Today is Martin Luther King’s birthday.
Take some time and watch the historic speech in it’s entirety.
Everyone in America has a dream. Take some time… reflect upon Dr. King’s words, and think of ways you can make this great country of ours a better place to live, how can your dream come true, can you help others achieve their dream?
Help put a end to Hate
Help put an end to Bigotry
Help put an end to Racism
Help put an end to Violence.
Today on Facebook I referred to Tea Party members as “tea baggers” and I had no clue it would start a debate. A conservative person I know decided to chime in and call me out on trying to use an anti-gay slur. I had no clue what he was talking about.
Right away, I turn to UrbanDictionary.com. If any site has any and all definitions for a slang or slur, this would be the site.
Someone who rests their testicles on another person face, while they are asleep/passed out.
guy dipping his balls into a girls mouth, slowly going up and down just like a tea bagg
when a guy drops his balls into a girls mouth while she is awake
ok… I’m still not seeing it…
1) A male engages in the sexual act of tea bagging. in which he stands over his partner and lowers his testicles into his partner’s mouth, as if lowering a tea bag into a tea cup.
2) A follower of the conservative US Tea Party political movement, often used as a derogatory term.
and the list continues on…
I went through all of the definitions and different spellings for tea bagger on Urban Dictionary. There was nothing about it being an anti-gay slur.
Now I am trying to figure out where the hell he is getting this from. I turn to Google.
First thing I see, a video from Sean Hannity.
Ok.. now it’s becoming clear.
After looking at a lot of the results from the search, it’s plainfully evident that the right is trying to twist the term into a anti-gay slur. A lot of it has to do with Obama calling people from the Tea Party “Tea Baggers” back in May.
Think of the hyprocracy.
People from the Tea Party, who have called themselves Tea Baggers, are in an uproar about Obama saying the word “Tea Bagger”. How do they twist it without sounding racist? Let’s try and make it an anti-gay slur.
Remember, this is the same group of people who called Rep. Lewis a “Ni**er”,and called Rep. Frank a “Fa**ot”.
Loading ...As of late, there has been an increase of the number of negative stories involving Muslims, the religion of Islam, and their holy book the Qur’an. Why is there such an uproar as of late? Do we have a pandemic on our hands? It seems like there has been a great fear started, but why?
A lot of this started when the there was a proposal for a Mosque near the Ground Zero memorial site. We can all thank Newt Gingrich for bringing this to our attention. Incidentally, Newt Gingrich has been getting a great following by the rise of the Tea Party as of late. Sarah Palin and Newt have the biggest Tea Party “Bounce” when it comes to candidate support. So, it would be logical to see that their message is being favored amongst the Tea Party supporters. The more they speak out against Islam, the more the Tea Party is inclined to follow it, causing a powerful anti-Islam movement to get started. It’s a sad spiral of hate proving even more that true Christianity is forgotten.
As the controversy and attention of the “World Trade Center Mosque” was being fueled by the media, there were others that started to take a stand against Islam by trying to start an international day to burn their holy book, the Qur’an. As anticipated, the pastor did not follow through with it, but there were copycats that started to spring up online as well as in a Christian church in Tennessee. Now a small town in up-state New York is all of a sudden claiming that a Muslim cemetery is illegal and that they need to exhume the graves and move them.
Take a moment to think about it, did people forget that there was already a Mosque at the World Trade Center? What do they feel about the people practicing Islam in the Pentagon? That was bombed as well, remember? Some people even believe that President Obama practices Islam due to his middle name and their unfounded and innate hate and angst towards him… Obviously this isn’t the case. It seems like there is a very selective memory about the past, what was there, what happened, and people are focusing on what is happening in the present in relation to some extremists actions and then generalizing those actions amongst the whole.
Can this snowball of hate be stopped? When? How?
As in every religion or political faction, there are extremists. Don’t condemn a society of over one billion Muslims because the actions of a few. If members of the Tea Party keeps on touting their Christian faith and God as their guidance, maybe they need to look a bit closer to what Christianity really means and what Jesus taught about tolerance and forgiveness.