This was the fifteenth annual National White Privilege Conference. People — mostly white people, as evidenced by the pictures of the event–paid hundreds of dollars each to attend the week-long conference.
Not only are all members of the tea party movement racists, but the longer a person associates with the tea party, the more racist he becomes — according to a speaker at the National White Privilege Conference, which was held in Madison, Wisconsin, last week.
Leonard Zeskind, an author and activist, hosted a session on the racist roots of the tea party, a limited government movement that returned the U.S. House of Representatives to Republican control in 2010.
In Zeskind’s view, the oppression of minorities is a central motivating principal of the tea party.
“There has been a longitudinal study that finds the longer you are in the tea party, the more racist you become,” he said, according to the MacIver Institute, which covered the conference.
Tea party groups are similar to white nationalist groups, he said.
“Is it racist?” he asked. He then answered his own question: “Yes.”
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