Everyone could claim to not be racist, just like the teabaggers could claim that they aren't republican. Doesn't make it the case.
The fact that there are a ton of racist signs...
http://evilslutopia.com/2009/04/tea-party-protest-signs-bad-worse-ugly.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/16/10-most-offensive-tea-par_n_187554.html(first picture)
http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/04/racist_signs_at_tea_parties.php
http://www.philly2philly.com/politi...21/43497/tea_party_has_become_movement_racism
http://www.examiner.com/x-5890-Obama-Administration-Examiner~y2010m1d26-Documentary-shows-link-between-white-supremacy-groups-and-tea-party-movement
The fact that Dale Robertson, President and Founder of the Tea Party TeaParty.org is racist.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/anal...-racist-tea-party-sign-forged-we-believe-not/
The fact that a huge portion of the teabaggers think Obama is Kenyan...
http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2009/04/the-rotting-racist-underbelly-of-the-tea-party-protests/
White Supremacists supporting the teabaggers and being accepted:
http://www.groundreport.com/Business/Tea-Party-Racism/2921697
there are several extremist groups that have hooked up and joined forces with the Tea Party Movement. As I have pointed out in the past, these groups include nativists, white supremacists, and Patriot militias. Throughout the last year, many of the these groups have tabled at T.P. rallies and have been openly embraced. While it is also true that there have also been a few T.P. groups have rejected some of the most extreme white supremacists groups. (Especially the overt neo-Nazi and skinheads.) However, one such example of a white supremacists group that has been accepted by many T.P. members -and rejected by a few - is the Council of Conservative Citizens. According to the Anti-Defamation League; The CofCC, "Advances its ideology by inflaming fears and resentments, among Southern whites particularly, with regard to black-on-white crime, non-white immigration,... Although the group claims not to be racist, its leaders traffic with other white supremacist groups and its publications, Web sites and meetings all promote the purportedly innate superiority of whites."
http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/CCC...ubCat=Extremism_in_America&xpicked=3&item=ccc
White supremacists get easy recruitment-
http://www.adl.org/main_Extremism/White_Supremacists_July_4_Tea_Parties.htm
"Billy Roper, who heads the white supremacist White Revolution group, based in Arkansas, is listed as an organizer on a Tea Party movement Web site. In a June 2009 post to the White Revolution blog, Roper claimed to be organizing a Tea Party in Arkansas and sending White Revolution "representatives who will be witnessing and converting lost souls at Tea Parties from North Carolina to Arizona." [emphasis in original]
A May blog post revealed that White Revolution members will attend local Tea Party protests and distribute leaflets and flyers. Their goal will be to "educate, activate, and recruit." The blog post encouraged readers to "plan to attend one to do your part for our race and nation!" "
More White supremacist links, including leaders-
http://www.examiner.com/x-5890-Obama-Administration-Examiner~y2010m1d26-Documentary-shows-link-between-white-supremacy-groups-and-tea-party-movement