One of the criticisms about the Tea Party is that there were no blacks involved, and thus, racist. Obviously this is not true (See here, here, and here), but to be fair, let us turn the tables on the “99%’ers”, one site says this:

Occupy Wall Street demonstrations picking up momentum across the country better embody the values of the original Boston Tea Party.

So, what is the deal with these “proto Tea Partiers“? They’re racists! (Using the left’s own logic that is):

Really, these are nothing more than modern-day hippies who probably love terrorists (Palestinian movements) and hate Jews (who they view as bankers and Israel):

Here is HotAir’s input on the matter:

Apparently Charlie Rangel swung by the protest this weekend too. Incidentally, is that what they’re demonstrating for — corporate “accountability”? Philip Klein was at the protest this weekend and said it sounded more like good old-fashioned Marxism and anarchism to him. Dave Weigel was also there and came away convinced that “no one knows what it’s about,” although the guys at the front of the crowds looked to him too like anarchists straight out of a WTO “protest.” Anyway, the reason Grijalva and Ellison are baptizing the movement tonight is because there’s a big union march in support of it scheduled for tomorrow; that’s the first major attempt to try to mainstream the protests by tilting them away from overt Marxism towards a more media-friendly manifestation.

I wonder when we’ll see more mainstream Dems start to ingratiate themselves with the protesters instead of just the hard-left stalwarts like Grijalva. They saw what happened to Bob Bennett and Mike Castle and know that a left-wing tea party could do the same to them in a primary if it got traction. I think that’s what Van Jones ultimately has in mind, although he may be just goofy enough to think that his throngs of leftists are somehow going to influence/intimidate the GOP. Ah well. Here’s an enjoyable vid from the Occupy D.C. protest, where the goal seems to be … getting a second term for Obama. Exit question: Is it too early to start holding OWS to the same media standards as tea party protests, replete with predominantly white crowds and the occasional malefactor whose bad behavior somehow defines the entire movement?