Tea Party

Sarah Palin thinks that if the Republican Party doesn’t totally embrace the Tea Party movement, it might as well consider itself “through” as an organizing entity. What Palin and those who agree with her must recognize is that if the Tea Party doesn’t do a better job of rejecting candidates who can win a primary […]

The NAACP has released a report which shows the connections between the Tea Party and hate groups, anti-semites and white supremacist groups. Here is the introduction: The result of this study contravenes many of the Tea Parties’ self-invented myths, particularly their supposedly sole concentration on budget deficits, taxes and the power of the federal government, […]

Tea Party-Backed Senate Candidate Says She Did Not Authorize LinkedIn Profile That Indicates She Attended Oxford university.

In our third installment of our Pop and Politics series, we interview Florida Tea Party candidate Colonel Allen West about his views on race, anger among voters, and why he believes he can win in Congressional District 22 in Florida. Pop and Politics with Farai Chideya is a series of three radio specials about the […]

Chris Rock had a joke about black anti-intellectualism that roughly went “those people are keeping it real. Yeah, real stupid!” One can’t help but think these days there is a creeping anti-intellectualism in some segments of white America.

Democratic political operatives are excited and filled with enthusiasm over the prospect of running against several tea party candidates in November, suggesting that the Republican nominees are so extreme and out-of-touch that there is no way they stand a chance of winning in November. Have you listened to the euphoria in Democratic circles since Christine […]

A tea party group is $1 million richer thanks to an anonymous donor who wants his money to influence this year’s midterm elections.

We’ve all heard comedians telling “Black people and White people are different” jokes right? In the latest episode of “This Week in Blackness” host Elon James White crafts his own version based on Governor of Mississippi Haley Barbour’s interesting version of what it was like to go to school in in the South in the […]

FreedomWorks, the big daddy of the tea party-sponsoring organizations, is the latest to make an attempt at shedding the movement’s all-white image.