Teabaggers' opening speaker demands Jim Crow laws

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The opening speech of the Teabaggers convention was given by Tom Tancredo who blamed Obama's election on the lack of Jim Crow laws and made it clear that such laws are required to "take back America."

Can you provide a transcript of the speech?

Sweet Gaia... WHY THE HELL AM I STILL IN THIS COUNTRY??

Sheesh. You'd think it was the 1850's or something the way the conservatives are blowing gaskets and insulting everything that moves and claiming to need a revolution and sh!t. Damn why the hell can't they accept that the majority does not share their views and the country they oh so love is based on majority rule. Absolutely ridiculous how far they've been going in the last 2 years.

Ugh, I just need to finish out these damn 3 years left then get repatriated into Canada, Sweden or England or something before this country gets ripped apart by frothing conservatives. Or worse, they take control again.

Or you can support secession of the South, so you don't have to worry about it.

Conservative dose not mean what the teabaggers, republicans, and the media thinks it means.

I'm well aware it doesn't. I have certain ideas of my own that would be considered conservative such as the death penalty and the right to bear arms.

I use that term to indicate those people in order to be "clear" as it is now sadly understood by the majority of this country. I don't use the word republicans because there are many frothing conservatives who think that republicans are too centrist now. Laughable I know, but there ya go.

Well, I'm glad to hear that vyn. I was afraid that Bush's Liberal policies had destroyed all understanding political science there for a while.

Specifically, Tancredo blamed the election of Obama, whom he falsely described as a "socialist ideologue" on a lack of a "civics literacy test". The 'literacy test', which often was a civics test asking questions about obscure facts, was a Jim Crow mechanism to prevent black people from voting in the south - they had different tests that they used if they wanted someone to fail or not, and always engineered it to keep blacks from the polls on the grounds that they "failed" the test, and attempts to take the test were usually made known to the local Ku Klux Klan, with reprisals to those who dared take the test, so the effect was to keep blacks from registering outright. The Right that had previously wanted to ban blacks from voting have hispanics also in their crosshairs, whom they consider to be illegals, and Tancredo made a crack about preventing people who could not say "vote" in English from voting. They claim that these impure non-white folk are tilting elections to the Democrats so that they can rob wh***y...

It was clear since their beginning that the tea baggers were just a reactive group from people seeing the 'risk' of a black possibly non-christian president. Not like being black makes Obama a good president or anything (I do not think so) but these guys are true jerks. They are not mere conservatives, they are just ultra right morons.

Bit like "socialist", then.

I think that many American so-called conservatives oppose "socialism" on the grounds that they consider this to be robbing wh***y to give to coloured people. They would not have such attitudes about socialism if the United States were a purely white country. They think that poor people equals black and hispanic, and that blacks and hispanics are of inferior races who are lazy and indolent and that this laziness is the cause of their poverty. They can't help it, they're born that way, they aren't of the master race. They think that these inferior races are plotting to weaken and impoverish and bankrupt the master race through the Democrats, sort of like a parasite destroying its host. All means are needed to prevent this from happening, all means are legitimate in that aim.

If "wh***y" was so scared of a black man being president, they wouldn't of elected him in the first place. I think the baseless accusations of racism is just a way to deflect any criticism in the same vein of the accusations of "Un-Americanism" during the Bush years. Although the Obama administration seems to use that too.

Although accusing anyone of racism for opposing Obama would be lame. In the case of teabaggers, it is completely true as evident from their actions. It is true that many white people voted for Obama, but nobody is saying that all white people are racist, just that the members of this particular subset which also intersects with the set of idiots are.

Yes, the millions of those people are racists. That's not a blanket statement at all.

If you are a tea bagger you are either racist or a moron or both. Only morons follow men saying things they don't agree with. If you are not racist you should not be following a racist, unless you are a moron. If they are millions, thousands or billions it does not make them less racist or less stupid.

I remember back during the primary campaign how anyone that supported Hilary Clinton was a "racist" who "clung to the guns and religion". The counter of the Obama supporters being sexist elitists was fun too. It's just dumb name calling all tho they might have a point on the latter there.

Saying Tea Partiers are all racists is like saying Obama is a racist because of his relationship with Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Who are the "Tea Partiers" following now anyways? Sarah Palin? Scott Brown? Tom Tancredo? Alan Keyes? Ron Paul? Paul Ryan? As far as I know there is no leader and there really isn't a defined agenda either besides cutting government spending and stopping the growth of government.