Ms. Trent posted this on her website, Proud Conservative Gal.
A relative left a scathing message on her Facebook page when she mentioned that she’s a staunch supporter of the Tea Party.
Here are some excerpts from her response:
Hi Cousin,
Thank you for taking the time to share your experiences and your concerns. Racism and White Supremacist groups have been around for years and unfortunately ignorance and hate fuel these groups. However, to associate The Tea Party Movement with these groups is completely unwarranted, dishonest and there is a calculate agenda behind injecting the “race card” to try to marginalize, demean and vilify the movement. Furthermore, the Tea Party Movement has not been hijacked by right wing racists. Additionally the fact that a Black man was elected president proves that America is not a racist country.
You mention that in your local protest you observed signs depicting Obama as a monkey, Nazi signs and people chanting racist remarks. I can assure you that this is not representative of tea party members. I am sure that you are aware that there have been left wing sites popping up encouraging people to infiltrate tea parties with misspelled, racist and other equally vile signs to support their ridiculous stereotypes and bias of the tea parties. They came and they failed as tea party members smoked them out and tagged them immediately with signs such as ” I’m not with stupid.”
I have been to tea parties across the nation, California, Nevada, Tennessee, South Carolina, Alabama, Florida. I was at the DC 912 March where over 1 million people gathered and have been to subsequent protests in DC in October and December and not once did I observe what you have cited and what the left leaning media tries to depict. These people are everyday folk who are genuinely concerned about the direction this country is going in. They are mothers and fathers, grandmothers, grandfathers, young and old, independents, moderates, conservatives, Democrats with buyers remorse, Republicans, Atheists and Christians, (yes, you can be an Atheist and a conservative), Blacks, Whites, Asians, Hispanics. This is not a color issue….
People are not angry because Obama is a Black man. They would be equally outraged if a White mas was trying to fundamentally change our country from the principles in which it was founded on. Are people racist when we appose Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid? Absolutely not! It is their radical agenda that we oppose. There is a war going on not based on race but on radical liberal progressive ideology versus the principles that this country was founded on based on The Constitution. The left leaning media interjects race into the argument as a red herring. It is quite clear from their extreme biased journalism where they stand on the issues.
It was the Liberal Main Stream Media who viciously attacked Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. before each was appointed as Secretary Of State, He served as the first Black Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff , she as the first, not only female, but first black National Security Advisor. No one accused opponents of Powell and Rice of being racist then. They went after these public servants with a vengeance because of their political ideologies pure and simple.
Also Republicans were much vilified for opposing Obama’s nomination of Sonia Sotomayor. Again the left quickly pulled the race card. It’s a pattern. When they are losing the argument….pull the race card. Of course it could have had nothing to do with her history of legislating from the bench. Yet the media has a short memory. Have we forgotten when Bush nominated Honduran born Miguel Estrada for the Supreme Court? The left went after him with a vengeance. Where they screaming racism then? Of course not. So what is the moral of this story? It’s acceptable to oppose conservative minorities but God forbid you appose a liberal minority because you will quickly be attacked, maligned and labeled a racist. The bias and hypocrisy is disgusting.
Where was the outrage when left wing nuts were protesting Bush calling him Hitler, a monkey, a murderer and carrying signs calling for his death? This is not a race issue. The real war is against political ideologies. Here are links to pics of the hate that was unleashed on Bush and the Main Stream Media ignored. I can’t imagine the outrage that would unleash if such hate was found in a tea party protest.
http://www.binscorner.com/pages/d/death-threats-against-bush-at-protests-i.html
http://michellemalkin.com/2006/08/31/assassination-chic/
This Administration is the main instigator in perpetuating the racism fallacy. They were effective in using it to demonize the Clintons during the primaries and I think that we can both agree that the Clintons are not racists. Yet Obama and his ilk continue pulling the race card on anyone who is a threat to their agenda. It is shameful how Liberal pundits continue attacking Black and other minority conservatives who dare to challenge their policies. These people are called sell outs, sambos, house “Negroes”, Uncle Toms, etc. Donny Deutsch of MSNBC was recently suspended for daring to critique Keith Olbermann’s hateful rhetoric against conservative hosts, but did nothing when Deutsch referred to Marc Rubio, a Cuban American Conservative running for Senator in Florida, as a “coconut.” You know…brown on the outside white on the inside. This racist term was ignored. Again I cannot imagine the outrage if a conservative anchor had made such a comment.
……Just in case you may be thinking that I am merely regurgitating conservative talking points I assure you that I am speaking from experience. My local eyewitness news ran a hit piece demonizing the Tax Day Tea Parties in Orange County as a bunch of racists. They claimed that one of the black speakers was the only person of color in attendance at the Santa Ana rally. My husband led the attendees in reciting the Pledge Of Allegiance. They completely ignored the fact that, I, his Hispanic wife stood proudly next to him waving the American Flag or the other Blacks and Hispanics in attendance. I was even interviewed by a local Spanish TV station on the reasons that I support the Tea Party Movement. All this was lost by ABC because the truth would not have supported their grotesque biased hit piece.
Read the rest here: http://proudconservativegal.blogspot.com/2010/04/my-response-to-family-member-shocked.html
Cross posted at Red State: http://www.redstate.com/ceciliatrent/2010/04/27/my-response-to-a-family-member-shocked-that-i-a-hispanic-american-support-the-tea-party-movement/
She dissected her relative’s accusation beautifully. The Left, radical minorities in particular, use sophomoric arguments of “race”. From everything I’ve seen, heard, and read, they have no comprehension of the real reasons why we are vehemently opposed to what Obama and the Dems are doing to our country. The information is readily available, as are the effects of Obama’s socialist policies. The economy and national security are in shambles. The autocratic takeover of private industry and healthcare, and hostility toward free market capitalism is not condusive to a Democratic Republic. He’s also weakened our position in the world through gutless diplomacy and depraved indifference. It doesn’t take a certain skin color to figure that out.
Like the lady’s sign says:
