Time and time again I have maintained - based on my years of monitoring anti-gay "family values" Christianist organizations - that in addition to being violently anti-gay, the pro-family Christian organizations are also very racist and anti-black and anti-Hispanic. Adding to the proof of this animus towards others who are not white, evangelical Protestants are the statements made at the teabagger coven over this past weekend where former Republican congressman Tom Tancredo, a speaker for the opening of the tea party convention stated that "literacy tests" that were once used to keep blacks from voting should be re-instituted. Some may be shocked by this bigoted, anti-white mindset, but is a main current running through all of the teabagger and birther insanity. America is theirs and everyone else can go to Hell. These people are ignorant, racist, homophobic and down right un-Christian, yet they claim to wrap themselves in the flag while clutching the Bible - the same Bible that some of their fore bearers used to justify slavery and later segregation. I hope the general public will take a good look at the poison these folks are peddling. Here are some highlights from Raw Story: *
The opening night speaker at the Tea Party convention suggested a return to a "literacy test" to protect America from presidents like Obama -- a segregation-era method employed by southern US states to keep blacks from voting.
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In his speech Thursday to attendees, former Republican congressman Tom Tancredo invoked the loaded pre-civil rights era buzzword, saying that President Barack Obama was elected because "we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country."
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"Prior to passage of the federal Voting Rights Act in 1965, Southern (and some Western) states maintained elaborate voter registration procedures whose primary purpose was to deny the vote to those who were not white," a website for civil rights veterans explains. "In the South, this process was often called the 'literacy test.' In fact, it was much more than a simple test, it was an entire complex system devoted to denying African-Americans (and in some regions, Latinos) the right to vote."
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Tancredo called Obama a "committed socialist ideologue," and referred to him by his full name, Barack Hussein Obama. ABC News reported that the former Colorado representative's speech "received enthusiastic applause at times," but said the crowd did not fill the ballroom in which the event was held.
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The irony, of course, is that any well written literacy test that required true knowledge of American history, the structure of the three branches of government, etc., would disqualify most of the teabaggers and birthers from voting. All they know is the faux news and hysterics disseminated by Fox News and other far right noise machines.
The opening night speaker at the Tea Party convention suggested a return to a "literacy test" to protect America from presidents like Obama -- a segregation-era method employed by southern US states to keep blacks from voting.
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In his speech Thursday to attendees, former Republican congressman Tom Tancredo invoked the loaded pre-civil rights era buzzword, saying that President Barack Obama was elected because "we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country."
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"Prior to passage of the federal Voting Rights Act in 1965, Southern (and some Western) states maintained elaborate voter registration procedures whose primary purpose was to deny the vote to those who were not white," a website for civil rights veterans explains. "In the South, this process was often called the 'literacy test.' In fact, it was much more than a simple test, it was an entire complex system devoted to denying African-Americans (and in some regions, Latinos) the right to vote."
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Tancredo called Obama a "committed socialist ideologue," and referred to him by his full name, Barack Hussein Obama. ABC News reported that the former Colorado representative's speech "received enthusiastic applause at times," but said the crowd did not fill the ballroom in which the event was held.
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The irony, of course, is that any well written literacy test that required true knowledge of American history, the structure of the three branches of government, etc., would disqualify most of the teabaggers and birthers from voting. All they know is the faux news and hysterics disseminated by Fox News and other far right noise machines.
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We won the election and now these sore losers will continue to spew your hate with lies. The way our courts work is that you get a competent lawyer, verifiable facts and present them to a judge, if the facts are real and not half baked lies, then, and only then, you proceed to trial. The Birthers seem to be having a problem with their so called facts that they present. Let’s face it no one will go along with you until you guys win a case, but until then, you will continue to appear dumb, crazy or racist, or maybe all three. Keep plucking that chicken.
You can rest assured, if they somehow managed to reinstate the "literacy tests" there would be plenty of teabaggers who could not pass them. Sarah Palin certainly couldn't.
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