Malkin has a Google Map transposed with the locations of the Tea Parties that have happened so far.
One thing that kinda jumps out at me is that, in comparison to the population as a whole, there are a disproportionately high number of these tea parties in Florida, the Carolinas, the Gulf Coast, much of Louisiana and the eastern half of Texas. Of course there have been a lot in the northeast, there are a lot of people in the northeast corridor to begin with. And the blue dots are almost indicative of American population density in general. It’s just that the areas I mentioned seem to have more tea parties relative to their numbers than everywhere else.
This observation of mine is crucial to what I’m about to say.
I have mixed feelings about the tea party movement.
On the one hand, I don’t want to dump all over anything that what appears to be a mass conservative resistance to the Obama agenda. It gives our people hope to see news reports on TV and blog posts showing masses of people showing up to resist the Obama attempt to bankrupt the country.
On the other hand, I get the feeling that they’re all whistling in the wind, that it won’t do any good in the long run because of fundamental flaws of modern day lamestream conservatism.
Let me give you an example. The leader of the St. Louis tea party movement is someone named Bill Hennessy. As I did until the beginning of this year, he lives in south St. Louis City, and maintains a blog called Hennessy’s View. If you are familiar with the blog you’re reading right now, then you know that this very URL was that of the official weblog of the St. Louis Chapter of the Council of Conservative Citizens until June 2007, at which time I split up personal interests (remaining on this URL) with official organization issues (moving to a new URL). I did both blogs until this past November, when, in advance of my moving, I had to hand off the St. Louis CofCC Blog to a new blogmeister at a new URL.
In late July of 2007, I found out that a blog called Hennessy’s View added the St. Louis CofCC Blog (the official one, by then, not this URL you’re on right now) to his blogroll. The next day, I reciprocated, adding him to the blogrolls of both the St. Louis CofCC Blog and this one, blockquoting his complimentary comments. I later found out that Bill Hennessy was its blogmeister. I read almost every one of his posts from that time going forward for a couple of months. Though I don’t know why, there was exceedingly little redeeming about any of his posts.
As time went on, I just glossed over his posts looking for a nugget of useful information, usually to no avail. I kept doing so because he was so nice to the St. Louis CofCC, and I figured I owed him that much.
Then all of a sudden, several months after he linked to the St. Louis CofCC, he makes a new post delinking to us, and apologizing to the twits that find his crap profound for having linked to us, using Deesesque language about how “horrible white racism” was. To tell you the truth, once he did it, I was not surprised, and deep down in my gut it was something I knew was coming. But it took him actually breaking from us publicly for me to realize what my gut did. I immediately took him off both my blogrolls, and declared that he should go fornicate with himself.
Out of sight, out of mind, until earlier this year, when I read on the P-D’s and Channel 5’s websites from here in my new Carbondale abode that that bastard sonofabitch cretin organized the St. Louis Tea Party.
Here you go. Bill Hennessy organizes a couple thousand people on the Arch Grounds to complain about an excessively bloated Federal government (not that I don’t agree), but he won’t tell you why and for whose benefit the Federal government is becoming excessively bloated. No way, that would be “horrible white racism.” No wonder the media kinda fawn about these tea parties, because they’re trying to lead conservatives into the arms of Hennessy-like pied pipers that they know won’t solve the problem. The St. Louis CofCC held numerous protests and events in the 2002-2007 time period, no fawning media coverage here. Reason? The CofCC actually wants to solve the whole problem, and knows that you can’t solve a problem unless you first identify a problem, and you can’t identify a problem if you’re prevented from doing so by the dictates of political correctness, even if that political correctness calls itself “conservative.”
James Edwards expressed my feelings in this stead better than I could:
Some four or five thousand people rallied in downtown Cincinnati against big spending this weekend. And just about every person who showed up was white. Of course, they just don’t get it, as there was apparently no mention of race or what massive immigration is doing to this country. Rest assured the media would be shouting it from the housetops if the white folks at the Cincinnati tea party had shown any sign that they’re waking up, and starting to realize just what’s going on. It would be all over the national news. But no one at the rally breathed a word about race. And until they’re willing to discuss the elephant in the room openly, and quit pretending it’s not there, they’re never going to make much progress in cleaning up all the manure in the room. They wave signs saying “Honk if you’re paying my mortgage” but it has apparently never registered with them that tens of millions of non-whites are perfectly happy with the government using other people’s taxes to pay their mortgage.
And I could add to that that if Bill Hennessy is any example, the tea partiers (or at least their laughable “leadership”) actively supports or at least does not resist importing tens of millions more non-whites who “are perfectly happy” to have Uncle Sap pay their everything. Why should we believe that, with that mentality, they’ll actually succeed in reversing government welfare for existing minorities? Wouldn’t that be “horrible white racism?”
If that’s the way the St. Louis tea party movement is, I suspect that’s the way it is for most of the rest of the country. But I can’t say that for sure, because the tea party movement is only a movement, not a cohesive formal organization with any modicum of central control. It is merely a collection of somewhat like-minded individuals who want to engage in public exhibition and protest in reaction to President Obama’s liberalism.
If you click on to my earlier post where I add Hennessy’s blog to my personal blogroll, and follow that link to Hennessy’s blog post where he announces it, you will get the 404. I suppose he’s trying to eliminate any evidence that he ever did link to the St. Louis CofCC juxtaposed with laudatory prose.
One more thing — I’m getting the feeling from Michelle Malkin’s map that the reason there are blue dots where there are and the reason why there are not blue dots where there are not is not just because of population density, but it’s really because of white reaction to pro-minority actions on the part of the Obama administration. That is why the Deep South is proportionately blue-dotted on this map, because of Patterson’s First Axiom. Where there are a lot of whites and a lot of minorities, you see blue dots. Places that are almost entirely white? No blue dots. James Edwards notes (and plain ole common sense can tell you) that these tea parties are almost all white.
