This week Tea Party Caucus chair Michele Bachmann and her comrades fingered State Department worker Huma Abedin as a Muslim Brotherhood infiltrator. Abedin is in fact Muslim.
An Arkansas Tea Party leader made the following joke at a Tea Party rally in June:
"A black kid asks his mom, 'Mama, what's a democracy?'
"'Well, son, that be when white folks work every day so us po' folks can get all our benefits.'
"'But mama, don't the white folk get mad about that?'
"'They sho do, son. And that's called racism.'"
The audio, including the applause following the joke can be heard here.
The joke dynamic above suggests one of two scenarios. Either those Arkansas Tea Baggers don't think that most relief benefits are collected by white people or they know it, but think it's okay. It is ignorance in the former case and hypocrisy in the latter. Either way, both mindsets are predicated on supremacy.
It's the same kind of supremacy that makes people think it is okay to draw up purge lists for the Tennessee governor based on sexual orientation and religion/ethnicity. Rather than define their objections by their hatred, the Tennessee Tea Baggers chalk up their objections to the governor's "consistent lack of conservative values."So I stand corrected. From now on, per the Tea Party, I will use the word "conservative" instead of "racist."
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