The National Tea Party Federation excommunicated the Tea Party Express and its leader, Mark Williams. An over the top racist satire was written by Williams, chairman of the Tea Party Express, in response to an NAACP resolution asking the Tea Party to renounce racism in its ranks. The Tea Party denied that racists were part of its membership when the NAACP voted at its convention last week on the Tea Party resolution. But the Tea party expelled Williams after his racist satire was highlighted by the national media.
The Tea Party Express, founded by Williams, is one of probably the most influential sub groups in the Tea Party movement. The New York Daily News reports that raising $ 2.3 million and helping Republican Scott Brown get elected to the late Ted Kennedy's seat are among the Tea Party Express' achievements under Williams. Williams stepped down as chairman last month to concentrate on leading a right wing campaign against a proposed Lower Manhattan mosque, known as the ground zero mosque, which Williams called a monument to the 9/11 attackers to "worship the terrorists' monkey-god". Williams called Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, who backs building the mosque, a "Jewish Uncle Tom who would have turned rat on Anne Frank".
Tea Party Express leader says Muslims worship a "monkey god"
While the Tea Party Express' Williams was saying that Muslims worship a monkey god, the Tea Party twisted the meaning of the NAACP resolution requesting the movement cull the racists from its membership. Right wing pundits and Tea Party officials said their entire movement was being labeled racist by the NAACP. Their comeback was the NAACP were the racists. But the NAACP Tea Party resolution's meaning was clear after Williams wrote a letter and posted it on teapartyexpress.org.
Slavery a joke to Tea Party Express
By writing a satirical letter to Abraham Lincoln from NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous, Williams got his Tea Party Express expelled from the Tea Party movement . This unique excerpt from the letter was posted by Fox News:
"Perhaps one of the most racist point of all in the Tea Parties is their demand that government 'stop raising our taxes.' That is outrageous! How will we coloreds ever get a wide-screen TV in each room if non-coloreds get to keep what they earn?" he wrote. "Mr. Lincoln, you were the greatest racist ever. We had an great gig. Three squares, room and board, all our decisions made by the massa within the house. Please repeal the 13th and 14th Amendments and let us get back to where we belong."
Will Tea Party be more responsible after NAACP resolution?
Long term Tea Party interests may benefit from booting the Tea Party Express. The Huffington Post reports that one of the more interesting consequences of the NAACP Tea Party resolution may be that now the movement is going to have to take responsibility for having an actual organizing structure. Until now, its vast organic, grass roots nature served as a convenient excuse for denying the kind of accusations that the NAACP made in the first place.
Before this was exposed, I had mentioned on AFF how I believed there were racists within the ranks of the tea party movement. My belief was attacked, but then this happened a little less than a month after I had posted what I did.
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Before this was exposed, I had mentioned on AFF how I believed there were racists within the ranks of the tea party movement. My belief was attacked, but then this happened a little less than a month after I had posted what I did.
we have a term here in the south...
"look out that window"
it means that you can find an idiot of every sort in any crowd.
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it means that you can find an idiot of every sort in any crowd.
Yeah well my point at the time (when I originally said what I said about the members of the tea party) was that the tea party movement had more than just one racist idiot in their ranks.
I am glad the NAACP sounded the alarm they sounded-- they are still necessary, but they could do so much more to be a pro-active source of solutions instead of a whistle-blower organization (another discussion for another thread.)
I am glad the Tea Party dealt with their racists in the way they did.
Sure, at first they denied it was an issue. When it became clear that it was an issue, they dealt with it. What more can you ask them to do really?
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"The choices we make reveal the true nature of our character."
Yeah well my point at the time (when I originally said what I said about the members of the tea party) was that the tea party movement had more than just one racist idiot in their ranks.
I am glad the NAACP sounded the alarm they sounded-- they are still necessary, but they could do so much more to be a pro-active source of solutions instead of a whistle-blower organization (another discussion for another thread.)
I am glad the Tea Party dealt with their racists in the way they did.
Sure, at first they denied it was an issue. When it became clear that it was an issue, they dealt with it. What more can you ask them to do really?
Now if only the Democrats would deal with theirs. That'll be a cold day in Hades.
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"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
The article was not racist; it was satirical. It was intended to illustrate the racist views of the NAACP by showing their lack of respect for people of "color."
Most people are apparently unable to wrap their brains around a piece of satire, so of course it bombed. Mark Williams should have only shared it with those who have an IQ of 150+ and a good sense of humor.
If you comprehend that Mark Williams wrote the letter as being not from himself, but from the NAACP, and how he thinks THEY truly view black people, you might be able to squeeze out the real meaning of the piece. Of course, all the dolts in the media can see is the repeated use of the word "colored" and they just go into a feeding frenzy.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
Yeah well my point at the time (when I originally said what I said about the members of the tea party) was that the tea party movement had more than just one racist idiot in their ranks.
I am glad the NAACP sounded the alarm they sounded-- they are still necessary, but they could do so much more to be a pro-active source of solutions instead of a whistle-blower organization (another discussion for another thread.)
I am glad the Tea Party dealt with their racists in the way they did.
Sure, at first they denied it was an issue. When it became clear that it was an issue, they dealt with it. What more can you ask them to do really?
because we all know the NAACP isnt chock full of racists...
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