Answer to Pitts column

To the editor:

For Leonard Pitts Jr.: A few words on the meaning of tea; an answer to the column on Tuesday's opinion page in The Commercial Review.

My words are occasioned by the words you wrote on the Tea Party Movement as people who haven't made peace with the fact that their president is black; that we hate the president only because he is black.

That people liked Obama's policies, his eloquence and his fierce intelligence and the fact that he was black that his election would turn history on its ear, was all icing on the cake.

Mr. Pitts further states that Tea Partiers would emphatically reply no, that racism is the whole raison d'etre of the movement.

I thought you were educated my dear Mr. Pitts. Half of the country knew what the policies were of then-Sen. Obama. It didn't matter if he was black or not. I had written many letters to the editor to warn American of just what Sen. Obama was standing for. Many said I was racist then. We are not (racists); never in a million years. Are there racists in the United States? There will always be. But you have maligned our movement by stating so.

You say we face the realization that our days of dominance are numbered, that we are witness to the birth cries of a new America and what we shall be in the nation now being born.

You further state that you hope the change we fear will satisfy us because it will not be turned back; no one ever volunteers to return to the rear of the bus. That was never the desire we are striving for.

The cry you stated from one woman last year who wanted her country back was not a cry to return minority and black people to the "back of the bus," and that she didn't realize that the country as we knew it is already, irrevocably, gone. You greatly underestimate the vast majority of the people of the United States.

President Obama is a progressive, along with the Clintons, some policies of former President Bush, Senators and U.S. Representatives and elected officials on both sides of the aisle. Make sure to realize, America, that progressive does not stand for progress in our Republic. The things that Progressives stand for are diabolically against the values that our forefathers fought for. The Tea Party Movement is against Big Government, and the spending and taxing that will put our country in the position of countries that are broke and no longer free. Our forefathers fought for and won independence on those desires for freedom. Our Constitution was based on those God-given freedoms.

The Tea Party movement was never about racism. Some voters innocently thought that Obama was going to give us all the object of desires; that government would change and no longer be big, taxing and overspending.

We are standing up for those values and seeking candidates, regardless of skin color, who will embrace those values and go to Washington and vote those ways.

We also want to oust elected officials who will not stand up for the America that was fought for in 1776 and do away with all who want a Progressive, Socialist government here in the United States.

Sue McBride

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