Don’t cry racism when things tough for Obama

Leonard Pitts: Regarding your Feb. 28 column, “A few words on race and the Tea Party”), please read this link - www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/us/politics/28keli.html?no_interstitial - and tell me if the founder of the Tea Party is racist. If the Tea Party were not true to its origin, it would cease to exist.

What is racist are people like you (no matter the color), when the going gets rough for President Barack Obama and his government takeover policies, who scream racism instead of facing that people vociferously hate his policies and not his color. You have signaled the end of the Obama administration by crying out the retort of last resort.

I think the White House is guilty of prejudice of the highest order. Do you not remember that Obama's prejudice was exposed in San Francisco, when he made the comment about Pennsylvanians of lower intelligence needing the “crutch of their religion”? Do you not remember that Obama was deceiving the public by claiming his own religious experience was not exposed to “reverse racism”? Your claim of racial prejudice is a political ploy. You have so inspired me that I will find out how to get involved in my local Tea Party movement.

Dennis Walters

Marion