A pattern of racism by Mark Williams, founder of the Tea Party Express, got him and his organization kicked out of the National Tea Party Federation. 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. After the racist satire by Williams came to light in the media, the Tea Party expelled him in an apparent move to keep the party from being labeled racist.
Racism part of Tea Party Express founder’s style
Williams founded the Tea Party Express and built it into one of probably the most powerful factions of the Tea Party movement. The New York Daily News reports that Tea Party Express accomplishments contain raising $ 2.3 million and helping Republican Scott Brown get elected to the late Ted Kennedy’s seat. Last month Williams stepped down as chair to lead a campaign against a mosque project in New York known as the ground zero mosque, which he has described as a monument to 9/11 attackers where Muslims will “worship the terrorist money-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 confirms NAACP resolution
When the NAACP passed their resolution demanding that the Tea Party take steps to separate racism from its movement, Williams was calling Muhammad a monkey god and also the Tea Party was playing victim. Right wing pundits and Tea Party officials said their entire movement was being labeled racist by the NAACP. The NAACP were the real racists, was their comeback. But the NAACP Tea Party resolution’s meaning was clear after Williams wrote a letter and posted it on teapartyexpress.org.
Tea Party Express jokes about slavery
Williams got his Tea Party Express kicked out of the Tea Party movement by writing a satirical letter to President Lincoln written from the perspective of NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous . This particular excerpt from the letter was posted by Fox News:
“Perhaps probably the most racist point of all within 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 every 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. 3 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?
The Tea Party movement may benefit in the long run from the Tea Party Express dismissal. 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 the NAACP made in the first place.
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