According to these worthies the Tea Party movement is racist and since Barack Obama is black tea partiers have not been able to reconcile to a black man as their President. The Partiers are whites and want to preserve their whiteness.

Things cannot be farther from truth.

Actually it's the other way around. The overwhelmingly black voters supported Obama -though he is only half black but is categorized as black. These black supporters included celebrities like Oprah Winfrey, Rev Jesse Jackson and Rev Al Sharpton etc who attended the Obama inauguration and also shed tears of thanks, gratefulness and joy for a black President on the occasion.

The same black leaders are now aggressively campaigning for the tainted New York Governor Paterson not to resign. The obvious reason: they are black; in other words, there is racism in their stand that blacks should support other blacks.

Coming back to the campaign and voters, who can deny that the overwhelmingly black voting bank voted and supported one of their own? In addition, many white liberals voted and supported a black man because of their being liberal and their burning desire to see a black man live in The White House to confirm their liberalism. That had nothing to do with intelligence, efficiency, experience, background or clear vision to take the nation forward in a united and positive way.

Had it not been so, why didn't the overwhelmingly black voters supported a white man, John McCain? Does it not mean those black voters were racists? Had they not been so they might have supported and voted a white candidate, and not a black man? McCain didn't get their wide support as he is white. Yes, racism!

And don't forget that one of the senior liberal Democrats, one time Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Mrs Geraldine Ferraro herself had opined that Obama is getting support from blacks and liberal whites because he is black. That was the truth and that shows the existence of racism among the blacks and those whites who supported Obama because he is black.

While Olbermann says the Tea Partiers hate Obama because he is black, they are really not against Obama's budget deficits, policies, socialism etc but only the skin of his color.

Leonard Pitts maintains that people liked Obama's policies, his eloquence, his fierce intelligence, and (also) the fact he was black, that his election would turn history on its ear, was a bonus, but only that - icing on the cake, but not the cake itself.

What innocence! Fierce intelligence? His policies? What naivety!

Yes, Obama is a fairly good orator - but just that. And then lately it also amply showed that he is a great orator with the help of a great teleprompter. I will concede that he is a better orator than many others, including George W Bush and John McCain. But is that enough for the President of the United States? I guess not!

Obama organized his election campaign better. He exploited his being black absolutely and thoroughly without being seen as a black person. He also made full use of the anti-war campaign and the opposition to growing expenses because of the two ears - in Iraq and Afghanistan - and their effect on the common man. His grass root campaign, not having a stronger opponent, and his enormous funds from inside and outside the United States, made all the difference. But his being a black - though a half-black - was the cake and the icing both.

The campaign with a black rapper saying that with Obama we will paint the White House black and the notorious black Pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright's fiery sermons also fueled the black mania among the black voters who voted as never before for a Democrat - and a black - candidate.

Read the latest news from the university campuses! According to a news report the white sorority from the University of Arkansas was cheated out of their victory because the losing black teams campaigned against the winners through posters, and other means. It was the Sprite Step Off dance competition that the white sorority won. But because of the fierce opposition and protests the organizers, Coca-Cola decided to award the same $100,000 scholarship prize to the Indiana University team (there were five black teams). What is that? Not black racism?

Now where do you find racism? Among Obama supporters or his opponents? Among the Blacks? Among the whites? May be everywhere but then why blame only the Tea Party movement?

The conclusion is that it's a political game to blame the Tea Partiers being racists. The facts are the other way around. Of course there might be some who did not want a black man as the President but then there are more blacks, including the former New York City Councilmen who said the founding fathers of this nation were not my leaders, they might be ‘Your leaders' stoking racism. Is that not racism by the black politicians who have formed Black Caucus in Congress and others who have formed Black Journalists Association, Black lawyers, Black churches etc.

Pitts wrote that in the Tea Parties there are racist groups like the so-called Council of Conservative Citizens. But then among the Obama supporters are there not the likes of Black organizations NAACP, Nation of Islam, and other Black bodies who are non-whites and espousing the cause of blacks (in other words racist). What would you call them? Not racist? Being black might not be racist but blacks organizing themselves as blacks and supporting blacks is certainly racism.

Yes, racism is not dead in this country. But the responsibility for that does not rest solely with the Tea Partiers, or whites or Republicans. It is more so the result of the mind-set of the others, blacks, white liberals, liberal media persons and many Democrats.

Yes, there are people who want their country back. They are rightly exercised because their country is changing for worse. With a different kind of background and pillars of freedom and free market economy we see this country being taken elsewhere. Pitts says the country is gone, irrevocably gone. He is wrong. It's going fast, but not yet gone, and not yet gone irrevocably. It will not.

The AP report about the New York Governor issue makes interesting [racist] reading:

It said: Influential black leaders in New York City said, March 4, that they believe Gov. David Paterson should stay in office amid allegations he and his staff interfered in a domestic violence case involving a top governor's aide. [There are other personal charges pertaining to ethics also].

Meeting in a Harlem soul food restaurant that is the center of power for black politics in New York, the group led by the Rev. Al Sharpton agreed that Paterson should try to withstand the violence scandal and new ethics charges related to free World Series tickets he sought and obtained from the Yankees, despite a state gift ban.

There was a "spirited discussion," said Sharpton, flanked by former Mayor David Dinkins and Hazel Dukes, former President of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "Some dissented. The overwhelming majority said they were supportive of the Governor," Sharpton said.

Dinkins said Paterson absolutely should remain in office; former State Comptroller H. Carl McCall made a case for Paterson to stay.

Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries of Brooklyn said afterward that there was overwhelming support for the idea that Paterson is entitled to the presumption of innocence until the investigation is finished. "We all believe that Governor Paterson, at this moment, can continue to move forward and do the people's business as the legal proceedings play themselves out," he said. He noted that President Bill Clinton continued to serve despite a grand jury probe and impeachment proceedings.

A state panel accused Paterson of illegally obtaining World Series tickets, then lying about it. That charge came on top of an investigation of whether the Governor or staff members had inappropriate contact with a woman who made - but later dropped - an abuse complaint against a top aide of the Governor.

Testimony by Communications Director Kauffmann was key to the decision by the Public Integrity Commission to charge Paterson with an ethics violation. Kauffmann resigned saying he "could not in good conscience continue in my current position."

Now this is racism by the blacks? Not by Tea Partiers.