Take a look at this photo of Jon Stewart’s and Stephen Colbert’s rally in Washington this past weekend:
A scant 2 or 3 black faces visible in a sea of hundreds.
During all the Tea Party gatherings and Glenn Beck’s rally, the media presented us with various photographs showing how overwhelmingly white the crowds were, and we heard a lot from the left about how this was obvious evidence of these groups’ vile racism.
Was the “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear” racist because it was almost entirely white?
Fair or not, John Stewarts demographic is white because of the whole college thing. The Glenn Beck demographic is white because of the whole “pheer the black president” thing.
I think a more accurate analysis would be the number of racist signs at the rallies. So far I haven’t seen any from the Stewart rally. The same can’t be said for the Tea Party events.
Yes but their almost entirely white composition has been used as evidence of their racism. Why isn’t the lack of diversity in John Stewart’s crowd evidence of HIS racism? Just because he had two black muslims on stage (Kareem Abdul Jabbar and Yusuf Islam) doesn’t mean he doesn’t secretly hate them (and is using code words to appeal to the racists out there).
BTW on further review, John Stewarts’ crowd was noticably more diverse than the Glenn Beck crowd.
Because the teabagger’s almost all white composition is only one small part of why they get called racist. They aren’t called racist just because of that.
I have no hard numbers, obviously, but the section of the crowd where I was seemed pretty diverse on racial/gender/sexual orientation lines. The teabagger rallies I have driven through have seemed completely non-diverse on at least racial grounds. They did seem to have a fair number of women, and I didn’t stand shoulder to shoulder with them for 3 hours so I was less likely to see hand holding/kissing to be able to determine sexual preferences.
I think the whole “Tea Partiers are racist” thing is a bit overblown. But liberals don’t have a reputation for racism to begin with. Liberals are “politically correct”, remember.
This is just another example of how conservatives have no logical consistency. They just throw whatever mud they can get their hands in hopes some will stick.
It is wrong to use “white composition” of a crowd as evidence of racism, just as it is wrong to suggest that a predominantly black crowd must be anti-white, et cetera.
Wasn’t Stewart’s point that we shouldn’t be slinging poisonous accusations? Actual racists will reveal themselves by what they say and do–we need not infer them by the appearance of their company.
I wanted to. Believe me I wanted to. Trouble is, teabagger blood is awful tough to get off the Challenger grill. At least there wouldn’t have been too much brain matter to hose off.
The Democrats look to be a couple of days away from some fairly significant defeats. They need an excuse to rally the True Believers around, and “look at how much we have accomplished for the country” is not going to cut it.
Even the dimwits in their party who are too dumb to cut with scissors aren’t going to buy the “election fraud” twaddle this time, so what do they have to fall back on but cries of racism? It’s better than nothing.
