FreedomWorks, the right-wing activist group led by former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, the godfather of the Tea Party movement, is readying a push back campaign against charges that the movement is racist.
In this morning Daily Caller, the conservative-to-right-wing newsletter, this item -- "FreedomWorks President and CEO Matt Kibbe said the organization will roll out Diverse Tea, a platform and advertising campaign that will showcase diversity in the Tea Party movement, sometime this week or early next week. 'The idea is to create a platform for African-American Tea Party leaders, Hispanic Tea Party leaders and Jewish Tea Party leaders to get out there and talk about why they’re involved and why these (tea party) issues matter so much to them,' Kibbe said."
Well and good, if the Tea Party Movement becomes something that it is currently not. Mark Williams' Tea Party Express keeps rolling along. Of course FreedomWorks expelled Mark Williams and the Tea Party Express from the National Tea Party Federation for racist acts. And yet, the Tea Party Express keeps rolling along. The entire Tea Party Movement isn't and never has been racist. The Tea Party Movement still has racist elements. If FreedomWorks would denounce and would repudiate these elements, then well and good. So far these element still are a significant part of the public and private face of the The Tea Party. The Tea Party movement's leadership hasn't done enough to condemn, to denounce and to repudiate these elements.

