The Teabaggers are never, ever going to admit to their racism.
You're never going to hear them say, "We formed this entire movement because a black man is in power, therefore our whiteness is threatened and we're trying to make sure whiteness retains its privileges." And you're never going to hear them say it because they've learned from the mistakes of their Ku Klux Klan forefathers: the best racism is the kind that isn't frank or forthcoming; the best racism denies its own existence. They know an admission would undermine the entire "movement."
Since we can't rely on them to self-identify, we have to call them out--like Ta-Nehisi Coates did with his article at The Atlantic:
Today, NAACP delegates passed a resolution to condemn extremist elements within the Tea Party, calling on Tea Party leaders to repudiate those in their ranks who use racist language in their signs and speeches.
The reaction to this announcement has been swift and, in the main, negative. Next door, Dave Weigel, whose knowledge of the Tea Party is formidable, dismisses the resolution as "silliness" and "a stunt," and Chris Bodenner bemoans the fact that he ended Monday praising the Tea Party over the NAACP. If I'm reading this right, Michael Tomasky believes Obama should attack the NAACP because their resolution "heightens division." I think it's worth, first, considering the record of American racism, and then the record of the Tea Party and its allies. Racism tends to attract attention when it's flagrant and filled with invective. But like all bigotry, the most potent component of racism is frame-flipping--positioning the bigot as the actual victim. So the gay do not simply want to marry, they want to convert our children into sin. The Jews do not merely want to be left in peace, they actually are plotting world take-over. And the blacks are not actually victims of American power, but beneficiaries of the war against hard-working whites. This is a respectable, more sensible, bigotry, one that does not seek to name-call, preferring instead to change the subject and strawman. Thus segregation wasn't necessary to keep the niggers in line, it was necessary to protect the honor of white women.
Read his article, "The NAACP is Right," in its entirety here.