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Full Video: Black Tea Party Protester Vs. Pro-Union Protesters in Colorado

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by Tommy Christopher | 5:35 pm, February 24th, 2011

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Wednesday, we brought you the story of 52 year-old entrepreneur Leland Robinson, a black Tea Party protester who was subjected to racist and racially-charged heckling at a pro-union demonstration in Denver, Colorado. RedWhiteBlueNews.com, the website that posted the video of the encounter, has now posted a longer version of the clip, which provides a fuller picture of what happened at the protest.

Now, I’m not interested in the “my protesters are better than your protesters” tit-for-tat that everyone else seems so enamored with, and I never have been. The racially-charged taunts that were used on Leland Robinson represent some of the worst that America has to offer, but I think that the longer clip serves to illustrate some of what’s so great about it.

The watchword in political discourse, lately, has been “civility,” but in a great country such as ours, strong opinions, expressed strongly, are the moonshine in democracy’s gas tank. While there’s no place for racism, violence, or threats of violence, I personally think that the rest of this clip courses with the hot blood that keeps this country vital: (warning: there is some NSFW language)

As you can see, things start out with a good old-fashioned, spirited-as-hell debate between Leland and a schoolteacher, and if you leave out the racially-charged stuff, this conversation crackles with the energy of democracy. I really wanted to hear Leland’s second choice for teachers (after “Quit your job”), and I was fine with his suggestion that teachers all be “f***ing fired,” and with the teacher’s response that you don’t know what work is until you’ve taught. I only wished I could have heard more about the entrepreneurial model of public school teaching.

This was all the stuff of great American barroom debates and tense holiday dinner tables, and I wouldn’t inject lifted pinkie or Grey Poupon high-fallutation into it for all the cheese in Madison, Wisconsin.

What’s also great about the longer clip is that you can see how someone immediately challenged Linda Sari, the woman in red, on her “Do you have any children that you claim” remark. She tries to backpedal, but the video makes it apparent that she’s trying to dig herself out. To her credit, she later copped to the racism in her remark, telling blogger El Marco “What I said is racist, but I am not a racist.”

The blogger who first broke this story, whom I’ll call RWBN, wasn’t too happy with my story at first, but we’ve since had a chance to talk things over. I’d like to clarify a few things about that first story. When I wrote, of Linda Sari, that she was “a random buttinski who just happened to be in the capitol that day,” the phrase “random buttinski” was mine, but the fact that she wasn’t with the union protesters, and happened to be there and decided to lend her support, was accurate based on what RWBN told me, and which hews closely to what she actually said on the video.

He also shot a lot of other video that day, if you like this sort of thing.

Denver, Leland Robinson, Linda Sari, SEIU, Tea Party, Union protest, Wisconsin

hanniballa

Clearly this racist teabagger is just antagonizing the hard working union folks. Oh wait, reality doesn’t match the narrative we’ve been fed the past year, no way! Thanks for bringing this to light Tommy!
Nan

I love the what I said was racist but I am not a racist. Where have I heard that before. Oh yea! Both sides but it must be true when a liberal says it and a lie when a conservative says it.
RedWhiteBlueNews

Well Put Tommy.
Latin2

Here is a Liberal calling a Jewish Conservative “A BAD Jew”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_TGki–G-0&feature=player_embedded
http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

Now, I’m not interested in the “my protesters are better than your protesters” tit-for-tat that everyone else seems so enamored with, and I never have been.
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Now Tommy, given your perspective on things, and the proclivity of your fellow Lefties to utilize the double-standard as a matter of Faith, are you sure you’re treating all protest excesses equally?

If so, that would be commendable…..and welcome to the GOP!
david r

The lady is a real racist. She’s the one who got the goons going. If the left can’t shout you down, they want to beat you up.
hanniballa

david r said:
The lady is a real racist. She’s the one who got the goons going. If the left can’t shout you down, they want to beat you up.

Remember Kenneth Gladney?

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/08/10/have_you_heard_ken_gladneys_story_97836.html
http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

When will the Network Media be demanding Democrats on the Sunday Talk Shows DENOUNCE this RACISM on the part of their supporters in these union protests?

Will Mediaite post a thread holding them accountable?

Can you even compare this to the way Network hosts demanded Republicans denounce supporters that don’t believe Barry’s a Christian – after all, Obama never LIES about anything, right? LMAO!
Cecelia

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…..
Hoss

Not too many places in America more racist than a union shop…well, maybe a KKK rally.
BatBoy

Don’t you just love to watch the “RACIST Progressive Left” do what they know how to do best?

It is being a full fledged “RACIST!”
http://www.facebook.com/people/Arthur-Clough/1419363514 Arthur Clough

This totally expresses the ignorance of union members.
Armageddon T Thunderbird

Tea Party = Baster Step Cousin of Twisted GOP Ideology
CAconservative

Armageddon T Thunderbird:

What does the Tea-Party have to do with this blatant display of racism from the Liberal Public Union goons?
JazzyJim

hanniballa said:
Clearly this racist teabagger is just antagonizing the hard working union folks. Oh wait, reality doesn’t match the narrative we’ve been fed the past year, no way! Thanks for bringing this to light Tommy!

I do recognize the republican media guy from fox radio; but I didn’t know the guy – the Koch Whore instigator – was gay. Who knew. He never mentioned it. How do you get a racisit out of this too? It’s clear the Koch Head was working to intentionally disrupt the American citizen supporting another citizens rights and the aggitator – Teabagin Koch Whore, you know, paid and bused into disrupt, like the town hall meetings, did what they wanted to do for their cameras and YouTube. It’s the new Koch Heads strategy – not fooling anyone.
JazzyJim

Arthur Clough said:
This totally expresses the ignorance of union members.

Actually – it just exposes the Union Busting methods of the Koch Whores and Koch Headed Teabagers. That’s all these nut jobs are – hired hands of FreedomWorks, American’s for Koch Prosperity, Heritage Foundation for Non-Tax Paying Corporations, Faux Newz Ministry of Lies. For a party that probably has 9 minorities across the entire party. This was a YouTube moment set up by the Koch Teabagers.
JazzyJim

NORBIT Jr. said:
When will the Network Media be demanding Democrats on the Sunday Talk Shows DENOUNCE this RACISM on the part of their supporters in these union protests?

Will Mediaite post a thread holding them accountable?

Can you even compare this to the way Network hosts demanded Republicans denounce supporters that don’t believe Barry’s a Christian – after all, Obama never LIES about anything, right? LMAO!

When it’s legitimate and not created by Andrew Breitbart and James O’Keefe for the Koch Whores and Koch Headed teabagers. You’re such a tool.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Todd-Anders/1420584586 Todd Anders

it is so refreshing to see a black conservative.Most dont reveal they are conservatives for fear of reprocussion from the “uncle Tom’s” who still vote democrat.