When I heard today’s Tea Party proclaiming “I want my country back” I knew this is nothing more than their code words for I want a return of white supremacy. This suggests a repeat of the political whoredom of President Rutherford B. Hayes in his 1877 Compromise when he returned former African American slaves, freed by the US Civil War, back into economic and political bondage at the hands of the Southern White Citizen Councils through pulling out all Federal Troops in the South.

We thought President George W. Bush’s first election was a nightmare with folks examining voting cards, but Hayes beat Democrat Samuel J. Tilden by 185 to 184 Electoral Votes. The South gave Hayes the Presidency for his allowing for the rekindling of white supremacy. White liberalism in treatment of blacks got defrocked where former Republicans defected to the anti-black conservative Democrats to be in lockstep with the changing racist tenet pervading the Old Confederacy.

The White Citizens Councils quickly passed anti-black legislation to prevent former African American slaves from voting, limiting their economic options to quasi-slaves, and closing off access to public accommodations.  The Ku Klux Klan became the Regulators to keep blacks servile. Blacks became poor sharecroppers or workers for former slave masters.

You would not think Harvard trained President Hayes could be so naive as to think Southerners, who fought a Civil War over white supremacy principles, would ever accept moderate positions on the treatment of their former black slaves. Hayes said, ‘“My task was to wipe out the color line, to abolish sectionalism; to end the war and bring peace,” Hayes remembered, but by 1878 he had to state, “I am reluctantly forced to admit that the experiment was a failure.”’    

The 1896 US Supreme Court ruling in the Plessy vs. Ferguson case legitimated racial segregation as the law of the land. The separate but equal ruling took blacks out of mainstream citizenship for things can never be separate and equal in a racist underpinned society.

This US Supreme Court action offered Jim Crow laws the underpinning they needed to keep blacks in the chattel caste for roughly another 60 years. Black lynching became the White Citizens Councils method of keeping black socioeconomic upward mobility in check.  

The Ku Klux Klan ran roughshod over southern blacks. White atrocities perpetrated against blacks would never be prosecuted in a court of law for no white would testify against another white.

D.W. Griffith saw an opportunity to exploit the US Presidency to offer mainstream legitimacy to the murderous skullduggery of the KKK.  He recognize the potential power of the dawning silent movie industry to be a powerful instrument of propaganda where whites could be portrayed as victims of the evil black devils that Caucasians had to be rescued by the Ku Klux Klan. Griffith presented black males as lusting for white females, ill mannered, uppity, and subhuman.  

Griffith created a KKK propaganda movie “The Birth of a Nation” that on February 18, 1915 was the first movie shown in The White House. It was seen by President Woodrow Wilson and his family, members of his staff and Cabinet, along with their wives. President Wilson commented, “It is like writing history with Lightning. And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.”   

This scurrilous movie became a blockbuster. The Presidential anointing helped to preserve the Black American status as quasi-slaves. It gave the Southern segregationists a new medium to speak to southern sympathizers across the United States in full public view of the Federal Government.  

The tragedy for Black Americans was President Wilson misled black leaders as strong un-accommodative black leaders like W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter into believing he was for helping blacks then unleashed his southern disdain for black equity once in office.

President Wilson was educated at some of America’s finest institutions of higher learning such as Princeton University, University of Virginia, and Johns Hopkins University yet he remained a southern racial segregationist at heart.  He went on to become President of Princeton University suggesting education would not change entrench southern white hatred of blacks; especially in a sterile white world of academia.  

The Ku Klux Klan was now free to flaunt their prowess in elaborate demonstrations of their membership. In 1928 the KKK appeared as a conquering army coming down Pennsylvania Avenue in the District of Columbia.   

Pervasive white supremacy started to lose it legitimacy with the 1954 US Supreme Court ruling in the Brown vs Board of Education case. ‘Segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race deprives children of the minority group of equal educational opportunities, even though the physical facilities and other "tangible" factors may be equal. The "separate but equal" doctrine adopted in Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, has no place in the field of public education.’

