Tea Party

President of the National Republican Michael Steele, one of the organizers of the tea party on Saturday strongly condemned the gathering racial slurs that some of the Congressional Black alleged was yelled at them by some protesters of health care when they went to a procedural vote on Capitol Hill.

“I absolutely think it’s isolated, and said,” Amy Kramer, coordinator of the grassroots Tea Party Express, and Fox News on Sunday. “It is shameful and the people in this movement will not tolerate, however, that this is not what we are.”

Steele rejected the idea that this incident may make any link with the Tea Party movement dangerous.

“It’s not a threat,” said Steele, NBC “Meet the Press on Sunday.” “It’s certainly not a reflection of the movement or the Republican Party when you have idiots are saying stupid things.”

“As the leader of the Ohio Republican said, this is reprehensible,” he said, referring to House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio. “We do not support that.”

The incident occurred on Saturday after thousands of tea Partiers descended upon Capitol Hill to rally against election on Sunday largely on reform of the health care system.

Some demonstrators targeting a handful of black members of Congress and one legislator gay as they walked from the House Office Building to the Capitol for a procedural vote.

Reps. John Lewis, D-Ga, and Andre Carson, D-India, both members of the Congressional Black Caucus, said that a group of demonstrators shouted on them and called them the n-word.

“They were just screaming. Harassment,” Lewis told Fox News. “People are being downright mean.”

Kristie Greco, spokeswoman for the Democratic Whip Jim Clyburn, said a protester spit on the deputy Emanuel Cleaver, who said that the black and the police escorted the lawmakers in the Capitol. Cleaver’s office said he would decline to charge, but Sgt. Kimberly Schneider of the U.S. Capitol Police, said in an e-mail at a later time: “We did not make any arrests today.”

Claiborne, who led his fellow black students in the state of South Carolina for the integration of public facilities by almost half a century, and called the behavior “as a shock.”

“I’ve heard people say today that things have not heard since March 15, 1960, when he was walking in an attempt to obtain from the back of the bus,” Claiborne told reporters.

Lewis was one of the most central figures of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Occur side by side with the Rev. Martin Luther King at the Lincoln Memorial during the “I Have a Dream” speech. Police Alabama, and suffered a fractured skull in Congress as he led the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on what became known as “Bloody Sunday” in 1965.

“It’s okay, I’ve encountered this before,” Lewis told Fox News about the incident. “I have not heard anything like this in 40 and 45 years, since March to Selma, really.”

Carson is one of only two Muslims in Congress, who was born nine years after “Bloody Sunday”. Carson admitted that he was not used to hearing such adjectives.

“The beauty is that I was walking with a wise man Hassan, who was there before,” said Carson, who with Lewis at the time.

I was first elected in 1970, said Rep. Charlie Rangel, from New York, is one of the founding members of the Congressional Black Caucus.

“I do not see any black people in these groups,” said Rangel. “Never, never, never, never, never.”

Rangel suggested that some of the demonstrators knew Lewis’ story and deliberately went after him.

“They know what it represents,” he told Fox News.

The MP said a fellow member of the Canadian Bobby Scott, D-VA. He said nothing would surprise him by some bands of protesters health care.

“I did not hear anyone campaign for the freedom to be uninsured. I’ve never heard anyone campaign against Medicare,” said Scott. “This is what you are dealing with.”

But black legislators were not aimed only at protesters mug. Rep. Joe Crowley of New York, and claims some of the demonstrators also criticized Rep. Barney Frank, Massachusetts, who is gay.

“I do not even want to repeat it,” Crowley said when asked what they said to Frank.

A spokeswoman for U.S. Capitol Police said they did not know anything about any law enforcement investigation into the incidents.