Ron Paul and the TEA Party ?

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$tevie wrote:

And I love the way that people freak out when Black people discuss uniting to use their collective vote to wield some clout. It's not wrong when the Tea Party does it, it's not wrong when the Evangelicals do it, it's not wrong when anti-abortionists do it. Voting blocs are only wrong when those uppity Black people do it.

C'mon $tevie, you don't really feel this way, do you? You really don't see them as being the same thing, right? It is clearly wrong for any minority (in this case blacks) to join together to vote for any candidate based on either their skin color or the candidates skin color. What they are proposing is just as wrong as those that voted against Obama just because he was black. It was just as wrong when people voted for Hillary just to see the first woman President get into office. There are black evangelicals. there are blacks in the anti-abortion caucus. Hell, there may even be one or two blacks in the TEA Party If and when anyone is getting together to form a voting block based on race and not a specific issue that may be particular to that race's needs, that I have a problem with.

When groups get together and share a common need to have something addressed based on the commonalities in their group, then by all means have at it. I'm pretty sure you agree with that. That is not how I read some of the statements in the article.