Bravo Tea Party! You've succeeded and I'm scared

Tea parties used to be a favorite of mine. Getting dressed up, putting all of my manners to use, sipping tea. But then, out of nowhere, the words tea and party were joined with movement and now I can barely stand to look at a cup of tea.

I mean, is it going to jump up and take away my birth control? Is it going to draw a Hitler mustache on me while I'm asleep? Deep sigh. Maybe it will just make my life miserable by reinforcing what I already knew, that there would be huge consequences to pay when Barack Obama was elected president.

And what are those? That America isn't half as civilized as it would have you believe and most sadly, that I'll have to watch the president of the United States reduced to nothing but another lowly black man by backwoods hicks though he is leader of the free world.

Now, I'm not going to sit here and lie. I called George Bush stupid. I said he was a moron. But I didn't draw on pictures of him. I didn't compare him to socialists and dictators. I still had respect for the office of the presidency. But now, the hate for PRESIDENT OBAMA has reached a level that actually scares me. Republican lawmakers hate him so much that Congressional hearings no longer have any purpose. They just divulge into rants about administrative issues when they have nothing to actually complain about in his policies.

Tea partiers hide under a thinly veiled guise of being "patriotic," which, if you ask me has always been a nice way of being racist. Most policies that are truly "American" don't favor women, minorities, or the poor.

Yet, the movement's defense is that it has all of these groups in its arsenal. And it does to a certain extent. Women are on board because apparently Sarah Palin is well, Sarah Palin. Those who consider themselves "Mama Grizzlies," (you know the type, annoying ass kids who don't do their own homework, moms who act like crazies at sporting events) identify with this woman. The poor are on board because in hard times they never want those niggers and spics taking their jobs. And blacks are on board because they've been sucked in as tokens who will stand by and watch and not say anything.

But why does it scare me overall? Well, I'm black! And for blacks during economic hard times groups focused on getting rid of the economic problem always arise, whether it's the Klan or the Tea Party. And one is the evolution of the other if you ask me. So yeah, I'll keep my distance and sadly I'll wait. Wait for what you ask? Wait for some crazy to attack. Wait for some hate crime to finally go down.

It's sad but it's true. And making it even worse are hate mongers such as Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. Who cares if they mean what they say? The average person watching and agreeing in my hometown isn't smart enough to know it's all about the money for the talking heads. And whereas Beck isn't going out to participate in actual violence, the young man who's been raised to fear blacks, who has been laid off, and who sees "them" as taking "his" job, money, food for his family, will.

I'd say that the Tea Party leaders in Washington and Glenn and Rush know not what they do, but they know, and could care less. So bravo America, you have managed to scare me as the Klan once scared my ancestors. There has been no progress, except I am now able to watch the crap from the front of the bus.