Are the Tea Party Groups Racist?

A while back at one of the Tea Party rallies, aprovocateurs looking to destroy the Polish
group in the crowd started yelling racial epithets atSolidarity Movement.
an African American senator. This was the onlyThe same could be happening with this
time racist remarks have come from the any ofmovement right now. There are a lot of people
these rallies. They are, though, accused of beingwho would like to see the Tea Party Movement
racist simply because they oppose the policies offail, and if there could be proof that they are a
a president who happens to be black.large racist organization, that would do it.
Is History Repeating Itself?Are There Racists in the Tea Parties?
When Communist Russia occupied Poland aThe Tea Party is not an organized cohesive
movement started called the Polish Solidaritymovement, but they are large. Odds are pretty
Movement. The Polish were under communistgood that there are racists among them, as there
Russia and wanted out. They had a workersare racists in among them. The provocateurs
strike and stopped working. Pope John Paul, whomay have targeted those that they suspect
was Polish, supported the movement, as didwere racists and worked to get them roweled up
President Ronald Reagan. The intention was a warwhen shouting racial epithets. It is also possible
of attrition of sorts. The Polish were hoping tothat some racist groups wanted their voice heard
exhaust the Russians, and make occupying Polandand thought the Tea Parties Movement might be
not worth it.sympathetic.
Some of Russia's KGB agents infiltrated the PolishEither way, there have been hundreds of Tea
Solidarity Movement. They got those in theParty Rallies and only one incident of racism. This
movement to do things that hurt the movement,incident was an anomaly, not a pattern.
moving them towards violence. They were