Morgan Freeman the actor had some rather disparaging things to say about the Tea Party, accusing it of being a racist motivated bunch. Herman Cain the African American Republican candidate who's attempting to win the Republican nomination so he can unseat Obama basically came to the defense of the Tea Party in an interview on Fox News.
NEIL CAVUTO: Morgan Freeman, the actor, has been very critical of Tea Parties,and said that what they’re doing is racist based, and going after and unseating Obama has at its underpinnings racism. I’m paraphrasing here, but what do you make of that argument?
HERMAN CAIN: Well, first of all, I doubt if Morgan Freeman, with all due respect, who is a great actor, has he ever been to a Tea Party? Most of the people that are criticizing the Tea Parties, Neil,about having a racist element, they have never been to a Tea Party.
CAVUTO: But wait a minute, wait a minute. He has played, wait, wait,wait. He has played a President of the United States.
CAIN: Oh. Great, yeah, in a movie. This is real life out here on the campaign trail, man. This is not a movie.
CAVUTO: So, are you offended by that?
CAIN: No, I’m not offended by it. I just, I just think that it is sad that they’re so
short-sighted in really understanding what the whole Tea Party citizen movement is all about. I’m not offended by it, because it doesn’t slow down my momentum. It doesn’t slow down the reaction that I get from people. They know that I bring my message from the heart and the head, and they’re responding to it. So, name calling is something that’s going to continue in this because they don’t know how to stop this movement. And this movement is making a big difference in politics, because a lot of the traditional Democrats are moving to the center or moving over to vote for conservatives. They’re taking another look at a Herman Cain.
What's interesting about the Tea Party is it's anything but a party. It's a movement. Disparate Individuals brought together by their frustration over growing, intrusive government actions - the signature one being Obamacare. By and large the movement is made up of middle class, patriotic, God fearing, working folks who don't like government encroaching on their freedoms.
The left and Hollywood is apoplectic because it threatens to derail their liberal agenda. Suggestions of racism, absent evidence, reveals what I think many liberal elite think about the average American.There's a strain of racism lurking not too far beneath the surface.
Herman Cain makes a good point; Morgan Freeman has probably had zero personal exposure to people involved with the Tea Party.
In a disturbing YouTube documentary, a pro-life student at UCLA did an undercover project on Planned Parenthood clinics across the country. An actor working with her contacted several Planned Parenthood clinics, saying he wanted to make a donation to fund abortions of black babies. He said if there were fewer black babies around his son would have a better chance of getting into college, and he wanted to lower the number of black people in America. The response of the Planned Parenthood representatives? Sure. No problem.
Here's one of the dialogues taken from the YouTube documentary: Caller: ...I really faced trouble with affirmative action, and I don't want my kids to be disadvantaged against black kids.
Planned Parenthood: Yes, absolutely.
Caller: And we don't, you know, we just think the less black kids out there the better.
Planned Parenthood: (Laughs) Understandable, understandable... This is the first time I've had a donor call and make this kind of request, so I'm excited and want to make sure I don't leave anything out.
While shocking this is nothing new for Planned Parenthood. According to Blessed are the Barren: "At a March 1925 international birth control gathering held in new york City, a speaker warned of the menace posed by the 'black' and 'yellow' peril. The man was not a national Socialist (Nazi) or leader of the Ku Klux Klan. The speaker was Dr. S. Adolphus Knopf, a member of Margaret Sanger's American Birth Control league (ABCL), which along with other groups eventually became known as Planned Parenthood."
In fact, PP founder Margaret Sanger was a proponent of eugenics and supported eliminating the "unfit" in the population. Of her birth control efforts, she once wrote: "Birth Control is thus the entering wedge for the Eugenic educator...the unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and the 'fit' admittedly the greatest present menace to civilization..." She wrote this in 1921 for the Birth Control Review which had on its masthead, "Birth Control: To Create a Race of Thoroughbreds." (Taken from Blessed are the Barren.)
Not only does Planned Parenthood love getting money to kill unborn children but they're also seemingly fine with getting money from racist people who want to kill specifically black babies. Once the moral firewall of killing unborn babies is breached, I suppose there's no problem with being racist about it.
