New Study Debunks Myth about Racist Tea Partiers  Tea Partiers
at the 9/12 Taxpayer March on the National Mall (Fox Photo)  The
Tea Party movement, and those within it, has been accused of
being racist and inciting prejudice pretty much since its
inception, but a new study conducted by UCLA graduate student
Emily Ekins is showing just the opposite.  Ekins set out to
photograph every single poster and sign at the 9/12 Taypayer
March on Washington in September to see if the tens of thousands
of Americans that make up the Tea Party movement are really
running on racism.  After tediously combing through the crowd
and over 250 photographs later, Ekins discovered, based on the
signs, that the claims of rampant racism simply weren't true.
"Over 50 percent were about limited government and lower
spending, and only about 6 percent were controversial in
nature," Ekins told Fox News.  And of the 6 percent that were
controversial, Ekins said that didn't mean racist. "If it was
related to outsider politics, an ‘us versus