They hired PK Winsome!

http://politics.videosift.com/video/Colbert-P-K-Winsome-Offers-to-Help-Tea-Party-With-Racism

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20002538-503544.html

There were blacks who defended slavery. There were blacks who fought for the confederacy. There were blacks who stood against MLK and Malcolm X. There were blacks who defended Bush's (in)action in Katrina and voted for his second term. But always 98-99% of black americans stand against self hate and ignorance, and 'populism' that goes against their self-interest.

So, I'm not surprised that you can find black people who feel comfortable in an overwhelmingly white, xenophobic crowd, and black men who call Uncle Tom a hero (3:10). There will always exist the mentally and emotionally weak who cannot break the bonds of mental slavery. But it should be noted that they are surrounded by a metropolitan area full of taxpaying black americans, including the residents of the White House, who strongly disagree.

Upvote for the case study.

An somewhat dated but apropos parable:

It is sad that these African Americans are either unwilling or afraid to confront the reality of racism within this predominantly white movement, and that they try to paint valid criticism about tea party racism as an attempt to smear the movement.

There have been numerous blatant examples of racism within this movement - Off the top of my head, there are the birthers, those who think Obama is a secret Muslim, or a terrorist, those obsessed with Obama's middle name 'Hussein', those who spat at the black congressman and called him a nigger, those photoshoped Obama with a bone through his nose, those who feared radical black preacher 'Reverend Wright', etc.

This doesn't mean that the movement is wrong, or that all of the participants are themselves racists, but the tolerance of racism, fear and hate is evidence to me that there is something very, very wrong with this movement, deep down in its core.

Moving this video to blankfist's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.