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To: LindyBill who wrote (441322)	8/18/2011 1:06:29 PM
From: KLP	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794050

Too bad that people like Joan Walsh from Salon can't read before they open their mouth....There are plenty of Black Tea Party Members...including.... Black Tea Partiers Speak See why the angry, largely white grassroots movement appeals to them (and why Uncle Tom was a hero). By: Lynette Holloway \| Posted: May 4, 2010 at 6:37 AM Lloyd Marcus (Photo by Evan Nee) Charles Butler, a black, Chicago-based conservative talk show host, has been in shouting matches and called a traitor to his race because of his affiliation with the largely white Tea Party movement. Lloyd Marcus, a black, Orlando, Fla.-based, conservative folk singer who wears a black panama hat, leather vest, white shirt and black pants, has been described as a minstrel, a buck dancer and a boot licker because he performs at Tea Party events, he said. No matter. Butler and Marcus said they are used to getting flak over their membership to the nascent grassroots Tea Party movement. Members of the movement are raising vociferous opposition to issues that they believe are stunting the growth of America: Rising unemployment, expanding taxes, uncontrolled government spending and a mushrooming federal government. Butler and Marcus are not completely alone in their march to the Tea Party movement. Scores of blacks and other people of color have joined it, though just how many is unknown. But it's clear they are in the minority. The latest New York Times/CBS News Poll shows that the 18 percent of Americans who are members of the fledgling movement tend to be Republican, white, male, married and older than 45. Why Uncle Tom Was a Hero Butler said he is a member because his hometown leader, President Barack Obama, is offering the wrong solutions to the nation's problems. He is very vocal about it on " The Other Side with Charles Butler,'' which airs weekday evenings on Chicago's WVON, 1690-AM and has been on the air since 2007. Within the next several weeks, Butler plans to host a Tea Party on Chicago's South Side, Obama's old stomping grounds. Charles Butler (Photo by Lynette Holloway) Noticing that the Tea Party movement has flourished under Obama, some on the left have accused blacks like Butler and Marcus of being pawns in an odious, racist attempt to block the president's success. Indeed, racial animosity reared its ugly head when some people hurled racial epithets at black elected officials during a protest of health care reform. Butler is unfazed. "I'm involved in the Tea Party movement and the Republican Party because I feel that people should be able to express themselves and their values without a filter of some other group," he said, holding court during an interview with *The Root* as if he were on air. "People call you a traitor. They call you all kinds of disparaging names. I couldn't care less about being called an Uncle Tom, because again, that leads to the miseducation of the Negro. Anyone who has read the book by Harriet Beecher Stowe would know that Uncle Tom was a hero. We have a lot of those fallacies going on in the community, like the Democratic Party has helped black folk. That is patently untrue."

To: LindyBill who wrote (441322)	8/18/2011 6:56:34 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 794050

NRO Briefing Michael Walsh: Obama's great PR bus-t. John Bolton: Why Tea Party should resist gutting defense. WSJ Editors: Behold, a hard-money Texas politician. Allysia Finley: Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is trying to start a new trend - by boycotting Washington pols. Zachary A. Goldfarb and Peter Wallsten: Details of Obama’s jobs plan emerge. Daniel Henninger: America’s dog days. Louise Story: U.S. inquiry eyes S&P rating of mortgages. Room for Debate: Could farms survive without illegal labor? Ross Douthat: The failure of liberal bioethics. Alana Goodman: Congressional Black Caucus losing patience with Obama. Michael Rubin: How long will Obama leak America’s stealth technology. John A. Allison and John L. Chapman: It’s time for pro-growth monetary reform. Lindsey Burke and Rachel Sheffield: School Choice in America 2011. James Roberts and J.D. Foster, Ph.D.: European debt crisis signals end of social welfare state. Joan Walsh: The Tea Party is the GOP's white conservative base in silly costumes. Why couldn't the media figure that out sooner? James Taranto: The five stages of Obama.