What the Tea Parties are (and are not)

I guess for some people, there's no end to the ridiculous assertions that the Tea Parties are racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, mostly old white people who are just angry that Barack Obama is elected, and don't believe he is a natural born citizen.

For what I call HUHA (head-up-his/her-ass) idiots, like Patrick Britton at his cheap knockoff of The Huffington Post, the Tea Partiers are all of the above labels, as well as ignorant listeners of that so-called evil network, Fox News, fearmongers, and oh yeah, unemployed.  And he knows!  He went to a Tea Party (once, I guess), and also the 9/12 March last year!

It astounds me how anybody, even HUHA idiots, can go to a Tea Party or a major event like the 9/12 March and come away thinking they're full of angry old white racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, ignorant, unemployed, fearmongering and potentially violent Birthers.  Too bad he hasn't read this piece by a patriot named Emery McClendon.

Mr. McClendon is not only a Tea Partier and a patriot, he's also a black man who organized the Fort Wayne, Indiana Tea Party in April of last year.  He's heavily involved in the overall movement of Tea Partiers, 9/12'ers and like minded groups committed to combat the rise of socialism in America.

I've been to three Tea Parties, the 9/12 March, numerous rallies to protest ObamaCare, I'm a member of two local 9/12 groups, and I can tell you there is nothing what Mr. Britton says there is in the Tea Parties or elsewhere in the overall movement.  Even if I weren't involved in this movement, I would still take Emery McClendon's opinion any day of the week over Patrick Britton's.