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SPRINGBORO — Racist comments, including a slur about Hispanics, posted on the Twitter page of the Springboro Tea Party were particularly hurtful to Alana Turner.“Illegals everywhere today! So many spics makes me feel like a speck. Grrr. Wheres my gun!?” said the March 21 posting on the site managed by the group’s founder, Sonny Thomas.
Turner said the comments upset her because she and Thomas have a 6-year-old son who is part Hispanic.
“Basically, it’s like he’s saying he hates his son,” Turner said.
No one said nor implied that they are. This thread is about using a racial slur not to debate whether or not all hispanics are pro illegal immigration or all illegal immigrants are hispanic. Clearly those on the right are dense if they think that all liberals are pro illegal immigration.
It was people on the right (probably tea baggers) that came out to a townhall meeting to protest against healthcare reform who told my Puerto Rican friend to "go back to Mexico". She was born, raised and pays taxes in this country. Clearly racism is common on the right. Do you folks ever acknowledge the racists and denounce them? I rarely see anyone doing this but defending this behavior seems to be very common and only confirms what people who are not on your side think of you.
I'm sure you were busy denouncing all the racism and sexism coming from elected democrats, the democrat candidates and their campaigns, during the last presidential election. But when it comes from some unelected nobody, then you are front and center.
"The Twitter posting triggered cancellations by several local and statewide candidates and elected officials scheduled to speak at a Springboro Tea Party rally"
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Originally Posted by Upton
It's become painfully obvious what they're all about..
Yes, it has.
"Rob Scott, founder and president of the Dayton Tea Party, said the national movement is focused on reducing taxes and government, encouraging the free market and respecting the U.S. Constitution — not immigration and certainly not racism."
Keep trying, though. If you repeat the lie long enough, maybe someday you'll actually believe it.
Where the hell is Sprinboro? It doesn't sound very national to me, so how can this one lone twitter damn an entire movement?
Thank god, bigoted comments by Jesse Jackson did not damn his entire movement nor his organization.
BTW Jackson is the national leader, as opposed to some unknown guy from Springboro.
Exactly. People like that should just be ignored instead of making them a bigger story. They paid their price when speakers canceled. Since the Tea Parties are totally grass roots there are no laws restricting what any individual does or what groups they join. The left wingers have plenty of racists among them, including the president.
This person will take some heat from other tea party members. What they wrote was stupid and they will lose support. I have yet to see one left winger speak out about all the racial slurs from the illegal immigrants while they are marching in OUR streets. Liberals completely accept racism if it comes from the left.
Do you know what Mexicans and Latin Americans call US citizens when they are in their countries? Gringo.... What's good for the goose is goose for the gander.
Now, let's hear the Tea Party excuse for the racist comments (and threats of violence) against Latinos made by one of their leaders.
Considering the Tea Party is not a national organized party yet so it will be up to each individual to denounce anything. There is no leaders. The person in question may be the organizer of whatever group they formed but there is NO national leader. You cannot lay responsibility on everyone else for that one person's actions. Even you could start a "tea party". Would we all be responsible for whatever you did?
Considering the Tea Party is not yet an national organized party yet so it will be up to each individual to denounce anything. There is no leaders. The person in question may be the organizer of whatever group they formed but there is NO national leader. You cannot lay responsibility on everyone else for that one person's actions. Even you could start a "tea party". Would we all be responsible for whatever you did?
The Tea Party is a fledgling organization with views all over the map at this point.
No one thinks that it would be a wise decision to rein in the more unsavory types that are "leading" individual fringe factions of the Tea Party at this point?
I don't understand why the Tea Party folks, as a whole, don't get this. Maybe you personally are not a bigot but others who are representing the organization which you are strongly and vocally supporting are.
Non-Tea Party people, like myslf, are not going to take the time to say "Well, only the Ohio, West Virginia, Georgia, Virgina, Maine, Arizona and Indiana Tea Party organizations are bigots; everyone else is ok"
The Tea Party is a fledgling organization with views all over the map at this point.
No one thinks that it would be a wise decision to rein in the more unsavory types that are "leading" individual fringe factions of the Tea Party at this point?
I don't understand why the Tea Party folks, as a whole, don't get this. Maybe you personally are not a bigot but others who are representing the organization which you are strongly and vocally supporting are.
Non-Tea Party people, like myslf, are not going to take the time to say "Well, only the Ohio, West Virginia, Georgia, Virgina, Maine, Arizona and Indiana Tea Party organizations are bigots; everyone else is ok"
As you stated "the Tea Party is a fledgling organization with views all over the map at this point." there is NO national solid organization to "rein in" anyone. This person was "reigned in" by losing their speakers and IF anyone read their blog, they too make take exception with what was written. You cannot possibly speak about ALL the people attending the Tea Parties for the very fact the reasons for attending are varied and individual. I may attend for one reason and the guy standing beside me may be there for an entirely different reason. All one could do, if they see something is voice their opinion to the person they disagree with.
Another issue we will have to take into consideration is who are the people involved in unsavory acts, signs or words. Now that the left wingers have made it clear they plan on posing as Tea Party protestors, we have no idea if it is they who are doing these things. What they have done is make it easy to blame the left and harder to weed out the bad people.
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