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Thread #120208   Message #2831514
Posted By: katlaughing
06-Feb-10 - 01:37 PM
Thread Name: BS: KKK/Tea Party Day
Subject: RE: BS: KKK/Tea Party Day
And now we have a former (thank goodness) Rep. from Colorado laughing while holding up a tee shirt at the teabaggers shindig which says "America is FULL!"

He also let his racism show when he opened his mouth:

(From ProgressNow)

At the national "Tea Party" Convention February 5th, former Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo said that "people who could not even spell the word 'vote' or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House." He added that President Obama was elected because "we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote." (NY Daily News, 2/5/10)

Tancredo praised the radical 'Tea Partiers' for launching a "revolution," and told the audience gathered that "it is our nation."

"Civics tests" to vote have a long and ugly record in America, primarily as a means of denying minorities the right to vote during the so-called "Jim Crow" era of legal discrimination and segregation. Such "tests" were banned by the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1964, ending what is universally considered today a dark chapter in American history.

Rep. Terrance Carroll, the first-ever African-American Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives, rejected excuses made by Tancredo for these statements, saying Tancredo should know "how hateful those tests were and how hateful that period of history was." (Denver Post, 2/6/10)


"revolution....OUR nation?" This is not sounding good.