Glenn Beck visited Tyler Texas to talk to his fans and supporters as well as those who believe in the Constitution of the United States and freedom. Among those in the audience were the much talked about Tea Partiers. The Tea Party people are not what you might think. Most of the Tea Party people are baby boomers, very peaceful, educated, and not what I would think of when thinking of your run of the meal racist.
The Tea Party people should be commended for defending and studying the Constitution and helping other people learn about America’s history. Young people in the United States consider our historical roots to be old and outdated and just like a new clothing fad they are ok with watching the Constitution being destroyed by judges legislating from the bench.
The immigrant issue has started to be used as the reason the Tea Party movement is racist. The problem with that idea is you are talking to the melting pot, America. We are a mixture of people from all different races, clans, and tribes. We are not your typical secluded tribe fighting against another tribe. American’s are more and more becoming a unified group of people and less like two tribes fighting against each other. It’s unpredictable as far as what people will fight against each other on the street.
A black person hitting a black person on the street is just as likely to occur as a white person attacking a black person. A skinhead incident is very uncommon these days and many of these types of groups now days are more like a club of Larry Curly and Moe’s than an impressively organized hate group.
In Dallas and Houston you are very likely to see a good number of black people at these Tea Rally’s although I will admit not as many in Tyler although a few do come out to show support. As far as hispanics you see very few at the Tea Rally’s here in Tyler and the hispanic immigration issue is a sensitive topic even for people in my own family.
The immigration issue is the closest thing to tribal warfare in America although it isn’t even that. Mexican’s are likely to cause violence on the border of the United States but even then it has to do with drug cartels than the color of their skin. You see American’s are not violently engaged in hate speech or violent acts as the news tries to portray. That is not what American is yet although this could happen if we do not clamp down on illegal immigration. The Tea Party point is that health care isn’t free and in fact American’s pay for the supposed free health care going to immigrants. It is not about no immigration but about legal immigration. You earn the right to be here and you should have to pay for the privileges of being an American like everyone else.
So with Glenn Beck in town and the Tea Party movement showing up in large numbers did we see the racism the news would like us to believe? No there was no racism just some common sense answers to some sensitive issues.
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