"I’m like ‘the Tea Party is racist’ and my friend is like ‘Kamau, you can’t call the Tea Party..."

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 18:27:12 -0400

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I’m like ‘the Tea Party is racist’ and my friend is like ‘Kamau, you can’t call the Tea Party racist. They’re not all racist.’ And I was like, you know what, I don’t need the Tea Party to be 100% racist for me to feel perfectly fine calling them racist. I don’t need 100% racism in the group. It could be way less than 100%. 10% is plenty for me. If the Tea Party is 10% racist I feel comfortable labeling the whole group racist.

Let me explain how that works. If I offer you a shake, a milkshake. I say ‘would you like a milkshake?’ You go “yeah, sure I’d like a milkshake.” I go, ‘okay, here you go, but just so you know it’s 10% shit.’

Oh, now you suddenly you understand how it works. 10% is kinda a lot ain’t it. You go ‘uh oh, that’s too much shit in my shake.

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- W. Kamau Bell on the Tea Party and Race
(via modernmonkeys)
So damn cool!

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"I’m like ‘the Tea Party is racist’ and my friend is like ‘Kamau, you can’t call the Tea Party..."