Is response to Tony Rumpel’s letter, “No sense in tea party suggestions” (June 28), I must cry foul.
Rumpel has decided to jump on the “All tea party advocates are racists” bandwagon, but as liberals often do, he has chosen to ignore some very important historical facts. Republicans have always supported equal rights for all and backed it with legislation and action throughout history. The Democrats, however, have used the minority community for years to get into office by race-baiting and name-calling, but with no action to define civil rights and bring equality to America.
Fact: The Democrats for 50 years elected Robert Byrd, a former recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan to office. Keep in mind, the KKK is not a fraternity, it is a hate group.
Fact: The Democrats, including the aforementioned Byrd, filibustered the Civil Rights act of 1964.
Fact: President George H.W. Bush signed the Civil Rights Act of 1991 to strengthen federal civil rights legislation.
Fact: President Ronald Reagan signed the 25-year extension of 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Fact: We currently have a Democratic president who spent 20 years in a church with a pastor who preaches white hate. This president has written about how the Rev. Jeremiah Wright preached about “the white man’s greed” and does not say Wright is wrong.
Fact: When the Voting Rights Act of 1965, abolishing literacy tests and other measures devised by Democrats to prevent African-Americans from voting, was signed into law; a higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats voted in favor of the bill.
As you can see from the few examples I have listed, the Republicans have an extensive history of fighting for minorities. As far as Rumpel’s claims of tea partiers calling for confiscation of private boats and taking over BP, I would recommend Rumpel to take the time to do some research as to where these statements are coming from. He obviously knows nothing about tea party advocates and what they stand for.
By the way, it was Rosie O’Donnell who cried out for BP to be taken over by the government, by far not a tea party advocate.
RUSS ALBERSON II Fort Wayne
