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D.K. Jamaal * Post-Partisan Examiner


UCLA study: Most tea party signs not racist

* October 14th, 2010 12:57 pm ET

A study conducted by a UCLA grad student at the 9/12 taxpayer march on Washington contains some bad news for one of the mainstream media's favorite narratives: the old 'racist teabaggers' meme.

Conversely, quantitative observation showed that the alleged racism was not prominent at the rally, at least not as far as signage is concerned. And to think Obamacrats wasted all those race cards for nothin'.

A count of 250 tea party signs at the march showed most promoting a message of smaller government "touching on such topics as the role of government, liberty, taxes, spending, deficit and concern about socialism" according to the Washington Post's story on the examination.

Doesn't sound too much like racism - except for those die hard Obamabots who helpfully inform us that 'socialism' is code word for n----r. Of course, those guys criticizing the President's jumpshot is hidden code for racism, so there ya go.

The investigation showed only 25% of signs expressing antagonism towards the President himself, only 5% touching on the President's ethnicity or faith, and a piddly 1% promoting 'Birtherism'.

I presume the 1% was newly anointed 'birther' Jake Tapper, respected journalist of ABC News - or once respected until he had the temerity to mention the President's long form birth certificate the other day.

The teabag obsessed Obama apologists at MSNBC and the New York Times will no doubt be bitterly disappointed to learn that despite the breathless hype, racism no more typifies the tea party movement than honest unslanted analysis typifies their political coverage.

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Sorry rocky and any other Tea Party haters.
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I know you teabaggers hate evidence, and don't like to be called out. Pictures speak louder than words, that is why I use You Tube as 1. comedy because let's face it the tea party IS the laugh riot of the year and 2. actual proof to refute the written words that are usually slanted when posted from a teabagger. SO: here are PICTURES taken from actual tea party rallys: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCpwjvVaqyE
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From YOUR link:
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D.K. Jamaal
Post-Partisan Examiner.SubscribeSponsor an Examiner ....D.K. Jamaal is an educator, entertainer, and co-founder of the PUMA (Party Unity My A--!) political movement. He was born in Savannah, GA the son of a public school principal and a military vet. He was an Atlanta Journal-Constitution Scholar and a Warner Brothers Fellow in Cinema-Television Critical Studies and Screenwriting at the University of Southern California. Formerly a script analyst for Warner Brothers and a volunteer for several political campaigns, he currently pals around with surfers, teachers, and musicians, residing in a bungalow on the California coast
THESE folks fit right into the tea party circus. The nutjobs who were so pissed off that Hillary Clinton wasn't nominated that they formed a seperate movement to support McCain. How deep did you have to dig to find this article bm? I thought these whack jobs were long silenced, NO WAIT this is Halloween and maybe Christine O'Donnell brought them back from the dead!!!!!!!!!!!!
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So a black grad student at a California University proves that the Tea Party is not racist and you still don't believe him.

WAIT A MINUTE: This was an article about a PAPER(cleverly called a study but he tipped his hand or covered his ass with the grad student reference) done by an UNNAMED grad student at UCLA as REPORTED by DK Jamaal (CO FOUNDER OF PARTY UNITY MY ASS) and WRITTEN by D K JAMAAL for the Partisan Examiner. MAN FOX NEWS has trained you WELL! Talk about getting the FACTS wrong, change the channel PLEASE???
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Yesterday morning on Fox & Friends, Gretchen Carlson investigated the pesky mainstream media’s claim that the Tea Party harbors racism. To do this, she consulted the research of UCLA grad student Emily Ekins, who took pictures of “every visible sign” she could find at a Tea Party rally in order to analyze the movement’s sentiments. “Over 50% [of the signs] were about limited government and lower spending,” Ekins reported, while “only about 6% of the signs were controversial in nature.” And since people are racist only if they’re holding racist signs, this was enough for Fox News to proclaim, “Study: Tea Party Is Not Racist.”
This was taken from Mediaite written by Ray Rahman

Yeah FOX AND FOOLS is a GREAT source for journalistic integrity and acuracy! Keep pitching em BM I up to bat!
Added Ekins, “I’m surprised more people haven’t done this.”

Ever objective, Carlson asked the student, “Why do you think that your test results differ from the perception of the mainstream media?” Ekins responded by noting that news cameras tend to gravitate toward only the most controversial signs. One point left unmentioned was that most Tea Party organizers have been vigilant about spotting and removing racist signs from rallies, leaving open the possibility of Racists Without Signs (like Doctors Without Borders, but way creepier). Either way, her study isn’t quite comprehensive, as all of her research took place at a single rally
More of the same coverage from Mediaite.

