Much as I would like to sit in the TBogg Cave and be all broody and shit, Gotham City needs me and the TBogg Signal in the sky alerts me to the fact that someone said something stupid on the internet and how often does that happen? Like, always.

Okay. So anyway, Charles Blow was in Texas as some form of punishment and he decided to take in the Dallas-area Tea Party, and we will dispense with the pejorative “teabagger” here since a teabagger is someone who wishes to provide pleasure to a sexual partner, while a Tea Partier is someone who just likes to suck balls.. Blow checks out the local action and writes:

I had specifically come to this rally because it was supposed to be especially diverse. And, on the stage at least, it was. The speakers included a black doctor who bashed Democrats for crying racism, a Hispanic immigrant who said that she had never received a single government entitlement and a Vietnamese immigrant who said that the Tea Party leader was God. It felt like a bizarre spoof of a 1980s Benetton ad.

The juxtaposition was striking: an abundance of diversity on the stage and a dearth of it in the crowd, with the exception of a few minorities like the young black man who carried a sign that read “Quit calling me a racist.”

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I found the imagery surreal and a bit sad: the minorities trying desperately to prove that they were “one of the good ones”; the organizers trying desperately to resolve any racial guilt among the crowd. The message was clear: How could we be intolerant if these multicolored faces feel the same way we do?

By summing up the experience as a “minstrel show,” Blow managed to offend the genteel sensibilities of JammieWearingFool who is tired of the meme/canard/generally accepted accounting principles that Tea Partiers are racists/bigots/big ol’racists. JWF sets the record straight about WHO THE REAL BIGOT IS HERE, ALRIGHTY:

NYT Affirmative Action Columnist Smugly Dismisses Black Tea Partiers

For a guy who wouldn’t qualify to write for a high school newspaper except for his skin pigmentation….

For those keeping score at home, JammieWearingFool used “smugly” as opposed to “uppity” which makes him, for enumeration purposes, only three-fifths racist.