What if the Tea Party was Black?

[Truth2Tell]

Run time: 03:22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtH7vH4yRcY   Posted on YouTube: July 14, 2010 By YouTube Member: jasirix Views on YouTube: 3211   Posted on DU: July 15, 2010 By DU Member: Truth2Tell Views on DU: 4343

 
A few months ago, Tim Wise wrote a widely circulated article called, "Imagine if the Tea Party Was Black " which challenged America to take a close look at the hypocrisy of the Right Wing. Now, a Pittsburgh rapper is accepting his challenge in true Hip Hop form.

[quiet.american]

1. Effing brilliant. nt

[Number23]

44. Effing true too, qa. THIS is the kind of stuff that should be on the home page of this web site

every single day with 200+ recs.

Kicked and Rec'd for truth.

[ProgressOnTheMove]

2. BAM!!! Musical art at its best. What if tea baggies...

[florida08]

3. +100 ....damn straight

carrying weapons to a rally? Would the defenders be saying it's the 2nd amendment right?..we know the answer.

[SemperEadem]

4. If I could recommend this a billion times I would. Thank you for posting this!

[Enthusiast]

5. That is excellent!

The clip illustrates the level of hypocrisy in this nation.

[eringer]

6. WoW!

Anyone know how to get this aired on MSNBC?

[elleng]

9. Dunno, but try sending it to Keith and Rachel; at least they'd enjoy it.

[KeepItReal]

7. Too true!

eom

[elleng]

8. Was gonna 'joke,' black tea, green tea, jasmine tea, but this is FAB!

[Cha]

10. This is brilliantly done..trying to find out the rapper's

name?..thanks for posting Truth2Tell.

[Truth2Tell]

13. Rapper is Jasiri X

http://www.myspace.com/jasirix

[tishaLA]

11. Thanks. Great video nt

[Grassy Knoll]

12. Wow, very well done.

:kick: & R

[Rozlee]

14. I could have used this kind of ammo yesterday.

MSN had "IS THE TEA PARTY RASCIST?" as one of their main online headlines. Sarah Palin was on a second headline piece under that one criticizing the NAACP about making the declaration for the Tea Party to repudiate rascism in it's members. Over half of six hundred respondents of their comments section then went on to prove that they were indeed the rascist that they were claiming that they weren't. It was astounding how people could claim in one breath that they weren't rascist, then lash out in another and criticize the NAACP and their members in such venomous, hateful terms. And of course, they pounded the Black Panther FOX story in just about every blurb.
I wrote in that I thought it was hilarious that conservatives were so terrorized by two black men threatening white people in voting booths, that they now feared waves of black hordes descending to cut their throats in their sleep and rape the lily white flowers of their womenhood. I told them that Depends diapers must be selling out to FOX viewers because they peed their pants everytime Megan told them that blackie was coming for them in stampeding multitudes. Every time I got a love bite from one of the posters, I kept pushing back with mocking ooo-go-see-a-urologist-about-that-weak-bladder-control. Jesus crapped, it's useless to tell their leaders that they can't see the rascism in their own ranks when they can't see it in their own selves.

[valerief]

15. Black people aren't that stupid. nt

[AlbertCat]

23. Black people aren't that stupid.

Indeed.

Sister Soulja could never be as straight up dumb and self serving as Sarah Palin!

Black people aren't as shiftless and lazy as Glenn Beck or Karl Rove either.



BTW... I am lily white and grew up among racists....very polite ones mind you.... and even I get this!

[valerief]

28. You know, I just realized my post could have been misinterpreted.

Of course, as you know, I meant black people aren't as stupid as teabaggers. However, the attack brigade could read it as black people are stupid but not that stupid. I absolutely did not mean that!

[jimlup]

16. Awesome!

Excellent work!

[raouldukelives]

17. I want to hear more!

Political hip-hop does something for me that I can't place my finger on but I must bust a move.

[TEXASYANKEE]

18. Powerful.

Nicely done.

[BigD_95]

19. im not into Rap

but awesome video

[PinkFloyd]

31. AGREED!

I'm more a rock and roll kind of guy but this video was spot-on. Props to jasirix for finding a cool and artistic way to express his views & beliefs.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

39. +1

[bear425]

20. Wow, this is an amazing song and video.

I can't wait to hear it on the FM. yeah right.