Notice how the leap was made at Fox News that ONE rally exonorates every racist sign and action at ALL teabagger events.
TEA PARTY DECLARED NOT RACIST (due to a grad paper from a UCLA student who went to one rally and counted only signs she could SEE) Yeah, that is FAIRLY STUPID and DEFINITELY UNBALANCED!
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Originally posted by rocky:
I know you teabaggers hate evidence, and don't like to be called out. Pictures speak louder than words, that is why I use You Tube as 1. comedy because let's face it the tea party IS the laugh riot of the year and 2. actual proof to refute the written words that are usually slanted when posted from a teabagger. SO: here are PICTURES taken from actual tea party rallys: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCpwjvVaqyE


So... if I'm a "teabagger" wouldn't that make YOU the "teabaggee"? Is that a meme you really want to perpetuate? Maybe YOU do... Wink
She took pictures of over 250 rock. More than you can count.

[ Via: Washington Post ] A new analysis of political signs displayed at a tea party rally in Washington last month reveals that the vast majority of activists expressed narrow concerns about the government’s economic and spending policies and steered clear of the racially charged anti-Obama messages that have helped define some media coverage of such events.

Emily Ekins, a graduate student at UCLA, conducted the survey at the 9/12 Taxpayer March on Washington last month by scouring the crowd, row by row and hour by hour, and taking a picture of every sign she passed. Ekins photographed about 250 signs, and more than half of those she saw reflected a “limited government ethos,” she found – touching on such topics as the role of government, liberty, taxes, spending, deficit and concern about socialism.
Examples ranged from the simple message “$top the $pending” scrawled in black-marker block letters to more elaborate drawings of bar charts, stop signs and one poster with the slogan “Socialism is Legal Theft” and a stick-figure socialist pointing a gun at the head of a taxpayer. There were uglier messages, too – including “Obama Bin Lyin’ – Impeach Now” and “Somewhere in Kenya a Village is Missing its Idiot.” But Ekins’s analysis showed that only about a quarter of all signs reflected direct anger with Obama. Only 5 percent of the total mentioned the president’s race or religion, and slightly more than 1 percent questioned his American citizenship.
Yes, just because a few racist or otherwise questionable signs show up at rallies sometimes doesn't make the tea party or people affiliated with it racist, just like 9/11 "truthers" showing up an anti-war rallies doesn't make everyone who is against the Iraq war a truther.

I enjoyed this rant, though:

It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists. They're completely blind to how offensive the very nature of their rhetoric is to the rest of the country. I'm an ordinary middle-aged guy who pays taxes and lives in the suburbs with his wife and dog — and I'm a radical communist? I don't love my country? I'm a redcoat? These are the kinds of thoughts that go through your head as you listen to Tea Partiers expound at awesome length upon their cultural victimhood, surrounded as they are by America-haters like you and me or, in the case of foreign-born president Barack Obama, people who are literally not Americans in the way they are.

It's not like the Tea Partiers hate black people. It's just that they're shockingly willing to believe the appalling fantasy about how white people in the age of Obama are some kind of oppressed minority. That may not be racism, but it is incredibly, earth-shatteringly stupid. I hear this theme over and over — as I do on a recent trip to northern Kentucky, where I decide to stick on a Rand Paul button and sit in on a Tea Party event at a local amusement park. Before long, a group of about a half-dozen Tea Partiers begin speculating about how Obamacare will force emergency-room doctors to consult "death panels" that will evaluate your worth as a human being before deciding to treat you.

"They're going to look at your age, your vocation in life, your health, your income. . . ." says a guy active in the Northern Kentucky Tea Party.

"Your race?" I ask.

"Probably," he says.

"White males need not apply," says another Tea Partier.

"Like everything else, the best thing you can do is be an illegal alien," says a third. "Then they won't ask you any questions."


Sounds like this forum sometimes.
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In 1972, Gus Hall, then leader of the Communist Party USA, wrote in his book, "A Lame Duck in Turbulent Waters," describing what had been the long-time party policy:[8]

"Our electoral policy has for 25 years been expressed in the phrase, 'the three legs of a stool'....The stool was constructed at a time when the Party was under sharp attack....a reflection of the Party's response to the difficulties.

