In Captain America issue 602, the patriotic hero is investigating a right-wing anti-government militia group called “the Watchdogs.” Hoping to infiltrate the group, Captain America and his African-American sidekick, The Falcon, observe an all-white anti-tax protest from a rooftop. The Falcon tells Captain America, “I don’t exactly see a black man from Harlem fitting in with a bunch of angry white folks.” Captain America explains “that his plan entails sending The Falcon in among the group posing as an IRS agent under the thinking that a black government official will most certainly spark their anger.” The signs the protesters are carrying are “almost identical to those seen today in Tea Party rallies”:
After a “minor uproar ensued,” Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Joe Quesada apologized for what he called a “series of stupid mistakes.” He explained that under time pressure, they “looked on the net and started pulling slogans” from Tea Party signs that led to “accidentally identifying” one of the members of the protest group “as being a part of the Tea Party instead of a generic protest group.” But Tea Party Nation profiteer Judson Phillips was not satisfied, saying that “sounds less like a genuine ‘we’re sorry’ than it does a ‘we’re sorry we got caught‘ statement.” Crooks and Liars’ Logan Muphy comments, “I’m not sure why they apologized, as Captain America has always fought against the enemies of the United States.”
M.C.L comment: Outside the few tokens they bus in these tea party klan rallies are mostly white and the signs that are shown in the Captain America panel are straight from these rallies, now should Marvel go "Oh my bad, we're sorry" to the tea party folks? No. It's like when conservatives get mad at "Media Matters" when they replay their audio and provide the transcripts from their shows.
These people who take part in tea party events are racist, they didn't protest government spending during the Bush Administration, they didn't scream read the bill when the Patriot Act was passed like four in the morning. And they can't scream about taxes even you combine these yahoos income together it probably still won't hit the 250,000 a year mark.
They don't like having a black man being president plain and simple, now any of the right winger lurkers out there would say well these people would act the same way if Hillary Clinton had won. Which might be true the hate on the right would be the same if Hillary Clinton was president but I doubt hate for Hillary Clinton would be this intense for this long. And it's easier to rally angry white right wingers against a black man.
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