Matthews is just another self-loathing white lefty who can’t miss the opportunity to take cheap shots against those who disagree with him. Smugly framing it in the context of their skin color makes him feel so “warm and progressive”, assuaging his white guilt. His college professors would be so proud!

The left is obsessed with race. I don’t see how that makes them anything but racists. The idea of racism being pinned on the right is so peculiar given present day and historical hard facts.

My experience is just what PF describes. I attended four Tea Party protests in San Diego county and the demographics of the crowd were well mixed. The most recent ethnic breakdown of the US population lists blacks as 13.5% of the population, and I’d say that the crowds I’ve seen at Tea Parties looked as though they were around that. The group I thought was under-represented in the Tea Parties I’ve attended was the Hispanics. The group I thought might be over-represented were the Asians. They’re listed as 4.4% of the population, but at all the Tea Party protests I attended, there were as many Asians as blacks. Of course San Diego county has a large Philippine population.

Great catch sparkle. The “anti war” protests were pretty much a sea of white faces but nobody figured that was racist or tribal. I love it when someone nails something like that :)