Tea Partier: MLK Would Have Been One Of Us, Not ‘Race-Baiting’ Liberal (VIDEO)

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Speaker “Wild Bill” Finley received big applause at the South Carolina Tea Party Coalition convention on Sunday as he preached that Martin Luther King, Jr. would have been a tea party member if he were alive today.

Finley told the crowd the left has “hijacked” King’s dream and that racism would have died out long ago if it wasn’t “manufactured” by liberals.

He said that MLK, who worked closely with socialist and anti-capitalist civil rights activists throughout his career, would not abide the left’s “political agenda.” Finley said that if King were alive today the left would “spit in his face.”

“We are the people who practice Dr. King’s dream,” he said. “It is the Tea Party where people are not judged by the color of their skin, and it’s Tea Party Americans who believe that character still counts.”

“So today, I am officially announcing that the Tea Party is taking Martin Luther King away from the liberal left,” Finley said.

“And to you race-baiting promoters of division and hatred, you’re not getting him back until you renounce your shameful skin-color politics and start practicing the politics of character,” he said to applause.

Watch the clip:

h/t RawStory

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  1. I think if King were alive today, they’d be demonizing him like what was done when he was alive.

    “So today, I am officially announcing that the Tea Party is taking Martin Luther King away from the liberal left,” Finley said.

    “And to you race-baiting promoters of division and hatred, you’re not getting him back until you renounce your shameful skin-color politics and start practicing the politics of character," he said to applause.

    WTF??? King is not a fucking popsicle that you can take away based on good or (perceived) bad behavior. Last I checked, he was a PERSON that was killed due to the hateful rhetoric they have displayed over the years.
    They might TRY to erase that but most of us remember…
    Racist Tea Party Signs
    Tea Party groups admit Obama’s race is a factor
    How Militias, Racists and Anti-Semites Found a Home in the Tea Party

    There are countless other sites with stories of the Tea Party and their antics.
    And we can’t forget the Tea Party guy that held the sign with the N-word on it. Or the leader that made a post about Black people and large screen TVs . Yes, he was finally kicked out, but long before that he was making incendiary remarks using his platform as the leader of their party. And his members seemed just fine with it.

    I’m sure MLK would have been so proud.

  2. Avatar for estamm estamm says:

    Wonder how many people of color heard that speech?

  3. Avatar for wtf1 wtf1 says:

    Nice try, dumbass! He obviously knows NOTHING about Dr. King’s beliefs and values!

  4. MLK woULD’ve DEFInitelY been A die-HARd teA parTIER. HE neVER Played THE race CARD uNLIKE baLACk INSANE NOBama. In FACT HE nevER taLKED abOUT RACE. HE taLKED about HAVING a DREAM. WE ALL have DREAMS. THEN we WAKE uP aND REALIZe a DReaM IS jUST a BUNCH of CRAZY shIT that IS ROLLIng around in OUR Subconscious. GET REAL LIBtards. EVeryONE IN the PASt presenT AND fuTURE are DIe-hard TEa PArtiers EXcePT a BUNch OF LIbtards FRaught WITH socialistics!1!1!!!one!1!!!

  5. No one should ever fall under the impression that these people can’t get any stupider.

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