Black Tea-Partyer calls out Garofalo over 'white power' statement

Comedienne-activist and "Matchmaker" star Janeane Garofalo pounded Tea Party activists during Bill Maher's "Real Time" a couple of days ago, equating this summer's "Tea Party" protests with a darker chapter in US history: the white power movement. Ms. Garofalo said: "Tea-baggers, the 9/12ers, these separatist groups that pretend that it's about policy are clearly white identity movements. They are clearly white power movements." That broad brushstroke proved to be offensive to at least one black man in America: David Webb. Mr. Webb is a New York City talk show host ("The Grinder" on AM 970), a Republican, and founder of a Tea Party group in the Big Apple. So what does Webb want? For starters, a debate with Garofalo, one of the harshest liberal critics of the Tea Party movement. Her views, though not shared by all Democrats, have been hinted at by prominent party figures such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former president Jimmy Carter. From The Christian Science Monitor As anyone remotely following the tea party protest movement in the States would know, Mr Webb would not be the only African American offended by Garofalo's stupid remarks.

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