event could use more Hispanic representation and Asians are conspicuously absent.

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