>If I say it's a movement of white people and they are in fact white people it's not racist. It's an observation of fact.
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>Exactly how many Tea party events have you attended? Andy and I are members of the Summit County Tea Party and there are always Black people at our monthly Saturday morning meetings. This is an observation of fact. So what is your observation of fact based on? Fiction?

This shows the TP is not as lily white as I thought. However, the percentage of white people is higher than in the general population and the percentage of blacks is lower (6% vs. 11%).

http://www.gallup.com/poll/127181/tea-partiers-fairly-mainstream-demographics.aspx