Something peculiar occurred Monday evening inside the Rameses Temple on Beatties Ford Road: A Tea Party member was invited to address the brothers of the Beta Nu Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc.Whats more, Corey Thompson also is a Republican and at-large candidate for the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners.
No, he did not go there stumping for votes. I suspect that Thompson, a history and journalism teacher at West Mecklenburg High School, is far too keen to be that naive.
Instead, he arrived with a singular theme: The tea party, he told the brothers, is not a racist movement, it wasnt founded to oppose the nations first black president, and, he said, its certainly not based on hate.
So whats a man politically aligned with Sarah Palin doing addressing the fraternity of King, Robeson, Marshall and Du Bois?
Find out at Qcitymetro.com.
Can anyone say "bandwagon"?
Here's a suggestion: If you don't want to be labeled as a racist, and you don't want to be associated with racists, don't hang out with racists. Here are several examples of racism at Tea Bagger functions: