After collecting several images from the tea bag protests over the last month or so, I decided it was important to just have a stand alone archive of images documenting the racism, sexism, and homophobia present at many of these rallies. I’ve broken the images into themes, and will likely use some to illustrate posts on the issue on the blog as well as else where. Citations follow the image where available.
Current and Former Republican Reps @ 9/12 Rally
Republicans/Jeff Mallet
Unclassified
race card 9/12 / conservcompend
czar critique targeting women & van jones 9/12 / flickr: KCIvey
unattributed
San Diego Tea Party/ unattributed (not 912 photo)
Homophobic Posters/ t-shirts
9/12 poster/ flickr: mar is sea
S. Walter (pre-9/12 April tea bag)
pre-912/unattributed (homophobic imagery, racist overlay)
Tea Party Protest Poster for download use on 9/12/ Full Monte Cristo
t-shirt mention sexuality/flickr: meet the crazies (poster =threat rev)
Black Criminality
flickr 912 photos
April protest Obama slits Uncle Sam’s throat/ e. favara (not 912 image)
AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana
Flickr Meet the Crazies
TX: Tea Party (April)/ Michael (not 9/12 photo)
TX: Tea Party (April)/ Michael (not 9/12 photo)
9/12 rally dc/ flickr: meet the crazies
Death threats/ gun references
reference to burning out black ppl frm towns/?
criminal & threat posters from August Anti-HCR rally/ Washington Independent (not 9/12 photo)
NRA hat gun threat 9/12 /skellam
“Official Tea Party Supplies”/patriot depot (used @ multiple rallies)
R. Mallet
unattributed
AP/ Joel Page Williams (pre-9/12 protest; health care protest)
unattributed
Rick aguirre (pre-9/12 April tea bag Fl)
flickr 912 photos
flickr 912 photos
flickr 912 photos
flickr 912 photos
unattributed
April Tea bag Protest/ unattributed (not 912 photo)
“Come and Take it” / A. Aliferes
“Black Devil”
912 Photo (also Katrina denial)
flickr 912 photos
flickr 912 photos (reference to avoiding kings who will lure you away)
Animal/Monkey/primitive References
flickr 912 photos
Denver Tea Party/ “Progressive” Now Colorado (not 9/12 photo)
anti-health care poster used in many rallies/ Free Republic (not 9/12 photo)
Confederate Flags/ Legitimacy Questions
flickr meet the crazies
flickr 912 photos
TX; Tea Party April/ Michael (not 9/12 photo)
slavery/servant messages
9/12 poster / ?
Ted Szukalski (image used during election & 912 protest)
flickr 912 photos
flickr 912 photos
April tea bag protest/ J. Russell (not 912 photo)
TX: Tea Party (April)/ Michael (not 9/12 photo; also fits under projection since these maybe debtors prison ref)
Welfare Queens
sign posted after April Tea Bag Protest/ Unattributed (not 912 photo also includes threat)
flickr 912 photos
free loaders 9/12 / M. Bryant
Lansing Mich Tea Party/Melanie Ann (not 9/12 photo)
Texas Tea Party/unattributed (not 9/12 photo)
Texas Tea Party/unattributed (not 9/12 photo)
St. Louis Tea Party/ unattributed (not 9/12 photo)
Sign Sold for Tea Parties by Free Sign Artwork.com (@ 9/12 and other rallies)
get a job 9/12 dc/ flickr: jen.booth
Projection: Hitler, Supremacy, Conspiracy
“Official Tea Party Supplies”/patriot depot (used @ multiple rallies)
flickr 912 photos
flickr 912 photos
AP/Unattributed
unattributed
AP/unattributed
AP/Tony Romao
Birthers/legitimacy
Obama “not a democrat” / M. Bryant
unattributed
AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana
unattributed
flickr meet the crazies
flickr meet the crazies
flickr 912 photos
flickr meet the crazies
Lincoln Tea Party (April)/lincolnteaparty.wordpress.com (not 912 photo)
Anti-Immigration
“Protest Supplies” /”People’s Cube” (sold @ rallies; encouraged for 4th of July Tea Parties)
9/12 protest/ flickr: meethtecrazies
September 16, 2009 at 11:03 pm
What a bunch of sick, ignorant [edit by blog owner] these protesters are. Was Glenn Beck , [edit by blog owner] hiding under their zippers? I am ashamed of these people. It makes me want, more than ever to work hard for my president who is NOT their president. Just a bunch of racist who can’t gewt over the fact that 53% of Americans, over 60 million voted for him. God Bless My President
September 17, 2009 at 1:14 am
welcome to the blog Elaine. we have a name calling/language ToS here so sorry abt the edit. I think the important thing to remember is that 4 the next 4 years he is everyone’s president & he is trying to fix the mess left behind by the republican administration the came before.
September 21, 2009 at 1:27 am
Elaine, not all of the signs were sick. But I will admit some of them were, and some just distasteful. The problem with these rallies is that the [edited by blog author] show up and make the real concerned citizen who are worried about the spending and too much govt , well it makes them look bad too. It happens in “any” kind of rally, even those that are supposed to be for fun, like parades and festivals.
September 21, 2009 at 9:15 am
welcome to the blog Kathy. I think we must look at both common behavior and overarching patterns. I doubt ppl feel emboldened to show up at every day parades en masse with gun threats or to sell pre-made gun threat posters on the internet in advance of the event for instance but there are probably ppl thinking violent thoughts in one or more parade crowds.
September 26, 2009 at 11:00 pm
Some of these signs are not only lies, they are horrifying, incredibly racist and offensive. And I’m a white girl. How ignorant and shameful.
These people really scare me.
September 28, 2009 at 10:09 am
I could not have imagined people would actually make such offensive, outrageous, and incredibly idiotic signs unless I had seen these pictures. I’m white, but I would be scared to stand near them.
I recently saw a link to a UTube video with an outraged comment that schoolchildren were being forced to sing the praises of Barack Obama, comparing it to Hitler Youth. I watched the video, and it was young children rapping about how the color of your skin doesn’t matter because all people are equal. It is scary how anyone could connect this, or Obama, with Hitler.
November 2, 2009 at 10:50 pm
Please note the photograph with caption “Ted Szukalski (image used during election & 912 protest)” is actually an unauthorized plagiarism by some unscrupulous individual of my photograph located here:
http://www.digital-photo.com.au/2008/09/20/american-presidential-elections-and-dirty-tricks
My original has nothing to do with American politics or Barack Obama – it is a photograph of a homeless shoeshine man called Bryan in Sydney Australia.
November 3, 2009 at 2:47 am
thank you very much for alerting us to the original image. The image here is clearly a digitally modified version of your image that was specifically done for the N. American elections. It has been used repeatedly in anti-Obama meetings across the country and appears w/out credit to the person who modified it or to your original in various places on the internet.
I would be happy to put a credited original version on the site as a counterpoint if you’d like.
November 19, 2009 at 8:11 pm
This collection of photos may be the scariest and most discouraging collection I have ever seen on the internet. The level of ignorance, hate and entitlement is appalling.
December 8, 2009 at 7:18 pm
These [...] with their signs confirm the DUMBING OF AMERICA