The flexibility was contained in the idea that no one leg of the stool was the main leg. Depending on the political pressures, one could choose a particular leg or legs. In fact the concept was built on the idea that when the other two legs, namely, the Communist Party and the forces of political independence, got strong enough, then and only then would the stool sit on three legs. But until that day comes the one operating leg would be the liberal wing of the Democratic Party. "
http://keywiki.org/index.php/C...arty_USA#cite_note-7

If we use the liberal idea that a very small percentage of people with improper ideas taints the entire TEA Party movement, then obviously the entire Democratic(?) Party is communist.
Now you are sounding like rocky. It has been from many events. The few radicals that make the news are the same way the MSM shows the few idiots from Westboro and says Christianity is bad.

Try looking at the entire picture and how it is being spun to profit the liberals.

Do you think the UCLA grad announced she was doing the study so only the 'good' people showed up?

Rev Sharpton's rally had much more hate in it and by percentage, it was about 50%.
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Being a Communist is a legitimate political viewpoint. Are you saying that it is OK for the Tea Party to have a foundation of racial bigotry??? Does the tea Party deserve the same consideration as the KKK in regard to political party activities and candidates???


Remember that the study showed only a small percent of signs linked to Obama's heritage. If the theory that one bad apple spoils the rest, then the whole Democratic(?) Party is racist. Consider that southern Democrats(?) were kluxers . Also consider that the patron saint of the left was a racist.

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Executive Order 9066, which sent 120,000 Japanese-Americans to internment camps, has been charged by critics as being racist, unconstitutional, unnecessary, and ineffective in stopping spies of the Empire of Japan.

After the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the white American athletes were invited to meet Roosevelt. No such invitation was made to the black athletes including even Jesse Owens, who had won four gold medals. A widely believed myth about the 1936 games was that Hitler had snubbed Owens, something which never happened. Jesse Owens later said “Hitler didn't snub me—it was [FDR] who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.” - quoted in Triumph, a book about the 1936 Olympics by Jeremy Schaap
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...ranklin_D._Roosevelt
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Originally posted by b50m:
Now you are sounding like rocky. It has been from many events. The few radicals that make the news are the same way the MSM shows the few idiots from Westboro and says Christianity is bad.

Try looking at the entire picture and how it is being spun to profit the liberals.

Do you think the UCLA grad announced she was doing the study so only the 'good' people showed up?

Rev Sharpton's rally had much more hate in it and by percentage, it was about 50%.



From your own link:

A study conducted by a UCLA grad student at the 9/12 taxpayer march on Washington contains some bad news for one of the mainstream media's favorite narratives: the old 'racist teabaggers' meme.

Conversely, quantitative observation showed that the alleged racism was not prominent at the rally, at least not as far as signage is concerned. And to think Obamacrats wasted all those race cards for nothin'.

A count of 250 tea party signs at the march...


Can you read??? That is a serious question as you do not seem to be able to understand the written language.
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Originally posted by Flatus the Ancient:
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Being a Communist is a legitimate political viewpoint. Are you saying that it is OK for the Tea Party to have a foundation of racial bigotry??? Does the tea Party deserve the same consideration as the KKK in regard to political party activities and candidates???


Remember that the study showed only a small percent of signs linked to Obama's heritage. If the theory that one bad apple spoils the rest, then the whole Democratic(?) Party is racist. Consider that southern Democrats(?) were kluxers . Also consider that the patron saint of the left was a racist.

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Executive Order 9066, which sent 120,000 Japanese-Americans to internment camps, has been charged by critics as being racist, unconstitutional, unnecessary, and ineffective in stopping spies of the Empire of Japan.

After the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the white American athletes were invited to meet Roosevelt. No such invitation was made to the black athletes including even Jesse Owens, who had won four gold medals. A widely believed myth about the 1936 games was that Hitler had snubbed Owens, something which never happened. Jesse Owens later said “Hitler didn't snub me—it was [FDR] who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.” - quoted in Triumph, a book about the 1936 Olympics by Jeremy Schaap
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...ranklin_D._Roosevelt


Try again but limit your analogies to the events or people relevant in the last 4 years.
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Try again but limit your analogies to the events or people relevant in the last 4 years.


