This Directly Explains an Incident in Lithonia GA last year

Last year when I cov­ered the pri­mary race in GA-​4 stay­ing in a pre­dom­i­nantly black city, I was really taken aback by the reac­tion of some black folks when they dis­cov­ered I sup­ported the tea party:

It was if a switch was sud­denly turned on with ice in her voice I was told: “I have no com­ment”. For the rest of.the time I was there I was stared at with con­tempt as if I was some­thing lower than low. My race had not been an issue nor the Cru­ci­fix being Catholic in a very protes­tant state, but once it was known I sup­ported the tea party it was as if I was wear­ing a Klan out­fit. I heard the ladies talk­ing among them­selves say­ing you could tell I was a tea party man just by my appear­ance. When I left glares fol­lowed me out.

I blamed the media at the time but appar­ently this racial hatred is being stoked by dis­hon­or­able peo­ple whose title begins with the words “Honorable”

Con­gres­sional Black Cau­cus Trav­els US Cities Using Vio­lent Rhetoric: Declares ‘War’ on Racist Tea Party, Says Tea Party Wants to Lynch Blacks

Black Amer­ica has been ill-​served by their “lead­ers” and the demo­c­ra­tic party since the time of the great society:

Howard Port­noy puts it this way at Hot air

It appears that these law­mak­ers under­stand the actual threat the Tea Party poses — namely, a retrench­ing of the gov­ern­ment hand­outs that help these politi­cians win reelec­tion by keep­ing their con­stituents down.

I’m try­ing to think what is worse. The idea that these black “lead­ers” do not under­stand the tea party and are speak­ing from igno­rance and panic (if so that’s inex­cus­able), or do under­stand the tea party and are pur­posely sow­ing race hatred for polit­i­cal gain. If the lat­ter it’s one of the most despi­ca­ble things I have seen in my lifetime.

Mean­while in a time of inter­net and online com­mu­ni­ca­tion there is no rea­son for any­one to not know the truth about the tea party. If indi­vid­u­als believe this non­sense then they can only blame them­selves, both for their own self-​deception and for the qual­ity of their representation.

Update: Politico reports on it and equates it to “you lie”. Amazing