Outspoken Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson is facing considerable outrage after comparing the tea party to the Ku Klux Klan in a new fundraising email.
In the final days of the government shutdown, Grayson told MSNBC’s Al Sharpton he believes the tea party is about as popular as the KKK. He is now circulating a fundraising email that shows a burning cross and two Klansmen in the background. The graphic uses the cross to begin spelling out “tea party,” and the caption reads, “Now You Know What the ‘T’ Stands For.”
“I find it absolutely appalling, not only as a black tea-party activist, but as a human being and as a former teacher, because he’s totally distorting history and what the Constitution stands for,” said Jennifer Burke, national outreach director for TheTeaParty.net, which is the largest grassroots tea-party group in the nation.
“He’s taken the history of the Democratic Party – because they were the party of the KKK. They were the ones that were burning crosses and lynching black people and shooting them because they were the wrong color – he’s applying that horrible time in our history to a group of people who simply want constitutionally limited government and who want the government to respect the freedoms that the Constitution grants us in our God-given rights,” Burke told WND.
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