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. Source of article – Tea Party Express racist Mark Williams kicked out of movement by Personal Money Store.
Racism part of Tea Party Express founder’s style
The Tea Party Express, founded by Williams, is one of one of the most influential sub groups in the Tea Party movement. The New York Daily News reports that Tea Party Express accomplishments consist of 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 called a monument to 9/11 attackers where Muslims will “worship the terrorist money-god”. Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, who supports the project was called a “Jewish Uncle Tom who would have turned rat on Anne Frank” by Williams for backing the project .
NAACP resolution confirmed by Tea Party Express
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 that the movement cull the racists from its membership. The NAACP was calling the Tea Party as a whole racist, said right wing pundits and Tea Party officials. Their comeback was that the NAACP were the racists. But claims made in the NAACP resolution became obvious after teapartyexpress.org published a racist satire written by Williams.
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 sample from the letter was posted by Fox News:
“Perhaps 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 each and every room if non-coloreds get to keep what they earn?” he wrote. “Mr. Lincoln, you were the greatest racist ever. We had a great gig. 3 squares, room and board, all our decisions made by the massa in the house. Please repeal the 13th and 14th Amendments and let us get back to where we belong.”
Will NAACP Tea Party resolution tone down the racism?
The Tea Party movement may benefit within 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 within the first place.
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