Last week Loop21.com asked “Why Can’t the Congressional Black Caucus Be More Like the Tea Party?” Today they are responding. Congressional Black Caucus communications director Stephanie L. Young, part of a new breed among the caucus, there to inject some fire into the 41-year-old organization spoke to us exclusively. When Young isn’t getting the word […]
Audio Included in Post. Runs 54 Minutes ©2011 WTLC/Radio One. They have caused controversy, enmity, confusion and other strong emotions among African-Americans. They are the Tea Party. But who are they? What do they stand for? Are they really anti-Black, anti-Obama? Dr. David Blank and Jenny Schneider of the Indianapolis Tea Party group joined African-American […]
Audio Included in Post. Runs 42 Minutes ©2011 WTLC/Radio One. They have caused controversy, enmity, confusion and other strong emotions among African-Americans. They are the Tea Party. But who are they? What do they stand for? Are they really anti-Black, anti-Obama? Dr. David Blank and Jenny Schneider of the Indianapolis Tea Party group joined African-American […]
Spectators cheered the prospect of letting uninsured Americans die during Monday’s CNN Tea Party debate. “That’s what’s freedom is all about,” Republican presidential nominee Ron Paul said when CNN’s Wolf Blizter asked who should pay when uninsured Americans encounter catastrophic illness. “He should do whatever he wants to do,” Paul said. My advice to him is […]
The Tea Party is calling for the resignation of Indiana Democratic congressman Andre Carson after he said the party wanted to see Black people hanging from trees. Mark Meckler and Jenny Beth Martin of the Tea Party Patriots described Rep. Andre Carson’s remarks as “disgusting” and “hateful” in a statement to the Daily News. “Rep. […]
Audio Included in Post. Runs 52 Minutes ©2011 WTLC/Radio One. Rep. Andre Carson unleashed a firestorm with remarks at the rally in Miami. Referring to some members of the Tea Party in Congress, Carson said they would “love to see you and me hanging on a tree”. Afternoons with Amos discussed the issue for two […]
MIAMI — African American congressman Andre Carson from Indiana had harsh words for the Tea Party at a recent Congressional Black Caucus event in Miami. He compared the Tea Party movement to the efforts of Jim Crow and directly addressed members of congress affiliated with the movement. The Huffington Post reports: “This is the effort […]
Tea Party leaders issued a response to controversial remarks made by Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) over the weekend. According to party leaders, “it’s time for a new-NEW era of civility.” “We’ve had Democrats calling American citizens ‘terrorists’ and ‘hostage takers,’ and now an elected Democratic representative says that we can ‘go straight to hell,’” Mark […]
Shery Lanford Smith, the chairwoman of Sumter Tea Party in South Carolina posted a joke about killing Michelle and Barack Obama earlier this month. Lanford Smith reportedly joked about throwing the couple out of a helicopter, then quickly removed it a few moments later. Her Facebook status read, “I could throw both of them out […]
The Tea Party isn’t happy with the Democratic Party especially, Rep. Maxine Waters. The 11-term California Democrat recently made a comment at a meeting where she told the Tea Party to go where the sun doesn’t shine. “I’m not afraid of anybody,” Walters told the crowd. “This is a tough game. You can’t be intimidated. […]
Frustrated with Black unemployment, Congressional Black caucus members say that they will carry the fight to Tea Party Republicans, who they blame for blame for President Obama’s latest lurch to the right. During the latest Black Caucus’ stop in Atlanta, Rep. Maxine Waters said that 43 African-American lawmakers have vowed to take matters into their […]
DECORAH, Iowa-President Barack Obama had a heated exchange with a Tea Party supporter while on a Midwestern tour promoting rural economic policies. The Tea Party activist took offense to Vice President Joe Biden’s statement that Republicans were holding the economy hostage, which many Republicans have misquoted as him calling Tea Party Republicans, terrorists. The Huffington […]