You might want to read this article from a black lady:

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As for racism, without it there would be no Democratic party. Racism drives the democratic party. You have the liberal Democrat, (White or Black) who is perhaps the most racist human being on earth who is so convinced of the inferiority of the minorities in America (even when he is one) he is compelled to help them by lowering standards so they can compete with their betters. This of course ends when it comes to rubber meeting the road programs like school vouchers where it would put their little Suzy in direct contact with a child from a family really seeking to improve that child’s lot by allowing them to contend on an even playing field, can’t have that.
Then you have the Original Democrats, these are folks that know the origin of the Democratic party. They know that it was the Democrats who started the Klu Klux Klan, with the express purpose of terrorizing black voters and to keep them from voting for the party that freed them. The O.D.s are the ones that still remember it was the Democrats during the civil rights movement that turned on the fire hoses and loosed the dogs on the civil rights activists in the 50s and 60s. It was the Democrats that raised the Confederate battle flag over all the municipal buildings in the south.
http://conservativeblkwoman.bl...th-is-out-there.html

The best word to describe the attitude and politics of the left toward blacks post Brown v. Board of Education is the word "condescension":
con·de·scen·sion
noun
1. act or instance of condescending
2. a patronizing manner or behavior
http://www.yourdictionary.com/condescension

When Dwight Eisenhower started federalizing the National Guard in southern states to allow black children access to better schools, it was to allow children of equal aptitude equal access to equal education. It was the patronizing democrats who decided to dumb-down education to make everyone equally stupid. As a result we now have the "New Math" used by stupid twits to say 5% is greater than 95%.

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Only 5 percent of the total mentioned the president’s race or religion, and slightly more than 1 percent questioned his American citizenship.
http://www.nationalreview.com/...tea-party-not-racist
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Originally posted by JuanHunt:
Can you read??? That is a serious question as you do not seem to be able to understand the written language.
Yes, Juan, I can. I was pointing out that many events have shown that there were not very many racist or hate signs at them. This event was ONE covered by a grad student. Look around at the signs from others, not counting the photo-shopped 'n' signs.
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Originally posted by JuanHunt:
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Originally posted by Flatus the Ancient:
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Being a Communist is a legitimate political viewpoint. Are you saying that it is OK for the Tea Party to have a foundation of racial bigotry??? Does the tea Party deserve the same consideration as the KKK in regard to political party activities and candidates???


Remember that the study showed only a small percent of signs linked to Obama's heritage. If the theory that one bad apple spoils the rest, then the whole Democratic(?) Party is racist. Consider that southern Democrats(?) were kluxers . Also consider that the patron saint of the left was a racist.

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Executive Order 9066, which sent 120,000 Japanese-Americans to internment camps, has been charged by critics as being racist, unconstitutional, unnecessary, and ineffective in stopping spies of the Empire of Japan.

After the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the white American athletes were invited to meet Roosevelt. No such invitation was made to the black athletes including even Jesse Owens, who had won four gold medals. A widely believed myth about the 1936 games was that Hitler had snubbed Owens, something which never happened. Jesse Owens later said “Hitler didn't snub me—it was [FDR] who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.” - quoted in Triumph, a book about the 1936 Olympics by Jeremy Schaap
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...ranklin_D._Roosevelt


Try again but limit your analogies to the events or people relevant in the last 4 years.


Hitler did not meet with Jesse Owens. According to Leni Riefenstahl, he explained away Jesse's win as that of an animal such as a horse.

As to communism being a legitimate political view point, no more so than fascism or national socialism. The latter two slaughtered less than the first. I see none of them as legitimate, unless your view mass slaughter of innocents as a legitimate political action.
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It has been from many events.

OH BM! Did you not learn your lesson about thinking like Gretchen Carlson from the beginning of this post? READ the article IT WAS ONE RALLY AND SHE SUPPOSEDLY COUNTED 250 SIGNS. Better than govt munitions sampling according to lint filter. If it ain't in a Fox News report, I guess you just ignore it. That should be the new slogan for those of us who post on this forum that haven't drank the tainted tea: WE REPORT, YOU REGURGITATE
Posted 21 October 2010 09:11 PM Hide Post

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Originally posted by JuanHunt:
Can you read??? That is a serious question as you do not seem to be able to understand the written language.

Yes, Juan, I can. I was pointing out that many events have shown that there were not very many racist or hate signs at them. This event was ONE covered by a grad student. Look around at the signs from others, not counting the photo-shopped 'n' signs.

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Rock, try improving reading comprehension.
Actually, the way it is EXPRESSED in the post I replied to and you glossed over, well CYA, It has been from many events. (YOUR QUOTE) Even this topic referenced an incorrect and incomplete article that if I hadn't PROVED YOU AND FOX NEWS wrong, NEVER mentioned this was a sampling of ONE EVENT. Keep pitching em, I'm at bat!
Let's get all 5th grade on here BM. You're a big fat doo doo head! MAN between you and lintfilter and whoever that guy is that is fascinated with queer shots, you guys call ME immature!!!!And talk about mudslinging, not even real mud just silly little jabs. THIS IS THE TEA PARTY MENTALITY THANKS TO BEING INDOCTRINATED BY GLENN BECK AND BILL O'REILLY.
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