CBC: call the SC Tea Party convention ... what it was: a white political event.

[pampango]

If 300-plus black political activists held a convention in the Deep South, and the invited speakers were black, it would inevitably, and correctly, be referred to as a black political event.

So I'm going to call the Tea Party convention I just covered in Myrtle Beach, S.C., what it was: a white political event.

... in a state that's 30 per cent black, there wasn't a single black face at the event. Or any young faces that I could see. That sort of homogeneity at least partly explains why the Tea Party is running out of steam in this heterogeneous nation.

Recent polls suggest that Americans' opinion of the hardline conservative movement has soured as they've learned more about it. Except in South Carolina.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/01/18/f-rfa-macdonald.html

[Tomay]

1. It figures

that the Tea Party is strongest in the heart of old Secessia. It shows what is really driving most of the Teabaggers.

[MrScorpio]

2. It definitely had all the markings of a white power rally.

They were all white and they never want to share any power.