On the one hand, we have liberals and detractors claiming that the TEA Party Movement is racist. On the other, we have those who dig on the TEA Party vibe saying that that’s ridiculous, and that the TEA Party is about fiscal accountability for our government, and nothing more. Keep in mind that this TEA Party Movement is full of Democrats, Libertarians, Independents, and Conservatives.

This is an issue that has been tossed back and forth like a water balloon filled with nothing but rhetoric. It is an apparently unbridgeable gap. Maybe this article will help both parties see that both of them are correct. Well, in a fashion, that is.

Consider the possibility that White Supremacist groups are purposely trying to infiltrate the TEA Party. Even The Democratic Underground, back in 2009, reported about this issue.

Some people and organizations with more than a tax reform agenda are hoping to exploit the tax protestors’ anger and win them over to their causes. At the white supremacist website, Stormfront, for example, people have posted comments urging their fellow racists to attend tea parties and try to recruit new members to their cause.

“Don’t go there (Tea Parties) with flags and uniforms, and don’t try to preach the truth,” advised one Stormfront writer. “Go in civil, meet people with whom we might do things later, and try to get into the organising (sic) circles.” Another writer said in response that white supremacists shouldn’t “fail to push to envelope” but cautioned them to “dress inconspicuously.”

Meanwhile, the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC) is urging its members to attend tea parties. The CCC is the successor to the White Citizens Councils that opposed desegregation in the South in the 1950s and 1960s. It is a white supremacist group that opposes non-white immigration and affirmative action, while supporting the display of the Confederate battle flag.

The Southern Poverty Law Center also had some insight, prompting the same sentiment as the DU.

Now, to anyone with any common-sense and ability to read English, allow me to opine freely here, and say that liberals were correct in that there probably were racial signs at TEA Party rallies, and the TEA Party sympathizers were right in that the TEA Party’s vision is not about racism or any other such notion. That is not to say that the TEA Party Movement is racist, no no no, but there were probably those White Supremacist elements there trying to incite and foment hatred.

Knowing now that White Supremacists have purposed it to infiltrate the TEA Party and sully its image, I hope both sides of this debate can stop for a moment and focus on the real enemy. Like I said, Democrats are part of this TEA Party Movement. It’s not all about Conservatives. Democrats and Conservatives should join together to fight against this despicable infiltration of a noble and valid movement.