Inge Marler, Arkansas Tea Party Leader, Makes Racist Joke At Event
Source: Huffington Post
Tea Party leaders in Arkansas are on the defensive after a board member of a Tea Party group in the Ozarks made a racist joke at a rally over the weekend drawing laughs from the audience.
The Baxter Bulletin in north-central Arkansas reported that Inge Marler made the comments at the annual rally of the Ozark Tea Party. The remarks, which suggested that African-Americans are on welfare, were condemned by Tea Party leaders in the state. The Bulletin reported that the condemnation came after they contacted the Tea Party for comment.
The Bulletin reports that Marler, who told the newspaper she would stop using the joke, said the following as an ice-breaker in her speech:
Well, son, that be when white folks work every day so us po folks can get all our benefits.
But mama, dont the white folk get mad about that?
They sho do, son. They sho do. And thats called racism.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/14/inge-marler-tea-party-arkansas-leader-racist-joke_n_1597334.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)66 dmhlt
(1,941 posts)goclark
(30,404 posts)clapping at rallies?
They still don't show photos of the crowds. I think they are " In Name Only."
Never met one that self identified.
Never saw more than a crowd on tv of more than 30 people.
Where are the massive crowds?
geardaddy
(24,936 posts)nxylas
(6,440 posts)As is all books, 'cept the Bible.
marmar
(77,131 posts)...... is a whole bunch of old-fashioned racism.
The Magistrate
(95,272 posts)And that is all it ever has meant.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)Remember how Obama in 2008, and for that matter Hillary too, were expected to turn cartwheels almost to the point of an excorcism every time one of their supporters said something stupid.
demwing
(16,916 posts)His excuse will be "I don't agree with everything said by everyone of my supporters...and they don't agree with everything I say."
That's Romney - never met a fence he couldn't straddle. Even the barbed wire variety
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)libinnyandia
(1,374 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)They are
Enrique
(27,461 posts)kidding!!!
coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)JAbuchan08
(3,046 posts)Where there any black people in the audience to be offended?
denverbill
(11,489 posts)It's pretty bad when the Tea Party actually has to come down on you.
And she won't stop using the joke. She'll just stop telling it in public.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)The Ozarks that are virtually lily-white AND have some of the highest poverty and welfare rates in the country?!
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)where most of the Republican Party membership is made up of rich retirees, mostly from out-of-state.
Alcibiades
(5,061 posts)In southwest Missouri, which is sort of the "gateway to the Ozarks."
It's a historical fact that this part of Missouri and Arkansas is lily-white not in spite of racism, but because of it:
http://ksmu.org/article/1906-lynching-square
"Almost overnight the African-American population of Springfield dropped from about 20 percent to 2 percent."
Folks don't talk about it much, but the 1906 lynchings are an important part of the history of race relations in the area.
Poverty and racism are also not mutually exclusive. I'm a native of the Carolinas, and I find the Ozarks to be one of the most racist places I've ever been, which is saying something.
sinkingfeeling
(51,501 posts)Only 15.5% below poverty.
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/05/05005.html
BumRushDaShow
(130,142 posts)like almost 20 years ago?
KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)Remember?
drm604
(16,230 posts)If so, why? Maybe they agree with her?
Here's another article about the incident.
http://www.baxterbulletin.com/article/20120613/NEWS01/306130021/Tea-Party-founder-Racially-charged-joke-bad-taste?odyssey=mod
Sounds like she wasn't the only racist at that meeting.
harmonicon
(12,008 posts)What a surprise.
Dash87
(3,220 posts)Not owning these words at this point is an act of cowardice.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)citysyde
(74 posts)this woman.
Evidently, Tea Party members saw this article on their AOL news, and they are really quite mad in more ways than one.
marble falls
(57,647 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Smilo
(1,944 posts)by the small minds and intolerance of teabaggers.
AndyTiedye
(23,500 posts)zeemike
(18,998 posts)The only difference is that they were not afraid to use the word nigger.,,,and used it always.
