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Mark Williams as spokesman for the Tea Party Express is like David Duke as spokesman for NAACP
By Anonymous on Fri, 07/16/2010 - 9:52pm
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[/float]Earlier this week the NAACP called on the Tea Party to reject the racism that exists within its own ranks. Tea Party activists responded saying that racism isn't a part of their movement. But then yesterday one of their biggest leaders, Mark Williams, the public face of the Tea Party Express, attacked the NAACP calling it a "racist" organization and that "they make more money off of race than any slave trader, ever."
He went on to write a blog post implying that Black people don't like to work or think for themselves, that Black people depend on welfare, and that they want to benefit from White peoples' tax dollars in order to have a wide screen TV in every room.
I've joined ColorOfChange.org's effort to hold the Tea Party's leadership accountable. If they want to have any credibility on race, they need to kick Mark Williams out of their movement. If they refuse, it will make it clearer than ever that Tea Party leaders accept and rely on racism as an integral part of their approach to politics.
The first step is ask the question. Please join me in challenging Tea Party leaders to reject Williams' statements and remove him from his position at Tea Party Express, and ask your friends and family to do the same. It takes just a moment:
http://www.colorofchange.org/teaparty/?id=2133-1243278
Thanks.
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Key Links
[color=#FF0000]"Tea Party Leader Mocks NAACP "Coloreds" In Online Screed," Media Matters, 07-15-2010[/color]
http://politicalcorrection.org/blog/201007150012
[color=#FF0000]"NAACP Delegates Unanimously Pass Tea Party Resolution," NAACP," 07-13-2010[/color]
http://www.naacp.org/press/entry/naacp-delegates-u...
[color=#FF0000]ColorOfChange.org email on Tea Party hate, 03-23-2010[/color]
http://colorofchange.org/hate/message.html
[color=#FF0000]"Mark Williams, Tea Party Express Spokesman: NAACP Is Racist (VIDEO) (TRANSCRIPT)," CNN / Huffington Post, 07-15-2010[/color]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/14/mark-will...
[color=#FF0000]"Tea Party Leaders: We're Not Racist! The NAACP Is! (AUDIO)," TPMDC, 07-14-2010[/color]
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/07/sigh-ga...
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that was fast
http://www.frumforum.com/tea-party-expels-commenta...
The National Tea Party Federation has expelled conservative commentator and Tea Party Express spokesman Mark Williams over a fictional letter Williams wrote on his blog last week from “Colored People” to Abraham Lincoln.
“We, in the last 24 hours, have expelled Tea Party Express and Mark Williams from the National Tea Party Federation because of the letter that he wrote,” federation spokesman David Webb said Sunday on CBS’s “Face The Nation.”
Williams wrote the blog post, which has since been taken down, in response to a resolution adopted by the NAACP accusing Tea Party leaders of tolerating racism within the movement.
“Dear Mr. Lincoln,” began Williams’ letter. “We Coloreds have taken a vote and decided that we don’t cotton to that whole emancipation thing. Freedom means having to work for real, think for ourselves, and take consequences along with the rewards. That is just far too much to ask of us Colored People and we demand that it stop!”
Webb called the blog post “clearly offensive.”