Marvel Comics Captain America Links Tea Party Movement with Racism
Why Are Teabaggers Portrayed as "Angry White Folks" and "Archie Bunkers"?
Marvel Comics Captain America Links Tea Party Movement to Racism: It's Wrong To Paint Teabaggers as a Bunch of "Archie Bunkers"
In the issue, Captain America and his African American crime fighting partner The Falcon are investigating "the Watchdogs", a fictional racist, militant, anti-government group in Boise, Idaho that the superhero wants his assistant to infiltrate. But they run into what appears to be Tea Party gathering because of signs depicted that say "Tea Bag The Libs Before They Tea Bag You" and "America 4 Sale". The Falcon remarks about the crowd, "I don't exactly see a black man from Harlem fitting in with a bunch of angry white folks."
Of course, this Marvel Comics Captain America issue fuels the stereotypes of those who attend tea parties and the Tea Party Movement. I've attended a couple of local Cheyenne, Wyoming tea parties in 2009 which had hundreds in attendance, and I'm Hispanic. Some speakers there told people that everyone was welcome, going as far to state that they want inclusion.
It is interesting that few African Americans or other people of color, if any, show up to these anti-tax protests, including what I've seen on television highlights. Does that make tea parties racist? Of course not. But the tea parties aren't in line with many of President Obama's and Congress' spending policies though. Does that turn off African Americans and other people of color that President Obama and the Democratic Congress are heavily criticized by the Tea Party Movement?
But the Tea Party Movement doesn't help themselves 100 per cent of the time either when you look at some of the things being displayed at their websites. Tea Party Nation currently has a photo at their homepage called "Redneck-Anti-Terrorist-Training-Camp" by "Bing" in which many white men are drinking beer while their kids are taking shooting practice with rifles. Do you think a photo like that is going to stir up sensitivities in people of color jus like the Marvel Comics Captain America depiction of the Tea Party Movement has done for teabaggers?
Sources for this article about the Marvel Comics Captain America issue that depicts the Tea Party Movement as being connected to racism:
Brett Michael Dykes, Marvel Comics' depiction of anti-tax protesters inspires anger, apology:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100211/ts_ynews/ynews_ts1129, February 11, 2010, Yahoo! News
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Post a CommentThe Watchdogs have existed since 1987, long before the first Republican even uttered the word "teabagger".
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A vastly white majority crowd, screeming in support for limiting minority voting rights. In 1950 they were racists and in 2010 they are racists.
...and I'm told that Captain America has this um, "sidekick?" Make the Black Sidekick In Charge, Marvel! Or else color all your coverpages Black: to match both Pot and Kettle.
I wish they would leave politics out of comics - I know its an oxymoron but some things should be left alone. Cheers, Roy, I hadn't heard about this...
I used to enjoy Captain America and Marvel Comics when I was a kid. It is a shame that it has been turned into propaganda in which Americans standing up for their rights and freedoms are ironically viewed as "terrorists". When citizens practicing dissent and free speech are viewed as "radical nutjobs", you know the country has spun too far off its axis. My kids will never read Marvel Comics, they aren't entertainment anymore, they are liberal propaganda tools.
I've been to some tea parties. Many who attended are racist. If they could they would where the white hoods. If it walks like a duck,quacks likes a duck, it's probably a tea bagger