A lot of right-wing bloggers are self-righteously recommending this article:
Black conservative tea party backers take heat
They've been called Oreos, traitors and Uncle Toms, and are used to having to defend their values. Now black conservatives are really taking heat for their involvement in the mostly white tea party movement—and for having the audacity to oppose the policies of the nation's first black president.
"I've been told I hate myself. I've been called an Uncle Tom. I've been told I'm a spook at the door," said Timothy F. Johnson, chairman of the Frederick Douglass Foundation, a group of black conservatives....
Racist protest signs at some tea party rallies and recent reports by U.S. Reps. John Lewis, D-Ga., and Barney Frank, D-Mass., that tea partyers shouted racial and anti-gay slurs at them have raised allegations of racism in the tea party movement....
"Just because you have one nut case, it doesn't automatically equate that you've got an organization that espouses (racism) as a sane belief," Johnson said....
Ah, but what if you've got "one nut case" who's your movement's candidate for governor?
... The already-volatile race for New York governor got a new jolt of drama this week with the candidacy of Carl Paladino, the Buffalo businessman and Tea Party favorite known for his big mouth and bigger wallet.
Less than two years ago, he was accused by local lawmakers of making racially offensive comments during a public forum. The outspoken developer caused controversy at the forum by claiming that the only reason Buffalo Public Schools Superintendent James Williams had been hired was because he is black....
Paladino's campaign manager says that the candidate stands by his comments, noting that the resolution passed on a split vote. "He's never taken back his words," Michael Caputo told Huffington Post. "They may not like it but it happens to be the truth. They [the school board] hired a search firm to look for an African-American candidate." ...
Paladino's scathing criticism of Buffalo's school authority extended to angry letters he penned to Buffalo Teachers Federation President Phil Rumore. In one letter, obtained by the Huffington Post, Paladino lashed out at Rumore's alliance with several black female school board members, whom he called "the parasitic Black Sisterhood." Paladino also referred to the "Black Sisterhood" again in a similar letter to Buffalo's weekly newspaper Artvoice...
None of this gives teabaggers pause, apparently:
Though he has been encouraged to run for office in the past, it was a few Tea Party leaders from the Tea Party Patriots and Tea Party New York who pushed him over the edge. "It wasn't until a couple of Tea Party leaders pulled him aside that he began to consider it seriously,' says Caputo, who emphasizes that he plans to form a Tea Party line on the ballot if he doesn't receive the endorsement of the state's Conservative Party. In February, Allen Coniglio of the Western New York Tea Party Coalition offered his support for the then-potential gubernatorial candidate, telling WIVB, "If Carl Paladino took the governor's race, that would be incredible."
It won't surprise me at all if black tea partiers like former Fox commentator and current congressional candidate Angela McGlowan show up to campaign for Paladino. It won't surprise me if Lloyd Marcus shows up to sing that silly "Tea Party Anthem," or if Charles Lollar, another congressional candidate, also joins Paladino -- after all, Lollar speaks proudly in the AP article about collecting money at a fundraiser in a bar with a Confederate flag on the wall.
Want Paladino? You're welcome to him, black teabaggers.
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