White racist segregationist like Georgia Governor Herman Talmadge knew it is one thing for the Supreme Court to rule and quite another for it to be implemented. The Independent.co.uk reported, “Talmadge attacked Brown vs Board of Education, the historic 1954 Supreme Court ruling which banned racial segregation in public schools, as ‘reducing the Constitution to a scrap of paper’ and manoeuvred to circumvent integration in every way he could. ‘There will never be mixed schools while I am Governor,’ he proclaimed. In return, America's most venerable civil-rights group, the NAACP, branded him the ‘enemy of the Negro people’.”

In defiance to public school integration in 1957 of federal orders Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas called out the Arkansas National Guard to prevent integration in Little Rock. President Eisenhower responded by sending federal troops to enforce the court order for integration.

Alabama Governor George Wallace recognized that he could say provocative statements and racist actions to garner media attention hell bent on changing the national direction on race. He was well aware that education is the key to American upward mobility, so that meant low educated whites would start to feel the full threat of their job market non-competitiveness once their white privilege vanished.  

In his January 14, 1963 Inaugural Address Wallace made it clear where he stood on integration of public schools. “In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” Wallace followed this provocative statement on June 11, 1963 standing in the door of the University of Alabama to prevent integration.

Wallace managed to pull off his real agenda of uniting America’s white racists behind one national leader. In his 1963 inaugural address Wallace had also said, “Hear me, Southerners! You sons and daughters who have moved north and west throughout this nation . . . . we call on you from your native soil to join with us in national support and vote . . and we know . . . wherever you are . . away from the hearths of the Southland . . . that you will respond, for though you may live in the fartherest reaches of this vast country . . . . your heart has never left Dixieland.”

Wallace then turns his attention to non southern heritage racist sympathizers. “And you native sons and daughters of old New England's rock-ribbed patriotism . . . and you sturdy natives of the great Mid-West . . and you descendants of the far West flaming spirit of pioneer freedom . . we invite you to come and be with us . . for you are of the Southern spirit . . and the Southern philosophy . . . you are Southerners too and brothers with us in our fight.”

Wallace built a racist following that permitted his running unsuccessfully four times for President of the United States. He worked to undermine civil rights for blacks and he continued the Civil War with the US Government. Today’s Tea Party is a reincarnation of the Wallace dream of unifying segregationists only today instead of a messianic want-to-be leader George Wallace there is the white racist leadership council of Russ Limbaugh, Glen Beck, Sean Hannity, and Sarah Palin.

Today’s white racist leadership council saw November 4, 2008 as an American version of the German Nazi’s Night of Broken Glass (Kristallnacht). It is now okay to attack African American leadership and the Federal Government with the same stone.  The white racist leadership council learned well from Nazi propaganda Chief Dr. Joseph Goebbels that if you tell a lie enough times the people will see it as the truth but the mortal enemy of propaganda is the truth. They are effective in getting many Americans to believe President Barack Obama was not born in the United States and he is really of the Islamic Faith.  

In the inception of the Ku Klux Klan they had sympathetic newspapers to spread their message of hate. D. W. Griffith changed the stakes by enchanting Hollywood movie makers with the blockbuster Klan propaganda movie, “The Birth of a Nation.” George Wallace was at the mercy of a liberal television and print slanted press, since all sorts of atrocities were perpetrated against civil rights workers in the south making global news.  However, today’s Tea Party has Fox News to spread their hatemongering messages in hopes of forcing failure on President Obama who they view as despicable to America’s white leadership birthright.     

The Tea Party people need to understand that the Manifest Destiny thinking of the 1840s that saw today’s Native Americans land on reservations stripped of their birthright are not coming back. Furthermore, the only people who can demand to have their country back are Native Americans. If Tea Party people do not like our racially amalgamated society today, perhaps they might go into exile in some European nation that might take back their white ancestral heritage people.  

Tea Party racist juggernauts want to keep in mind that nonwhites today have the vote and are not easily intimidated. Yesteryear’s KKK style of running roughshod over nonwhites may be today’s suicide mission for white night riders.  

My only worry is that I heard a black father argue the case that the gun dealers are today’s Ku Klux Klan because they are selling nonwhites the guns to kill themselves.  Is the daily high nonwhite body count from the murderous carnage on America’s streets the real KKK and Tea Party gauge of racist philosophical success?