[SlingBlade]

21. K &R. Lyrics : "What if the tea party was black"

What if the tea party was black
Holding guns like the Black Panther Party was back
If Al was Rush Limbaugh and Jesse was Sean Hannity
And Tavis was Glenn Beck would they harm they families
If Sarah Palin was suddenly Sistah Soaljah
Would they leave it with the votes or go and get the soldiers
Yall know if the tea party was black
The government would have been had the army attack

What if Michael Baisden was on ya FM dial
For 3 hours every day calling the president foul
Would they say free speech or find evidence how
To charge him with treason like see he’s unamerican now
What if Minister Farrakhan prayed for the death
Of the commander in chief that he be laid to rest
Would they treat it as the gravest threat or never make an arrest
Even today he’s still hated for less
What if President Obama would have lost the election
Quit his job so he could go talk to the left and
Bash the government for being off of direction
Fraught with deception
And told black people they want all of our weapons
And we want our own country and called for secession
Would he be arrested and tossed in corrections
For trying to foster aggression
Against the people’s lawful selection
Our questions

What if the tea party was black
Holding guns like the Black Panther Party was back
If Al was Rush Limbaugh and Jesse was Sean Hannity
And Tavis was Glenn Beck would they harm they families
If Sarah Palin was suddenly Sistah Soaljah
Would they leave it with the votes or go and get the soldiers
Yall know if the tea party was black
The government would have been had the army attack

What If black people went on Facebook and made a page
That for the death if the president elect we prayed
Would the creators be tazed and thrown in a cage
We know the page wouldn’t have been displayed all these days
What if Jeremiah Wright said that everybody white
Wasn’t a real America would you feel scared of him
If he had a militia with pictures that depict the president as Hitler
They would kill and bury that
Wait
What if Cynthia McKinney lamented the winning of the new president
And hinted he wasn’t really a true resident
With no proof or evidence
Would the media treat it like a huge press event
They would have attacked whatever group she represents
They would have called her a kook on precedent
And any network that gave her due preference
Would be the laughing stock of the news so our question is

What if the tea party was black
Holding guns like the Black Panther Party was back
If Al was Rush Limbaugh and Jesse was Sean Hannity
And Tavis was Glenn Beck would they harm they families
If Sarah Palin was suddenly Sistah Soaljah
Would they leave it with the votes or go and get the soldiers
Yall know if the tea party was black
The government would have been had the army attack

[LittleGirl]

27. thanks for the words

I'm NOT into Rap at all, but this is an awesome video and beat. Speaks for me.

[NJCher]

34. thanks for posting the lyrics

It's one thing to hear them and quite another to be able to read them, study them, and appreciate how he got all that in there.

Re the video, incredible range of content.

I am so sick of teabaggers. I hardly ever watch TV because of them. They are so over-represented. When I did see Laura Ingraham on a TV this week, I just thought, "how can it be that they are still espousing this old, tired political propaganda." Will there ever be an end it?


Cher

[KurtNYC]

22. what if the TEA party was real, as in not GOP/MSM Astro Turf?

the title says it all

should be a bumpersticker "What if the Tea Party was Black?"

[The Drexel Dave]

24. Percy Shelley would be proud

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley

[slay]

26. Check this out

The tv show Highlander did a very cool episode with Shelley in it for season 5: "Lord Byron, once one of the greatest and most scandalous writers of the 19th Century, is now a rock star. Methos remembers when his escapades led to a senseless fight that ended in a quickening witnessed by the future Mary Shelley -- author of 'Frankenstein'. When Byron, whose debauchery and substance abuse have only increased with time, lures an up-and-coming musician under Joe Dawson's tutelage into his dangerous lifestyle, MacLeod becomes involved."

Full episode here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWWRUeX_Qlc

*on edit - not the full ep - is missing the beginning where Byron gives a concert and convinces some guy to jump from the rafters with him after the show. Guy dies, Byron is immortal, gets up and walks away. Missing opening credits too but rest is there. :)

[slay]

25. So true

very good - very powerful - if i wasn't afraid the style might turn off her audience i'd email rachel maddow about playin it on her show. somebody just try and buy commercial time on foxnews and play this.. lol

[myrna minx]

29. Excellent. K&R n/t

[jennied]

30. This NEEDS to go viral!

[FarLeftFist]

32. EVERYONE VOTE IT UP ON YOUTUBE!

If it goes viral it will help with the youth vote.

[Prana69]

33. outstanding!

[defendandprotect]

35. T-party is an arm of the GOP ... the sexist, racist, homophobic GOP . . . .

[Turborama]

36. K&R ... VH1 & MTV should have this on rotation. n/t

[RedCloud]

37. What?

[donheld]

38. This should have 500 recommends

[iamthebandfanman]

40. more like , what if the tea party was a leftist organisation.

wed be locked in free speach zones , tased, and threatened with violence.


can you imagine if back when bush was in power if one of us had a weapon waving it around?

shoot, jail and being tried as terrorist.

tea party people get away with practically murder compared to what the left went through during bush

[HuckleB]

41. K & R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ProudDad]

42. K&R - it was a great article and it still is (n/t)

[Overseas]

43. K&R. So true. //nt

[MightyAfrodite]

45. LOVE IT!!

And the fact that he's a real cutie is just icing on the cake!