No doubt that this person heard it from the previous generation and they just changed a word and used it.
Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)She is a cruel, ignorant, asshole of a pig.
Apologies to pigs.
abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)Happily they are on the other side of the country.
They will all get offended if I call them a racist, but they all make racist jokes, forward racist emails and use bigoted terms to identify others. Does that make them a racist?
Anyway, this is an ugly joke but it pales compared to the loony stuff my relatives have been posting on FB recently. They are all concerned that the DHS is gearing up for a civil war. That the government is creating camps for prisoners and tea party protesters. That drones will be used to monitor their every move. That the government is going around confiscating peoples guns, cash and soon gold and silver too. O, and of course that the president if from Kenya. The civil war thing is very big lately.
Tea partiers are lunatics. And they vote....
tabasco
(22,974 posts)sakabatou
(42,207 posts)bayareaboy
(793 posts)RePUGs too.
I mean this year has been lots of these misfits telling bad jokes that are always racist. Before it was Starbuck's latte liberal arts jokes that usually didn't make too much sense.
To me the problem is I feel that must respond, because they are real numb-nuts, and I find the enemy to be beneath contempt.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)GOP: "Blacks, check. Latinos, check. Asians, check. Poor people, check. Women, check. Unions, check. Gays, check. Atheists, check. Muslims, check. Liberals, check. Moderates, check. Young people, check. Jews, check. Are there any other voting blocks left for us to alienate?"
Alcibiades
(5,061 posts)There are a great many middle class folks who are what I call "aspirational Republicans." These are folks who are personally tolerant, and in some cases socially liberal, but who identify with the ruling class and therefore vote GOP as a kind of aspirational token.
And yet these folks value respectibility and responsibility as some of their highest values: it is my hope that, with all this talk, and everything else crazy the GOP has done, this substantial part of their voting bloc will decide it's simply not respectible or responsible to be a Republican any more.
ScottLand
(2,485 posts)Thanks for the clarity!
Javaman
(62,540 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)we needed to "reach out" to the Tea Party because they were real people with valid concerns are long, long gone...
I am not sure if they were trolls, or if some folks really felt that way. I think most people recognized these folks for who they were immediately: they are the George Wallace people.
The really asinine thing about the way this was handled in the media was that these people, who had voted GOP ever since the inception of the southern strategy, were treated as something "new" within the GOP by the media. Here's a photo I cannot post enough: it's Lester Maddox in 1965. Very little of the text of his sign would have to be changed for him to be a tea party supporter in 2012.
http://atlantatimemachine.com/misc/maddox.htm
The only real difference is that his sign is professionally lettered, the spelling is correct, and Maddox was, if anything, less hateful and irrational than tea party people today, which is saying quite a bit.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,501 posts)in Arkansas. A truly beautiful state with hateful people.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/post/arkansas-racism-tea-party-style/2012/06/15/gJQAHQIfeV_blog.html
olegramps
(8,200 posts)Their apologies ring hollow as the smirk and wink knowingly at their racist friends. Sorry, I spent far to long in the South not to be stupid enough to know their deep seated convictions. what I found rather curious was that those who move into the South from the North and West often become just or even more racist than those who have been surrounded by it from infancy.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)Nothing new here, it's what I expect from this pack of "patriots".
KevTucky
(90 posts)All racists are Teabaggers!
olegramps
(8,200 posts)hughee99
(16,113 posts)All Teabaggers are racist, but not all racists are Teabaggers. I'm sure there are many racists that don't pay too much attention to politics at all.
demwing
(16,916 posts)in the heart of every racist in Romney's Amercia.
I wonder if we can avoid having to fight that battle again. Sometimes it seems destined to repeat itself.
progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)Indi Guy
(3,992 posts)...isn't taught in school.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)The Wizard
(12,556 posts)These butt plugs have cornered the market on stupid.