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Tea Party Compared to KKK by the Rev. Walter Fauntroy

1:31 PM 08/27/2010
Pat McMahon

A civil rights activist and former congressman equated the Tea Party with the Ku Klux Klan today as he blasted a conservative rally planned in Washington, D.C., this weekend.

The Rev. Walter Fauntroy, the non-voting delegate who represented the District of Columbia from 1971 to 1991, called on African-Americans to organize a “new coalition of conscience” to rebut the rally scheduled for Saturday at the Lincoln Memorial featuring Fox News pundit Glenn Beck and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

“We are going to take on the barbarism of war, the decadence of racism, and the scourge of poverty, that the Ku Klux — I meant to say the Tea Party,” Fauntroy told a news conference today at the National Press Club. “You all forgive me, but I — you have to use them interchangeably.”

Fauntroy attempted to explain the comparison to white supremacists by saying that organizers behind the “Restoring Honor” rally are the same people who cut audio cables from a sound system the night before the historic March on Washington and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial.

Full story: Tea Party Compared to KKK by the Rev. Walter Fauntroy – ABC News

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  • recovered dem

    Just another disgusting black “reverend” like Sharpton, Wright and Jackson, spewing racial garbage and hate, and aided by Obama. It’s ironic that before Obama, the great healer, was elected most of us no longer gave race any consideration. We were all just people. But once again, we are being divided by these race-baiting, hate-mongers.

  • Momma M

    A strange little man, indeed. Most shrinks would say, a typical “middle child”… Always searching for the spotlight, desperate for attention.

    A man that demands more “equal-rights” for his, but has no concern for the rights of others… Like gays. He’s vehemently against gay marriage.

    He is the founder of the “walter e fauntroy & associates” lobbying firm. Most of his efforts recently have been focusing on South Africa’s “needs”… (As opposed to the needs of Americans).

    He founded the “National Black Leadership Roundtable”… a vehicle of the Black Congressional Causus. His need to further segregate blacks from whites continues.

    He also supported the “Houses of Worship Freedom of Speech Restoration Act” which would have allowed more direct input from relgious leaders in current politics.

    Seems Walter has more in common with the KKK than any tea-partier I’ve ever spoken with.

  • des1

    That’s ok, whenever I say the name Rev Walter Fauntroy, I use the term “moron” interchangeably.

    • Totzke

      Amen to that!

  • Callie369

    I lived in Alabama during George Wallace’s days as governor (and his WIFE’s days as governor where he was pulling her strings). I KNOW racism when I see it. Fauntroy, Jackson, Sharpton, Rangle, etc., are old farts from days gone by who want to keep racism going. AND they have Dumbama helping them every step of the way. I have seen more racism since 2008 then in the previous 50 years.

    Look at todays rallies……Sharpton and Beck. A few hundred turn out for Sharpton and 500,000 or MORE, turn out for Beck. Which has the better message? Which is using RACISM?

  • peppermint patty

    Fauntroy is a liberal McCarthyist.

    Confronted with sincere, committed political opposition that has no similarity at all to the Ku Klux Klan at all – if he had proof of this blatant lie, he would doubtless have produced it – he tells the Big Lie shamelessly.

    I have to take issue with the article’s headline and lead paragraph, as well. Fauntroy was never a Congressman; he was a non-voting delegate from the District of Columbia, as is revealed in the body of the article.

  • pepito

    Nobody is buying this crap anymore so save your breath you African American agent provocateurs!!! This only confirms that it’s you who’s the racist and the professional activist that your known for!

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