Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Lloyd Marcus Profiting from Tea Party

You'll often find at tea parties that entertainer Lloyd Marcus is the only black man present. Marcus always starts his show with his spiel that he's not a hyphenated American, which gives comfort to tea partiers who can say that they're not racist because they have Lloyd Marcus.
But Marcus is also a guy who's just trying to make a living. A self-proclaimed recording artist, he performs and sells his tea party-related songs and ring tones, books and other merchandise. He's also an artist. He sells his non-tea party art here.
If the tea party movement is about fiscal reform, why aren't there more black people attending tea parties? I dare you to find another black person in this video below.
Marcus would tell you, as he does in the next video, that black people have issues and he's the guy trying to straighten them out.

Marcus also uses racial stereotypes and is kind of kooky, attributes tea partiers seem to love. He chokes up at the 4 minute mark in this next video. What is it about these conservatives crying midstream? If I had to do a psychological analysis of him, I'd say he suffers low self esteem and is someone who bought the idea that white people were better than him and so he aspired to be embraced by whites, and at the same time, he rejected black people. He doesn't talk very highly of blacks and calls Obama a "trojan horse," as if a black man couldn't legitimately be elected president. He bought Rush Limbaugh's claim that Americans only voted for Obama to get over their supposed guilt of slavery. I would argue that Americans haven't even reckoned with slavery, let alone feel guilty about it. Marcus says Obama gets away with "giving the American people the finger" because he's black. Twisted? Sad? I'll say.

Here's what he does when he's not entertaining the tea party. This was produced by Sapphire Media Productions: