Tea party Republicans flocking to appear Monday at white nationalist-connected march

[Galraedia]

Source: Raw Story

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Iowa Rep. Steve King, former Rep. Allen West and Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions are all planning to appear at an anti-immigration reform rally held by a group with close connections to the white nationalist movement. According to Right Wing Watch, the Black American Leadership Association (BALA) is not the grass-roots organization it purports to be, but rather a longstanding cabal of anti-immigration activists who have “deep connections” to white nationalist John Tanton, a man the Southern Poverty Law Center calls “the racist architect of the modern anti-immigrant movement.”

The march, called the “D.C. March for Jobs,” with its “Just say ‘No’ to Amnesty” theme is slated for Monday and is expected to draw a heavily tea party-affiliated, far-right crowd. Michelle Cottle at the Daily Beast wrote Friday that BALA is believed to be “the latest in a series of minority front groups providing anti-immigration extremists cover from charges of racism.”

Tea party leaders, wrote Cottle, have been “downright giddy” at having a group of activists of color on hand to point to when critics call out the recent anti-immigration reform putsch by conservatives as a display of racial animus.

BALA founder Leah Durant claims that the group’s mission is to protect the economic viability of African-Americans in the U.S. by stemming the tide of undocumented workers it believes are streaming into the country, thereby preventing the widespread black unemployment they say would result from the “devastating effects of amnesty and mass immigration.”

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/12/tea-party-republicans-flocking-to-appear-monday-at-white-nationalist-connected-march/

[kimbutgar]

1. Will they be wearing white hoods?

[heaven05]

7. yep

and would not surprise me in the least if they burned a fucking cross to commemorate the event. classic divide and conquer strategy at work here.

[another_liberal]

2. There's an old saying:

"Everyone digs their own grave."

[southernyankeebelle]

3. I bet they get good coverage for it to. Sad to say. If it were women marching on the

left we wouldn't get any coverage if it were for blogs because they are the ones doing the job that MSM isn't doing.

[SummerSnow]

4. Cant make this stuff up.

[Scootaloo]

5. Just for a moment, let's presume Leah Durant is sincere...

Wouldn't the logical answer be to seek protections for immigrants, full application of labor laws regardless of legal status, so that businesses couldn't exploit them in the first place? It's the exploitation that suppresses wages and employment, not the workers themselves!

Worker solidarity is the key to worker protections. Attacking each other simply makes it that much easier to exploit you.

...But then that all requires the assumption of sincerity of belief... which may be quite a stretch

[Laelth]

12. +1 Well said. n/t

-Laelth

[B Stieg]

6. Racists so cowardly they hide behind those they despise.

Aren't these sociopaths worried about cooties?

[sheshe2]

8. I see they have a stellar lineup~

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Iowa Rep. Steve King, former Rep. Allen West and Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions

of bat shit crazies!

[sakabatou]

25. +1

[PatrynXX]

9. well they do have a right

course we have the right to bitch about it.

[cheapdate]

10. Unemployed African-Americans aren't lining up to pick tomatoes

or to work the straw season here in Tennessee. There's always cleaning hotel rooms for a few dollars a day. The Somalis ran the Mexicans out of the Tyson chicken plant -- it's good work, hanging chickens, if you have absolutely NO other choices.

[kelliekat44]

32. Neither are unemployed whites. nt

[jaysunb]

11. This is wonderful !

I certainly they extensive news coverage repleat w/ personal interviews w/ the crowd....especially on the immigration matter.

[JaneyVee]

13. Just say no to amnesty?!!! Reagan would roll over in his grave.

[RobertEarl]

14. I know what the white bosses problem is

The Mexicans will not take their crap. They will just move on to another job. Heck, they ARE migrant laborers.

Residents here are slightly beholden to the bosses. We have houses and families here and so when we are told to STFU, we do.

Migrant Mexicans will tell you to shove it.

[Sunlei]

15. None of those "Leaders" lick R boots for free

[AsahinaKimi]

16. white nationalist movement?

ah ha...
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/ideology/white-nationalist

[SoapBox]

17. ...it's a KKK rally.

Call it what it is...it's the Klan.

[Jack Rabbit]

18. I wonder what a racist tea partier is supposed to make of Allen West

Do they lynch him and then vote for him?

[brucefan]

26. Nah

He just gives them cover."see we're not rascist"

[IrishAyes]

29. No, the other way around. Get serious!

[Samantha]

19. And this is part of the reason we have seen the rush to ban abortions and other rights of women

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such as birth control. The statistics that were reported several years ago, as in when the original Crossfire was on, was that by 2050, the white person would be a minority in this Country. Many people who are indeed prejudiced white supremacists or simply some people with a lot of wealth and power who believe if they become a minority they will not have as much power seek to restrict women's reproductive rights in order to prompt more Caucasian births. If you think this sounds crazy (which it does) it is still true. How do I know this? Because I heard Pat Buchanan during one of those unfortunate open mic incidents say when the station he was on went to break admit, when asked by Margaret Carlson if he really thought that prediction would come true, he did believe this would happen as long as this Country allowed as many abortions as then permitted to continue.

Yes, some people oppose abortion because of their stated religious beliefs but it is also true that the group I discuss above use these people for nefarious reasons.

When one looks at all of the unbelievable moves by the Republican party in this arena and thinks I cannot believe this, he or she should try looking through this lens and it really starts to make sense why they are doing what they are doing. And it has nothing to do with their Bibles.

Sam

[alp227]

23. Are you SERIOUS?

Why don't they ban abortion only for WHITE women then? The right wing is all over the place. First they complain abortion is racist against black people. Then they fear whites will lose their majority. WHICH IS IT??

[Samantha]

33. Why do you ask me if I am serious?

Your question should be was Pat Buchanan serious. But he said it seriously and I am sure he meant it. One of the reasons he was kind of pushed out on cable was due to his ultra-conservative beliefs. There are elements of people deeply involved in politics that belong to organizations that truly believe the "white man" is superior. Check out the John Birch Society and scan the list of members. There is a name listed I am sure you will recognize and he spends a lot of money influencing politics in this country. His father helped co-found that organization. And that is just one example.

And, yes, these people who lean in this direction absolutely do fear becoming a minority in these United States.

I personally am a Caucasian woman, and it wouldn't bother me in the least to be a minority.

Sam

[IrishAyes]

30. Well said.

[olddots]

20. there is a motor cycle gang like this and they are the baddest of the bad

We shouldn't think lightly of this just because they are fools they could become a very powerful gang of fools .

[MADem]

21. This is outrageous. K/R for visibility. nt

[bigdarryl]

22. And we don't have a race problem. OK

[alp227]

24. Immigration to blame for black unemployment?

I've heard OTHER right wingers blame black unemployment on the minimum wage. And other reasons beyond ideology: lack of education, criminal record, employers' prejudice. These groups are corporate elitist tools with a mission to divide the working class against one another rather than seek genuine solutions.

[Mr. David]

27. Please place every single one of them under arrest and sent to Gitmo

for further "treatments" - and that includes the GOP Senators who is involved.

[firenewt]

28. I'm praying for a 'perfect storm'. Lots of thunder and lightning with football sized hail stones,

winds and blinding rain. I'll then claim the storm is a message from God - their stance is wrong, they really aren't Christians and they are ugly.

[IrishAyes]

31. And you'd be correct.

They're about as 'Christian' as I am tall and sweet.