Tea Party Racist? OMG...

When does this junk stop? Honestly.

This is some messed up logic that reveals more about the people making the charge than the Tea Party. OK, let's argue for a second that Tea Party folks do not want their taxes, their hard earned money, redistributed to black people. Why should they? If somebody were to approach me on the street and demand that I give them my money, am I suppose to like that? If that person was white or black would that make it different? For most people, I think the color of the robber is not the issue...the robbery is the issue.

So what if the robber were to turn around and give the money to someone else? Does that make it any less a crime? If the robber is government, does that change the reality? I don't think so. Wealth redistribution is, pure and simple, taking (stealing?) money from those who have it (usually the most productive) and giving to those who don't (generally the not-so-productive). I'm supposed to like that? The fatal flaw of redistributive thinking is that it completely ignores the fact that in most cases those that have more do so because they work harder. Is it true that black people suffer bias that makes it difficult to get ahead even if they work hard? Of course. It's also true that some conservative white Christians can't get into certain schools or jobs because they are conservative white Christians. Will redistribution and quotas fix either case? Uh...no.

The truth is that if you argue that the Tea Party is racist for not wanting their taxes to go to black people, you are admitting that you see taxes as redistributive and that you see black people as the primary beneficiaries of that redistribution. Perhaps even more telling, by denigrating those who would seek to block that redistribution, you are suggesting that you think such redistribution is appropriate and beneficial, which best I can tell makes you Marxist. Given that is the core of Black Liberation Theology, such a stance should not come as a surprise.


But here's the news flash...I seriously doubt that black or white or any other color enters the Tea Partier's mind when they start fussing about their money being taken. That their money has been taken by a government that shows such a contempt for them and spends it so poorly, should be enough to make anybody mad. Race issues need not factor in.

The truth is that there is only only true path to liberation for anyone of any color, and it isn't government redistribution. It begins with admitting that you need liberation and seeking it from the only one who can give it. His name is Jesus Christ...not Barack Obama.