What’s Kosher in DC for the Tea Party?

David Streeter — August 24, 2010 – 1:44 pm | Comments (0) Add a comment

A Maine-based Tea Party group has posted a travel guide for its members heading to Washington, DC for this weekend’s rally organized by Glenn Beck.

The guide advises its users:

• Dupont Circle is the “gay area”
• Caribou Coffee “restricts” access to “‘adult’ sites”
• Not to ride the Green and Yellow Metro lines (the lines service major African-American neighborhoods)
• Not to ride the bus
• “Feel free to protest!” at the homes of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV)

 

The guide also describes DC’s diversity:

DC’s population includes refugees from every country, as the families of embassy staffs of third world countries tend to stay in DC whenever a revolution in their homeland means that anyone in their family would be in danger if they went back. Most taxi drivers and many waiters/waitresses (especially in local coffee shops like the Bread and Chocolate chain) are immigrants, frequently from east Africa or Arab countries. As a rule, African immigrants do not like for you to assume they are African Americans and especially do not like for you to guess they are from a neighboring country (e.g. Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia) with whom they may have political or military tensions.

A map of the Tea Party-approved areas of DC is visible here.

 

For those looking to explore areas that Tea Party considers treif for its members, please see Wikitravel.

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