Later, when they were married and Portman was pregnant, she enjoyed drinking rooibos tea, an African blend that is supposed to help with digestion.

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To top it off, being an African-American would put the lie to claims the Tea Party specifically and Republicans in general could not abide Barack Obama because of his race.

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They genuinely believe, or at least suspect, that the Tea Parties are partly a reaction to the United States' first African-American president, Barack Obama.

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No one on the tea party express seems concerned with the vocal fringe of the crowds that come with offensive signs -- besides Nazi imagery, a poster of Obama as an African witch doctor has become popular -- or the numerous conspiracy theories that float around most tea parties.

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Zimmerman become a focus of intense national attention this year after he fatally shot the unarmed African-American teenager who had gone out to buy a bag of Skittles and an Arizona iced tea at a 7-Eleven in Sanford, Florida.

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