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New Times Miami:
http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/ripti...ges_tea_pa.php

Is the Tea Party racist? The NAACP thinks so. And the Council of Conservative Citizens, a white pride group, agrees.

Of course the Tea Party is racist, crowed a blog post on the Council's website yesterday -- and it would be proud of its racism if it weren't wussy.

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Edwards is right. The Tea Party is hiding the truth about itself: Racist groups are quietly welcomed at its starchy street fairs, even right here in Florida.

Last January, a state chapter of the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC) set up shop at a Tea Party rally in Invernness, Citrus County. Senate candidate and Tea-Party darling Marco Rubio headlined the event, while the CCC handed out pamphlets and swag.

They wrote a proud blog entry about it: "Florida CofCC works crowd at TEA party." The
Anti-Defamation League warned of the group's attendance a day ahead of time.

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The CCC extols the free market and other conservative shibboleths. But it dislikes "the mixture of the races," and, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, looks upon black people as a "retrograde species of humanity" and abhors Jews.