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NOT IN MY COUNTRY

There is a risk everyone takes when it comes to hamstringing “Jesus” on a cross.

You run the risk of making a whole lot of people mad.

There are three things we were taught as children never to talk about in public: Race, religion, and politics.

That day has ended, the gloves are off in arenas across the world, and this latest one: “Kill White Jesus” is one that has so many different connotations and denotations, they can’t all be laid out without writing a full-scale 175,000- to 250,000-word book.

The meme below is one that the Tea Party brought on themselves by their own actions.

They never got over the fact that America no longer “belongs” to white racists from glorious times past, even if we are still picking the salty wounds of a tethered past and gathering up the heaping piles of fresh bodies that remind us of that past to this day.

The fights we are fighting again were fights fought back in the 1960s and 1970s, fights that we thought were long dead and buried (at least SOME of us thought that), and that have risen to the surface again in record numbers since somewhere around mid-2008.

The covert racism of America’s history that was hidden underground for so long resurfaced its ugly head and became very overt. AGAIN.

A certain faction of Republicans in America fell on the ground and thrashed themselves nearly to death over the fact that a Black man might actually become President. They are still dying over it now, though he has but two years left in office.

They fashioned themselves “The Tea Party,” but rather than talk about what the REAL Boston Tea Party was all about (‘No taxation without Representation’), they decided it was going to be all about re-living the glorious days of the gory Night Riders in pointy-headed white sheet garb and wearing stupid theater and Halloween costumes and riding buses, gunzes in hand, to Washington, DC in order to make their point.

That was supposed to scare the hell out of everybody. [Not.]

First of all, they were plenty of OVER-represented in government; but it turned out that the folks who were being over-TAXED and not represented at all got pissed about that and decided to fight back … a little.

Second, this Tea Party is nothing more than a genre old world clichè of a racist, bigoted, prejudiced, hateful, shameful, obstructive, over-bloated, negative, nasty stump of uneducated backwooders who are against anything and EVERYTHING that doesn’t represent them and their peculiar white-oriented bigoted interests.

It, this Tea Party, this Republican spin-off company, was never about “America,” or American patriotism. It wasn’t even about a “revolution,” because the real revolution is not being televised, it’s being digitized. They get attention their way, we get it our way.

This Tea Party was all about a self-serving sanctimonious sector of America who believes that their caricature “Jesus” carries a gun, tells anybody who isn’t white and “Roman Christian” to go to hell, and threatens anyone who doesn’t work the way THEY think we should work with bullets and The Tea Party Jesus Slave or Starvation Plan.

Indeed, this Tea Party and their “white European blue-eyed fascist racist Jesus” have only one question left to answer for the REST of America:

Who in the Hell do you think you are?