[Vision2020] The Tea Party and African Americans

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From: nickgier at roadrunner.com
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:11:33 -0800
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] The Tea Party and African Americans

> Greetings:
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> In an article in "The New York Review of Books" (3/25/10), Jonathan Raban, a libertarian delegate to the Tea Party Convention, reports that 99.5 percent of the delegates were white.
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> With regard to Roger's assurance that these folks are primarily "libertarians," Raban and his fellow libertarians were offended by the fact that all sessions opened with prayer. The Libertarian Party of America is thoroughly secular in its orientation and most of them reject the idea of a Christian libertarianism, as I do at www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/christlibertarian.htm  

Reason  is a Libertarian  secular magazine, which I subscribe too. I  dont think that they object to someone else says a prayer. I think that they would defend their right to do so. Roger
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> I've challenged Roger before about his very loose use of the term "libertarian."  For me it means the maximizing of personal liberty in both the economy and social life, including personal affairs. Roger is just like some of the Tea Baggers: its economic liberty only.

> Your last sentence her is not true. libertarians believe in live and let live. If someone is a believer that is fine, if they are not that is fine also. If you are a true Libertarian if someone says a prayer, you respect their right to do so and are not offended, unless you are required to do too.- Roger

> If Roger is right that the "birthers" are a small minority of the Tea Baggers, why did one of the keynote speakers open his talk by reading from Matthew's genealogy of Christ (which conflicts with Luke!), and then asked where Obama's birth certificate was.  The crowd stood and cheered him. Again the minority libertarians were embarrassed.
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> Nick Gier
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