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I also feel that the comments made about President Obaham and the issue with a white man being armed at a tea party with the possible threat to President Obaham was unjustified. Here is a man that has been elected as President of the USA, and does not get respect from others in our country due to his color. The white man needs to understand that we have come a long way and that we do not fear the white man but that the white man fears the black man, or any other nationality. As Martin Luther King said we shall over come, we have overcome and it is time for all white men to realize that we will no longer justify what they do or say. We will not belittle ourselves to please the white man but to please ourselves.

This need to stop!!!!!!!!

I thought "Plain Jane" Palin was supposed to be the leader of the tea party.

They are doing a great job of flushing all of the extremists out of the Republican party.
Are there enough rednecks and palin supporters around to keep them going, at $650 per plate?

why is it that anytime a white person criticizes obama, he is automatically racist? why cant it be a disagreement with policy? i mean whites are the overwhelming race majority in this country, and we elected a black man. listen ,take criticism. it comes with the territory. i hear just as many people complain about pelosi and harry reid. what about that? listen, bush caught flak because he was a moron, no argument from me there. but grow up. blacks have every opportunity to succeed in this country. hence the race of our president. how about what obamas done to create jobs? whats with that? his healthcare will tax the shit out of the private sector, im complaining about that, and im complaining to reid and pelosi. stop playing the race card and get back to the problems our country faces. about how the majority of our country didnt want this bill, about how the working man is sick of providing welfare to the millions who are worthless. remember, the government works for us, not the other way around. read the constitution, free speech is in there, meaning anyone can say whats on there mind, racist or not. get to work.

Although I agree that racial slurs and personal attacks have no place in politics. Conversely, I also think we should look seriously at the underlying issue, which is the reinstitution of a welfare state. As a person of color, I don't understand why many of us don't remember the destrution that was caused by the Welfare System in our communities. Why is there so much trust of the government now to guide our affairs when history has shown us that we put ourselves in danger when we put ourselves in this position. Who has read this huge monstrosity of a bill? How can you defend what you do not fully understand?

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The white man has always had their way in doing what they want. The White man is scared of change. They stay in power because they devide us against each other just like they did in slavery rape the black woman and then the baby from that woman which is now light, bright and almost white gets to work in the big house cleaning and cooking their food for them. And the Black man "my God" what they did to them. Black man could never choose for their families raise them get a job and love their Black woman. So right now I think the Black people should be awarded the forty acres and a mull. No one keep this Black and white thing going but the white man. They just won't stop with their bigotary and hate. And now the health care reform passing. Their true color is comming out. We need to stand with the President. If the white man loses that control they will kill themselves and their families. Tea Party anothe word for KKK and Skin heads.

To me the tea party crowd are almost as reactionary and hate-filled as Taliban terrorists.

As a health care worker here is what I do know. There are people (sick people) with little or no money for healthcare. The first question that they ask you when you go to the doctor is "are you able to pay this bill" or "how are you going to pay this bill". Some hospitals won't even treat you if you can't provide proof of ability to pay. There used to be a time when there was healthcare for everyone no matter if you were rich or poor. My retired mother can't afford her medication because its too high for her. She receives retirement but its not enough to cover her medication. My daughter is laid off with a child of her own, she has to rely on Medicaid to make sure that her two year old remains healthy. I have health care coverage but I have to pay everytime I go to the doctor and don't even mention emergency room visits. Healthcare costs are totally out of control. I am not sure if the new bill is the answer, but someone has got to start somewhere. You see more than people on welfare need help and everyone should be able to go to the doctor and receive treatment, no one should be denied and turned away as it is now. The President understands this because he was also underpriviledged growing up. You really don't know unless you have been there. I have a good job with supposedly good benefits but I still have problems covering my deductibles when I go to the doctor. In closing healthcare insurance is supposed to be a benefit - it's not any more. Something needed to change.

I also aggree we should debate the underlying issues. But the tea party has obscured the debate via misinformation and many in the tea party are racist and biggots. I have been to a rally and calling obama a "Muslim terrorist" IS racism, equating all gays as pedophile IS biggotry, protesting that Obama is not a citizen after legitamate evidence is really another non issue, I talked to people about their taxes and they believe there taxes have been raised 50 - 75% more misinformation, having pictures of Obama in blackface more racism, comparing Obama to Hitler is a bigger insult and another form of racism being Hitler killed Jews, Blacks, and Gays - if the tea party wants a legitimate debate then tell these racists to go to a different rally but they were THERE so the rest of the country sees the tea movement as ALL racists! I wonder why. By chance do you think FOX NEWS might be destroying both the reputation of the tea party and the Republican party?