Rep. Charlie Rangel: Tea Party made up of 'mean, racist people'
theGRIO REPORT - During a recent interview with NY1, the outspoken New York Democrat talking about the difficulty of trying to find common ground with the conservative faction of the Republican Party...
Rep. Charlie Rangel has no qualms about calling out the Tea Party.
During a recent interview with NY1, the outspoken New York Democrat talking about the difficulty of trying to find common ground with the conservative faction of the Republican Party.
He also lamented the fact that President Barack Obama “really thought…that he could deal with the Tea Party.”
“They are mean, racist people,” the 83-year-old lawmaker said. “Now why do I say that? Because in those red states, they’re the same slave-holding states. They had the Confederate flag. They became Dixiecrats; they had the Confederate flag. They’re now the Tea Party; they still got the Confederate [flag]. I don’t think that’s a coincidence,” he continued. “There is nothing the president can do–not love of country, not love of party–that they’re not prepared to kill themselves to get to him.”
This isn’t the first time Rangel has verbally eviscerated the group. Last summer he referred to the Tea Party as “the same group we faced in the South with those white crackers and the dogs and the police.”
