Of Tea Partiers and New Black Panthers

Okay, it took me a minute to understand what this kerfuffle was all about.  Apparently, there is a New Black Panther Party and they intimidated black people into voting for President Obama in 2008, so says the Tea Party.  Of course, I didn’t know defending the voting rights of African Americans were their specialty.   And [...]

Black Tea Partiers

Tim Wise from Cosmic Navel Lint imagines what would happen if Tea Partiers were Black: Imagine that hundreds of black protesters were to descend upon Washington DC and Northern Virginia, just a few miles from the Capitol and White House, armed with AK-47s, assorted handguns, and ammunition. And imagine that some of these protesters —the [...]