It does not take a great deal of imagination to conclude that the Tea Party is a modern day morphing of yesteryear’s Ku Klux Klan only that modern technology has made their sworn secrecy very difficult to maintain when anyone with a cell phone today is the paparazzo. The Tea Party has become very astute at propagandizing their actions as operating as the custodians of America’s yesterday heritage. Their code words, “I want my country back” really mean they yearn for the return of the segregationist epoch when white supremacy was the norm.

If we gave the Tea Party the United States of America like their antebellum or Jim Crow visions suggest, then who stops the African American lynching that were commonplace. African American justice would degenerate to the KKK proclaiming that whites murdering blacks is now de facto legal for no white would dare to testify in open court against a white Klan member.  

Who cares about the fate of lynch victims like Laura Nelson? This murderous KKK history means that today’s racist rightwing haters of nonwhites must learn to use stealthily means to hide their skullduggery. Therefore, the Tea Party is following the Ku Klux Klan template in identifying black sellouts to act as their agents against Black America.

Tea Party sweetheart Former Republican Party Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin used her celebrity power to help Congressional candidate African American Tim Scott to beat Charleston County Commissioner Paul Thurmond, the 34-year-old son of the late U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-SC) to run for the US House of Representatives.  

 The outwardly appearance of this Southern White effort can shield much sinister efforts because Scott is now a Tea Party poster boy to show that they are a racially diverse organization. I floored some blacks when I told them the Ku Klux Klan had black sympathizers in their formation stage. These modern blacks were flabbergasted at my revelation.   

The 1905 book, “Ku Klux Klan” has an introduction written by Walter L. Fleming, Ph. D professor of History in West Virginia University at the time. It reveals: