Back to Our Grassroots: Taking a Look at the Tea Party Movement
By Sue Billings
Back to our grassroots, so says the Tea Party and Glen Beck. Well, I would suppose that it determines how you define “grassroots”. For those that choose to discriminate against those that didn’t look like them, the grassroots was called segregation and hatred. A nation that some claim was built on Christianity and morals, appears to me to be a missed nomenclature particularly when you exclude what God called “the human race”. If the grassroots reverts back to slavery and lynching and bigotry, then is the Tea Party a subtle group spreading hatred and segregation again?
Ironically people of color were categorized as “angry people”. Well how much more anger can one possess when they lynched humans because they were different shades of color, unlike theirs? And tell me how much more anger can one possess, now in the year 2010, when they stab a person because he or she is Muslim, and not of the ethnicity or religion that they seem to think is the only options. Yet these same people that say that this nation was built on the foundation of Christianity are the ones that will hate, kill and destroy anything that they judge not to be like them. The Christ who was a Jew, which walked amongst all ethnicities, cultures, and social economical backgrounds, would never treat people as do those that say let’s get back to their grassroots. It sincerely baffles me when a person says that they are a Christian, yet they don’t really know what that means. If they did, then they would know that the Christ, once again a Jew, gave the Samaritan women water, walked amongst the Gentiles, healed the leper man, that surely wasn’t in the social class that some of the Tea Party members are, yet they continue to attempt to divide this nation. Their divide is called “capitalism and greed” that which does not include all humans regardless to their background, color, and economic status.
So, let’s not go back to the “grassroots” that they are selling, for it only includes some and excludes a lot of humans that deserve the same things in life that they have held hostage for themselves only. Glen Beck made a statement that Blacks don’t own anything and my comment to that is, because some Whites continue to steal that which Blacks deserve, and try to limit them for having the same opportunity as some Whites. Also because the playing fields still aren’t equal, some Whites can file bankruptcy 8 times or more before some Blacks can even get a loan ( you know Blacks are high risk- right?). Why is this? I will offer my opinion that it’s because some Whites feel that they are losing control of what used to be homogenous and now there are “flies in the buttermilk”; instead of them trying to build a country that includes all ethnicities, they feel fear.
In closing, the only Tea Party and grassroots should be that which includes black tea, brown tea, white tea, red tea, yellow tea and the grass is the micro filaments of all, even those that appear to be crabgrass.
Once again, just my opinion, just me being me.
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Read more of Sue Billings’ columns on the Black Information Highway and The Mid-South Tribune ONLINE at www.blackinformationhighway.com.
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Back to Our Grassroots: Taking a Look at the Tea Party Movement
By Sue Billings
Back to our grassroots, so says the Tea Party and Glen Beck. Well, I would suppose that it determines how you define “grassroots”. For those that choose to discriminate against those that didn’t look like them, the grassroots was called segregation and hatred. A nation that some claim was built on Christianity and morals, appears to me to be a missed nomenclature particularly when you exclude what God called “the human race”. If the grassroots reverts back to slavery and lynching and bigotry, then is the Tea Party a subtle group spreading hatred and segregation again?
Ironically people of color were categorized as “angry people”. Well how much more anger can one possess when they lynched humans because they were different shades of color, unlike theirs? And tell me how much more anger can one possess, now in the year 2010, when they stab a person because he or she is Muslim, and not of the ethnicity or religion that they seem to think is the only options. Yet these same people that say that this nation was built on the foundation of Christianity are the ones that will hate, kill and destroy anything that they judge not to be like them. The Christ who was a Jew, which walked amongst all ethnicities, cultures, and social economical backgrounds, would never treat people as do those that say let’s get back to their grassroots. It sincerely baffles me when a person says that they are a Christian, yet they don’t really know what that means. If they did, then they would know that the Christ, once again a Jew, gave the Samaritan women water, walked amongst the Gentiles, healed the leper man, that surely wasn’t in the social class that some of the Tea Party members are, yet they continue to attempt to divide this nation. Their divide is called “capitalism and greed” that which does not include all humans regardless to their background, color, and economic status.
So, let’s not go back to the “grassroots” that they are selling, for it only includes some and excludes a lot of humans that deserve the same things in life that they have held hostage for themselves only. Glen Beck made a statement that Blacks don’t own anything and my comment to that is, because some Whites continue to steal that which Blacks deserve, and try to limit them for having the same opportunity as some Whites. Also because the playing fields still aren’t equal, some Whites can file bankruptcy 8 times or more before some Blacks can even get a loan ( you know Blacks are high risk- right?). Why is this? I will offer my opinion that it’s because some Whites feel that they are losing control of what used to be homogenous and now there are “flies in the buttermilk”; instead of them trying to build a country that includes all ethnicities, they feel fear.
In closing, the only Tea Party and grassroots should be that which includes black tea, brown tea, white tea, red tea, yellow tea and the grass is the micro filaments of all, even those that appear to be crabgrass.
Once again, just my opinion, just me being me.
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Read more of Sue Billings’ columns on the Black Information Highway and The Mid-South Tribune ONLINE at www.blackinformationhighway.com.