This is a 24 minute video, but Democrats should watch this. It's not a coincidence that almost every Tea Bagger in the Tea-Party movement is white. This is the kind of anti-intellectual backlash that Rush Limbaugh forments. Certainly the Tea Party movement has racist undertones.
Almost a year ago the inauguration of President Barack Obama was hailed as a turning point in US race relations. The country was said to be entering a new era of post-racial politics that would push the US on the path to a future of greater diversity and tolerance.
But while crowds flocked to Washington to witness the swearing in, others were refusing to join the party. Racially motivated threats against Obama rose to new heights in the first months of his presidency, with the US seeing nine high-profile race killings in 2009.
Meanwhile white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups claim their membership is growing and that visits to their websites are increasing.
Is the racial undercurrent that has long structured US politics reasserting itself?
Filmmakers Rick Rowley and Jacquie Soohen went inside the white nationalist movement to investigate.
Some of the images seen and opinions heard in the film are disturbing.
This episode of People & Power airs from Wednesday, January 6, at the following times GMT: Wednesday: 1230; Thursday: 0130, 1400, 1930; Friday: 0630, 1630; Saturday: 0330, 2030; Sunday: 0030, 0530; Monday: 0830.
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