Racism Kicks Off Tea Party Convention

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Thursday night February 4, Former Republican Presidential candidate and congressman Tom Tancredo delivered the kickoff speech at the Tea Party convention. Tancredo told the Nashville crowd that because

"we do not have a civics literacy test before people can vote in this country, people who could not even spell the word 'vote,' or say it in English, put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House. His name is Barack Hussein Obama."

From a legal standpoint, passing a “civics literacy” test or any poll test before allowing a person to vote was banned by the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Tancredo said his remarks at the convention in Nashville, Tenn., were based on his desire to ensure participation only from voters who understand the government. [AP Feb. 5, 2010] And whose understanding of that government must a voter understand? He does not say. I think everyone who votes should have my understanding of government but that doesn’t have a chance in hell either.

So we boil down Tancredo’s Tea Party kickoff speech gem to what it really is:

Racism.

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