Tea Party Leader Expelled for Blog Post

[markfu]

[quote=yahoonews]
Mark Williams, the [URL="http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100718/el_yblog_upshot/tea-party-group-expels-leader-for-clearly-offensive-blog-post#"]tea party[/URL] leader who wrote a blog post this week calling the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) racist, [URL="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/yblog_upshot/el_yblog_upshot/storytext/tea-party-group-expels-leader-for-clearly-offensive-blog-post/36939544/SIG=12e2turm9/*http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/07/18/tea.party.imbroglio/index.html?hpt=T2"]has been "expelled" from the National Tea Party Federation[/URL].

Williams wrote the blog post on Thursday in response to the NAACP's Tuesday declaration accusing the tea party movement of tolerating racist elements in its midst (see [URL="http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100718/el_yblog_upshot/tea-party-group-expels-leader-for-clearly-offensive-blog-post#"]The Upshot's[/URL] rundown on the [URL="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/news/yblog_upshot/el_yblog_upshot/storytext/tea-party-group-expels-leader-for-clearly-offensive-blog-post/36939544/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100716/pl_yblog_upshot/the-definitive-guide-to-this-weeks-naacp-tea-party-scrap"]week of attacks and counterattacks here[/URL]). It was written as an imaginary letter to President Abraham Lincoln and accused the NAACP of being racist for using the word "colored" in its name. When some reacted to it in outrage, Williams deleted it from his website, declaring it time to "move forward."
The National Tea Party Federation apparently decided to move forward without Williams. Spokesman David Webb said on Face the Nation this morning that Williams and his [URL="http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100718/el_yblog_upshot/tea-party-group-expels-leader-for-clearly-offensive-blog-post#"]Tea Party Express[/URL] had been pushed out because Williams' posting was "clearly offensive."
The tea party movement has been growing in influence in American politics since it began as a series of rallies in 2009. Candidates endorsed by local and national organizations that are a part of the coalition have won surprising victories over establishment [URL="http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100718/el_yblog_upshot/tea-party-group-expels-leader-for-clearly-offensive-blog-post#"]Republican Party[/URL] candidates in states like Kentucky and Nevada.
Part of their challenge, however -- especially in handling broader debates about what they "are" -- is that there isn't a single Tea Party that speaks for all [URL="http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100718/el_yblog_upshot/tea-party-group-expels-leader-for-clearly-offensive-blog-post#"]tea party activists[/URL]. Rather, there are dozens of national and local organizations that loosely coordinate and all emerged in opposition to Wall Street bailouts that occurred under Presidents Bush and Obama and what they perceive as the Obama Administration's efforts to expand the role of government. The question of whether or not it also has racial motivations has [URL="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/yblog_upshot/el_yblog_upshot/storytext/tea-party-group-expels-leader-for-clearly-offensive-blog-post/36939544/SIG=1258qnfjf/*http://theweek.com/article/index/202040/The_Tea_Partys_race_problem"]dogged it since the beginning[/URL].
National Tea Party Federation's expulsion of Williams and the Tea Party Express could be the first of many internal disputes to define the national tea party identity.[/quote]

Williams, a tea party leader, wrote a blog post earlier this week mocking the NAACP's use of "colored people" using stereotypical words/phrases of black people in the 1700/1800s when they were under slavery. It was also racist.

Anyways, at least they kicked him out.

[wonkadonk]

it's good to see they're finally weeding out the bigots

[sp00ks]

[QUOTE=wonkadonk;23453994]it's good to see they're finally weeding out the bigots[/QUOTE]

Then they just need to get rid of the idiots.

Oh wait, that's all of them.

[Chevron]

[QUOTE=wonkadonk;23453994]it's good to see they're finally weeding out the bigots[/QUOTE]

But if they do that who will be left to drink the tea!!

DAMMIT NINJA'D

[CoolKingKaso]

It seems that William might make his own group.

[Dr. Punchgroin]

[QUOTE=CoolKingKaso;23454134]It seems that William might make his own group.[/QUOTE]

What could he possibly call it? If he could find a name for it, how could he possibly be legitimate after this? If anyone actually joined that group it would be like a signal flare for people the government has to sterilize.

[CrazyMoron]

Why are we even calling it the Tea Party any more? It's the fucking neo-con-Palin Party.

[Sir Muffin]

[QUOTE=sp00ks;23454044]Then they just need to get rid of the idiots.

Oh wait, that's all of them.[/QUOTE]

Nice generalization.

Excuse me, I think I'll run for office in your country and do whatever I please without taking anyone else's opinions into account.

Essentially, you just said that's okay by disregarding the point behind the Tea Party movement.

[MRTW113]

[QUOTE=wonkadonk;23453994]it's good to see they're finally weeding out the bigots[/QUOTE]

I'll be happier when they finish

[POLOPOZOZO]

1 down, thousands to go.

[Xen Tricks]

[QUOTE=CoolKingKaso;23454134]It seems that William might make his own group.[/QUOTE]
NAAWP (National Association for the Advancement of White People (or Patriots, since they're tea party)

Anyways, good, that was appallingly racist even for someone like him

[POLOPOZOZO]

aww hell NAAWP

[Coldmute]

[QUOTE=wonkadonk;23453994]it's good to see they're finally weeding out the bigots[/QUOTE]
They have before. They don't condone bigotry, and they've physically removed people from demonstrations that have been bigots or been trying to cause problems.

