Tea Party?

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This article written by Tim Wise is From Oyasophia’s blog. Very Powerful stuff!

https://web.archive.org/web/20120215154148/https://oyasophia.blogspot.com/2010/04/imagine-if-tea-party-was-black-tim-wise.html

It kind of made me angry while reading it. I have not been following the Tea Party movement too much, but I had a feeling that they were up to no good.

I get so lost and frustrated sometimes. I value different opinions and point of view, but when it comes to some issue I just want to scream “WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE.”

Not everyone is going to think like me - I understand that. But there is a fine line between freedom of speech, and complete oppression, hatred, racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. A very fine line - and it is being crossed every single day.

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