Charles_Main
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About those racist tea-party signs? Yeah, not so much
Like we have been saying all along, the VAST MAJORITY of tea Party activists are About lowering spending, and taxes and Limited Government. Not racism. Despite the Liberal media Narrative.
About those ‘racist’ tea-party signs? Yeah, not so much | Kyle Wingfield
UCLA study: Most tea party signs not racist - National post-partisan | Examiner.com
Emily Ekins, a graduate student at UCLA, conducted the survey at the 9/12 Taxpayer March on Washington last month by scouring the crowd, row by row and hour by hour, and taking a picture of every sign she passed.
Ekins photographed about 250 signs, and more than half of those she saw reflected a limited government ethos, she found touching on such topics as the role of government, liberty, taxes, spending, deficit and concern about socialism. Examples ranged from the simple message $top the $pending scrawled in black-marker block letters to more elaborate drawings of bar charts, stop signs and one poster with the slogan Socialism is Legal Theft and a stick-figure socialist pointing a gun at the head of a taxpayer.
There were uglier messages, too including Obama Bin Lyin Impeach Now and Somewhere in Kenya a Village is Missing its Idiot. But Ekinss analysis showed that only about a quarter of all signs reflected direct anger with Obama. Only 5 percent of the total mentioned the presidents race or religion, and slightly more than 1 percent questioned his American citizenship.
Like we have been saying all along, the VAST MAJORITY of tea Party activists are About lowering spending, and taxes and Limited Government. Not racism. Despite the Liberal media Narrative.
About those ‘racist’ tea-party signs? Yeah, not so much | Kyle Wingfield
UCLA study: Most tea party signs not racist - National post-partisan | Examiner.com