[editline]07:52PM[/editline]

[QUOTE=sp00ks;23454044]Then they just need to get rid of the idiots.

Oh wait, that's all of them.[/QUOTE]
Generalizations make the world go around. All Muslims are terrorists, all immigrants are illegal Mexicans, all whites are slavers, all blacks are rapists, and all gamers are budding serials killers.

[Diet Kane]

[QUOTE=Sir Muffin;23455457]Nice generalization.

Excuse me, I think I'll run for office in your country and do whatever I please without taking anyone else's opinions into account.

Essentially, you just said that's okay by disregarding the point behind the Tea Party movement.[/QUOTE]

[i]"He's defending the Tea Party!"[/i]
[img]http://dwellingintheword.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/6-women-laughing.jpg[/img]

[POLOPOZOZO]

After everything that's come out of the Tea Party, the birthers, the dumbass signs, the comments about the NAACP and this blog post (A LEADER of the Tea Party, not just some guy) it's obvious that the tea party is racist or at least xenophobic nativists. It doesn't matter if they advocate it or not, they spew shit all they want and no one actively stands up against the racists in their group.

[Hail Satan]

thank god

[editline]06:53PM[/editline]

or richard dawkins

[Coldmute]

[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;23458460]After everything that's come out of the Tea Party, the birthers, the dumbass signs, the comments about the NAACP and this blog post (A LEADER of the Tea Party, not just some guy) it's obvious that the tea party is racist or at least xenophobic nativists. It doesn't matter if they advocate it or not, they spew shit all they want and no one actively stands up against the racists in their group.[/QUOTE]
They do stand up to the racists and bigots at the demonstrations, but they hardly have a roster of every member, so its not like they can cross them out. Its basically whoever wants to be one can call themselves one.
But just in-case you don't want to believe that, I ask where the Muslims are who are actively standing up against terrorists in the Islamic faith?
Tit for tat.

[Xen Tricks]

[QUOTE=Zeddy;23458792]They do stand up to the racists and bigots at the demonstrations, but they hardly have a roster of every member, so its not like they can cross them out. Its basically whoever wants to be one can call themselves one.
But just in-case you don't want to believe that,[B] I ask where the Muslims are who are actively standing up against terrorists in the Islamic faith?[/B]
Tit for tat.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.freemuslims.org/[/url]

[Coldmute]

[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;23458460]the birthers[/QUOTE]
Yeah, the birthers are idiots, but they are just a group that dissolved itself in to the bigger movement.

[POLOPOZOZO]

[QUOTE=Zeddy;23458792]
But just in-case you don't want to believe that, I ask where the Muslims are who are actively standing up against terrorists in the Islamic faith?[/QUOTE]

Well yeah they don't tend to do it as much as the West wants.
It's the biggest problem for western nations when dealing with the middle east.

[Coldmute]

[QUOTE=Xen Tricks;23458826][URL]http://www.freemuslims.org/[/URL][/QUOTE]
A single source does not make proof.

[POLOPOZOZO]

[QUOTE=Zeddy;23458829]Yeah, the birthers are idiots, but they are just a group that dissolved itself in to the bigger movement.[/QUOTE]

No one has tried to separate themselves from the birthers, also didn't Arizona also pass a birther bill? Seems like a pretty strong part of the group.

[Coldmute]

[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;23458839]Well yeah they don't tend to do it as much as the West wants.
It's the biggest problem for western nations when dealing with the middle east.[/QUOTE]
And clearly the Tea Party members aren't doing it as much as you want.

[Xen Tricks]

[QUOTE=Zeddy;23458847]A single source does not make proof.[/QUOTE]
...what? You asked where the Muslims that were standing up against terrorism were, and I linked you to a group that does exactly that. What the fuck do you want then? I filled your exact request, you didn't say "where are the 70% of muslims that are standing up against terrorism"

[POLOPOZOZO]

[QUOTE=Zeddy;23458866]And clearly the Tea Party members aren't doing it as much as you want.[/QUOTE]

Yeah not doing it at all is not as much as I want, pretty simple.

[Coldmute]

[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;23458856]No one has tried to separate themselves from the birthers, also didn't Arizona also pass a birther bill? Seems like a pretty strong part of the group.[/QUOTE]
Because the legislature of a state is a big portion of a national group.

[Zeke129]

[QUOTE=Diet Kane;23457734][i]"He's defending the Tea Party!"[/i]
[img_thumb]http://dwellingintheword.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/6-women-laughing.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE]

That's fantastic stock imagery
there's every race in there

When I start a company that'll be the image I use to represent all of my happy customers.

[Coldmute]

[QUOTE=Zeke129;23458943]That's fantastic stock imagery
there's every race in there

When I start a company that'll be the image I use to represent all of my happy customers.[/QUOTE]
I love commercials that do that. It's like, they have two black parents in the front seat of a car and there is a white kid in the back seat. I saw one recently for like, some snack food or something where a white man and woman were sitting in a kitchen eating lunch and a black boy and Asian girl were sitting across from them snacking on something.

[Sigma-Lambda]

[QUOTE=wonkadonk;23453994]it's good to see they're finally weeding out the bigots[/QUOTE]

Then they'll keep weeding until there's nothing left :ohdear:

[Ori Child]

Colo[b]u[/b]red :colbert: