I listened this evening to one voice on Fox News tell me that the worst thing a person can be called is a racist.   I disagree.

As a result of the overuse of the term racist and the refusal of those who constantly hurl the intended insult at one person after another I believe the term has been watered down.   When everyone that is white is accused of racism and when those persons who make this accusation tell us that it is impossible for a black man to be a racist, I turn a deaf ear.   The charge no longer has any validity to it.   If everyone is a racist then how does one weed racists from their midst?  They don't.    It is sad that persons like this Malik Zulu Shabazz and Jeremiah Wright are filled with such hatred that they cannot differentiate between what is said or done about Barack Obama that is based in ideology from what might be said that is hatred for his being a black man.  

I have followed the Tea Parties now since their inception.  I have attended rallies.   I author this and other statements on a blog that is intended to provide people a means of identifying issues of importance.   With this history in one of a multitude of different "Tea Parties" I would say that the overwhelming majority of opposition to this president has nothing to do with his skin color and everything to do with his ineptitude, his malevolence, his Marxist philosophy and his proposed legislation.   I also firmly believe that my attitude is mirrored by close to 100% of all the tea parties and that if racism exists within the hearts of those who attend rallies, it is in such a small minority that it wouldn't even register as a whole percentage. 

When we are accused of racism without evidence and when we are told to denounce those among our group that are racist by the NAACP my first question is, "Who?"   Give me a name.   Show me a picture.  Provide me some evidence.  

My return message to the NAACP has to be, listen when someone from a tea party tells you that the person who carried the racist sign was denounced and asked to leave the rally.  Listen when you are told that the reason the billboard in Iowa was taken down was because others in the tea party believed it misrepresented their organization.   Look when you see pictures of tea parties as to who is there.   Not only older white America, but young Americans as well.   We include people of all races.   We include people whose philosophy is tied to the Constitution.   When we see and hear people denounce our organizations as racist despite the fact that our arguments all surround Constitutional boundaries, Marxist philosophy, taxes, debt, spending and national security, don't assume us racists simply because the person whom we denounce is a black man.   When you do, you cheapen your charge.   When you do we will stand our ground and we will not go away and cower as a result of what we regard as a baseless charge.   We will instead ask ourselves whether there is truly anything worse than being called a racist and we will respond, "Yes, you could call us late for lunch."